Google news shows me that there is an Andy Williams who is a sports figure.
My pick is the singer.
Thanks, Baker!
Just a quick update here.
He’s one of my alternates, but I mean the singer, too.
Robin Gibb
Etta James
Madonna Badger
Gene Wilder
Jerry Lewis
Harlan Ellison
Stephen Hawking
Michelle Duggar
Ethan Zohn
Casey Anthony
Terry Pratchett
Brandon Novak
Michael Borcina
Alternate: Fidel Castro
Fifteen hours to go…
It’s already the New Year in New Zealand!
Quick clarification:
Billy Graham, the Evalgelist
and
Barbara Bush, wife of GHW, mother of Dubya.
I know we stretch the definition of celebrity to the breaking point but the wife of a celebrity? That goes beyond stretching it.
Fourteen hours to go!
Happy Birthday to our Mistress of Death Baker!!!
My birthday wish to you is, may all your remaining 2011 picks decide to day is the day to meet their Maker. 
Happy Birthday, Baker!
Here goes:
Billy Graham*
Fidel Castro
Muhammad Ali
Nancy Reagan
Aretha Franklin
Jerry Lee Lewis
Dick Cheney
Rush Limbaugh
Dick Clark
ZsaZsa Gabor
Jerry Lewis
Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Prince Philip
Alternates:
Robin Gibb
Joe Paterno
Etta James
*the preacher
Thirteen hours to go!
Going for my usual “old composers and politicians, plus Fred Phelps” list:
Pierre Boulez
George H. W. Bush
Jimmy Carter
Dick Cheney
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Sofia Gubaidulina
Henry Kissinger
Arvo Pärt
Krzysztof Penderecki
Fred Phelps
Prince Philip
Ned Rorem
Margaret Thatcher
Jeff Gordon
Ringo Starr
Rush Limbaugh
Bob Dole
Bill Gates
Al Kaline
Pope Benedict
George HW Bush
Andy Griffith
Roslyn Carter
Barry Bonds
Buzz Aldrin
Kaley Cuoco
Jumping on one bandwagon and adding one guy who I’d originally been planning to put on my list ever since his daddy died, and also taking the opportunity to excise T. Pratchett from my alternates list:
(Minus Ebert and Ali, plus Kim and Raven)
Ayman al Zawahiri
Abdelbaset al Megrahi
Bashar al Asad
William Perry
Robin Gibb
Gary Carter
Dick Cheney
Ariel Sharon
Joe Paterno
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Etta James
Kim Jong-Un
Raven Alexis
Alternate:
Roger Ebert
Muhammad Ali
Jimmy Carter
Perry is still the football player.
I personally agree with you, and feel there should be a minimum threshold for what can be considered a celebrity; perhaps they should have their own wikipedia page. If it were my game, that would be the rule.
HOWEVER, that is not how amarone or Baker runs this game, and the rules are 100% their prerogative. Under the current rule, everyone is a celebrity as long as their biggest claim to fame isn’t their illness. Spouses of celebrities have always been allowed under the rule.
Mostly recycling again. Only Steve Jobs came trough for me in 2011.
Sinead O’Connor
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Ariel Sharon
Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh
Nelson Mandela
Etta James
Alan Greenspan
Michael Douglas
Mike Wallace
Hugh Hefner
Aretha Franklin
Courtney Love
Robert Redford
Twelve hours to go!
The Young (and maybe not so young) Guns
I realized my list was becoming a list of relatively young people, so I ran with it…it is the baseball equivalent of swinging for the fences…
Charlie Sheen (Losing…)
Lindsay Lohan (In a true fall from grace, Lindsay spills over a railing during one of her famous rooftop parties…)
Jonathan Rhys Meyers (I heard his 2012 resolution is to be more thorough…)
Rod Blagojevich (Guilty, of angering many inmates with his constant talking…)
Courtney Love (Free throw…)
Scott Weiland (Free throw: Part Deux…)
Danny Wuerffel (Athletes body turns against him…)
Paz de la Huerta (Actress most famous for acting like Lohan…)
Tracy Morgan (Someone he offends tells the comic one final joke, Tracy never hears the punchline…)
Mary Kate Olsen (Start eating I will remove you from this list…)
Ashley Olsen (Ditto…)
Lady Gaga (One day the egg won’t open…)
Andy Dick (Cocaine is a hell of a drug…)
I wouldn’t mind scoring “0” points because I do not wish death on anyone, but these people are making their own decisions in life…poor, poor, poor decisions.
Real List
Charlie Sheen
Lindsay Lohan
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Rod Blagojevich
Courtney Love
Scott Weiland
Danny Wuerffel
Paz de la Huerta
Tracy Morgan
Mary Kate Olsen
Ashley Olsen
Lady Gaga
Andy Dick
REVISED LIST:
Joe Paterno
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Robin Gibb
Etta James
Pope Benedict XVI
Larry Hagman
Dennis “Fergie” Frederiksen
Dick Cheney
Billy Graham
Aretha Franklin
Prince Philip
Terry Pratchett
Abdelbaset Mohmed Ali al-Megrahi
Alternates:
Michael Douglas
Kirk Douglas
Nancy Regan