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Celebrity Dead Pool - 2009

post #1 of 106
1/16/09 at 12:27pm
Thread Starter 
Who's gonna bite it this year? ( yeah, we are a little late and Montalban would have been awesome to guess)

10 picks max. End of 2009, we see who has precog powers!
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post #2 of 106
1/16/09 at 12:28pm
Wait, is this a pool or what? Rules? Or we just type 10 celebs?
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post #3 of 106
1/16/09 at 12:29pm
Suggested Rules:

1. The year ends on December 31, 2009 at 11:59pm

2. All picks must have some element of celebrity, fame or political relevance so that an announcement will be mentioned in some credible news source.

3. No pick may be currently under a state-mandated death sentence, nor may their celebrity or fame be based solely on their moribund state or terminal illness.
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post #4 of 106
1/16/09 at 12:35pm
My Picks:

1. Ted Kennedy
2. Farrah Fawcett
3. Seve Ballesteros
4. Nancy Reagan
5. Kirk Douglas
6. Jack Kemp
7. John Forsythe
8. Abe Vigoda
9. Dick Clark
10. Harry Morgan

Bonus Pick: Chrysler

edited: added 5 more, bringing it to 10.

Patrick Swayze is going to live into 2010.
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post #5 of 106
1/16/09 at 12:43pm
Well, some names of people and stuff:

- Patrick Swayze
- Liza Minelli
- Paul Gascoigne
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
- Ray Harryhausen
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Ernest Borgnine
- Queen Elizabeth II.
- Hugh Heffner
- Fidel Castro

Bonus Pick: Helmut Schmidt

ETA: You might want to put a deadline on this one.
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post #6 of 106
1/16/09 at 12:49pm
1. Jimmy Carter
2. Peter O'Toole
3. Mel Brooks
4. Eli Wallach
5. Joanne Woodward
6. Pacman Jones
7. Richard Petty
8. Roger Moore
9. Maya Angelou
10. Marv Levy
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post #7 of 106
1/16/09 at 12:50pm
Thread Starter 
- Liz Taylor (around june or july)
- Nancy Reagan (april)
- Roger Moore (november)
- Kirk Douglas (march)
- Richard Attenborough ( September)
- Fidel Castro ( May)
- Ennio Morricone (October)
- Christopher Lee (December)
- Christopher Plummer (August)
- Lauren Baccal (december )

Bonus - Joaquin Phoenix - His music career will be a failure and he'll off himself.
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post #8 of 106
1/16/09 at 12:50pm
1. Joaquin Phoenix
2. Fred Phelps
3. Fidel Castro
4. Bob Barker
5. Amy Winehouse
6. Dmitry Medvedev
7. Michael Jackson
8. Elizabeth Taylor
9. Roger Ebert
10. Patrick Swayze
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post #9 of 106
1/16/09 at 12:51pm
So we are down to five now? I thought we were supposed to do 10. Should I kill off some of my list already?
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post #10 of 106
1/16/09 at 12:51pm
Thread Starter 
hahaha Martin switched Phoenix! Too slow man!

Na, keep it at ten.
I'll add 5 more later.
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post #11 of 106
1/16/09 at 12:51pm
1. Peter O'Toole
2. Hugh Hefner
3. Albert Finney
4. Peter Falk
5. Roger Moore
6. Gene Wilder
7. Mel Brooks
8. Ed McMahon
9. Tommy Lasorda
10. Judi Dench

ETA: Can there be overlap with others' lists? I don't want to rethink my whole list.
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post #12 of 106
1/16/09 at 12:52pm
1. Bob Dylan
2. Mary Tyler Moore
3. Don Rickles
4. Joaquin Phoenix (if anyone is going the Ledger route, he is)
5. Nancy Reagan
6. Patrick Swayze
7. Samantha Ronson (Lindsey is going to go psycho)
8. Steve Jobs
9. Lauren Bacall
10. Ted Kennedy

I think I got a nice mix.

Bonus pick - Owen Wilson
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post #13 of 106
1/16/09 at 12:56pm
Yeah well, Phoenix and Swayze are kinda obvious.
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post #14 of 106
1/16/09 at 12:58pm
Ed McMahon
Stephen Hawking
John Goodman
Christopher Walken
Stephen King
Betty White
Liz Taylor
Steve Jobs
Jack Nicholson
Oprah

Edit: beaten to Steve Jobs. Damn you, slow iPhone!
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post #15 of 106
1/16/09 at 12:59pm
Swayze is going to live into 2010 by sheer willpower alone.
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post #16 of 106
1/16/09 at 12:59pm
Thread Starter 
Peter O'Toole is a shoe-in.

Damn i forgot about him!
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post #17 of 106
1/16/09 at 1:10pm
I deliberately tried not to pick anyone who had already been picked. I'm picking Woodward and Brooks based on how long-time spouses usually don't last long after the other person dies. Pacman Jones I think ends up out of football and gets involved in something stupid. Wallach is 91 and can't be hanging on much longer.
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post #18 of 106
1/16/09 at 1:11pm
Barack Obama. Yeah, I went there.
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post #19 of 106
1/16/09 at 1:25pm
MY MORBID LITTLE LIST

1. Ted Kennedy
2. Douglas Slocombe
3. Don Rickles
4. Nancy Reagan
5. Kirk Douglas
6. Jack Kemp
7. Ennio Morricone
8. Sidney Poitier
9. Mel Brooks
10. John Warner


Bonus Pick: Walter Cronkite
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post #20 of 106
1/16/09 at 1:27pm
I'll post my full list later, but I have a suspicion that Sondheim bites it in 2009.
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post #21 of 106
1/16/09 at 1:53pm
1. Andrew Wyeth
2. Heath Ledger
3. Marley
4. The bad guy in Transformers 2
5. Someone old
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post #22 of 106
1/16/09 at 1:54pm
I'll throw in Andy Dick, because he really does deserve to die.
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post #23 of 106
1/16/09 at 2:08pm
Now, I wish I could've added Circuit City as my bonus pick.
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post #24 of 106
1/16/09 at 2:20pm
There are quite a few more retailers that are coughing up blood, Anderson. CC is merely the first of many that will probably fold in the next few months.
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post #25 of 106
1/16/09 at 2:23pm
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Originally Posted by Judas Booth View Post
There are quite a few more retailers that are coughing up blood, Anderson. CC is merely the first of many that will probably fold in the next few months.
No shit, but it would've been an easy one. Like Slater's list. Damn my eyes for not thinking of Marley.
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post #26 of 106
1/16/09 at 2:32pm
Gonna try to throw out some wild picks:

1. Martin Scorsese
2. Tim Tebow
3. Tyler Perry
4. Geraldo Rivera
5. David Letterman
6. Cormac McCarthy, Pynchon, Delilo, or Roth.
7. Alan Moore
8. Sean Connery
9. Harrison Ford
10. Stephon Marbury

Bonus pick: Oprah. Which would immediately off half the female population (my mother included).
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post #27 of 106
1/16/09 at 2:40pm
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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson View Post
I deliberately tried not to pick anyone who had already been picked.
Isn't that what you're supposed to do?
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post #28 of 106
1/16/09 at 2:42pm
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Originally Posted by Anakin's Dad View Post
6. Cormac McCarthy, Pynchon, Delilo, or Roth.
Not Kosher.
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post #29 of 106
1/16/09 at 2:47pm
Thread Starter 
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Originally Posted by MikeShaynePI View Post
Isn't that what you're supposed to do?
Not really. This is not a draft. We are just listing what we think.
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post #30 of 106
1/16/09 at 3:00pm
Fun fact: I once won a dinner from a Dead Pool friend over the demise of DiMaggio in 1999.

I'll throw my hat into the ghoulish ring:

1. Dick Cheney
2. Olivia De Havilland
3. Jeanne Moreau
4. Amy Winehouse
5. Jonah Hill
6. Chuck Berry
7. Boy George
8. Pete Doherty
9. Sidney Lumet
10. Dane Cook
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post #31 of 106
1/16/09 at 3:06pm
Picking someone like Amy Winehouse is a losing bet. She's got too many handlers around her to keep her alive, regardless of what she does to her body.
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post #32 of 106
1/16/09 at 3:23pm
Ringo Starr
Yogi Berra
Courtney Love
Clint Eastwood
Mickey Rooney
Shelley Long
Pete Doherty
John McCain
Michael Caine
Seth Green
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post #33 of 106
1/16/09 at 3:30pm
1. Andy Rooney
2. Jerry Stiller
3. Andy Dick
4. The Music
5. The Laughter
5.5 Vern Troyer
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post #34 of 106
1/16/09 at 3:37pm
I only need one. Artie Lange. Count on it.
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post #35 of 106
1/16/09 at 3:50pm
1.Clint Eastwood
2.Ryan Reynolds
3.JoBeth Williams
4.Ian Mckellen
5. Ben Kingsley

ETA:

Rest of my list-

6. William Shatner
7. George Clooney
8. Lina Leandersson
9. Charlotte Rampling
10. Jenette Goldstein
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post #36 of 106
1/16/09 at 3:54pm
I'm not a copycat. I just happen to agree with some of your choices.

In alphabetical order...

Mel Brooks
Tony Curtis
Kirk Douglas
Michael J Fox
Michael Jackson
Leonard Nimoy
Peter O'Toole
Britney Spears
Patrick Swayze
Amy Winehouse


There are two that I am definitely thinking about and some of you have mentioned them. But they are too dear to me for me to even contemplate the sadness of their passing. Spears and Winehose take their place in a representation of wishful thinking.
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post #37 of 106
1/16/09 at 3:54pm
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Originally Posted by Abbott & Prospero View Post
Clint Eastwood
Ryan Reynolds
JoBeth Williams
Ian Mckellen
Ben Kingsley
Whoa, whoa... wait a minute... Ian McKellen?!
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post #38 of 106
1/16/09 at 3:54pm
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Originally Posted by Abbott & Prospero View Post
Ian Mckellen
Take that one back. He still has The Hobbit to film.
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post #39 of 106
1/16/09 at 4:01pm
I take it neither of you have seen Gods and Monsters.
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post #40 of 106
1/16/09 at 4:03pm
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Originally Posted by Abbott & Prospero View Post
I take it neither of you have seen Gods and Monsters.
How does James Whale compare to Ian McKellan at this point in his life?

LOVE the movie, by the way.
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post #41 of 106
1/16/09 at 4:56pm
I had a long time friend who was a TV Producer die in December. So it really took all the fun out of this kind of shit.
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post #42 of 106
1/16/09 at 5:42pm
1. Tara Reid
2. Amy Winehouse
3. Muhammad Ali
4. Pete Dogherty
5. Clint Eastwood
6. Arti Lange
7. Liz Taylor
8. Courtney Love
9. Ed McMahon
10. Jeff Hardy
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post #43 of 106
1/16/09 at 5:56pm
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Originally Posted by eenin View Post
I had a long time friend who was a TV Producer die in December. So it really took all the fun out of this kind of shit.
Why, someone picked him in their pool?
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post #44 of 106
1/16/09 at 6:17pm
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Originally Posted by Martin Savage View Post
Why, someone picked him in their pool?
Nope it was an total accident, but she was a very nice person. It just kind of drives home that dead Celebrity were people once and some of them might even have been nice people, who other are missing. I am pretty blasé about death even people I know well, but the pain her family felt got to me. I have lost family member I miss them and I think about them from time to time. I just don't seem to feel that pain of death that other seem to. I might just be the way I look at death, I am kind of a Fatalist. I have known that family for about 30 years. I don't really understand why they felt that pain, but the fact they felt it got to me. I feel their pain, I just don't see why they feel it. Next year I will most likely be adding names to the list, but these year that experience it to new.
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post #45 of 106
1/16/09 at 6:55pm
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Originally Posted by Judas Booth View Post
Picking someone like Amy Winehouse is a losing bet. She's got too many handlers around her to keep her alive, regardless of what she does to her body.
Picking Winehouse is retarded. It's like picking Keith Richards back in the 80's or something. This chick is nigh invincible. She's going to bury your grandchildren.
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post #46 of 106
1/16/09 at 8:34pm
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Originally Posted by OCallaghan View Post
Picking Winehouse is retarded. It's like picking Keith Richards back in the 80's or something. This chick is nigh invincible. She's going to bury your grandchildren.
Maybe. Or she could be the Michael Phelps of the '09 Dead Pool. We'll see who's laughing in December.
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post #47 of 106
1/16/09 at 8:43pm
She's going to die eight times?
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post #48 of 106
1/16/09 at 8:52pm
Oh... Not that anyone is wondering, but the reason I didn't put (Bonus Pick) Fidel Castro on my list is because I believe he's already dead and has been for at least a month or more... Which would, technically, make it a 2008 death.

I do think we'll hear about him dying this year though.
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post #49 of 106
1/16/09 at 9:02pm
1. Leonard Cohen
2. Kevin Smith
3. Woody Allen
4. Topher Grace
5. Bill Cosby
6. Rihanna
7. Roger Ebert
8. Christopher Walken
9. Yo Yo Ma
10. Michelle Obama

Bonus:
Blockbuster Video
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post #50 of 106
1/17/09 at 2:40am
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Originally Posted by Patrick Ripoll View Post
Bonus:
Blockbuster Video
I'll second that -- the dollar-a-day late fee on new rentals is gonna tank em.
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