This list was submitted by DGD on Wednesday, December 22nd, 2004 at 9:03 AM PST for The 2005 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Pope John Paul II | April 2nd, 2005 | 84 |
9 | Joe Barbera | December 18th, 2006 | 95 |
8 | Maharishi Yogi | February 5th, 2008 | 90 |
7 | Frankie Laine | February 6th, 2007 | 93 |
6 | Byron Nelson | September 26th, 2006 | 94 |
5 | Claude Levi-Strauss | November 1st, 2009 | 100 |
4 | Edward Heath | July 17th, 2005 | 89 |
3 | Gerald Ford | December 26th, 2006 | 93 |
2 | John Mills | April 23rd, 2005 | 97 |
1 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | August 3rd, 2008 | 89 |
16 points | 3 hits |
This guy was the greatest. Unlike any other televangelist, he came across as a psycho college professor, unkempt and ranting, possibly on drugs. Sometimes he played sax. Once, when he was upset about the paucity of donations, we watched him smoke an entire cigar, without saying a word, for twenty minutes. This was late-night UHF programming at its most riveting, folks, and Dr. Gene will be missed.
(d) February 21st, 2005