The Stiffs
For the 32nd year running, our fondest farewells to the recently departed. If they were on anybody’s list, or mattered at all, they’re here. Looking for everybody? Try the Directory.
Gene Barry
A longtime cabaret and touring stage performer, Mr. Barry played President Richard M. Nixon in a 1982 Atlanta production of "Watergate: A Musical." Can't believe that wasn't a bigger hit.
Claude Levi-Strauss
Actually, he was an anthropologist. But he probably WORE jeans, if that makes you feel less stupid.
Soupy Sales
He was sort of a poor man's Jerry Lewis, if you can fathom such a thing.
Patrick Swayze
Dirt Dancin' is too simple, and "Somebody sent Swayze to the coroner," is too obscure. Ghost? Fuck! This is when running a dead pool is just plain HARD.
Norman Borlaug
They called him "The Father of modern agriculture". That must have got him a TON of chicks.
Eunice Shriver
That only leaves 2 more from the Kennedy clan - unless you count the NINETEEN kids they had. Hard to believe they just aren't dying fast enough.
Budd Schulberg
He coulda been a contender. Without, you know, that whole dying thing.
Robert McNamara
Known as the chief architect of the Vietnam war. Thanks, Bob.
Billy Mays
The next 100 callers will most likely be on hold for a very long time.
Koko Taylor
This is what happens when you keep wang dang doodling all night long.
Lou Saban
Football coach - from when the footballs and helmets were made out of the same stuff.
Paul Harvey
Good day - you irritating, monotone, over opinionated, one-trick-pony weasel.
Philip Farmer
He wrote "A Woman a Day" and "Blown". We might be on to what killed him.
Claiborne Pell
And our first stiff of the year is the exciting senator from Rhode Island, creator of the Pell Grant, and apparently the only politician on all of Wikipedia without a "scandals" section. Going to be a big year.