Missed Again: Charles Nelson Reilly dead at 76

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.

STANDINGS: Three on the board in the first third of the year

STANDINGS
Vince R - 265 - Barbaro, Ho
Brian G - 221 - Buchwald, Yeltsin
Mark M - 81 - Vonnegut

Still scoreless - Larry V and Buying the Farm

DEATHSCORE: Boris Yeltsin goes kaputsky at age 76

Our pool's second death this month, both were age 76...hmmm, don't play those digits on the Powerball...

AP reports former Russian leader Boris Yeltsin apparantly died of heart failure, but no official news agency will say exctly. So much for the era of Pravda and democracy you led for Russia - Putin has this cinched up tighter than Bob Kraft's Superbowl ring.

Solo shot for Brian G, his second of the season. To the numbers:

(125-76)*1.3 = 64 raw score,
add in the big 40 pt solo bonus for
a grand total of 104.

BG has 221 total.

DEATHSCORE: Don Ho at 76

Singer and ambassador for Hawaii Don Ho passed away yesterday after many months of experimental treatments for heart disease.Vince gets all the poi with a solo shot.

(125-76) * 1.9=64 raw score,
add in the 40 point solo bonus for
a grand total of 104.

No one has screamed about my selection of Barbaro, so my total is now 265. Deal.

Oh, and if you think that this site is tasteless, see the most popular Don Ho video on YouTube...

DEATHSCORE: Writer Kurt Vonnegut dead at 84

Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over.

Great quote from a guy who would probably appreciate the humor, macabre and ridiculousness of the Mortfolio Dead Pool - Kurt Vonnegut passed away today after brain injuries sustained from a fall. He was 84.

The NY Times, as is their pattern, created a special online section to revel in the life of a New Yorker. Does a better job than I could reflecting on his career, so why rip it off? FOX News is less than complimentary on their obituary.

Mark M gets the solo dinger, unfortunately he broke his Mortfolio 2007 cherry with his last pick! Roll the big board:

(125-84) * 1.0 = 41,
solo hit bonus of 40,
grand total of 81.

Mark is in third place, that still leaves 2007 virgin status to Larry V and the perennial favorite "Buying the Farm".

PBS did an interview about a year ago and it is posted on YouTube:

Barbaro euthanized

Celebrity horse Barbaro finally succumbed to the pain and deteriation of his health after breaking a leg in the Preakness last year. His handlers at Penn's New Bolton Center decided today to euthanize the colt just a couple months shy of his 4th birthday.

This could be the highest scoring death in deadpool history (if participants will allow Barbaro as a celebrity regardless of his equine DNA) for me. Here are the numbers:

(125-3)*1.0 CC+ 40 pt solo= 161

Thoroughbred Times: Barbaro euthanized

Deadspin: Goodnight, Sweet Prince

DEATHSCORE: Art Buchwald dead at 81

Brian G opens up the scoring for 2007 with First Blood on Art Buchwald, and a solo hit...overall a very nice start to his third season in the Mortfolio Dead Pool.

WASHINGTON (AP) - By DARLENE SUPERVILLE - Columnist Art Buchwald, whose wry political and social satire made him a pillar of the nation's capital for more than four decades and earned him a Pulitzer Prize, has died, his son said Thursday.

Buchwald, 81, had refused dialysis treatments for his failing kidneys last year and was expected to die within weeks of moving to a hospice on Feb. 7. But he lived to return home and even write a book about his experiences.

SCORING - 117
(125-81)*1.6=44*1.6=67
Solo hit bonus of 40, First Blood bonus of 10.

Brian G 2007 Roster

a copy/paste from BG...

Vince - here is my submission for 2007 - I know that we have until Jan 5th - but if I get a score in the interim - this is not like the pre-season it still counts right ?? - (-:

2.0 Jack Kevorkian
1.9 Omar Abdel-Rahman " the blind shiek "
1.8 Ariel Sharon
1.7 Fidel Castro
1.6 Art Buchwald (right)
1.5 J.D. Salinger
1.4 Kirk Douglas
1.3 Boris Yeltsin
1.2 Robert Mugabe
1.1 Arnold Palmer
1.0 Joe Paterno
1.0 Robert Byrd - senator
1.0 Margaret Thatcher
1.0 Robert Downey
1.0 Nancy Reagan ( no offense to your Aunt )