The recent deaths of Gerald Ford and James Brown inspire this post: A Celebrity Dead Pool for 2007. Since it's my game, here are the rules:
1. Pick ten celebrities who you think will die in from 1/1/07 to 1/1/08
2. You aren't allowed to murder the celebrity.
2.5 Saddam Hussein doesn't count.
3. The point system works like this: you get one point for every year UNDER the age of 90 that the celebrity dies at. Anyone over 90 gets negative points.
4. Whoever gets the most points, wins.
5. I am tagging Dependable Renegade, Power Pop, Multi Medium, Whiskey Fire, Dohiyi Mir. Everyone else is welcome to play too. Post your picks on your blog or in comments here, and I will announce the winner in 2008.
My picks:
1. Lindsay Lohan
2. Andy Rooney
3. Gary Busey
4. Mickey Rourke
5. Bobby Brown
6. Robert Downey Jr.
7. Natasha Lyonne
8. Nancy Reagan
9. Michelle Rodriguez
10. Fifty Cent
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oh, come on. Nancy Reagan is a no-brainer.
Larry King
George H.W. Bush (finally, of embarrassment)
Dick Cheney (they can only keep that ticker going so long, plus there's the shock of Mary's baby)
Paul Newman (oh, sorry, so sorry)
Andy Rooney (or any of those 60 Minutes guys)
Margaret Thatcher
Pervez Musharraf (the loonies will get him and he's overdue for an assassination attempt)
Sen. Byrd
Queen Elizabeth
Dame Maggie Smith (sorry again)
11th a bonus
Michael J. Fox (REALLY sorry about this one.)
That anonymous listing including maggie smith and michael fox is from editoress, seen most recently at atrios. couldn't sign on though i have a blogger account.
Oh how ghoulish and marvelous! Must give this considerable thought and eliminate those I would like to see earn their next life rewards as opposed to those who are serious candidates.
1. Walter Cronkite (old age)
2. Courtney Love (overdose)
3. Tommy LaSorda (heart attack)
4. Mickey Rourke/Michael Madsen (aren't they the same creature anyway? drunken accident with loaded weapon)
5. Richard Dawson (liver implodes)
6. Adam West
7. Nichol Ritchie (drunk driving)
8. One SuperModel of a heroin overdose
9. Judith Krantz
10. Arnold Palmer
Bonus Longshot: Rachael Ray in a private plane crash.
Here's my list, motherfucker.
1. Arnold Schwarznegger (sp?)
2. Michael Jackson
3. Woody Allen
4. Jack Nicholson
5. Francis Coppola
6. Meryl Streep
7. Liza Minelli
8. Melissa Etheridge
9. Barbara Bush
10. Sally Field
How perfectly ghoulish! Mine are posted here.
1. Britney Spears
2. Ann Coulter
3. Dick Cheney
4. Bill Clinton
5. Barbara Walters
6. Queen Elizabeth II
7. Steve Dunleavey
8. Olivia deHavilland (yep: still alive).
9. Lil Kim
10. Brad Pitt
Ah, shit. Didn't read the rules carefully. Am revising to delete deHavilland:
1. Britney Spears
2. Ann Coulter
3. Dick Cheney
4. Bill Clinton
5. Barbara Walters
6. Queen Elizabeth II
7. Steve Dunleavey
8. Ed Koch
9. Lil Kim
10. Brad Pitt
Let me consider this for a time. I've got through tomorrow, right?
I'll probably do it tonight. I'd better go over and pick up my suitcase at baggage claim before they think I'm a terrorist ... or, since I'm at Palm Beach Int'l, before they think I'm smuggling Viagra.
Oh, hell's bells. Revising one last time:
1. Britney Spears
2. Ann Coulter
3. Dick Cheney
4. Henry Hill
5. Barbara Walters
6. Queen Elizabeth II
7. Steve Dunleavey
8. Ed Koch
9. Lil Kim
10.Ron Wood
Turn on ABC - you'll wish you added Dick Clark.
PS - Everyone, thanks for playing. Polls are closing in twenty minutes. Winner to be announced one year and twenty minutes from now.
A FOURTH Revsion:
1. Britney Spears
2. Ann Coulter
3. Dick Cheney
4. Henry Hill
5. Ariel Sharon
6. Queen Elizabeth II
7. Steve Dunleavey
8. Ed Koch
9. Lil Kim
10.Ron Wood
I just got home, so I hope this still qualifies even though it's a few minutes late ...
1. Nicole Richie
2. Nancy Reagan
3. Ariel Sharon
4. Dick Cheney
5. Dick Clark
6. Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
7. B.B. King
8. Betty Ford
9. David Crosby
10. Dennis Hastert
There you go. Tally ho.
1. Betty Ford
2. Betty White
3. B.B. King
4. Koko Taylor
5. Bobby Brown
6. Walter Cronkite
7. Dr. Kevorkian
8. Boy George
9. Robert Dole
10. Margaret Thatcher
jesus people, nothin else to do with your time?
Nope.
I'm too celebrity-ignorant to play, but seeing (and hearing) Henry Kissinger at Ford's farewell festivities, I would certainly put him on the short-list.
1. Evel Kneivel
2. Dale Earnhardt Jr.
3. Robbie Kneivel
4. Olivia De Haviland
5. Charlton Heston
6. Jerry Lee Lewis
7. PM Al-Maliki
8. Bernie Ebbers
9. Robert Byrd
10. Andy Dick
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