Celebrity Death Pool!

[Jargo]

Natalie Cole, 65.

[jjreason]

That's sad. Now we need a survivor to make a video with both dead her & her dead dad, singing a threesome. Sorry if it's too soon.

[Jargo]

M*a*s*h star Wayne Rogers dies aged 82 of complications from pneumonia.

[jjreason]

I was more of a BJ fan (no really, there was a character named BJ after Trapper John left), but I'll try to watch an older episode to pay my respects.

[Tom Foolery]

Natalie Cole was 65?? That doesn't seem right.

[Jargo]

Born 1950 apparently. Both IMDB and the BBC have her age thus. According to IMDB, she was diagnosed with hepatitis C in 2008 and had a kidney transplant in 2009 (the same day her sister Carol Cole died). Died of heart failure. Married and divorced three times. Loved butterflies. Said she wanted to be known as 'fabulous' rather than 'diva'.

And I preferred BJ to Trapper John too.

[anarky]

The coverage of Natalie Cole has bothered me because it's focused on her godawful "Unforgettable" remake/postmortem duet. C'mon. The woman sang some stuff that wasn't an affront to God and nature.

[Diabolical]

Jason Wingreen, 95.
Now that he's dead, he's really no good to anyone anymore.

[Diabolical]

David Bowie, 69. Cancer.

Two days after releasing his latest album and his birthday.

[anarky]

Fuck. Lemmy and Bowie in the course of just a couple of weeks, and right on the heels of Weiland. Is there any point in listening to music anymore?

[Ran]

It was a weird turning on the news this morning. Two of the first three stories I heard were David Bowie passing away and that Sean Penn's interview with El Chapo lead to his capture. Spicoli from Ridgemont High helped bring down the biggest drug lord in North America. For a few minutes I questioned weather or not I was still sleeping and if this was some weird dream.

I heard something about the New York Times had an article about David Bowie written about 2 hours before the news broke of his death. It started off saying how it was a great time to be David Bowie because his new album was out, he has a play coming out, and he was getting ready for a tour.

[Ran]

Suck it, Grimlock. This is double post worthy.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/201 ... irdos.html

[jjreason]

It truly is. I saw it some time ago, but it's beautiful and well worth looking at again today.

[Tom Foolery]

Alan Rickman. 69.



I dont even have anything snarky to add. He was an excellent villain in Die Hard and
the misunderstood hero of the Harry Potter universe. And plenty of other excellent roles as well.

I'm totally bummed now.

[jjreason]

Love Actually.