The finest celebrity dead pool scoring system ever
devised by dastardly demons of distaste.
Standing Update
265 - Vince R - Ho, Astor, Pavarotti (419 if you allow the Barbaro)
221 - Brian G - Buchwald, Yeltsin
123 - Farm - Fogelberg
83 - Larry V - Bishop
81 - Mark M - Vonnegut
Thanks, it was fun - if memory serves we all were to throw in $5? Did i collect? did I spend it already? Who knows, lets call it even and send the Mortfolio off to its final resting place.
Thanks for the debaucherous fun the last few years!
Singer/songwriter Dan Fogelberg succumbed to a three year battle with prostate cancer today, passing away at home at age 56. 
I use the horse racing phrase to highlight that I am now in the lead whether or not you choose to allow Barbaro or not!
I think I just set the record for most prepositional phrases ever used in a sentence...
265 - Vince R - Ho, Astor, Pavarotti (419 if you allow the horse)
221 - Brian G - Buchwald, Yeltsin
83 - Larry V - Bishop
81 - Mark M - Vonnegut
0 - Buying the Farm - fitting for them from kicking our asses for the last few years!
The last surviving member of the Rat Pack, Joey Bishop, passed away today at the age of 89 after battling numerous illnesses. The NY Times tells the story of an almost reticent celebrity who played the straight man to the hell raising other Rats like Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and Peter Lawford.
(125- age 89)*1.2 CK = 43 plus 40 point solo shot = 83 Total!!!
This contest just took on a different tenor...
Again, the NY Times comes strong with a life retrospective, comparing his career to the great Enrico Caruso - which I find insulting comparing him to Leslie Nielsen's character in the Naked Gun series...One of the nation's great philanthropists, Brooke Astor, passed away after a long illness today at the ripe age of 105. Her efforts of charity, love and inspiration leave an amazing mark on the city of New York.
I mean this in the most sincere way possible - I bet she was something before the Depression!
Not that I have archived the last three years of rosters in my head, but I am pretty sure someone had Game Show Chuck (right) on their list in the past.
Too bad, as one of the first openly homosexual actors, Charles Nelson Reilly, died today at age 76.
NO ONE GOT HIM
I will always remember him and Brett Somers going head to head (pun intended) on Match Game, with Gene Rayburn showing his comedic intelligence by simply getting the fuck out of the way. Priceless. I swear I remember him on Hollywood Squares also, but no reference on the above linked compendium of all human knowledge.
