The Celebrity Death Pool 2007

[Sean_Factotum]

Shirley, put down the coffee and step away from the keyboard.

[Shirley_Ujest]

You are so correct.

Or I could switch to decaf.

Not.

[Sean_Factotum]

Yvonne De Carlo joins Fred Gwynne and Al Lewis.

[Duckster]

Carlo Ponti is dead.

[Sean_Factotum]

@Duckster

Carlo Ponti is dead.

Still? What about Generalisimo Fransisco Franco?

[GIGObuster]

Sadly, some vampires don’t live forever
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/10/obit.decarlo.ap/index.html

Yvonne De Carlo, the beautiful star who played Moses’ wife in “The Ten Commandments” but achieved her greatest popularity on TV’s “The Munsters,” has died. She was 84.

De Carlo died of natural causes Monday at the Motion Picture & Television facility in suburban Los Angeles, longtime friend and television producer Kevin Burns said Wednesday.

De Carlo, whose shapely figure helped launch her career in B-movie desert adventures and Westerns, rose to more important roles in the 1950s. Later, she had a key role in a landmark Broadway musical, Stephen Sondheim’s “Follies.”

But for TV viewers, she will always be known as Lily Munster in the 1964-1966 slapstick horror-movie spoof “The Munsters.” The series (the name allegedly derived from “fun-monsters”) offered a gallery of Universal Pictures grotesques, including Dracula and Frankenstein’s monster, in a cobwebbed gothic setting.

[GIGObuster]

First time ever I hoped a time out error would not post what **Sean Factotum ** reported earlier, alas.

[Shirley_Ujest]

Yvonne de Carlo: file under Thought She Was Already Dead.

[Sean_Factotum]

@GIGObuster

First time ever I hoped a time out error would not post what **Sean Factotum ** reported earlier, alas.

Yeah, but your coding was right. Call it a tie.

[Nutty_Bunny]

@Shirley Ujest

Yvonne de Carlo: file under Thought She Was Already Dead.

No kidding. That’s what I said to my husband last night when we heard. I could have SWORN she died at least a decade ago.

[gaucho]

Anybody have Robert Anton Wilson?

[Sublight]

@gaucho

Anybody have Robert Anton Wilson?

I did, and I think Loach did as well.

[Sublight]

Posters who had Robert Anton Wilson (January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007, 74 years old, 26 points):

Sternvogel
Sublight
Loach
Little Nemo
CowPatty

Any others, please add your names.

[Little_Nemo]

I could have SWORN she died at least a decade ago.

A lot of people are remembering the death of Carolyn Jones (who played Morticia Addams) in 1983 and confusing her with de Carlo.

[gaucho]

@Sublight

Posters who had Robert Anton Wilson (January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007, 74 years old, 26 points):

Sternvogel
Sublight
Loach
Little Nemo
CowPatty

Any others, please add your names.

Well played, people. Well played indeed.

[swampbear]

@gaucho

Well played, people. Well played indeed.

Indeed! ::Polite golf clap:: Indeed!

[Loach]

@gaucho

Anybody have Robert Anton Wilson?

Anyone with a link? I need proof that I am no longer a virgin.

I can’t help but think this is all a plot by the Illuminati. fnord

[Little_Nemo]

Well played, people. Well played indeed.

Well, it’s not like his death was any surprise to us. We had discussed it at our December meeting…

…maybe I’ve said too much.

[Sternvogel]

I haven’t found any mainstream media confirmation of Robert Anton Wilson’s death, but here’s a relevant blog entry.

My streak of getting at least one “hit” in each of my four years of Celebrity Death Pool participation continues:

2004: Uta Hagen, Betty Hill, and Alan King
2005: Arthur Miller
2006: Lou Rawls
2007: RAW (with others to follow?)

[Baker]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16607436/?GT1=8921

Larry Stewart, of Kansas City, has died. At least one Doper had him, and jumps in with a big 42 points. Wish it was me!