ROTTEN DEAD POOL

WHOM	DIED	OBITUARY	PICKS
Alain Corneau	`29-Aug-2010`	French film director Alain Corneau dies at his home in Paris.	0
William B. Saxbe	`24-Aug-2010`	Former US Attorney General William B. Saxbe, appointed following Nixon's infamous Saturday Night Massacre, dies at his home in Mechanicsburg, Ohio.	8
Harold Dow	`21-Aug-2010`	48 Hours correspondent Harold Dow dies in New Jersey.	0
Jack Horkheimer	`20-Aug-2010`	TV's Star Gazer, naked eye astronomer Jack Horkheimer dies in Miami.	0
Michael Been	`19-Aug-2010`	Singer Michael Been, frontman for The Call, dies from a heart attack as a soundman backstage at the Pukkelpop 2010 music festival in Hasselt, Belgium.	0
Francesco Cossiga	`17-Aug-2010`	Former President of Italy Francesco Cossiga dies from heart failure at Gemelli Hospital, where he had been hospitalized for a week.	0
Frank Kermode	`17-Aug-2010`	Literary critic Frank Kermode dies in Cambridge, England, aged 90.	8
Bobby Thomson	`16-Aug-2010`	Retired New York Giant Bobby Thomson, who hit the legendary 3-run home run in 1951 to win the National League Pennant, dies at his home in Savannah, Georgia.	28

#	WHOM	SUMMARY	BORN	PICKS
1	Billy Graham	Televangelist	`07-Nov-1918`	16,112
2	Fidel Castro	Dictator of Cuba for almost fifty years	`13-Aug-1926`	12,206
3	Jerry Lewis	Cinderfella	`16-Mar-1926`	10,423
4	Kirk Douglas	Spartacus	`09-Dec-1916`	10,132
5	Osama bin Laden	Head of al Qaeda terrorist organization	`10-Mar-1957`	9,128
6	Dolores Hope	Widow of Bob Hope	`27-May-1909`	8,349
7	Abe Vigoda	Fish on Barney Miller (not dead yet)	`24-Feb-1921`	7,722
8	Johannes Heesters	Dutch/German film actor	`05-Dec-1903`	6,760
9	Courtney Love	Kurt Cobain's widow, Hole	`09-Jul-1964`	5,488
10	Elizabeth Taylor	Cleopatra	`27-Feb-1932`	4,502

WHOM	SUMMARY	BORN
Alan Simpson	US Senator from Wyoming, 1979-97	`02-Sep-1931`
Dominic Chianese	Uncle Junior on The Sopranos	`02-Sep-1934`
Andy Grove	CEO of Intel, 1987-98	`02-Sep-1936`
Peter Ueberroth	Commissioner of Baseball, 1984-89	`02-Sep-1937`
Robert Shapiro	One of OJ Simpson's attorneys	`02-Sep-1942`
Terry Bradshaw	Sportscaster, former Steelers QB	`02-Sep-1948`
Mark Harmon	The Presidio	`02-Sep-1951`
Harvey Levin	Prince of the paparazzi	`02-Sep-1951`
Jimmy Connors	'70s, '80s tennis champ	`02-Sep-1952`
John Zorn	Prolific avant-garde composer	`02-Sep-1953`

2-Sep-2010 · White Sox slugger Manny Ramirez flies his barber cross-country for a haircut ... Fox News military analyst and retired three-star General Thomas McInerney sides with American soldier who refuses orders, and wants to see the President's birth certificate ... Harry Shearer goes up against the Army Corps of Engineers ... BP is evicted from its Louisiana oil spill command center over unpaid rent ... Electric car maker Tesla Motors fined $275K for skipping emissions certification ... Swedish prosecutor re-files rape charge against Julian Assange, as we tour the civil defense bunker where Wikileaks hopes to house some of its servers ... American Chemistry Council disinfo campaign torpedoes California's plan to ban cheap plastic bags ... Richard S. Fuld, Jr., ex-CEO of the late Lehman Brothers, is still irked that he and his company didn't get a piece of the bailout billions ... J. K. Rowling donates $15.4M to multiple sclerosis research ... Kevin Rose is stepping down as CEO at Digg ... US Homeland Security Department is sued over secret traveler files ... AT&T says net rules must allow "paid prioritization" ... Paris Hilton says she's ignoring "ridiculous, cruel" rumors — but what's the fun in that? ...

1-Sep-2010 · You don't want to look too closely at the tap water in New York City ... Food crisis looms after floods in Pakistan ... Divine Brown reflects on "the trick that changed my life" ... The Washington Times is sold by one of Rev Sun Myung Moonbat's subsidiaries to another, for one dollar ... Sued RV dealer challenges Taylor Lautner to a push-up contest ... Left-wing groups challenge President Obama's power to order people killed ... Tiki Barber hires PR firm to repair his image after leaving pregnant wife ... Samantha Ronson's bulldog noms a Maltese, allegedly ... Decades later, Rancho Cucamonga landmarks remain where Zappa left them ... Disgraced former Congressman James Traficant (D-Ohio) is tanned, rested, out of prison, and running for his former seat in Congress ... Daughter of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani gets a day of community service for shoplifting, and her conviction will be erased if she can go six months without getting arrested again ... Sex tape star Kim Kardashian praises her sister's vajayjay ...

31-Aug-2010 · Kareem Abdul-Jabbar sues over unauthorized use of UCLA-era photo in bubble gum cards ... Samson-like footballer Troy Polamalu's luscious hair is insured for $1M ... Superstar pitcher Roger Clemens pleads not guilty in doping perjury case ... An excerpt from Roald Dahl's darkest hour ... US Food and Drug Administration suspects that egg contamination might be related to piles of manure up to eight feet tall, dead maggots, live flies, and rodent infestation at two enormous Iowa factory-farms ... YouTube wants to start a $5 pay per view on-line movie rental system ... BP and the Obama administration say the oil has vanished, but it's on Florida's beaches... Chicago White Sox pick up 12-time All-Star Manny Ramirez on waivers ... Beetle Bailey celebrates sixty years of likable laziness ... TMZ's headline says "Paris Hilton could face years in prison", but c'mon — she's rich, and rich people rarely go to prison. More accurate headline: Paris Hilton faces, maybe, at worst, a lengthy probation. Besides, she thought it was gum ... Knocked-up 19-year-old Bristol Palin joins Dancing with the Stars ...

Players: 86,769
Celebrities: 37,702
Deaths: 1,954