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Re: Death pool 2007 - lush - 07-12-2007
Faceman gets 6 points
Lady Bird Johnson Dies at 94
WEDNESDAY JULY 11, 2007 06:10 PM EDT
By Macon Morehouse
Photo by: Frank Wolfe / LBJ LIBRARYLady Bird Johnson Dies at 94 | Lyndon Johnson
Lady Bird Johnson, the former first lady who was married to President Lyndon B. Johnson, died Wednesday, according to a family spokeswoman. She was 94.
She died at her Austin, Texas, home of natural causes at 4:18 p.m. surrounded by family and friends, says the spokeswoman, Elizabeth Christian.
Just last month, she returned home after a week at Seton Medical Center, where she'd been admitted for a low-grade fever, the Associated Press reports.
As a girl she was, her nanny once said, "as pretty as a lady bird." That southern endearment stuck – much to the chagrin of a girl born Claudia Alta Taylor who one day became the wife of the 36th President.
Lady Bird Johnson had a lifelong love of nature, fueled by childhood memories of her mother walking in the woods barefoot, carrying a bouquet of flowers. After her mother died, when Johnson was just 5, the forests of her east Texas home became her balm.
"Nature mothered her," biographer Jan Jarboe Russell tells PEOPLE. "It was deeply emotional for her."
In 1934, three months after being introduced to him by a friend, she married Lyndon Baines Johnson, an up-and-coming aide to a Texas congressman, sealing the deal with a $2.50 ring from Sears, Roebuck.
Thrust into the role of First Lady after witnessing President Kennedy's assassination, she never tried to compete with her glamorous predecessor Jacqueline Kennedy.
Lady Bird said her attraction to LBJ (pictured in 1966) was like that of "a moth to a flame." Photo by: Robert Knudsen / LBJ LIBRARYLady Bird Johnson Dies at 94| Lyndon Johnson
She was devoted to her husband and worked tirelessly on issues that mattered to her: education (she was an early champion of Operation Head Start); civil rights (she campaigned for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in the South when death threats kept her husband off the road); and nature, working to preserve native plants and limit highway billboards, even after LBJ's death in 1973.
"My special cause," she once said, "is to help pass on to generations the quiet joys and satisfactions I have known since my childhood."
Lady Bird and Lyndon Johnson had two daughters, Lynda Bird Robb, 63, and Luci Baines Johnson, 60.
Re: Death pool 2007 - The Jays - 07-12-2007
He'll need ten Lady Birds just to cut the lead down to single digits.
Re: Death pool 2007 - Keyser Soze - 07-12-2007
had her last year, crap!
Re: Death pool 2007 - Hoon - 07-17-2007
I can see it now. The first year I don't pick Jan Michael Vincent, Airwolf will die in a booze induced car wreck.
Re: Death pool 2007 - The Jays - 07-22-2007
First he gets someone to marry him, and now, Gooch scores 35 points with Tammy Faye. Good month so far!
Quote:CBS) NEW YORK Tammy Faye Messner, the Christian singer, evangelist, entrepreneur, talk show host and scandal survivor has died of lung cancer. She was 65 years old.
Messner appeared on CNN's Larry King Live on July 19, and told the talk show host that she weighed 65 pounds and could only eat chicken soup and rice pudding.
Tammy Faye first battled cancer in 1996, when she was diagnosed with colon cancer. She successfully treated the disease but on March 19, 2004, just 2 weeks after her 62nd birthday, she announced she had lung cancer.
Illness was one of many battles Tammy Faye took on her during her life. She is best known as the ex-wife of Jim Bakker, the disgraced televengalist, convicted felon and admitted adulterer.
Tammy Faye and Jim married in 1961 with the goal of starting a traveling ministry. In 1973, the Bakkers established the short-lived Trinity Broadcasting Systems. The following year, Jim and Tammy Faye became the hosts of an existing North Carolina-based talk show, which they renamed the PTL (Praise the Lord) Club. Fueled by the success of the PTL Club, the Bakkers quickly established an entire Christian television network.
Fame, money and two children followed.
The Bakkers' empire began to unravel in 1980, when the national spotlight fell on Jim's adulterous affair with a church secretary, Jessica Hahn.
Adding fuel to the fire, investigations into Bakker's finances culminated in Jim’s conviction of fraud and conspiracy in 1989. During the tumultuous six-week trial, the federal government succeeded in proving that Jim solicited a total of $158 million from followers of the PTL, with about 4 million used for personal means). He was given a 45-year prison sentence, which was later reduced to six years.
In 1992, after a 31-year relationship, Tammy Faye and Jim divorced. The following year, Tammy Faye wed Roe Messner, a family friend and business associate of the Bakkers. Shortly after their marriage, Messner was imprisoned for fraud, but has since been released.
Tammy Faye was the subject of a fairly well-received documentary, "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" (2000) and then in 2004, appeared in the VH-1 reality series The Surreal Life.
Re: Death pool 2007 - Paper Boy - 07-22-2007
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Re: Death pool 2007 - Gooch - 07-22-2007
The Jays Wrote:First he gets someone to marry him, and now, Gooch scores 35 points with Tammy Faye. Good month so far!
Quote:CBS) NEW YORK Tammy Faye Messner, the Christian singer, evangelist, entrepreneur, talk show host and scandal survivor has died of lung cancer. She was 65 years old.
Messner appeared on CNN's Larry King Live on July 19, and told the talk show host that she weighed 65 pounds and could only eat chicken soup and rice pudding.
Tammy Faye first battled cancer in 1996, when she was diagnosed with colon cancer. She successfully treated the disease but on March 19, 2004, just 2 weeks after her 62nd birthday, she announced she had lung cancer.
Illness was one of many battles Tammy Faye took on her during her life. She is best known as the ex-wife of Jim Bakker, the disgraced televengalist, convicted felon and admitted adulterer.
Tammy Faye and Jim married in 1961 with the goal of starting a traveling ministry. In 1973, the Bakkers established the short-lived Trinity Broadcasting Systems. The following year, Jim and Tammy Faye became the hosts of an existing North Carolina-based talk show, which they renamed the PTL (Praise the Lord) Club. Fueled by the success of the PTL Club, the Bakkers quickly established an entire Christian television network.
Fame, money and two children followed.
The Bakkers' empire began to unravel in 1980, when the national spotlight fell on Jim's adulterous affair with a church secretary, Jessica Hahn.
Adding fuel to the fire, investigations into Bakker's finances culminated in Jim’s conviction of fraud and conspiracy in 1989. During the tumultuous six-week trial, the federal government succeeded in proving that Jim solicited a total of $158 million from followers of the PTL, with about 4 million used for personal means). He was given a 45-year prison sentence, which was later reduced to six years.
In 1992, after a 31-year relationship, Tammy Faye and Jim divorced. The following year, Tammy Faye wed Roe Messner, a family friend and business associate of the Bakkers. Shortly after their marriage, Messner was imprisoned for fraud, but has since been released.
Tammy Faye was the subject of a fairly well-received documentary, "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" (2000) and then in 2004, appeared in the VH-1 reality series The Surreal Life.
hopefully when i get back from Tahiti in a couple of weeks, Zsa Zsa and Sharon will have dropped to seal my victory.
Re: Death pool 2007 - lush - 07-22-2007
You will not ruin this for me!
If it happens, I'm submitting your name to the police.
Re: Death pool 2007 - The Jays - 07-23-2007
we need some updated standings
Re: Death pool 2007 - lush - 07-30-2007
I feel like I'm the only keeper.
Film Director Ingmar Bergman Dies
Swedish Film Director Ingmar Bergman Dies at Age 89, Local Media Reports Say
The Associated Press
STOCKHOLM, Sweden
Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, an iconoclastic filmmaker widely regarded as one of the great masters of modern cinema, died Monday, local media reported. He was 89 years old.
Bergman died at his home in Faro, Sweden, Swedish news agency TT said, citing his daughter Eva Bergman. A cause of death wasn't immediately available.
Through more than 50 films, Bergman's vision encompassed all the extremes of his beloved Sweden: the claustrophobic gloom of unending winter nights, the gentle merriment of glowing summer evenings and the bleak magnificence of the island where he spent his last years.
Bergman, who approached difficult subjects such as plague and madness with inventive technique and carefully honed writing, became one of the towering figures of serious filmmaking.
He was "probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the invention of the motion picture camera," Woody Allen said in a 70th birthday tribute in 1988.
Bergman first gained international attention with 1955's "Smiles of a Summer Night," a romantic comedy that inspired the Stephen Sondheim musical "A Little Night Music."
"The Seventh Seal," released in 1957, riveted critics and audiences. An allegorical tale of the medieval Black Plague years, it contains one of cinema's most famous scenes a knight playing chess with the shrouded figure of Death.
"I was terribly scared of death," Bergman said of his state of mind when making the film, which was nominated for an Academy Award in the best picture category.
The film distilled the essence of Bergman's work high seriousness, flashes of unexpected humor and striking images.
In an interview in 2004 with Swedish broadcaster SVT, the reclusive filmmaker admitted that he was reluctant to view his work.
"I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry ... and miserable. I think it's awful," Bergman said.
Though best known internationally for his films, Bergman was also a prominent stage director. He worked at several playhouses in Sweden from the mid-1940s, including the Royal Dramatic Theater in Stockholm which he headed from 1963 to 1966. He staged many plays by the Swedish author August Strindberg, whom he cited as an inspiration.
The influence of Strindberg's grueling and precise psychological dissections could be seen in the production that brought Bergman an even-wider audience: 1973's "Scenes From a Marriage." First produced as a six-part series for television, then released in a theater version, it is an intense detailing of the disintegration of a marriage.
Bergman showed his lighter side in the following year's "The Magic Flute," again first produced for TV. It is a fairly straight production of the Mozart opera, enlivened by touches such as repeatedly showing the face of a young girl watching the opera and comically clumsy props and costumes.
Bergman remained active later in life with stage productions and occasional TV shows. He said he still felt a need to direct, although he had no plans to make another feature film.
In the fall of 2002, Bergman, at age 84, started production on "Saraband," a 120-minute television movie based on the two main characters in "Scenes From a Marriage."
In a rare press conference, the reclusive director said he wrote the story after realizing he was "pregnant with a play."
"At first I felt sick, very sick. It was strange. Like Abraham and Sarah, who suddenly realized she was pregnant," he said, referring to biblical characters. "It was lots of fun, suddenly to feel this urge returning."
The son of a Lutheran clergyman and a housewife, Ernst Ingmar Bergman was born in Uppsala on July 14, 1918, and grew up with a brother and sister in a household of severe discipline that he described in painful detail in the autobiography "The Magic Lantern."
The title comes from his childhood, when his brother got a "magic lantern" a precursor of the slide-projector for Christmas. Ingmar was consumed with jealousy, and he managed to acquire the object of his desire by trading it for a hundred tin soldiers.
The apparatus was a spot of joy in an often-cruel young life. Bergman recounted the horror of being locked in a closet and the humiliation of being made to wear a skirt as punishment for wetting his pants.
He broke with his parents at 19 and remained aloof from them, but later in life sought to understand them.
The story of their lives was told in the television film "Sunday's Child," directed by his own son Daniel.
Young Ingmar found his love for drama production early in life. The director said he had coped with the authoritarian environment of his childhood by living in a world of fantasies. When he first saw a movie he was greatly moved.
"Sixty years have passed, nothing has changed, it's still the same fever," he wrote of his passion for film in the 1987 autobiography.
But he said the escape into another world went so far that it took him years to tell reality from fantasy, and Bergman repeatedly described his life as a constant fight against demons, also reflected in his work.
The demons sometimes drove him to great art as in "Cries and Whispers," the deathbed drama that climaxes when the dying woman cries "I am dead, but I can't leave you." Sometimes they drove him over the top, as in "Hour of the Wolf" where a nightmare-plagued artist meets real-life demons on a lonely island.
Bergman also waged a fight against real-life tormentors: Sweden's powerful tax authorities.
In 1976, during a rehearsal at the Royal Dramatic Theater, police came to take Bergman away for interrogation about tax evasion. The director, who had left all finances to be handled by a lawyer, was questioned for hours while his home was searched. When released, he was forbidden to leave the country.
The case caused an enormous uproar in the media and Bergman had a mental breakdown that sent him to hospital for over a month. He was later absolved of all accusations and in the end only had to pay some extra taxes.
In his autobiography he admitted to guilt in only one aspect: "I signed papers that I didn't read, even less understood."
The experience made him go into voluntary exile in Germany, to the embarrassment of the Swedish authorities. After nine years, he returned to Stockholm, his longtime base.
It was in the Swedish capital that Bergman broke into the world of drama, starting with a menial job at the Royal Opera House after dropping out of college.
In 1942, Bergman was hired by the script department of Swedish Film Industry, the country's main production company, as an assistant script writer.
In 1944 his first original screenplay was filmed by Alf Sjoeberg, the dominant Swedish film director of the time. "Torment" won several awards including the Grand Prize of the 1946 Cannes Film Festival, and soon Bergman was directing an average of two films a year as well as working with stage production.
After the acclaimed "The Seventh Seal," he quickly came up with another success in "Wild Strawberries," in which an elderly professor's car trip to pick up an award is interspersed with dreams.
Other noted films include "Persona," about an actress and her nurse whose identities seem to merge, and "The Autumn Sonata," about a concert pianist and her two daughters, one severely handicapped and the other burdened by her child's drowning.
The date of the funeral has not yet been set, but will be attended by a close group of friends and family, the TT news agency reported.
Re: Death pool 2007 - The Sleeper - 07-30-2007
11 points for me!
Re: Death pool 2007 - HedCold - 07-30-2007
no one had bill walsh
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Re: Death pool 2007 - drusilla - 07-31-2007
TOM TERRIFIC DEAD AT 71
TV ECCENTRIC WORKED THE FRINGES
By MICHAEL STARR
July 31, 2007 -- TOM Snyder, whose machine- gun laugh and colorful personality delighted late-night TV viewers, died Sunday in San Francisco.
Snyder, 71, had battled leukemia since 2005.
Snyder first shot to fame in 1973 when he began hosting the late-night talk show "Tomorrow," which aired on NBC directly after Johnny Carson's "Tonight Show."
Waving his ever-present lit cigarette for emphasis, Snyder quickly drew attention for his rat-a-tat interviewing style, his penetrating questions and his ability to corral interesting guests - including John Lennon, Charles Manson and Sex Pistol Johnny Rotten (twice).
Snyder's infectious laugh, exaggerated hand movements and dancing eyebrows were memorably lampooned by Dan Aykroyd on "Saturday Night Live" - one of Aykroyd's best-loved celebrity impersonations.
"He was a caring person and was hurt more easily than he let on, but he was able to laugh it off through his sense of humor," said The Amazing Kreskin, Snyder's good friend and frequent on-air guest for over 40 years.
When "Tomorrow" was cancelled in 1982 to make room for "Late Night with David Letterman," Snyder moved to ABC, where he briefly anchored Ch. 7's 11 p.m. newscast and hosted an ABC Radio show.
It was Letterman, ironically, who revived Snyder's TV career when he defected from NBC to CBS - and tapped Snyder, then on CNBC, to host "The Late Late Show," which aired after Letterman's "Late Show."
"Tom was the very thing that all broadcasters long to be - compelling," Letterman said in a statement. "I'm honored to have known him as a colleague and as a friend."
"Letterman was one of Tom's most frequent callers when he had his radio show," said Al Primo, who created the "Eyewitness News" format and brought Snyder to Philadelphia and then to Ch. 7.
"Dave would call and pretend to be someone else and they'd carry on a conversation," Primo said. "Tom was one of the greatest one-on-one communicators I've ever worked with."
Snyder hosted "Late Late Show" from 1995 to 1999, when he was replaced by Craig Kilborn.
"Tom was a true broadcaster, a rare thing," "The Late Late Show" executive producer Peter Lassally said in a statement.
"When he was on the air, he made the camera disappear. It was just you and him, in a room together, having a talk."
After leaving CBS, Snyder kept his fans abreast of his private life - including the death of his beloved sheepdog, Oliver - through his Web site.
"I spoke to him around six weeks ago, and he was telling me he couldn't get up and couldn't walk around," Primo said. "Last Thursday I spoke to his significant other, Pam, and she said, 'Al, he knows he's going, and he's ready to go.' "
Snyder started in the broadcast business as a radio reporter in Milwaukee before moving into local TV news.
"He had the great desire to work, to be on TV, to communicate with people," Primo said.
Snyder is survived by his daughter, Anne Mari Snyder, two grandchildren and his longtime girlfriend.
"You don't meet many people in this business that you really care about, but Tom was just a great guy and a good friend," Primo said.
CBS put out a statement summing up Snyder's legacy:
"He spoke to his viewers and they, in turn, felt as if they knew him personally.
"With his passing, television has lost a true broadcaster who always respected the medium and the audience it serves."
Re: Death pool 2007 - Goatweed - 08-01-2007
it was a busy day for Death Pool players.
Re: Death pool 2007 - drusilla - 08-12-2007
anyone?
Merv Griffin, Talk-Show Host and Mogul, Dead at 82
By Andrew Gans
12 Aug 2007
Merv Griffin, who hosted a talk-show that bore his name for over two decades, died Aug. 12 at the age of 82. The cause was prostate cancer, according to The New York Times.
Mr. Griffin's career began in 1948 when he was hired by Freddy Martin to join Martin's band at the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles. The group had a smash hit in 1949 with the novelty song "I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Cocoanuts." That success led to a contract with Warner Bros.; Griffin appeared in a few films — including "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" and "So This Is Love" — but he eventually asked to be let out of his contract.
Mr. Griffin's one Broadway credit was the 1955 revival of Finian's Rainbow at City Center, which cast him as Woody Mahoney.
Before "The Merv Griffin Show" debuted in 1965, Mr. Griffin hosted a CBS radio music show and a few TV game shows, including "Play Your Hunch." He also substituted for Jack Paar on "The Tonight Show" several times.
Though his Broadway career was brief, Mr. Griffin was a champion of the theatre, especially during his years as the host of "The Merv Griffin Show." He welcomed a slew of Broadway stars during his talk-show reign; he was especially fond of musical theatre legend Ethel Merman. The syndicated program was taped mostly in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, but from 1969-1970 the program was filmed at New York's Cort Theatre.
In a recent interview Mr. Griffin said that his ability to listen to his guests contributed to his talk-show success: "If the host is sitting there thinking about his next joke," he said, "he isn't listening."
Mr. Griffin also created two game shows that continue to this day: In 1964, after a suggestion from his then-wife Julann, he created a show where contestants are given the answers rather than the questions: "Jeopardy" (he also penned the theme music for that long-running program). Mr. Griffin also created the highly successful "Wheel of Fortune," which began in 1975.
In his later years, Mr. Griffin became a billionaire thanks to his real-estate investments. At one point he was the owner of 17 hotels and was listed several times on Forbes' list of the richest Americans.
Mervyn Edward Griffin Jr. was born July 6, 1925, in San Mateo, CA. He attended San Mateo Junior College and the University of San Francisco; he quit the latter to become a vocalist for the San Francisco radio station KFRC.
In a statement Griffin's son, Tony Griffin, said, "My father was a visionary. He loved business and continued his many projects and holdings even while hospitalized. We take solace in knowing that until the end he had his two favorites by his side — his family and his work. His legacy will be honored through the continuing operations of The Griffin Group under its current leadership and by the millions of lives he continues to affect through entertainment."
Mr. Griffin is survived by son Tony, his daughter-in-law Tricia and his grandchildren Farah and Donovan Mervyn.
A by-invitation-only funeral mass will be held at The Church of the Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills, CA. In lieu of flowers Mr. Griffin's family asks donations be made to the Young Musicians Foundation, for which Griffin served as Chairman of the Board.
Re: Death pool 2007 - Keyser Soze - 08-12-2007
those lucky enough to make it on my annual list should rest peacefully in the fact that they will all live to see another year.
Re: Death pool 2007 - TheGMANN - 08-13-2007
I think I was more shocked to hear Merv Griffin was still alive, much less then he died yesterday.
No one made out with him passing ?
Re: Death pool 2007 - HedCold - 08-13-2007
i should have just put 10 wrestlers on my list.
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Re: Death pool 2007 - TheGMANN - 08-13-2007
ANOTHER ONE ??
Jeez. Goldfish you win at the crappy neighborhood carnivals last longer.
Re: Death pool 2007 - GonzoStyle - 08-13-2007
I got dibs on the brooklyn brawler