GAH!
I hoped to scoop that Immortal Numero Uno could be circling the drain…but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO…
And I don’t have Hawkins anyways. I gave up years ago that he would ever die.
13 people (and it’s Stephen).
Australian cardboard mogul with a double bummer of a name, Dick Pratt, is gravely ill and not expected to live.
I do, too. Damn. I don’t want those points.
I had Hawking last year but this year? Noooo, I had to go and change my list strategy.
J.G. Ballard the author best known for *Empire of the Sun *and Crash (the one fimed by David Cronenberg) has died at 78.
Peter O’Toole has a double phallic name, just in case you were needing a Double Phallic Name to throw out there.
Dick Pratt…heh.
Oh for Christ’s sake- I heard about Hawking yesterday, thought “Woo Hoo! Losing my cherry!” But then I think he was my end-of-the-year alternate… :smack:
Felix “Doc” Blanchard, who had been the oldest living Heisman Trophy winner, has died at the age of 84. Blanchard, a running back known as Army’s “Mr. Inside”, teamed with Glenn “Mr. Outside” Davis to help the U.S. Military Academy win national titles in 1944 and '45. Blanchard won the Heisman, emblematic of college football’s best player, in the latter season.
James D. Houston, who collaborated with his wife Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston on the book Farewell to Manzanar, passed away at the age of 75. The account of Jeanne’s experiences as a World War Ii-era resident of an internment camp for U.S. residents of Japanese ancestry became both a made-for-TV movie and a staple of school reading lists. In another work, Snow Mountain Passage, Houston tackled the Donner Party expedition of 1846-47 that became notorious for cannibalism. He was inspired to do so after learning that Patty Reed, one of the participants in that journey of emigrants from Illinois to California, had died in the house in which the Houstons were then living.
James Maddox, editor of the journal Nature has died. He played a major role in the refutation of many types of pseudo-science.
Ken Annakin, Director, Jack Cardiff, Cinematographer, Snooks Eaglin, & Willie King, Dodgy week for Cinema and Blues…
Bea Arthur has died.
Surprisingly, nobody had her.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I guess since she played “older women” MY ENTIRE LIFE, her actual age never really registered with me for some reason, which is at least partially why I never thought about her when composing my list…
86 - wow.
I did.
Last year.
That is surprising.
You and three others. And four people had her the year before. But nobody did this year. Maybe just 14 points is not worth trying for.