Betty Ford
Charlton Heston
Jack Kevorkian
Daniel Schorr
Pope Benedict
James Watson
Billy Graham
Jerry Lewis
Kirk Douglas
Courtney Love
Micheal Jackson
Lewis Farrakhan
Elizabeth Taylor
Alternates
Bob Weir
Ariel Sharon
Jimmy Carter
Dick Cheney
Dick Clark
Olivia de Havilland
Kirk Douglas
Lindsay Lohan
Courtney Love
Liza Minnelli
Paul Newman
Keith Richards
Mickey Rooney
Britney Spears
Elizabeth Taylor
Alternate: Paris Hilton
Thanks, amarone! You’re swell!
Please replace my Barry Manilow with Bo Diddley. Final list:
Harry Morgan
Phyllis Diller
Shirley Temple Black
Bo Diddley
Ray Bradbury
Gene Wilder
Dick Van Dyke
Angela Lansbury
Betty White
Bea Arthur
Sid Caesar
Billy Graham
Olivia DeHavilland
Alternates:
Sherwood Schwartz
Beverly Cleary
Dolly Parton
I need to amend my list, to add 90 year old Lena Horne and delete Don Rickles. He’s active, out selling his book after all.
Lindsay Lohan
Michelle Duggar
Fred Phelps
Jesse Helms
Jimmy Carter
Farrah Fawcett
Mary Kate Olsen
Brittany Spears
Bob Barker
Andy Griffith
Ariel Sharon
Billy Graham
Annette Funicello
Death during childbirth, maybe?
Ariel Sharon
Fidel Castro
Bob Barker
Dick Clark
Peter O’Toole
Farrah Fawcett
Paul Newman
Elizabeth Taylor
Kirk Douglas
Miss Manners
Owen Wilson
Stephen Hawking
Liza Minelli
Alternate: PD James
That thing’s gonna fall out sooner or later.
Anthony Lewis
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Harold Pinter
Antonia Fraser
John Paul Justice Stevens
Monica Vitti
Shimon Peres
Daniel Shorr
Margaret Thatcher
Eldar Ryazanov
Johannes Heesters
Doris Lessing
Nelson Mandela
George Jones
Louis Farrakhan
Farrah Fawcett
Annette Funicello
Kirk Douglas
Ernest Borgnine
Eartha Kitt
Fidel Castro
Muhammad Ali
Art Modell
Don Rickles
Nancy Reagan
Henry Kissinger
Alternates
Suge Knight
Bob Feller
John Astin
Yogi Berra
George Blanda
Fidel Castro
Sid Ceasar
Chris Economaki
Larry Hagman
Ingemar Johansson
Greg Louganis
Karl Malden
Rose Marie
Allen Melvin
Dionne Warwick
Going with an All-NFL theme, including the 3 remaining members of the Fearsome Foursome.
Larry Czonka
Bud Grant
Rosey Grier
Bob Griese
Franco Harris
Deacon Jones
Marv Levy
Joe Namath
Merlin Olsen
Alan Page
Bill Parcells
Bart Starr
Roger Staubach
Does the list seem to be going slower this year? Maybe it’s just me. I got my list but I’m checking it twice.
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Kurt Angle
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Linsay Lohan
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Van Morrison
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Charles van Doren
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Brittney Spears
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Amy Winehouse
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Dick Cheney
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Dick Clark
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Walter Cronkite
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Albert Finney
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Farrah Fawcett
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Joe Pesci
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Alex Trebek
You are correct. I don’t know if people are being coy with their lists this year and waiting until closer to the deadline, but to date we have had 78 lists. At this time last year we had 99 lists.
Inserting QE II as your alternate for Oscar Peterson.
Um . . . didn’t I? amarone, I don’t think I understand. Want me to PM you my list?
Tripler
Thanks much.
::Sigh:: Oh Oscar. Why couldn’t you have waited another eight days?
A plain format list is one without the commentary in amongst it. As requested in the OP.
My picks:
George Herbert Walker Bush
Ed Koch
Ray Nagin
Dick Clark
Ed McMahon
Jimmy Carter
John Glenn
Amy Winehouse
Al Sharpton
Britney Spears
Ruth Bader-Ginsburg
Michael Vick
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Sorry about the confusion. Here’s my simple list!
Tripler
I still think I’m going to make some Boutros Boutros-Ghali on toast for Christmas morning.