Morbid Pool
Mar. 29th, 2005 08:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
csberryJohnnie Cochran has died.
Schaivo is still off the feeding tube.
Pope may need a feeding tube.
Jerry Falwell is in critical condition.
BUT who will make up the Three Celebrity Deaths?!?
Johnnie Cochran and who will the other two be? Schaivo is a safe bet, but does she really qualify as a celebrity death?
My picks are along a theme: Cochran, Falwell, and the Pope - Three controversial celebrities
My Dark Horse picks: Cochran, Whitney Houston (overdose after skipping out on rehab), and Tony Curtis (heart attack during sex with his wife - 45 years his junior).
Care to tempt the Angel of Death?
Schaivo is still off the feeding tube.
Pope may need a feeding tube.
Jerry Falwell is in critical condition.
BUT who will make up the Three Celebrity Deaths?!?
Johnnie Cochran and who will the other two be? Schaivo is a safe bet, but does she really qualify as a celebrity death?
My picks are along a theme: Cochran, Falwell, and the Pope - Three controversial celebrities
My Dark Horse picks: Cochran, Whitney Houston (overdose after skipping out on rehab), and Tony Curtis (heart attack during sex with his wife - 45 years his junior).
Care to tempt the Angel of Death?
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Date: 2005-04-01 05:49 pm (UTC)1) Cochran
1.5) Terri Schiavo (although she never deserved to be paraded around as the poster-child for the religious right). She gets half a nod.
2) The surprise morbitor - Frank Perdue. "It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken." While not a "true celebrity", he deserves at least a half a nod.
3) The pope. Tough week for the religious right. Or good week, if you look at it from the standpoint that they have commanded 24-hour coverage from all the major news networks for the entire week. Does anyone remember that little war in Iraq thingie?
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Date: 2005-04-01 07:41 pm (UTC)3) Wup! Not so fast there! Despite earlier comments by the Italian press, as of 2:30pm EST on April 1st, he's still alive according to reports from the Vatican.
Also, I wouldn't necessarily throw the Pope in with the same group of American right-wingers that have been turning Schiavo into a martyr. I have met enough evangelicals and Baptists through the years that don't consider Catholics to be Christian because of the "worship" of Mary and the saints. Are the Fundamentalists and Catholics political allies? Yes, but Mel Gibson (thanks to The Passion of Christ) probably gets more love from the American Christian Right than the Pope.