Posted in Scored Deaths on Aug 26th, 2009
Grim Reaper has been a very busy man these past 24 hours. While it’s not uncommon for these deaths to happen in threes, it’s VERY uncommon for these deaths to happen in threes when they are all scores, and all within 24 hours of each other.
Dominick Dunne was an American writer and investigative journalist whose subjects frequently hinged on the ways high society interacts with the judicial system. He was a producer in Hollywood and was also known from his frequent appearances on television. In September 2008, Dunne disclosed that he was undergoing treatment for bladder cancer.[2] He was working on Too Much Money, his final book, at the time of his death. Read more... (131 words, estimated 31 secs reading time)
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Posted in Scored Deaths on Aug 26th, 2009
Ted Kennedy – The Lion of the Senate (I thought all senators were lyin’). Pretty much a good guy no matter which side of the fence you are on, except for when he killed 28 year old Mary Jo Kopechne by driving off a bridge, into some water, and leaving her to drown. And also if you excuse his apparent non-chalance of his nephew, William Kennedy Smith, allegedly raping Patricia Bowman on the Kennedy compound. Ahh.. every one has their flaws.
Nineteen scores on Ted (too numerous to list), but no changes in the money. #1 ranked Scott A. did NOT have Ted Kennedy, but his luck wasn’t bad. He also scored today… Read more... (173 words, estimated 42 secs reading time)
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Posted in Scored Deaths on Aug 19th, 2009
CBS News says Don Hewitt, the newsman who invented “60 Minutes” and produced the popular newsmagazine for 36 years, has died. He was 86.
CBS announced his death on its Web site but did not give any details. Hewitt joined CBS News in television’s infancy in 1948, and produced the first televised presidential debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960.
Hewitt announced he had pancreatic cancer in March of 2009, and one person took advantage of the news — ME! On my #1 list (which was my worst of the three), I scored him with my latest waiver wire pickup as a solo shot.
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Posted in Scored Deaths on Aug 18th, 2009
OK, I stole that joke from Jeff, but whatever.
In the highest scoring death so far this year (13 players had Novak – ranked 4th in the Frequency list), Robert Novak died today from his brain cancer.
Novak was a syndicated columnist, journalist and conservative political commentator and for 45 years the author of what was during his lifetime the longest-running current syndicated column in U.S. political history. Over his career, Novak became well-known as a columnist (writing Inside Report since 1963) and as a television personality (appearing on many shows for CNN, most notably on three former programs, The Capital Gang, Crossfire, and Evans, Novak, Hunt, & Shields). Read more... (406 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)
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Posted in Scored Deaths on Aug 13th, 2009
Les Paul, 94, a Grammy Award-winning guitar virtuoso and inventor who helped bring his instrument, typically assigned to chug along rhythmically and compliantly, to the forefront of jazz performance, died today at a hospital in White Plains, N.Y. He had pneumonia.
Mr. Paul called his first solid-body guitar “the Log.” It was made of a four-inch thick piece of wood from a nearby railroad track, a neck he borrowed from an Epiphone guitar and two pickups to give it the electric pulse. Audiences and music executives laughed at the ungainly device, and he spent years honing its visual appeal. Read more... (131 words, estimated 31 secs reading time)
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Posted in Scored Deaths on Aug 12th, 2009
Surprise, surprise – we had a score and no one knew!
I got a comment on the site that Mr. Schulberg – an academy award winning screen writer – had died and points weren’t given. I had known he died – I posted it in my Twitter account (follow @Ghoulpool to keep up with all the deaths, scored and unscored) and my Facebook account (www.facebook.com/Ghoul.pool), but didn’t find his name as a score. Read more... (169 words, estimated 41 secs reading time)
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Posted in Scored Deaths on Aug 11th, 2009
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, one of the bigger branches of the Kennedy clan, has finally died after years of expectations. The wife of Sargent Shriver (when the hell will he die??), mother of The Terminator’s wife, and sister of The Drunk, died with family surrounding her at the age of 88. She was also the sister of US President John Kennedy.
Eunice’s biggest claim to fame is as the founder of the Special Olympics, and the hundreds of jokes that organization helped create. One of her biggest failures, and no doubt her biggest regret, is not being able to put the name “Eunice” up into the Top 10 Baby Names in ANY year since she was born. Read more... (262 words, estimated 1:03 mins reading time)
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