This Week in Death brings you: Notes from around the pool! We ride Anna Nicole Smith's flotation devices and take you from the shallow to the deep end, and catch you up on all the news you need to know to be an educated death pool competitor.
Goodbye Frankie Laine. We Barely knew ye, but we are sorry your name was Frankie and not just Frank.
We will push off health notices and start this week, for two big reasons, with Notable, albeit points-less, deaths...
Do You Still Have to Sleep with Heff in the Playboy Mansion in the Sky?
Anna Nicole Smith died Thursday at a South Florida hospital after being discovered unconscious in her hotel room. The reality TV star, Playboy Playmate and former Guess model was 39.
http://www.cnn.com/2007
Mod Squad Captain Makes his Final Arrest
Tige Andrews, the Emmy-nominated character actor who portrayed a police captain in charge of a trio of hip, young crime fighters in "The Mod Squad," has died. He was 86. Andrews died January 27 of cardiac arrest at his home in the San Fernando Valley of California, his family said.
http://www.cnn.com/2007
White Gives up Track, Will Stay in Field
Willye B. White, who willed her way out of the Mississippi Delta cotton fields and became the first American track and field athlete to compete in five Olympics, died yesterday in Chicago. She was 67.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02
After Steve and Barber-O, Tiki and Ronde Better Be Careful
Steve Barber, the first 20-game winner in modern Baltimore Orioles history and the losing pitcher in one of baseball's wildest no-hitters, has died. He was 67.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb
This Must be the Only Thing Jack Can't Prevent
Hank Bauer, a hard-hitting, hard-nosed outfielder for the New York Yankees and former major league manager who made his home in the Kansas City area, died today after a battle with cancer. He was 84.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld
And Some Health News to Report...
Norwood Pulls a Buchwald; He is on His Own
US Representative Charlie Norwood has decided not to receive any more hospital care for lung cancer. The popular congressman declined a surgery to remove a tumor on his liver, and tonight he's back home in Augusta.
http://www.wrdw.com/politics
If Only TWID Would Have Come Up With This...Hmm...
There are two inescapable facts of life. Death and taxes. Obit Magazine's planned launch has definitely been "taxing." The "lifestyle of death" publication was scheduled to be born this month. However, the birth has been pushed back until midyear. Bob and Barbara Hillier, publishers, are partners in a local Princeton newspaper, Town Topics.
http://www.nypost.com/seven
We are one tenth of the way through... Congratulations to Die Hard on his early lead. Don't worry everyone, it's a long year. There is much death to come.
The Commissioner's Council
Friday, February 9, 2007
TWID Notes - The TWIDDD Edition
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