Dead Pool 15th April 2018

We missed a  couple of good Mavericks this week, never mind. No points to award and not a lot to add to what we have below. Although you might want to take a look at a broken Arnold Schwarzenegger telling everyone he’s ok… Bet he regrets those steroids now…    

Look Who You Could Have Had:

  • Chuck McCann, 83, American actor (Far Out Space Nuts) and voice artist (DuckTales, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero), heart failure.   
  • Edelgard Huber von Gersdorff, 112, German supercentenarian.  
  • Timmy Matley, 36, Irish singer (The Overtones), skin cancer.  
  • Alex Beckett, 35, English actor (Twenty Twelve, W1A, Youth).  
  • Miloš Forman, 86, Czech film director (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus, The People vs. Larry Flynt), Oscar winner (1975, 1984).

In Other News

Will Ferrell has been rushed to hospital after being involved in a car accident. The  50-year-old was reportedly riding in a Chauffeur-driven SUV with two other passengers when their vehicle was flipped over. Witnesses told Dead Pool Towers that they were ‘side-swiped’ by another car. All three passengers were immediately rushed to hospital for treatment. Ferrell has since been released from the facility and did not suffer ‘any significant injury’. Ferrell was photographed immediately after the incident speaking on a mobile phone while being stretchered off the scene by firefighters. So, nothing really happened, he’s ok.   

Arnold Schwarzenegger had heart surgery in Los Angeles on Thursday, his representative has confirmed. The former California governor and Terminator actor underwent surgery to replace a pulmonic valve. Schwarzenegger originally had the  valve replaced in 1997 to counter a congenital heart defect. His spokesman Daniel Ketchell said Thursday’s operation was a planned procedure to replace that same valve. “That 1997 replacement valve was never meant to be permanent and has outlived its life expectancy, so he chose to replace it yesterday through a less-invasive catheter valve replacement,” Ketchell said. The spokesman claimed Schwarzenegger’s first words upon waking from the operation were “I’m back”. Schwarzenegger, 70, was 49 when he had his first heart surgery. “Choosing to undergo open-heart surgery when I never felt sick was the hardest decision I’ve ever made,” Schwarzenegger said at the time. 

The Duke of Edinburgh has been discharged from hospital following a successful hip  replacement operation. Prince Philip, 96, waved as he was driven past the front entrance to King Edward VII’s Hospital in London, having left through a different exit. He was admitted to hospital on 3 April and underwent the planned procedure the following day. The duke, who will continue his recovery in Windsor, thanked the public for their “good wishes”. In a statement, Buckingham Palace said: “His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh left King Edward VII’s Hospital at midday today, following a hip replacement operation last week. “His Royal Highness would like to convey his appreciation for the messages of good wishes he has received.” Princess Anne visited her father in hospital on Thursday and described him as “on good form”. The Queen also gave an update, telling a well-wisher in Windsor who asked about Philip’s recovery: “He said he’s getting on very well.”

On This Day

  • 1755 – Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London. Even after 263 years, people still can’t spell.  
  • 1865 – President Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth. Vice President Andrew Johnson becomes President upon Lincoln’s death.  
  • 1912 – The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.  
  • 1955 – McDonald’s restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois. 
  • 1989 – Hillsborough disaster: A human crush occurs at Hillsborough Stadium, home of Sheffield Wednesday, in the FA Cup Semi-final, resulting in the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans.

Deaths

  • 1865 – Abraham Lincoln, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 16th President of the United States (b. 1809)  
  • 1980 – Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)  
  • 1982 – Arthur Lowe, English actor (b. 1915)  
  • 1984 – Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedian and magician (b. 1921)  
  • 1988 – Kenneth Williams, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1926)  
  • 1990 – Greta Garbo, Swedish-American actress (b. 1905)  
  • 1998 – Pol Pot, Cambodian general and politician, 29th Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1925)  
  • 2001 – Joey Ramone, American singer-songwriter (b. 1951)  
  • 2009 – Clement Freud, German-English journalist, academic, and politician (b. 1924)

Last Week’s Birthdays

Sarah Michelle Gellar (41), Adrien Brody (45), Robert Carlyle (57), Julie Christie (78), Peter Capaldi (60), Ron Perlman (68), William Sadler (68), Edward Fox (81), Erick Avari (66), Peter Davison (67), Saoirse Ronan (24), Claire Danes (39), Andy Garcia (62), Shannen Doherty (47), Ed O’Neill (72), Nicholas Brendon (47), David Letterman (71), Joss Stone (31), Jeremy Clarkson (58), Lisa Stansfield (52), Jill Gascoine (81), Daisy Ridley (26), Charlie Hunnam (38), Haley Joel Osment (30), Max von Sydow (89), Steven Seagal (66), Peter MacNicol (64), Kristen Stewart (28), Dennis Quaid (64), Jenna Jameson (44), Robin Wright (52), Patricia Arquette (50) and Dean Norris (55).

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