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hollybrooke ([personal profile] hollybrooke) wrote2011-01-02 06:31 pm

And now a morbid start to 2011

It's time for my Annual Celebrity Death Pool!

10. Mickey Rooney.
9. Christopher Plummer (We were watching the cast of The Sound of Music on Oprah last week, and we totally forgot just how OLD he is.)
8. Chuck Berry (And word is he collapsed on stage in Chicago the other night...)
7. Doris Day
6. Kirk Douglas (And NOT Michael; last I heard, he's actually getting better)
5. Jerry Lee Lewis
4. Angela Lansbury (I know, I'm cruel, but she's older than we realize.)
3. Jack LaLaine (He can't be hawking those juicers forever.)
2. Andy Rooney

And number one....I hate to make her my number one pick, but Aretha Franklin. She's been reported to have pancreatic cancer, and that's one of the tougher forms of cancer to treat.

HONORABLE MENTION? Elizabeth Taylor, of course. She'll probably outlive us all! (Her and Willie Nelson and Hugh Hefner.)

[identity profile] therealycats.livejournal.com 2011-01-03 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
YOU TAKE PLUMMER BACK!!!!

[identity profile] promisemewings.livejournal.com 2011-01-03 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
(JSYK, I never have very good luck with these things. I've been putting Liz Taylor down for the last decade, and she's still alive.)

[identity profile] cosmosmariner.livejournal.com 2011-01-03 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
Word! Chris Plummer forever!!!

[identity profile] cosmosmariner.livejournal.com 2011-01-03 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
*sobs* Oh no, I don't want Christopher Plummer to die. :( I do realize that he's old, but still...

I've got Billy Graham, Andy Griffith, and Mamie Van Doren on my list.

[identity profile] promisemewings.livejournal.com 2011-01-03 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I was contemplating Andy Griffith and even Jack Nicholson (everyone forgets just how old he really is)....

I always try to go for the older celebs that everyone forgets are still alive. And my predictions are very rarely right, but last year I had a record of FOUR of my predictions pass away (Patrick Swayze--but then again, everyone knew how bad his cancer was, he was kind of a given; Fess Parker; the old lady from "Titanic"; and Rue McClanahan).

And did you know Martha Stewart is SEVENTY?!

[identity profile] cosmosmariner.livejournal.com 2011-01-03 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
For real? geeez. I thought Leonard Nimoy and the Shat being almost 80 was bad enough.

Easy win for the death list: Zsa Zsa Gabor. She's constantly on the way out, it seems. How many times have they supposedly given her last rites in the last three months?

[identity profile] promisemewings.livejournal.com 2011-01-03 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
Oh yeah, I can't believe I passed Zsa Zsa up!

[identity profile] promisemewings.livejournal.com 2011-01-03 02:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Eww, gangrene!