Howie Carr Live Thread 8/12/07

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[Calvin Locke]

I went looking for Brooke Astor. Wikipedia already has August 13 entered...

[Cheapskate]

Wow! that was quick. sounds like somebody had nothin to do today!

[jackieaxe]

Death Pool August 13, 2007

Previous Winner: Merv Griffin

QP means quick pick.

1. Pavarotti
2. Brooke Astor - 105
3. Art Linkletter
4. Nancy Reagan
5. Fidel Castro
6. Willie Nelson
7. Olivia de Havilland
8. Suzzanne Fishette
9. Courtney Love
10. Za Za Gabor
11. Mickey Rooney
12. Oral Roberts
13. Phyllis Diller
14. Betty Ford
15. Dick Cheney
16. Bob Shuler
17. Billy Graham
18. Liz Taylor
19. Charlton Heston
20. Richard Widmark (QP)
21. Eunice Kennedy Shriver
22. Wilford Brimley
23. Kirk Douglas (QP)
24. George Carlin
25. Ernest Borgnine – 90 years old
26. Ted Kennedy
27. Jane Wyman (QP)
28. Joey Bishop (QP)
29. Hugh Hefner
30. Farah Fawcett Majors
31. Pernal Roberts – last remaining Cartwright brother
32. JD Salinger
33. Tony Bennett
34. James Arness
35. Maureen O’Hara
36. Ian Smith – former Zimbabwe PM
37. Ned McCann
38. Gordon Lightfoot
39. Tony Snow
40. Brittney Spears
41. Arial Sharon
42. William Shatner
43. Tony Curtis
44. Jessie Ventura
45. RD Lang

Picked but already dead: Tammy Fay Baker
My Wildcard: Robert “Evil” Knevel
* Brooke Astor died between 2-3 pm so she is off the board.

[Calvin Locke]

What’s the count? I got some dead air holes.

Hah!, the local is playing the crew scanning the raw Chump Line messages.

[Cheapskate]

I'm pretty sure Jessee admitted that he did roids when he was wrestling.

and besides, he got dosed with nasty pesticides when he was in Nam.

I don't know if was actually agent Orange or not.

[Calvin Locke]

37. Ned McCann? Oh, you mean Ed McMahon!

Boston boy, and BC grad, iirc.

You must be too young to remember.

[jackieaxe]

I stand corrected. Thank You.

[Calvin Locke]

Pesticides, and defoliants. I thing Agent Orange was contaminated with PCBs.

[Calvin Locke]

Oops, McMahon is from Detroit, and went to Catholic U. in DC.

I could have sworn he went to BC. I guess that leaves Notch Johnson as the only celeb BC grad in my vast store of useless information.

[Calvin Locke]

That much for a intro song?

I think Chrissy Hinds gets $500K from Limbaugh each year (donates the "ill gotten" proceeds to something or another, and Paul Anka was getting $200K/year from The Tonight Show Theme

[Calvin Locke]

I think the last caller said "Artie Lange".

I was thinking KD Lang, myself, so I had to look it up.

Apparently, Artie's an overweight comedian who is or was a regular on Howard Stern's show.

Any way, the search put www.artielangedeathwatch.com at the top.

I guess he gets all the roles that would have gone to non-dead Chris Farley.

I guess I'm not in Artie's demographic.

Learn something new everyday.

OTOH, one caller did point out the educational aspects of Howie's "Death Pool"...

[Calvin Locke]

One more. #8 is Suzanne Pleshette. She played Bob Newhart's wife in his first show. At literally the end of the run for his second series, she appears in bed with Bob, both are sleeping. He wakes up, wakes her, and says something like "I just had the strangest dream. I owned a B&B in Vermont, and..." completely turning his second series into a dream.

A classic tv moment.

Suzanne is brunette, and Bob's 2nd series wife was blond, so she may have asked "Who was the blond?"

[copwife]

This depresses me greatly. Gerry Callahan is my favorite personality next to Howie. He is a great conservative and hysterically funny! It looks as if Entercom is doing a purge of all conservatives.
Oh, well...there’s always Meter!!!

[jackieaxe]

I mis heard Ed McMann, but I don’t know who Artie Lange is. He’s a Stern regular? Maybe Stutterin’ John will make the next Death Pool. I would have DQed Artie Lange. Never heard of him.

[raccoonradio]

they have Talk of the Nation...also Fresh Air with Terry
Gross (which Laura Ingraham calls Stale Air with Terry
Gross Me Out)....political coverage; interviews on
All Things Considered/Morning Edition, etc.

[Calvin Locke]

I wasn't familiar with Lange either. I'm pretty I heard Howie say "the singer..." at the end of the segment, and I figured "Artie", mistaking "Artie Lang" for an old comedian.

As I said, the search pulled up "Artie Lange" with the death watch reference, and figured that's what the caller was talking about.

Stern's not my idea of mainstream entertainment. Maybe at a strip club for an occasional bachelor party.