All has been quiet in terms of pre-Groundhog Day deaths trickling in, so it looks like Thanatos Therapeuticus will take this year's crown.
I would ask that you check your people at Who's Alive and Who's Dead? if you are close to winning and it's possible that one of your people died without any of us knowing about it...
On the 9th, barring any miracles, I will close up shop here permanently and move on to DW2K8.
--Grim
DW2K7ers,
Well, it's been a great year, insofar as death is concerned.
This is the time of year where I encourage each player to double-check each person on her list to make sure that nobody was missed.
Time is growing short, and if nothing changes in the next couple of days, Thanatos Therapeuticus will wrestle the 2007 crown away from defending 2006 champ Roger Mortis. The OFFICIAL results will not be posted for another week after the 2nd, as we wait for obscure deaths to be reported and for dead bodies to be found.
DeathWatch 2008 is up and running, with this year's rules posted for now, as we await everyone's new lists. Please go there and bookmark it!
In the past couple of weeks, we've had several deaths that we were too busy to post on--Suzanne Pleshette, Allan Melvin (who I actually have on my list), Suharto, Christian Brando, and others. We also had relatively rushed coverage on Heath Ledger, but hey, we probably weren't going to make fun of him anyway. Please accept our apologies for the loss of focus in recent weeks.
Thanks for playing in 2007, and we look forward to serving you with only the best death coverage in 2008!
--Grim
Actor Heath Ledger was found dead this afternoon in his Soho apartment. A masseuse knocked on the Brokeback Mountain actor's door for an appointment around 3:30 this afternoon and found him dead in his bedroom. Ledger was 28.
Police have not released any information about the cause of death, but a spokesman for the department has said they were seeking Jack Nicholson for questioning. Nicholson, said to be jealous of Ledger's casting as The Joker in the new Batman sequel, has been quoted in the press lately as saying he'd like to "shove 44 ounces of Smilex up that pretty boy's ass."
Official police spokesmen would neither confirm nor deny any Joker-related connection to Mr. Hedger's demise.
No DW2K7 player had the foresight to claim this young actor's points.
Brad Renfro, the 25-year-old actor who, as a youth, starred in such movies as The Client and Apt Pupil, died of undisclosed causes today.
Renfro, who had experienced numerous drug-related run-ins with the law in the last decade, is believed to have relapsed into drug abuse after an effort to stay clean.
If Renfro had worked enough to remain even slightly relevant over the past couple of years, a DW2K7er might have scored 75 whopping points of the little prick. Alas, his drug use kept him out of the public consciousness and his points go wasted.
It's official. As of December 12, Ike really won't hit Tina no more. Ike Turner, musician drug abuser, band leader alcoholic, talent scout abusive husband and father, and record producer convict, died at the age of 76.
Rumor has it that Turner fell ill, though not dangerously so, but in a cruel twist of fate, died from overexertion when he tried in vain to violently backhand his hospital-visiting ex-wife.
Ike "discovered" Tina in the early 1960's and started her inexplicable rise to stardom. I use quotes around "discovered," because meeting Tina had to have been the same type of "discovery" one has when one has forgotten to flush the toilet after a violent bowel movement, only to come back hours later to find his/her own decomposing feces waiting for him/her. Thanks a lot for finding Tina, Ike. And by "thanks a lot," I mean, "Go fuck yourself."
Rock-n-Roll Suicide scores his first ever DeathWatch points (24) with Ike's welcome passing. Congratulations, RnR -- welcome to the big board!
Evel Knievel passed away last week from complications of being a degenerate, drunk, Hepatitis C-ridden, faux-born-again one-trick-pony. When not busy miscalculating physics and grossly missing jumps (courtesy of a high school dropout's education,) the galactically stupid Knievel liked to drink, abuse women and/or children, vote members of the Bush family into public office, miss even MORE jumps, and overdose on painkillers.
While Knievel seemingly wasn't afraid of my grim touch, he appeared to be deathly afraid of how my boy, J.Christ, would view his seven decades of wasted life. Knowing death was coming soon, Evel was publicly "saved" in early 2007 on televangelist Robert H. Schuller's *cough* douche *cough* Hour of Power television program. I call bullshit. What a complete Nancy. So much for going out in a blaze of glory and leaving a pretty corpse.
Death By Creamy Liquid slurps down 31 points worth of marrow from the broken bones left from Knievel's crash landing into eternal Hell. Good riddance.
