The Celebrity Death Pool 2009

Peter Criss, a founding member of the rock band KISS, has breast cancer. What a pussy.

Peter Criss, a founding member of the rock band KISS, has survived having breast cancer.

And having and surviving any type of cancer does not make anyone a pussy.

I think that the “what a pussy” comment may have been a joke based on Criss’s “catman” make-up as a Kiss member.

Cullen Bryant, who gained over 3000 total yards running for the Rams and Seahawks of the National Football League from 1973 to '87, has died at the age of 58. A running back, Bryant also returned kickoffs (three for touchdowns) and punts during his pro career.

New video interviewwith Seve Ballesteros; looking pretty good!

I whoooshed Annie-Xmas! I whooshed Annie-Xmas!

Elizabeth Clare Prophet, who served as spiritual leader of the Church Universal and Triumphant, has died at the age of 70. Her church gained some notoriety during the late 1980’s, when about 2000 of her followers headed to the religious body’s Montana ranch in apparent preparation for a Soviet nuclear attack.

Mass murderer Howard Unruh has died.

Vic Mizzy, who wrote the themes to the TV series The Addams Family and Green Acres, has died at the age of 93.

Joseph Wiseman, who was proudest of his stage work but will probably always be remembered best for playing the titular villain in the James Bond film Dr. No, has died at the age of 91. Wiseman also portrayed gangland boss Manny Weisbord on the Crime Story TV series.

American expat Aussie TV legend Don Lane died at 75 today, Australia time.

One of my all time favorites, Soupy Sales, dead at 83.

Pie in the face for all the good times.

would someone please catch my jaw - it dropped and started rolling 'round the floor.

Another check in the “I thought he was already dead” column.

Points for texasoysterman and SpoilerVirgin, who negates the latter part of his/her name.

Her. :wink: Soupy has been a perennial on my list since I first joined the Death Pool. I think I’ll throw a pie in someone’s face in his memory.

Soupy is shuffling off the earth.

We’re *all *shuffling. Soupy done shuffled.

Collin Wilcox Paxton, who played the role of Mayella Ewell in the film To Kill a Mockingbird, has died at the age of 74. She and her parents had been involved in civil rights activities for years before the movie’s 1962 debut. However, she played the role of a white woman who falsely accuses a black man of rape so well that when she appeared at an NAACP conference in California, she received withering looks from several attendees until an association official “cleared the air” by pointing out that: “Collin is here at this conference because she believes in the cause. She is not the character in the film.”

Clifford P. Hansen, who served one term as Wyoming’s governor and twelve years as one of the Equality State’s U.S. senators, has died at the age of 97. Hansen was considered for the post of Secretary of the Interior by President Reagan, but declined, allowing James Watt to take the job.