Dead Pool 18th April 2021

Alas no points to award this week, even though we have a clutch of decent celebrities who have passed away. In case you missed it, Prince Philip’s funeral took place, everyone was sobbing as the Queen sat by herself and Harry and William argued through clenched teeth about The Markle Incident. All in all, a great advertising campaign by Land Rover.  

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In Other News

Everyones favourite sex pest, Harvey Weinstein is reportedly going blind and has lost several teeth in prison, according to his lawyer. The disgraced movie mogul appeared virtually in an upstate New York court to fight extradition to Los Angeles, where he has been indicted on 11 counts of sexual assault. According to the media, he faces four counts of forcible rape, four counts of forcible oral copulation, two counts of sexual battery and one count of sexual penetration by force connected to the alleged assaults of five women from 2004 to 2013. Weinstein’s lawyer Norman Effman said his client did not want to be extradited yet due to his health issues needing medical attention. He is “scheduled for some dental procedures to save his teeth – he’s lost, I believe four at this point,” Effman said. He didn’t mention if the teeth fell out on their own or were helped along by a fellow inmate. Weinstein was found guilty in February 2020 of third-degree rape and of a criminal sexual act. He was sentenced the following month to 23 years in prison. 

Yet another social media ‘celebrity’ has died. If you know of the TikTok star Adam Perkins, well, he’s dead, and at the very young age of 24. The Boston-born internet sensation’s twin brother Patrick confirmed the news on Instagram, as he revealed the ‘star’ had died on April 11th but did not disclose any cause of death, but by the look of him I suspect a healthy dose of crack. As well as having thousands of TikTok followers, Adam was most well known for a clip on the the now-defunct social media site Vine which saw him parody an advert for the American restaurant chain Chili’s in which we saw him walk into a bathroom and say ‘Welcome to Chili’s’, yup, that’s all it takes nowadays folks! They say he released an album called Latch Relay in 2018 under the name Plas Teg, I’m fucked if I’ve ever heard of it. I reckon his twin brother has missed a trick here though, obviously the lesser talented, he should have declared himself dead and reaped the cash his brother could have made, or not, as we’ve never heard of him!  

You might have rightly skimmed over this weeks deaths and totally ignored the name Barry Mason, I’ll forgive you. However the songwriter who died at the age of 85 on Friday has a string of well known hits and is also behind Leeds United’s anthem Marching on Together. Mason co-wrote the sporting anthem with Les Reed in 1972, which has also become the song of city rugby league club Leeds Rhinos. Other hits penned by Mason include Tom Jones’ mega hit Delilah and The Last Waltz by Engelbert Humperdinck. Taking to Twitter, a Leeds United spokesperson said: “LUFC are saddened to learn of the passing of Barry Mason, co-writer of the club’s anthem Marching On Together.” Spandau Ballet songwriter Gary Kemp said: “Shocked to hear that my friend and lovely human Barry Mason died yesterday. All my love to his wife Vanessa and his children.”  He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to music. In a glittering career he won five Ivor Novello Awards and penned an extraordinary 11,000 songs. Working in the golden age of British popular music in the 1960’s, his songs were performed by the likes of Rod Stewart, Engelbert Humperdinck, Elvis Presley ,The Drifters and of course, Tom Jones. 

Not to sound monotonous, but yet another YouTube influencer you’ve never heard of, Jeffree Star has said he is in “excruciating pain” after he and his friend Daniel Lucas were involved in a “severe” car accident in Wyoming. The controversial YouTube ‘star’ was driving in Natrona County when the Rolls Royce they were in hit black ice and flipped over three times. A representative posted a picture of Star in a hospital gown, laying in a bed with a neck brace on, from his official Twitter account. “A few hours ago Jeffree and Daniel were in a severe car accident and the car flipped 3 times after hitting black ice,” the tweet stated. “We will update you all when the doctor gives us more info. So thankful they are both alive.” Star has now posted an update from his social media accounts, calling the incident “one of the scariest moments” of his life. “This morning was one of the scariest moments of our entire lives. I’m so grateful to be here still. I’m in excruciating pain because part of my back is broken and I have vertebrae fractures on my spine. My doctor said it will take a few months but I should make a full recovery,” he wrote. “My best friend Daniel has internal injuries and because he has survived colon cancer three times, he’s having complications with his organs and they’re monitoring him 24/7. We’ll know more soon. Thank you to every single person checking on us.” Star, whose real name is Jeffrey Lynn Steininger, is originally from Orange County, California, but last year bought a 70-acre ranch near Casper, Wyoming. The 35-year-old has run Jeffree Star Cosmetics since 2014, and has 16.5 million subscribers on YouTube, 13.6 million on Instagram and 6.9 million on Twitter.

Charles Geschke, the co-founder of the software company Adobe who helped develop the Portable Document Format, or PDF, has died at the age of 81. Geschke set up Adobe in 1982, giving the world the ubiquitous PDF software, among many other audio-visual innovations. Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen said Geschke, widely known as Chuck, “sparked the desktop publishing revolution”. “This is a huge loss for the entire Adobe community and the technology industry, for whom he has been a guide and hero for decades,” he wrote in an email to the company’s employees. “As co-founders of Adobe, Chuck and John Warnock developed ground-breaking software that has revolutionised how people create and communicate,” he said. Geschke and Warnock were responsible for transformative software inventions, including PDF, Acrobat, Illustrator, Premiere Pro and Photoshop, Mr Narayen said. In 1992, Geschke was kidnapped in an incident that made national headlines. He was held at gunpoint in his office and taken to Hollister, California, for four days. Geschke was freed after a suspect, found with $650,000 in ransom money, took police to the location where he was being held. In 2009, President Barack Obama awarded Geschke and Warnock the National Medal of Technology. 

On This Day

  • 1912 – The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City.   
  • 1930 – The British Broadcasting Corporation announced that “there is no news” in their evening report.  
  • 2007 – A series of bombings, two of them being suicides, occur in Baghdad, killing 198 and injuring 251.  

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Last Week’s Birthdays

Vanessa Kirby (33), David Tennant (50), James Woods (74), Hayley Mills (75), Eli Roth (49), Rick Moranis (68), Jennifer Garner (49), Rooney Mara (36), Sean Bean (62), David Bradley (79), Anya Taylor-Joy (25), Claire Foy (36), Gina Carano (39), Ellen Barkin (67), Sadie Sink (19), Martin Lawrence (56), Emma Watson (31), Luke Evans (42), Seth Rogen (39), Emma Thompson (62), Maisie Williams (24), Adrien Brody (48), Sarah Michelle Gellar (44), Anthony Michael Hall (53), Robert Carlyle (60), Peter Capaldi (63), Julie Christie (81), Ron Perlman (71), William Sadler (71), Erick Avari (69), Edward Fox (84), Peter Davison (70), Jennifer Morrison (42), Saoirse Ronan (27), Claire Danes (42), Ed O’Neill (75), Andy Garcia (65), Shannen Doherty (50), and Nicholas Brendon (50).

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