2012 Celebrity Death Pool - *Official*

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

'Charlie & Chocolate Factory' Grandpa Dead at 82



David Kelly -- the Irish actor who played Grandpa Joe Bucket in the 2005 Tim Burton remake of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" -- has died.

http://www.tmz.com/2012/02/13/david-kelly-dead/#.TznGTbRdDn8

Every time somebody dies I'm pissed now instead of sad

Twice in one day, poor guy!

Doh! Sorry. I r blind.

Apoc had Gary Carter.

People on my list can feel free to start dropping where they stand

apoc, smacky, and gadmus all had Gary Carter it looks like.

this could just be the boost they need

Rip Gary carver

Sorry for the delay in update, was out of town.

Etta James - 1/20/12- Age 73 (1 / 3)
Joe Paterno - 1/22/12 - Age 85 (1 / 2)
Don Cornelius - 2/1/12 - Age 75 (1/3)
Whitney Houston - 2/11/12 - Age 48 (1/6)
Gary Carter - 2/16/12 - Age 57 (1 / 5)


Apoc13 1 / 5
Captianqueeg 1 / 3
Dr. Sybian 2 / 8
Gadmus126 1 / 5
GHP 1 / 3
Gwarn1 1 / 3
Habit-Forming 1 / 2
havoc 2 / 6
Jonpow 2 / 5
LonghornJ 1 / 2
smackmybitchup 1 / 5
snotboogie 1 / 3
VioletB 2 / 5
ZosoHitler 1 / 3

I feel bad that I am rooting for people on my list to die but I have a competitive personality and it's killing me (pun intended) to see all these people ahead of me.

someone sell scott hall some cocaine already wtf

Ditto.
I'm 0/10 and not happy.
I know the year is still young and there's plenty of time left yet.

I'm just impatient

Berenstain Bears co-creator Jan Berenstain dies at 88

http://www.washingtonpost.com/enter...dies-at-88/2012/02/27/gIQAvHQmeR_story_1.html



During World War II, Stanley worked stateside as a military medical artist; Janice did drafting work for the Army Corps of Engineers and worked as a riveter on Navy seaplanes. She made their wedding rings from airplane aluminum, and the couple was married in 1946. One of their first purchases for their new home was a drawing table.

From the beginning of their marriage, their working relationship was deeply collaborative. In the post-war years, the Berenstains became successful and prolific cartoonists. Their work regularly appeared in magazines including the Saturday Evening Post and Collier’s. They began a cartoon series, “All in the Family,” that ran for more than three decades in magazines such as McCall’s and Good Housekeeping.

In that series, as with the Berenstain Bears, they took turns writing and illustrating. (Years later, Mrs. Berenstain would complain about the tedium of drawing the “billions” of polka-dots on Mama Bear’s dresses.) The innocent humor of the Berenstain Bears is found in other books from the early years of their career, including “How to Teach Your Children About Sex Without Making a Complete Fool of Yourself” and “Have a Baby, My Wife Just Had a Cigar!”
The creation of the bears series came in part thanks to the Berenstains’ children, who were early fans of Theodor Geisel — better known as Dr. Seuss, the author of “The Cat in the Hat.”

The Berenstains decided that they, too, would try their hand at a children’s book based on an animal, and submitted “Freddy Bear’s Spanking” to the Random House publishing company. (The chose to write about bears not because their last name offered a convenient alliteration, but because bears were easy to draw.)

Geisel, then a children’s editor at the publishing house, liked the concept. He edited 17 books in the Berenstain Bears series, including the first published one, “The Big Honey Hunt.” He also shortened the Berenstains’ names to Stan and Jan for a rhyme on the cover.

Royalty papers mistakenly referred to their first book as “The Big Money Hunt,” the New York Times once reported. Nearly everyone, including the Berenstains, was pleasantly surprised by the book’s quick success. The television shows and other spinoffs only deepened the series’ cultural penetration. (Once, CBS refused to air a television episode based on the book “The Berenstain Bears and Too Much TV”; PBS later produced it.)

Survivors include two sons, Michael Berenstain, an illustrator and writer, and Leo Berenstain, a businessman, both of Bucks County and both of whom have worked on the family’s multimillion-dollar corporation Berenstain Enterprises; and four grandchildren.

Over the years, detractors took aim at the bears’ almost impossible wholesomeness, their attire that never changed with the times, and the tepid games the children played (they included hopscotch and jacks).
A Random House editor once told the Berenstains that “it’s just not that way in the real world,” The Post reported.
“But it’s that way in Bear Country,” the Berenstains said.

Monkees Singer Davy Jones Dies at 66

Back in 1965, Davy Jones answered an ad in Variety looking for "four insane boys" to star in a television comedy about a band resembling the Beatles. The result was "The Monkees," a pioneering effort in prefabricated pop culture.

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Davy Jones

Mr. Jones and the rest of the band—Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork and Mike Nesmith—broke new ground in pop music because instead of coming up through the music world, they were the vision of producers.
Mr. Jones, the lead vocalist on "Daydream Believer," a No. 1 U.S. single in 1967, died Wednesday in Indiantown, Fla., after suffering a heart attack. He was 66 years old.
A native of Manchester, England, Mr. Jones was the one member of the Monkees with an authentic British accent—an essential asset for a band so blatantly based on the Beatles. He was also, according to many fans, the cutest.
"I can't explain why the girls think I'm cute," Mr. Jones told People in 1985. "On television, I merely play myself."
The Monkees were met with critical derision from the start, but their songs became bubblegum hits. Their first No. 1 song, "Last Train to Clarksville" in 1966, was written by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, but other top songwriters of the day were involved—Neil Diamond, Gerry Goffin and Carole King and Harry Nilsson.
With their growing success, the Monkees began to insist on playing their own instruments and toured as a group. This provoked consternation from their music producer, Don Kirshner, who went on to create the Archies, a band that couldn't talk back because they existed only as cartoon animations.

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Peter Tork, Mike Nesmith, Davy Jones and Micky Dolenz in July 1967.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience, then nearly unknown in the U.S., joined the Monkees' 1967 tour as the opening band. ("Oh, God, I hate them! Dishwater," Mr. Hendrix said in an interview that year with Melody Maker magazine.)
Mr. Jones appeared as a teenager on the long-running British soap opera "Coronation Street," and he went on to be nominated for a Tony Award for playing the Artful Dodger on Broadway in the 1963 production of "Oliver!"
After the Monkees' TV show, which ran on NBC from 1966 to 1968, Mr. Jones went on to a lengthy if slight show-business career, making guest appearances on variety shows, beauty pageants and sitcoms, often playing himself.
The Monkees had multiple reunions over the years, most recently in 2011.
"Wherever I go, people still shout out: 'Hey, hey, we're the Monkees!' " Mr. Jones told Britain's the Daily Mail last year. "And I never tire of that."
—Email remembrances@wsj.com
A version of this article appeared Mar. 1, 2012, on page A6 in some U.S. editions of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: Made-for-TV Frontman Charmed Many a Believer.

Nobody has scored for a while. Ho hum.

longhornj had mike wallace, someone else may have him too ... I stopped looking when l saw someone had him

Fuck! I didn't think about Mike Wallace.

Has anyone taken Larry Miller?

doctors have told Miller's family the actor is expected to make a full recovery, but they want to keep him in the ICU for a couple of days for observation.

I like those odds!

(I love Larry Miller and I hope he makes a full and healthy recovery - for realsies)

me too, your post was the first I heard about it

They were talking about it on Carolla. He works with them. They joked but they were clearly concerned. It was nice.

RIP Mike Wallace

RIP Mike Wallace