# The Celebrity Death Pool 2007 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 2, 2006, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620 "2006-12-02T22:07:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 25
**Author:** ![zoog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7ea924/32.png) [@zoog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoog)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/481 "2007-01-03T16:14:06Z")
We’re off and running - [Garry Betty](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070103/ap_on_hi_te/obit_betty_4) has moved from Earthlink to Heavenlink, giving **amarone** the first corpse of the year, and a whopping 51 points. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/482 "2007-01-03T17:22:29Z")
Actually, wasn’t that football palyer thereal first, even tho no one had him? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Perro\_Fumando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e9c0ed/32.png) [@El\_Perro\_Fumando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Perro_Fumando)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/483 "2007-01-03T22:01:52Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] Actually, wasn’t that football palyer thereal first, even tho no one had him? [/QUOTE] The “first death” award goes to the first person to _score points_ off a death, not the first person who dies. Lots of people die every day - we just don’t get points for it. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/484 "2007-01-03T22:57:38Z")
I’m curious, how does the number of contestants this year compare with previous years? ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/485 "2007-01-04T01:06:24Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] Is someone a tad upset that certain people didn’t take advantage of anonymously mailed free Indonesian airline tickets or Java ferry passes, hmmmm? [/QUOTE] Ironically, Qantas had considered buying into that particular Indonesian airline. ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/486 "2007-01-04T04:23:26Z")
[QUOTE=Loach] I’m curious, how does the number of contestants this year compare with previous years? [/QUOTE] This year’s last entry is post #428, while last year’s is #301. Now, of course a significant number of these posts are discussions, not entries, but there’s a rough guess at the increase in interest here. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/487 "2007-01-04T09:31:31Z")
I was keeping track, sort of, on which celebs got the most picks. I’m sure that along the way I’ve made some errors, as the final total won’t come out an even multiple of thirteen. For example, a couple of posters, don’t remember who, listed Pinochet, but no alternates. And I know that my eyes are sure to have slid over names, or counted incorrectly. Still, I think I can state fairly accurately that there are very close to 200 players this year. My count would be a fraction above 198. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/488 "2007-01-04T13:58:52Z")
[QUOTE=zoog] We’re off and running - [Garry Betty](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070103/ap_on_hi_te/obit_betty_4) has moved from Earthlink to Heavenlink, giving **amarone** the first corpse of the year, and a whopping 51 points. [/QUOTE] Wow. Congrats **amarone**. That is not only the Opening Kickoff Award, but a Starting the Year with a Hail Mary Pass! I’m so totally jealous ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/489 "2007-01-04T14:05:36Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] Wow. Congrats **amarone**. That is not only the Opening Kickoff Award, but a Starting the Year with a Hail Mary Pass! I’m so totally jealous [/QUOTE] Thank you. I shared the Opening Kickoff Award with half the board last year thanks to a donation of Lou Rawls from you, if memory serves. I am not so generous. I must patent the addition to my Google searches that found me Mr. Betty. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/490 "2007-01-04T14:16:25Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] Wow. Congrats **amarone**. That is not only the Opening Kickoff Award, but a Starting the Year with a Hail Mary Pass! I’m so totally jealous [/QUOTE] I know! This is the first year I’ve played, and I’m already amazed at all the improper emotions I have experienced. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/491 "2007-01-04T14:29:56Z")
[QUOTE=amarone] thanks to a donation of Lou Rawls from you, if memory serves. [/QUOTE] It was I who mistakenly posted Lou a week before I intended to, I was checking my formatting and hit submit instead of preview. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/492 "2007-01-04T23:58:29Z")
[QUOTE=NurseCarmen] It was I who mistakenly posted Lou a week before I intended to, I was checking my formatting and hit submit instead of preview. [/QUOTE] And we, the posers, hosers and losers that we are, are entirely grateful for your error. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/493 "2007-01-05T02:47:19Z")
Two deaths, don’t know if hey are on anyones’s lists: [Vincent Sardi Jr](http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/04/nyregion/04cnd-sardi.html?ex=1325566800&en=ea275fc3ee7ab392&ei=5089&partner=rssyahoo&emc=rss) owner of Sardi’s in NYC, dead at 91, and [Paek Nam Sun](http://wpherald.com/articles/2862/1/N-Korean-foreign-minister-dies/First-and-only-foreign-minister-to-meet-with-US-counterpart.html), North Korean Foreign Minister, dead at 77. I’m not even sure he died this year, though, as there is an old communist tradition of not announcing deaths intil long after the fact. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/494 "2007-01-05T03:01:23Z")
Character actor Frank Campanella dies at 87 > **[Character actor Frank Campanella dies at 87](https://napavalleyregister.com/news/regional/character-actor-frank-campanella-dies-at-87/article_1725ec6b-0d87-5a64-a99b-7e3c59476502.html)** > > LOS ANGELES — Frank Campanella, the hulking character actor who played tough guys in the 100-plus films and television shows he was in, has died. He was 87. > [@](#): > > One of Frank Campanella’s most distinctive roles was his first — Mook the Moon Man on the TV series “Captain Video and His Video Rangers” in 1949. “Guardian of the Safety of the World,” private citizen-scientist Captain Video, was assisted by teenage helper the Ranger in fighting off the evil Dr. Pauli of the Astroidal Society and other bad guys, including Nargola, Mook, Kul and Clysmok. > > His movie credits included Judge Harper in the movie “Dick Tracy,” Pops in “Pretty Woman,” Frank the Doorman in “Beaches,” Capt. Karl in “Overboard” and Col. Eastland in “The Flamingo Kid.” ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/495 "2007-01-05T03:34:38Z")
[QUOTE=GIGObuster] Character actor Frank Campanella dies at 87 > **[Character actor Frank Campanella dies at 87](https://napavalleyregister.com/news/regional/character-actor-frank-campanella-dies-at-87/article_1725ec6b-0d87-5a64-a99b-7e3c59476502.html)** > > LOS ANGELES — Frank Campanella, the hulking character actor who played tough guys in the 100-plus films and television shows he was in, has died. He was 87. [/QUOTE] From the list of his work I’m sure I would instantly know him. For some reason I can’t but a face with the name. From What I can tell the man had 114 IMDB entries going back to 1949 but he doesn’t have a picture on the internet. Can anyone else find one? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/496 "2007-01-05T03:39:47Z")
[QUOTE=Loach] From the list of his work I’m sure I would instantly know him. For some reason I can’t but a face with the name. From What I can tell the man had 114 IMDB entries going back to 1949 but he doesn’t have a picture on the internet. Can anyone else find one? [/QUOTE] You will find many pics if you Google Image Search his name. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/497 "2007-01-05T03:48:14Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] You will find many pics if you Google Image Search his name. [/QUOTE] Google must work different where you are. All I get are pictures of the movie posters for the movies he is listed on from [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com). Some other pictures of people that may be named Frank Campanella but are not the actor. Only three pages of links come up and none are him. If you get a different result would it be too hard to throw up a link and not just say go use google? (I do have the search filters on. I don’t want to see naked pictures of a 87 year old actor.) ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/498 "2007-01-05T03:54:34Z")
[QUOTE=Loach] Google must work different where you are. All I get are pictures of the movie posters for the movies he is listed on from [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com). [/QUOTE] Me too. But I assume that [this](http://www.aveleyman.com/ActorsC/P00002580.HTML) is him. And from this we can see that he died last year. A search of the 2006 thread shows that nobody had him. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/499 "2007-01-05T03:57:36Z")
[QUOTE=amarone] Me too. But I assume that [this](http://www.aveleyman.com/ActorsC/P00002580.HTML) is him. And from this we can see that he died last year. A search of the 2006 thread shows that nobody had him. [/QUOTE] :smack: Of course I know that guy! You know he’s _that_ guy! That site did not come up on my google image search. Thanks 😉 ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620/500 "2007-01-05T04:11:45Z")
[QUOTE=amarone] Me too. But I assume that [this](http://www.aveleyman.com/ActorsC/P00002580.HTML) is him. And from this we can see that he died last year. A search of the 2006 thread shows that nobody had him. [/QUOTE] They anounced it yesterday, but yes, I missed that the day he died was Saturday. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620.md?page=24) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2007/382620.md?page=26)