Deathwatch 2010

[PuzzleScot]

Sadly, Bill McLaren - the voice of Rubgy - has shrugged off his mortal coil.
Nice tribute here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/scotland/8468516.stm

Also today, we have Canadian folk singer Kate McGarrigle
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8468913.stm

and Love Story author Erich Segal
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8469172.stm

(and it's not even lunchtime!)

[edit:] (removed, apologies if you read the clipped article)

[JDTAY]

Chemical Ali was executed. It's a shame he didn't count. Well, I could've made him count, but my entry would've been too late anyway.
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[grim reaper*]

J D Salinger at 91 is no longer with us

[grimmy*]

http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978019911 A more in depth version of what my other half was telling you. Sad day indeed. Not a great month for people in the literary biz. We can only hope that now some lucky person will get a look at the works he had hoarded away.

[Trojan Horse]

Nobody scores 23 points for congressman John Murtha (D-PA).

[The Great Crep'er]

Are Deathwatches usually this slow? :morbid:
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[Jaguar]

I'm surprised we haven't had any hits yet.

[Grim Reaper*]

[JDTAY]

Holy ****, Tom Hanks died!

...By association.

R.I.P. Charlie Wilson
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[grimmy*]

[JDTAY]

[One Skunk Todd]

Dagnabbit! Stupid real life making me forget things I wanted to do. Oh well, guess I'll sit this year out. Don't think anybody from last years list has popped off anyway.

[PuzzleScot]

It's never too late!

Nobody from this year's picks have been courteous enough to shrug off their mortal coil yet...

[Jaguar]

Please feel free to still enter. The only penalty for entering late is that if anyone dies in the first month, you don't get credit for that death.

And there's no catching up to do! Unless someone dies in the next month

[One Skunk Todd]

Sent, mostly just a hold over from last year.

[Jaguar]

OST, thanks for the late entry and your list has been added. One note, Eartha Kitt died Dec 25, 2008.

[One Skunk Todd]

Bah, Ok can we say... Stephen Colbert instead?

[Quailman]

Alexander "I am in control here in the White House" Haig.

No one had him.

[JDTAY]

Aw ****, now that Haig has finally ceded the White House to Obama, **** is really gonna go downhill in this country.
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[JDTAY]

Hey, Winston Churchill died!

Not really a big omission, he woulda scored -36 points anyway.
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[Jaguar]

The first points have been scored!!!

Michael Foot died at age 96. 4 points and the opening kickoff award for MathewV.

[JDTAY]

Wow, four whole points. You won the hockey game, d00d.
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[Canada*]

Begging your indulgence, but we won the hockey game.

Sorry to interrupt.

[Jaguar]

Corey Haim is now truly a Lost Boy. He didn't make anyone's theme, or regular, list, so 62 points unclaimed.

[Mr Nigma]

Does Mytron the Fifth count?
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[Quailman]

Peter Graves, aka Captain Oveur of Airplane! and Jim Phelps of Mission Impossible.

[jesternl]

Or, for some Europeans and Aussies, Flying High..

"Have you ever seen a grown man naked?"

[One Skunk Todd]

King of the Wild Frontier: Fess Parker

[MatthewV]

If nobody else dies, I will win the game this year, the "Quantity Not Quality" Award, the "Inside Track with the Grim Reaper" Award, the "Opening Kickoff" Award, and the "Final Hours" Award. Wouldn't that be exciting!

[JDTAY]

Good news! After yesterday's vote and tomorrow's signing, government Death Panels are sure to deliver unto to us a ton of points!
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[JDTAY]

From Wikipedia's Deaths in 2010 page:

Kwon Hyi-ro, 81, Japanese-born Korean murderer, prostate cancer.

I wonder if he murdered a Korean or was Korean. Hmm...
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[Poisonium]

American actor Robert Culp dies at 79.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100325/en_afp/entertainmentfilmuspeopleculp
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[Trojan Horse]

Jaime Escalante, dead at 79. Inspiration to math teachers everywhere. Myself included.

No one scores 21 points.

[PuzzleScot]

Malcolm McLaren, aged 64. Founder of the Sex Pistols, 'Father of punk rock'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8610701.stm

[edit: NOT related to Bill McLaren!]

[Quailman]

After three or four years on my Death Watch list, Meinhardt Raabe passed away. Six points for me.

...he's really most sincerely dead.

[Scurra]

Just wanted to mark this one, even though most US people won't have heard of him.
Guy Kewney was one of the most important PC journalists in the UK. I read his column in PCW magazine every month for over 25 years, which is something I can say about very few other writers (in fact, I can't think of any!)
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[jesternl]

Juan Antonio Samaranch's Olympic flame no longer burns.

[Quailman]

Lynn Redgrave, age 67, after a seven year battle with breast cancer.

[PuzzleScot]

I would have earned 69 points today had my cousin been a celebrity.

[Samadhi]

Frank Franzetta, iconic fantasy illustrator. 82
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And he lived happily ever after. Except for the dieing at the end and the heartbreak in between.