New and Improved Celebrity Death Pool 2005 - Page 18

bold_n_brazen · 05-19-2005, 05:01 AM

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Originally posted by andViolins
BURBANK, Calif. - Actor Frank Gorshin, the impressionist with 100 faces best known for his Emmy-nominated role as The Riddler on the old "Batman" television series, has died. He was 72.

Gorshin's wife of 48 years, Christina, was at his side when he died Tuesday at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center, his agent and longtime friend, Fred Wostbrock, said Wednesday.

"He put up a valiant fight with lung cancer, emphysema and pneumonia," Mrs. Gorshin said in a statement.

Despite dozens of television and movie credits, Gorshin will be forever remembered for his role as The Riddler, Adam West's villainous foil in the question mark-pocked green suit and bowler hat on "Batman" from 1966-69.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...v/obit_gorshin

aV

I have Adam West on my list. I think I should get credit for this one. I mean, it's almost like Adam West died....

NotFromHere · 05-20-2005, 07:38 PM

Dead.
LOS ANGELES - Henry Corden, the voice of cartoon caveman Fred Flintstone’s “Yabba-dabba-doo!” for more than two decades, has died. He was 85.

Anne Elk · 05-27-2005, 06:59 PM

Eddie Albert passes away at 99.

spookyfish · 05-28-2005, 11:38 AM

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Originally posted by Anne Elk
Eddie Albert passes away at 99.

Damn. it. Why is it all of the people I dropped from my list from last year are dropping like flies?

notcasesensitive · 05-28-2005, 01:04 PM

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Originally posted by Anne Elk
Eddie Albert passes away at 99.

He was on one list -- the Angel of Death is trying to catch up...

Fugee · 05-31-2005, 11:38 PM

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
He was on one list -- the Angel of Death is trying to catch up...

If only I hadn't dumped the Pope, I coulda been a contender.

ltl/fb · 06-07-2005, 06:51 PM

Dead.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050607/.../obit_bancroft

ETA in a twist, she died at Mount Sinai in NY, not at Cedars Sinai in LA.

06-07-2005, 07:02 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
Dead.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050607/.../obit_bancroft

ETA in a twist, she died at Mount Sinai in NY, not at Cedars Sinai in LA.

Can anyone find a link confirming it was lung cancer? I cannot

c2ed · 06-07-2005, 10:29 PM

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Originally posted by paigowprincess
Can anyone find a link confirming it was lung cancer? I cannot

According to the NY Times , it was uterine cancer.

spookyfish · 06-08-2005, 10:33 AM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
Dead.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050607/.../obit_bancroft

ETA in a twist, she died at Mount Sinai in NY, not at Cedars Sinai in LA.

Okay. So apparently I'm picking the wrong half of the married couples, too.

NotFromHere · 06-21-2005, 08:20 PM

You people get all crazed about Bresticle Day or Cocksickle Day or whatever, and the rest just all goes to hell.
We were just talking about this scene at work yesterday.
Hold the chicken.

LOS ANGELES - Actress Lorna Thayer, the waitress who memorably refused to let Jack Nicholson order toast in the 1970 movie “Five Easy Pieces,” died June 4 at the Motion Picture and Television Fund retirement home after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. She was 85.

She often was cast in movies credited only as “flower vendor,” “warden” or “suntan lady,” although she co-starred in the 1956 horror cult favorite “The Beast With a Million Eyes.”
It was her testy exchange with Nicholson’s character, Bobby Dupea, that made movie history.

The trouble starts when Dupea tries to order wheat toast, which isn’t included with the omelet he wants. After trying repeatedly to get around the diner’s “no substitutions” policy, he finally tells Thayer’s increasingly annoyed waitress to bring him a chicken salad sandwich on wheat toast and to hold the butter, the lettuce, the mayonnaise and the chicken.

When she asks him sarcastically, “You want me to hold the chicken, huh?” he replies, “I want you to hold it between your knees” and sends everything on his table crashing to the floor.

NotFromHere · 06-24-2005, 06:33 PM

Shana you ignorant slut.

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Trailblazing journalist Shana Alexander, whose verbal skirmishes with conservative James J. Kilpatrick on CBS' "60 Minutes" were spoofed in a "Saturday Night Live" skit, has died of cancer. She was 79.

"Point-Counterpart" was so popular it was frequently parodied in a "Saturday Night Live" skit. Jane Curtin played the liberal Alexander role and Dan Aykroyd, in the Kilpatrick role, began his remarks with the line, "Jane, you ignorant slut."

Aloha Mr. Learned Hand · 06-27-2005, 12:37 PM

Voices of Tigger and Piglet die one day apart from each other:

Tigger, also Gargamel from the Smurfs

Piglet

NotFromHere · 06-28-2005, 02:51 PM

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Wal-Mart heir John T. Walton, who died in the crash of his experimental, ultralight aircraft, was remembered as a friendly man who threw his considerable financial support behind efforts to educate low-income children.

The plane he died flying was an experimental ultralight aircraft with a small, gasoline-powered engine and wings wrapped in fabric similar to heavy-duty sail cloth, officials said.

NotFromHere · 07-01-2005, 08:06 PM

Grammy award winner Luther Vandross, whose deep, lush voice on hits like "Here and Now" and "Any Love" sold more than 25 million albums while providing the romantic backdrop for millions of couples worldwide, died Friday. He was 54.

Since suffering a stroke in his Manhattan home on April 16, 2003, the R&B crooner stopped making public appearances — but amazingly managed to continue his recording career. In 2004, he captured four Grammys as a sentimental favorite, including best song for the bittersweet “Dance With My Father.”

That song always makes me cry. We'll miss you Luther.