This list was submitted by Chicken at Tresky's on Monday, December 31st, 2007 at 8:15 AM PST for The 2008 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Farrah Fawcett | June 25th, 2009 | 62 |
9 | Harold Pinter | December 24th, 2008 | 78 |
8 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | August 3rd, 2008 | 89 |
7 | Claude Levi-Strauss | November 1st, 2009 | 100 |
6 | Chemical Ali | January 25th, 2010 | 68 |
5 | Arthur Clarke | March 19th, 2008 | 90 |
4 | Suzanne Pleshette | January 19th, 2008 | 70 |
3 | Billy Graham | February 21st, 2018 | 99 |
2 | Albert Hofmann | April 29th, 2008 | 102 |
1 | Lawrence Ferlinghetti | February 23rd, 2021 | 101 |
28 points | 5 hits |
She read his mind and her face grew sad, sadder than anything he had ever seen and she turned her eyes on him and he could see clear through them into the goodness of her soul and he knew she wasn't a blackmailer and his first impression had been right; she was a girl who had come face to face with fate and had lost, but in losing hadn't lost all, for there was the light of holiness in her face that time when he was her friend, when he thought that a look like that belonged only in a church when you were praying or getting married or something, a light that was there now for him to see while she played a song that told him he was her friend and she was his, a friendship that was more than that, it was a trust and he believed it. What a sap.
(d) July 17th, 2006