2010 Dead Pool Master Compilation

[Chicago Jake]

One more bittersweet point for me! My childhood hero, Ron Santo, dead at 70.

www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/chi-ron-santo-chicago-cubs-obit,0,1699814.story

[♥ COVID-19♥]

He lived pretty long, considering the diabetes-related complications he had.

[Chicago Jake]

Edited - these now ARE the final standings:

FIRST PLACE:

Gordon (5 stiffs)
- Ernie Harwell
- Lena Horne
- Art Linkletter
- Mitch Miller
- Daniel Schorr

SECOND PLACE:

Nola (4 stiffs)
- Bob Feller
- Barbara Billingsly
- Ernie Harwell
- George Steinbrenner

THIRD PLACE:

Bif (3 stiffs) - 15 points
- Robert Byrd
- Art Linkletter
- Mitch Miller

AND THE LOSERS:

Jake (3 stiffs) - 14 points
- Robert Byrd
- Ernie Harwell
- Ron Santo

Tex (2 stiffs)
- Chemical Ali
- Robert Byrd

Simon (2 stiffs)
- Art Linkletter
- Norman Wisdom

Joe (2 stiffs)
- Mitch Miller
- John Wooden

Anita (1 stiff)
- Dino de Laurentiis

Alice (1 stiff)
- Rue McClanahan

Capt Gary (1 stiff)
- Mary Josephine Ray

[Ardbeg... innit]

Dec 3, 2010 10:22:26 GMT -6 Chicago Jake said:

Not-quite-final standings:

We still have about 8% of the year to go, but we have some leaders. Please let me know if I've missed anyone here. Looks like Gordon is walking away with it so far......

The walking dead you might say. Sorry, I did say I was going to do this. It got pushed out of mind with other tasks. Nice job Jake.

On the down side, I am going to have to work extra hard to repopulate my list for next year.

[♥ COVID-19♥]

Due to the fact that Jake had a person on his list die in the final month of the year, I believe he is eligible for an additional stiff according to The Santo Clause.

[Chicago Jake]

You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Clause!

[♥ COVID-19♥]

Woody Allen's favorite restaurateur now has a permanent table at The 6 Feet Deep Cafe ...


Elaine Kaufman, Who Fed the Famous, Dies at 81

[Chicago Jake]

Now she's feeding the worms.

[♥ COVID-19♥]

At least she had the decency to wait until after Woody's 75th birthday (which was this past Wednesday).

[Chicago Jake]

A memorable passage from "The Big Chill" --

"I can even get you into Elaine's."
"I thought you said Elaine's was dead?"
"It is. That's why I can get you people in to it!"

Now Elaine's is REALLY dead!

[♥ COVID-19♥]

"Turn out the lights, the party's over", as Dandy Don used to sing at the end of Monday Night Football ...

Ex-Cowboys QB, MNF icon Don Meredith dies at 72

Former Dallas Cowboys QB Don Meredith -- who became a TV icon for his years in the Monday Night Football booth -- died on Sunday. He was 72.

Meredith was a three-time Pro Bowler who won the NFL's Player of the Year award in 1966.

He retired at age 31, and it was his role as a broadcaster with Howard Cosell and Frank Gifford on Monday Night Football that brought more fame to Meredith.

[♥ COVID-19♥]

John must be doing a victory lap right about now ...

Elizabeth Edwards, 61, Dies After Six-Year Battle with Breast Cancer

[Chicago Jake]

Damn, I had just penciled her in for my 2011 list yesterday! Way to get our hopes up, beotch!!

[Tex]

When I was about 14, I met Don Meredith at Midas Muffler Shop in Longview, Texas. He was visiting his buddy who owned the shop. He was a first class nice guy. One old lady asked him to autograph her purse with a magic marker. He not only signed it but drew some Dallas Cowboy insignia and a poem he wrote on the spot about her.

[Ardbeg... innit]

I had Elizabeth Edwards listed for '11 also, oh well.

[nolaflacav]

I thought perhaps he was going to hang on until the New Year but it looks like Rapid Robert Feller has thrown his last fast ball. Baseball has lost several icons this year.

msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/Hall-of-Fame-pitcher-Bob-Feller-dies-at-92-121510

[♥ COVID-19♥]

The director of "10" has just been 86'd:

Blake Edwards dies at 88

voices.washingtonpost.com/celebritology/2010/12/blake_edwards_dead_at_88.html

[Chicago Jake]

Woah! This came out of nowhere. I didn't even think he was that old.

My favorite Blake Edwards movie: "The Great Race," hands down.

[Chicago Jake]

Here's a nice little bit of directing from Blake Edwards.....

[Ardbeg... innit]

Landesburg never got the respect he deserved IMO, at his best delivering the straight line that was actually the joke

Steve Landesburg dead

Steve Landesberg, a comic actor who played the intellectual Det. Arthur Dietrich in the long-running ABC sitcom "Barney Miller," has died. He was believed to be 74.

Landesberg died early Monday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, said his agent, Jeff Leavitt. No cause was given.

"Barney Miller" starred Hal Linden in the title role as a New York police captain managing his offbeat group of officers in a Greenwich Village police station.

The show, which ran from 1975 to 1982, included Abe Vigoda as Det. Phil Fish, Ron Glass as Det. Ron Harris and Max Gail as Det. Stanley "Wojo" Wojohowicz.

Landesberg joined the cast in 1976 as Dietrich, whom a Times reviewer once referred to as "infuriatingly cerebral."

"I'm not really much like Dietrich," he told the Washington Post in 1979. "He reads everything. Science, technology, economics. I have no interest in that stuff.… I try to play him as a cop. Intellectual and funny, but a good cop."

Landesberg said police officers "tell me they know guys like Dietrich … most cops never fire their guns. That's why they like our show."

[Merlot Joe]

Seen that this morning in the paper. He was great on that show.

[♥ COVID-19♥]

I remember when Johnny Carson used to have him on as the up & coming new comedian at the time. He always had killer performances on that show.

[Merlot Joe]

They guy had the perfect voice for a stand up comic.

[Chicago Jake]

I don't think we've had any more hits since I did my preliminary assessment earlier in December. Please check your lists and see if you have racked up any additional stiffs, or if I've missed any. If there are no late-breaking entries, I will declare an official winner in a few days.....

[nolaflacav]

Jan 1, 2011 18:23:28 GMT -6 Chicago Jake said:

I don't think we've had any more hits since I did my preliminary assessment earlier in December. Please check your lists and see if you have racked up any additional stiffs, or if I've missed any. If there are no late-breaking entries, I will declare an official winner in a few days.....

I had Bullet Bob Feller a couple of weeks ago but it was too little too late.

[Chicago Jake]

It was enough to move you into sole possession of second place. Nice job!

[Chicago Jake]

Okay, I declare this game FINISHED. We have the winners:

In FIRST PLACE, Gordon, with 5 stiffs.

In SECOND PLACE, Nola, with 4 stiffs.

In THIRD PLACE, Bif, with 3 stiffs and 15 points (edging out me, with 3 stiffs but only 14 points).

Congratulations to one and all!

[Merlot Joe]

Yeah, Gordon another years free subscription to the TNMC Board. You lucky bastard!!!!!!!!!!!!

[♥ COVID-19♥]

If he ever wins a free Lifetime Membership, I'm putting him on the following year's Dead Pool List.

[Ardbeg... innit]

You would think that after getting a year of free membership, our computer would be smart enough to stop soliciting me to send in dues for 2011... but NOOOOOOO