Deathwatch 2009 - Game and sign-up thread

[Trojan Horse]

Dom DeLuise, dead at 75. 25 points goes begging.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/05/obit.deluise/index.html

[Jaguar]

David Eddings dies at age 77 on June 2, 2009. 23 points go unclaimed.

[Quailman]

David Carradine, age 72, of an apparent suicide.

[Amb]

David Eddings got me into reading fiction books at the age of 14 or 15. I only read books on Dinosaurs, Space and facts until then. The idea of reading a novel never appealed to me till then. A lot of people criticise his work, but for me it was a beneficial kick start to a whole new facet of life. I hope to meet him on the other side one day (as far away as possible mind you)

[Stubby]

Ed McMahon died at age 86. Fourteen points for me!

[Trojan Horse]

Just saw that one.

[Quailman]

38 points for Jaguar and MatthewV, as Farrah Fawcett has passed away.

I had her on my list for two years before this.

[Jaguar]

I just saw that she had passed away. There's also rumours that Michael Jackson is dead. At least he's been rushed to hospital, but TMZ is saying he died of cardiac arrest at the age of 50.

I'll hold off on the Jackson points until it has been positively confirmed.

[Chuck]

I just heard about it on a local news broadcast.

[MNOWAX]

AP and the US world news has confirmed it.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/25/michael.jackson/index.html
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[Scurra]

Oh my word. Let the conspiracy theories begin...

(...so, someone paid Farah Fawcett to don her Charlie's Angels outfit one last time and then she was assassinated right in front of Jackson who died of shock...?)
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[lexprod]

I immediately thought of this thread today while at work (local news channel).

[Jaguar]

With MJ's death confirmed, Amb, OST and I score 50 points each. Top posts updated.

[Lepton*]

Somehow, I missed my Paperclipee, Konrad Dannenberg.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/23/us/23dannenberg.html?_r=1

[One Skunk Todd]

Pitchman Billy Mays.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/28/mays.death/index.html

It sounds like he hit his head pretty hard recently. I wonder if he died of the same thing that actress did a few months back.

[Trojan Horse]

Why do these celebrities have to die in bunches? Why can't they spread their deaths out a little?

Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, and now Billy Mays. This has been quite a depressing week. I feel so mortal.

[One Skunk Todd]

Karl Malden

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/07/01/karl.malden.obit/index.html

[Dragon Phoenix]

Molly Sugden (86) - Mrs. Slocombe from Are you being served. I wonder what happens to her pussy.
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[L'lanmal]

Steve McNair, NFL quarterback until quite recently, was killed in a shooting. He was 36.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/04/mcnair.shooting/index.html

[marcusI]

Gale Storm, "My Little Margie"

http://stupidcelebrities.net/2009/06/29/actress-gale-storm-has-died-at-age-of-87-photos/

[Poisonium]

[Quailman]

Robert McNamara, architect of the Vietnam War (conflict?).

[Chuck]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Oscar G. Mayer, retired chairman of the Wisconsin-based meat processing company that bears his name, has died at the age of 95.

[Jaguar]

Walter Cronkite dead at 92. 8 points go begging.

[Scurra]

Merce Cunningham, choreographer, aged 90.
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[Dragon Phoenix]

Football (soccer) legend Sir Bobby Robson at 76. RIP.
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[Cordelia]

you can get knighted for doing anything...

[One Skunk Todd]

John Hughes dead at 59.

[MatthewV]

Don Young's wife died recently (Don is Alaska's sleezebag representative)

[Uhh*]

Frank McCourt dead at 78 Just seemed like a thing to post, it looked like it hadn't been yet.

-A concerned individual.

[Jaguar]

Eunice Kennedy Shriver passed away at age 88.

[Quailman]

Les Paul, age 94. No Les, no more.

[Jaguar]

Ted Kennedy, the hockey player, dies at 83. 17 points left unclaimed.

[Trojan Horse]

Had you wanted to be extremely evil, you could've left out the phrase "the hockey player", making everyone click on the link to find out the truth. You would've scared a lot of people.

[Trojan Horse]

Conservative columnist Robert Novak, dead at 78.

[Dragon Phoenix]

[Jaguar]

[L'lanmal]

Cincinnati Pops Orchestra conductor and multiple Grammy (amongst others) award winner, Erich Kunzel died today at the age of 74, shortly before I was going to see him in concert. He continued conducting to the end, saying his cancer "wasn’t on the schedule.”

[Cordelia]

Aw, I went to the Cincy pops a few times :/

[marcusI]

Patrick Swayze 57
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obit_swayze

Scarry stuff I'm 54