The Decade of the Dead Celebrity

[phoenix_miranda]

 I've called it such several times in the privacy of my own head, but the death of George Carlin on Sunday prompted me to discuss this with April, and she agreed with me that the first ten years of the 21st Century are the Decade of the Dead Celebrity.

Qualifications: Must display some degree of ubiquity (this is my definition of "celebrity" for

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[ravenwycce]

Patrick McGoohan, Jan 13, 2008
He played Edward Longshanks in Braveheart, among other things.

[ravenwycce]

sorry, i am an idiot. That would be 2009, of course...

[phoenix_miranda]

Added, along with Cornelia Wallace.

[ravenwycce]

Ricardo Montalban as well (played Mr. Roarke in "Fantasy Island")

[phoenix_miranda]

And Khan Noonien Singh in Classic Star Trek "Space Seed" and The Wrath of Khan. And Gutierrez in Stephen Spielberg's Freakazoid!

Dammit. I liked him. He was cool.