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Thread: 2017 Celebrity Death Pool
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lilBuddha
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Not exactly a celebrity and not on anyone's list, but Norma McCorvey (Roe of Roe v. Wade) might now find out which of her positions was correct.
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Pigwidgeon
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Omar Abdel Rahman, who was convicted of conspiracy in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and of planning more attacks as part of a "war of urban terrorism" in the US, has died in a North Carolina prison.
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Piglet
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Dick Bruna, the creator of Miffy the rabbit, has died.
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Ariston
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Probably only a celebrity to a very narrow segment of very nerdy people, but Kenneth Arrow, economist, logician, and mathematician, died yesterday. Besides being related to half the economist establishment (do economists have establishments?), some of his work is truly beautiful in its elegance, simplicity, and . . . well, wit. I used his impossibility theorem once in analyzing a metaphysical problem; it's truly a thing of logical beauty.
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Sioni Sais
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quote: Originally posted by Ariston: Probably only a celebrity to a very narrow segment of very nerdy people, but Kenneth Arrow, economist, logician, and mathematician, died yesterday. Besides being related to half the economist establishment (do economists have establishments?), some of his work is truly beautiful in its elegance, simplicity, and . . . well, wit. I used his impossibility theorem once in analyzing a metaphysical problem; it's truly a thing of logical beauty.
I must find out more about Dr Arrow. A quick read of his obituary shows that he knew the truth about healthcare economics almost half a century ago, and more besides.
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Sipech
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It's game over, man! Bill Paxton, the actor who specialised in whiny, annoying characters, has died, aged 61.
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Kyzyl
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quote: Originally posted by Sipech: It's game over, man! Bill Paxton, the actor who specialised in whiny, annoying characters, has died, aged 61.
A simple posting of the fact would have been sufficient.
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ArachnidinElmet
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Gutting. One of my favourite actors, growing up, and in some of my favourite films.
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lilBuddha
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quote: Originally posted by Sipech: It's game over, man! Bill Paxton, the actor who specialised in whiny, annoying characters, has died, aged 61.
Nice. Not accurate if one is more familiar with his greater body of work, and a kind of bitchy comment about someone far nicer than many celebrated actors.
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Kelly Alves
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I'll always think of him as Bill Hendrickson.
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Stetson
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MILD SPOILER
To me, he was the guy who finds the money in A Simple Plan, which I liked enough to watch several times. I'll always remember his voiceover at the end, about how he and his wife don't really have normal lives, after what they did.
Otherwise, he kinda fell through the cracks of my mind. I wasn't a big devotee of many of his other films.
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Teekeey Misha
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Sir Gerald Kaufman has died aged 86, so 14 points for me but I can't figure out how to paste anything with this new 'phone!
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lilBuddha
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quote: Originally posted by Teekeey Misha: Sir Gerald Kaufman has died aged 86, so 14 points for me but I can't figure out how to paste anything with this new 'phone!
Notice
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Teekeey Misha
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Thanks lB; I have trekked across the country to access t'interweb intending to add this and was pleased somebody had already helped me out.
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Hedgehog
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Robert Osborne, longtime host for Turner Classic Movies, has died, age 84. A gentleman with a remarkable knowledge and love of classic films. TCM won't be the same without him.
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The Rogue
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John Surtees who won championships on both four and two wheels is drowning out the heavenly choirs with the sounds of revving engines.
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Schroedinger's cat
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Oh - a sad loss. There are few people who have the skill and drive to be a racer, and live a long time. He was one - superb racer. I actually saw him a few years ago, driving at Goodwood. At 80, still better able to handle a car than 90% of those I meet on the roads.
RIP to an age of racing.
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lilBuddha
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Sister Sledge is now one member fewer. RIP Joni.
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Pigwidgeon
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Robert Waller, author of what may well have been the most over-rated book of the 20th century, has died at 77.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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The Big Apple is looking a little less polished now that Jimmy Breslin, that "unmade bed of a reporter," has gone to the big orchard beyond.
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Beenster
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quote: Originally posted by The Phantom Flan Flinger: Colin Dexter now writing crime novels for the angels.
That makes me terribly sad, he was a nice man. Very understated. Hope there are no murders in heaven for him to have to write a novel about and he can rest in peace.
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Baker
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One of my celebs has decided to deprive me of any points at all.
Dame Vera Lynn has turned one hundred years old.
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Hedgehog
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Just a few days after Chuck Berry, Chuck Barris has died. Or, more appropriately, been "gonged."
In my younger days, the similarity of their names caused me a Great Deal of Confusion.
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lilBuddha
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quote: Originally posted by Hedgehog: Just a few days after Chuck Berry, Chuck Barris has died. Or, more appropriately, been "gonged."
In my younger days, the similarity of their names caused me a Great Deal of Confusion.
And I confused him with George Barris
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Ariston
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko, poet, reluctant politician, and consummate fine human being, has died at 84.
After leaving Russia, he taught at my undergrad college for about twenty years, where he was known as something of a prankster, a generous spirit, someone who would always push young artists to better themselves and their art. One of my composer friends had the honor of collaborating with Yevtoshenko, something he shares with one of the greats.
Somewhere around here, I have the copy of The Evening Rainbow that he signed, in Russian, with the instruction (I hardly remember the context, it was one of his many jokes) that now I had to read War and Peace.
-------------------- “Therefore, let it be explained that nowhere are the proprieties quite so strictly enforced as in men’s colleges that invite young women guests, especially over-night visitors in the fraternity houses.” Emily Post, 1937.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Gilbert Baker, creator of the Rainbow Flag, the emblem of gay rights, has furled his banner for the last time.
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Pigwidgeon
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Richard N. Bolles has parachuted into Heaven.
(Is it possible to parachute upwards?)
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Tree Bee
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Brian Mathew has died. It was on the cards after leaving his Sounds of the Sixties radio show, but he was talking about doing more recordings.
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Tree Bee
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quote: Originally posted by The Phantom Flan Flinger: Well, that gained and lost me points in short order!
Me too. A few red faces at the Beeb methinks!
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ArachnidinElmet
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I completely forgot to post this last week.
David Storey , Angry Young Man, playwright and author of This Sporting Life, and native of the Rhubarb Triangle, has died.
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Stetson
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Don Rickles, maestro of insult humour.
One of my favorite jokes of his: "I make fun of everyone, the whites, the blacks, the yellows, the purples...Mostly the blacks." A rather self-aware take of the perils of racial humour.
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Pigwidgeon
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The nicest thing I remember about Don Rickles is that several years ago Westboro picketed his show in Chicago. So he must have done something right!
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lilBuddha
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quote: Originally posted by Pigwidgeon: The nicest thing I remember about Don Rickles is that several years ago Westboro picketed his show in Chicago. So he must have done something right!
He was, by every account I've heard, a very nice person. The insults were the hook which gained him fame, but not who he was.
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L'organist
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Tim Piggott-Smith, Ronald Merrick in The Jewel in the Crown, has died.
A fine actor with a fantastic voice.
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Lyda*Rose
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J. Geils, an icon of the seventies and early eighties, is riffing with other heavenly strings.
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lilBuddha
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Eddie's unappreciated brother, Charlie Murphy has died.
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lilBuddha
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Rock guitar legend, Allan Holdsworth has progressed to another level.
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lilBuddha
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Live and Let Die sheriff Clifton James is policing a different jurisdiction.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Former American football great Aaron Hernandez, serving a life sentence for murder and recently acquitted of another murder, has tragically decided to hang up his spikes for good.
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Sipech
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Former England and Aston Villa footballer, Ugo Ehiogu has sadly died and ridiculously young age of 44.
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