This list was submitted by Digger O Dell 10 on Friday, December 30th, 2016 at 1:04 PM PST for The 2017 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | David Rockefeller | March 20th, 2017 | 101 |
9 | Gloria Vanderbilt | June 17th, 2019 | 95 |
8 | Charles Manson | November 19th, 2017 | 83 |
7 | Chuck Berry | March 18th, 2017 | 90 |
6 | Franco Zeffirelli | June 15th, 2019 | 96 |
5 | Vera Miles | Alive | 94 |
4 | Charlotte Rae | August 5th, 2018 | 92 |
3 | Don Rickles | April 6th, 2017 | 90 |
2 | Lee Grant | Alive | ? |
1 | Larry King | January 23rd, 2021 | 87 |
28 points | 4 hits |
"Put a coupla pennies on Ol' Blue Eyes .... He's a goner."
No, that's no good. We gotta do better than that. How 'bout
"Start spreadin' the news -- he's dead."
No, that's lame. This death is big. This death is bigger than big. It's huge. We need something really fantastic, like
"The Chairman is as stiff as a board."
That sucks. Dammit, we've got to think harder!
"From Here To Eternity."
Awful.
"Shot down in May."
Pathetic. Wait a sec,
"He did it--"
No, no, that's worse than the Henny Youngman thing. Jesus, the pressure is killing us. Do you people have any idea what this is like? Seventy-five million of you bloodthirsty sons-of-bitches are gonna be checking into this site right here, just to see what we write about Frank, and you know what? Yeah, he was a big star and a boozer and a womanizer and a pig and everything, but we know you bastards, and you're vicious. You're gonna want us to go for the jugular on this one, and man, we just weren't ready. Yeah, yeah, we shoulda seen it coming, it's true, but, jeez, the guy's like a statue or something, you know? Somehow, we just couldn't imagine it really, actually happening. And now it's happened, and we're completely stuck. Shit. We're fucked. We've been waiting and waiting for them to plant this old fart and put us in the spotlight, and now that baby's trained right on us, and we don't know what the hell to do. Okay, hang on. We've just got to pull it together and give it our best shot. Okay. Let's take a deep breath. We can get through this. Alright. Here we go. Ready?
"He's been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet -- and now he's a corpse."
God, that's horrible. Sorry.
(d) May 14th, 1998