Newest Stiffs:
Sumner Redstone · 97
May 27th, 1923 — August 11th, 2020
Lots of money, two ex-wives, a handful of kids, gave some money to charities, a lot to political campaigns, and tried to have a reporter from MTV killed. It's the resume of every rich guy in LA.
Wilford Brimley · 85
September 27th, 1934 — August 1st, 2020
Believe it or not, in 1985 he was 20 years younger than all the other actors in Cocoon.
Herman Cain · 74
December 13th, 1945 — July 30th, 2020
Crazy. He was completely healthy at a rally in Tulsa last month, and now he's dead of Covid. Hard to imagine.
Olivia de Havilland · 104
July 1st, 1916 — July 26th, 2020
Do you know how many ways there are for deadpoolers to spell this name wrong? Well, we do. SO glad she's dead.
Lou Henson · 88
January 10th, 1932 — July 25th, 2020
Somehow the winningest basketball coach at Illinois made it through the Fame Committee. They probably thought he was the Muppets guy.
Today's Celebrity Birthdays:
Dan Fogelberg
would have been 69 today
August 13th, 1951 — December 16th, 2007Longer than there've been fishes in the ocean, we've hated this guy.
Julie Newmar · 87
(b) August 13th, 1933
Don Ho
would have been 90 today
August 13th, 1930 — April 14th, 2007Not of the nappy-headed variety, but a Ho just the same.
Fidel Castro
would have been 94 today
August 13th, 1926 — November 25th, 2016Cigars for everyone!
George Shearing
would have been 101 today
August 13th, 1919 — February 14th, 2011He died of heart failure on Valentines Day, and he wrote the song "Be Careful, It's my Heart". We all set here?
John Beal
would have been 111 today
August 13th, 1909 — April 26th, 1997Two-bit character actor, but it's been a slow month, y'know?
Felix Wankel
would have been 118 today
August 13th, 1902 — October 9th, 1988Blew a gasket.
Today's Celebrity Deaths:
Johnny Pesky · 92
died 8 years ago today
September 27th, 1919 — August 13th, 2012He was nicknamed "The Needle", and had a pole at Fenway named after him. You figure it out.
Helen Gurley Brown · 90
died 8 years ago today
February 18th, 1922 — August 13th, 2012Brown is the new black.
Edwin Newman · 91
died 10 years ago today
January 25th, 1919 — August 13th, 2010He dead today. Two bad four him.
Les Paul · 94
died 11 years ago today
June 9th, 1915 — August 13th, 2009No Les, no more.
Brooke Astor · 105
died 13 years ago today
March 30th, 1902 — August 13th, 2007And with her final philanthropic act, she makes 531 players a little richer. Nice lady.
Phil Rizzuto · 89
died 13 years ago today
September 25th, 1917 — August 13th, 2007Holy cow, it's a hit!
Julia Child · 91
died 16 years ago today
August 15th, 1912 — August 13th, 2004Stick a fork in her.
Mickey Mantle · 63
died 25 years ago today
October 20th, 1931 — August 13th, 1995It's scary to think of just how great a player he might have been if he wasn't such a drunk.
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The 2020 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool Leaderboard
Here are the ten lists in the lead for the current game …
| Stiffs | Score | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Anarchy Is A Title 9 Sport | 6 | 32 |
| 2. | Bring Out Your Dead | 6 | 30 |
| 3. | Death Be Not Proud | 6 | 23 |
| 4. | Kick The Bucket List | 5 | 38 |
| 5. | Put Pennies On Their Eyes | 5 | 36 |
| 6. | Worms Gotta Eat Too | 5 | 36 |
| 7. | Kick The Bucket List 2 | 5 | 34 |
| 8. | 8 Centenarians And 2 That Are Close | 5 | 32 |
| 9. | And Away We Go | 5 | 31 |
| 10. | R.i.p | 5 | 31 |