The Celebrity Death Pool 2007

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my re-re corrected picks, subbing John Wooden for Paris Hilton.

  1. Kirk Douglas
  2. Jerry Ford
  3. Bob Feller (Baseball HOFer)
  4. Stan Musial (Baseball HOFer)
  5. Yogi Berra (noted sage)
  6. Andy Rooney (CBS crank)
  7. Mike Wallace (CBS)
  8. Daniel Schorr (ex CBS, now NPR)
  9. Liz Taylor
  10. John Wooden, ex UCLA hoops coach
  11. Walter Cronkite (I have it in for CBS, apparently)
  12. Joe Garagiola
  13. Bob Cousy (Basketball HOFer)

Alternates:

  1. OJ Simpson
  2. Larry King
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I’m feeling lucky this year. Here goes…

  1. Suzanne Pleshette

  2. John McCain

  3. Nancy Reagan

  4. Fidel Castro

  5. Marcel Marceau

  6. Nicole Ritchie

  7. John Wooden

  8. Gerald Ford

  9. Kirk Douglas

  10. Queen Elizabeth II

  11. Andy Rooney

  12. Wayne Newton

  13. Hulk Hogan
    Alternate:

Pope Benedict XVI

Don Ho

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  1. Larry Clark
  2. Tammy Messner
  3. Damon Dash
  4. Pete Doherty
  5. Steven Cojocaru
  6. Dick Clark
  7. Liza Minnelli
  8. Suzanne Pleshette
  9. Fidel Castro
  10. Farrah Fawcett
  11. Gus Van Sant
  12. 50 Cent
  13. Terrell Owens

Alternates

  1. Mindy McCready
  2. Barack Obama
  3. Brad Renfro
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1 Gerald Ford
2 Elizabeth Taylor
3 Michael Jackson
4 Lady Bird Johnson
5 Walter Cronkite
6 James Garner
7 Nancy Reagan
8 Tony Danza
9 Fred Phelps
10 Barbara Bush (elder)
11 Muhammed Ali
12 Loretta Lynn
13 Tammy Faye Baker Messner

Alternates in order:

Angela Lansbury
Mary Tyler Moore
Dick Cheney

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Did anybody have James Brown?

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One person, best I can tell, for 2007.

Southpaw had Augusto Pinochet. He died, so the #1 alternate moved up, James Brown. Now Brown is dead, so it’s not looking good for the #2 alternate, Nichelle Nichols.

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Of course, the second post of my new Doper membership will be to the Celebrity Death Pool 2007.

  1. Ariel Sharon
  2. Ted Kennedy
  3. Gerald Ford
  4. Muhammad Ali
  5. Kirk Douglas
  6. Osama Bin Laden
  7. Fidel Castro
  8. Andy Rooney
  9. Bob Barker
  10. Jerry Lewis
  11. Henry Kissinger
  12. Kim Jong-Il
  13. Muqtada Al Sadr

Alternates:

  1. Bobby Brown
  2. O. J. Simpson
  3. Don Ho

(Why, yes–we are going for the quantity versus quality. Yes, we are.)

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  1. Angela Lansbury, actress (b. 1925)
  2. Bruce Ruxton, ex-President of the Victorian RSL, bigot and sometimes rapper (b. 1926)
  3. Colleen McCullough, author (b. 1937)
  4. Deanna Durbin, retired singer/actress (b. 1921)
  5. Elizabeth Taylor, actress (b. 1932)
  6. Fidel Castro, President of Cuba (b. 1926)
  7. John Laws, radio personality (b. 1935)
  8. Larry Hagman, actor (b. 1931)
  9. Lee Radziwill, socialite (b. 1933)
  10. Lou Richards, former Australian Rules football player, commentator and media personality. (b. 1923)
  11. Peter Falk, actor (b. 1927)
  12. Richard O’Sullivan, actor (b. 1944)
  13. Stan Zemanek, radio personality, author (b. 1947)

Alternate:
Kirk Douglas, actor (b. 1916)

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Fidel Castro is still maintaining a slight lead over Gerald Ford.

Elizabeth Taylor and Tammy Faye have now moved into a tie for third place.

Next is a three way tie between Billy Graham, Ariel Sharon, and Kirk Douglas.

In fifth place is Mohammed Ali, sixth is Farrah Fawcett, and seventh is Lindsay Lohan.

Margaret Thatcher and Nancy Reagan are tied for eighth, followed by Dick Clark and Keith Richards in ninth.

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Okay, here it goes.

  1. Art Buchwald – US columnist/humorist
  2. Dr. Jack Kevorkian – controversial US physician
  3. Fidel Castro – Cuban
  4. Yahweh Ben Yahweh – Cult leader, convicted conspirator
  5. Ariel Sharon – former Israeli Prime Minister
  6. Yegor Gaidar – former Russian Prime Minister
  7. Ronald Isley – former member of The Isley Bros
  8. Roger Ebert – noted US film critic
  9. Tammy Faye Bakker Resner – former Norfolk VA television personality
  10. Suzanne Pleshette – US television and film actress
  11. Harold Pinter – playwright and 2005 Nobel Prize (Literature) winner
  12. Charlton Heston – one-time spokesman for God
  13. Curtis James Jackson III – aka rapper 50Cent

Alternates
A. Johnny Winter – US blues guitarist
B. Robert Jordan – long-winded SciFi author
C. George Michael – former Wham!-er, current all-around screw-up

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It’s Messner, not Resner.

That is, if you meant to have the PTL Club mascara queen as your #9 pick.

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Hmm, that means I had her name wrong on last year’s list too, 'cause I just cut and pasted her name this time.

Yes, that’s who I mean.

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  1. Dick Cheney- Veep
  2. Tim Johnson- Senator, SD
  3. Bill Graham- Evangelist
  4. Bill Cosby- Funnyman
  5. Gerald Ford- 38th US President
  6. William Shatner- “Astronaut”
  7. Dan Rather- Contributor, HDNET
  8. Andy Dick- “Comedian”
  9. Kate Moss- Model
  10. Louie Anderson- Comedian
  11. Burt Reynolds- Former Actor
  12. O.J. Simpson- Pro Football Hall of Famer/Unconvicted Murderer
  13. Pervez Musharraf- President, Pakistan

A1- Bill Russell- NBA Hall of Famer
A2- Stan Musel- MLB Hall of Famer
A3- Jim Brown- NFL Hall of Famer

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Because they’re old:

  1. Cloris Leachman
  2. Bob Barker
  3. Nancy Regan
  4. Jimmy Carter
  5. Sherman Hemsley
  6. Bob Newhart

Young with issues:
7. Lindsay Lohan (recent OD)
8. Dave Gahan (Depeche Mode - serial suicide attempter)
9. Nicole Ritchie (painfully thin and recent DWI)

Long illnesses:
10. David Lander (Squiggy)
11. Tammy Faye Messner
12. Fidel Castro
13. Jerry Lewis

Alternates:
14. Gerald Ford
15. Kirk Douglas
16. Carol Channing

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Antigen’s picks for the Celebrity Death Pool:

  1. Bob Barker
  2. Jimmy Carter
  3. Pamela Anderson (whatever her last name is now - the blonde with the hooters)
  4. Paris Hilton
  5. Elizabeth Taylor
  6. Carol Channing
  7. Fidel Castro
  8. Al Pacino
  9. Michael J. Fox
  10. George Takei
  11. Majel Barrett Roddenberry (voice of the Enterprise computer)
  12. Steven Tyler (of Aerosmith)
  13. Dick Clark

Alternate: Joey Lawrence. Why not.

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[li]Fidel Castro[/li][li]Margaret Thatcher[/li][li]Ariel Sharon[/li][li]Lady Bird Johnson[/li][li]Ronnie Biggs[/li][li]Gerald Ford[/li][li]Kirk Douglas[/li][li]Pete Doherty[/li][li]Joe Paterno[/li][li]Ara Parseghian[/li][li]John Wooden[/li][li]James Woods[/li][li]Larry Hagman[/li][/ol]

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Okey, dokie, I’ll give it a shot. Problem is, I really have no idea of the status of any celebs. I couldn’t tell you who most of the folks listed so far are. Those I have heard of, I couldn’t tell you whether or not they are alive. Ask me about plants, dogs or nature, and I’m a fount of information - celebs, I’m a flop.

That said - please let me know if any of these people are dead - I’ll just list the first names I can think of that it wouldn’t depress me to think of as dead.

  1. Michael Jackson
  2. Bruce Springsteen
  3. George W. Bush
  4. Anne Coulter

(oh, shoot - I can’t think of any other names… let me check the newspaper) (double shoot - most of the newspaper got used to wrap things…)

  1. Trick Daddy (Hip-hop?)
  2. Julia Roberts
  3. Barry Lopez (author)
  4. Barbra Streisand
  5. Bob Dylan
  6. Mel Gibson
  7. Bob Knight (Texas Tech coach)
  8. Yao Ming
  9. Jane Goodall

Alternates? It was almost impossible to come up with that many!
a. Bob Seger
b. Bob Saget
c. Bob Barker

Phew!!!

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Ok, maybe I’ll have better luck this year! (Sorry, celebs… ;))

  1. Gerald Ford (ex-president)
  2. Muhammed Ali (boxer)
  3. Kirk Douglas (actor)
  4. Charleton Heston (actor)
  5. Fidel Castro (leader of Cuba)
  6. Billy Graham (evangelist)
  7. Art Linkletter (TV host)
  8. Piper Laurie (actor)
  9. Darrell Royal (ex UT football coach)
  10. Farrah Fawcett (actor)
  11. Terry Jones (Monty Python actor)
  12. John Forsythe (actor)
  13. Keira Knightley (actor)

A1. Ed McMahon (TV host and sidekick of Johnny Carson)
A2. Loretta Lynn (country singer)
A3. Keith Richards (guitarist for the Rolling Stones)

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All of you Keith Richards and Courtney Love people are going to be disappointed again this year. I’m telling you, those two will outlive us all!

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Not only that, but Courtney’s gonna track down each and every last one of you and kick your butts.