Dead Celebrity (Part 1)

This time it looks real

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This says something about you. That you have such a list. No entirely sure what it says…

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I’m a planner, prognosticator, risk analyst. The sort of perceptive futurist no forward-looking business should be without. Winner of last year’s Fantasy Celeb Cemetery, currently #2 on aodeadpool.org… the dice can’t decide my fate, but celebrity pools sometimes have dead certainties…

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J. Geils, 1946 - 2017.

1970s, New England summer nights, cruising by the beaches with the car windows down and the radio blasting WBCN…

Then the 80s…

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http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/12/523522797/david-lettermans-mother-dorothy-mengering-dies-at-95

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She was a hit with me long before Letterman moved to CBS. He sent her to see Dick Tracy and then called to ask what she thought of it. She was very polite and it was only with some prodding from him that she finally admitted she didn’t like it, but that she enjoyed the Roger Rabbit short that preceded it.

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http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/politics/2017/03/25/former-shropshire-councillor-and-hedgehogs-champion-dies-aged-86/

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@nemomen how is the princess taking the news?

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Robert Taylor - not the actor, the guy who came up with all those ideas that eventually made Steve Jobs rich:

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I didn’t know about it until today, but 03/31 Radley Metzger died. He had a reputation for making gorgeous erotic movies from the 60s through early 80s. Such as Camille 2000, Lickerish Quartet, Barbara Broadcast, and Score.

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Would’ve been an excellent candidate for a “27 Club” Death Pool List…

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Man! Was there nothing else happening in the world today, or what? Even on public radio (which I listen to most of the day at work) the coverage of this was ridiculously heavy.

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Cuba Gooding Sr. died (musician and father of his namesake actor):

http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/04/21/524975190/cuba-gooding-sr-star-of-the-main-ingredient-dies-at-72

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Also, Prince died a year ago today. He’s still missed.

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What I’m shocked to find out is that Happy Days ran until 198-frickin-4! Can’t believe it lasted that long into the 80s.

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I have a vague memory of watching new episodes in the early 80s

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