Do You Actually Research?

[Deathray 2,940]

With not much else to do this morning I started to put together an age-sorted list of politicians and was wondering whether anybody else actually put together these sorts of lists regarding potential ddp candidates?

 

Are they actually that effective?

[time 8,617]

With not much else to do this morning I started to put together an age-sorted list of politicians and was wondering whether anybody else actually put together these sorts of lists regarding potential ddp candidates?

 

Are they actually that effective?

Nope, not me, thanks for asking.

[Paul Bearer 6,102]

Nope!

[charon 4,943]

Every one of us researches, whether it be making lists, or noting "tips" on here..

[maryportfuncity 10,647]

Every one of us researches, whether it be making lists, or noting "tips" on here..

 

Indeed, and when you collect the utterly dedicated - like Ali - and add them to the hunch and insight merchants - like most of us - you get something we can all use.

[Spade_Cooley 9,536]

I just hit "random page" on Wikipedia 20 times and hope that most of them are living people.

[Dr. Zorders 1,271]

Well, I just randomly make up 50 names and hope that they somehow just happen to be the names of real people. If they are old or ill or both that's just a happy bonus.

[CaptainChorizo 1,983]

Just copy names people mention on this forum and put it in notepad along with why they might die. Also if I see any wrestlers,actors,directors etc who are not necessarily old but looking worse for wear i put that in notepad.

[Bibliogryphon 9,586]

I am always looking out for people who I should keep tabs on. I have about 1400 people who are on my radar. If I see someone on the news or in the paper who looks ill or is reported as being unwell I will make a note of them. I am now having to remove people from the list, for example hangers on who time has passed like Jack Tweed and Frankie Cocozza will make way for someone more worthwhile, but this site is still the best for research. If the DL don't tell me they are dead then they are probably still breathing. Sometimes I make mistakes and miss important deaths but there is always someone here who will correct you when you make a mistake.

 

Keep up the good work guys.

[Dr. Zorders 1,271]

I am always looking out for people who I should keep tabs on. I have about 1400 people who are on my radar. If I see someone on the news or in the paper who looks ill or is reported as being unwell I will make a note of them. I am now having to remove people from the list, for example hangers on who time has passed like Jack Tweed and Frankie Cocozza will make way for someone more worthwhile, but this site is still the best for research. If the DL don't tell me they are dead then they are probably still breathing. Sometimes I make mistakes and miss important deaths but there is always someone here who will correct you when you make a mistake.

 

Keep up the good work guys.

 

*slowly backs away*

 

Fuuuuuckin' 'ell.

 

And we thought Spade was bad.

[Bibliogryphon 9,586]

I am always looking out for people who I should keep tabs on. I have about 1400 people who are on my radar. If I see someone on the news or in the paper who looks ill or is reported as being unwell I will make a note of them. I am now having to remove people from the list, for example hangers on who time has passed like Jack Tweed and Frankie Cocozza will make way for someone more worthwhile, but this site is still the best for research. If the DL don't tell me they are dead then they are probably still breathing. Sometimes I make mistakes and miss important deaths but there is always someone here who will correct you when you make a mistake.

 

Keep up the good work guys.

 

*slowly backs away*

 

Fuuuuuckin' 'ell.

 

And we thought Spade was bad.

 

Let me elaborate a little further.

 

By being on my radar simply means I have entered them onto a spreadsheet so I don't forget that I have considered them. I will then consult this list of 1000 names to compile the 400 name list I use for the workplace game that I run.

 

I am not actively following them on Twitter or hacking into their mobile phones.

 

It is also worth noting that this approach has failed to catch Peaches Geldof or Kate O' Mara.

[Dr. Zorders 1,271]

 

Let me elaborate a little further.

 

By being on my radar simply means I have entered them onto a spreadsheet so I don't forget that I have considered them. I will then consult this list of 1000 names to compile the 400 name list I use for the workplace game that I run.

 

I am not actively following them on Twitter or hacking into their mobile phones.

 

It is also worth noting that this approach has failed to catch Peaches Geldof or Kate O' Mara.

 

*backs away some more*

[Dr. Zorders 1,271]

Nah I'm just kiddin' broseph.

 

You're one of my fav. Deathlisters for sure and if there was some kind of year-end awards I'm sure you would win "most helpful/most informative" DLer by a landslide. In fact I was thinking of starting an "DL user awards" thread/vote-type thingy at the end of last year but couldn't be arsed as I found last Christmas a bit depressing what wiv having to put up wiv my shit family and everyfing, so..... yeah. Maybe this December.

[Bibliogryphon 9,586]

Let me elaborate a little further.

 

By being on my radar simply means I have entered them onto a spreadsheet so I don't forget that I have considered them. I will then consult this list of 1000 names to compile the 400 name list I use for the workplace game that I run.

 

I am not actively following them on Twitter or hacking into their mobile phones.

 

It is also worth noting that this approach has failed to catch Peaches Geldof or Kate O' Mara.

 

*backs away some more*

 

I bet there are people on here who have more information than me.

 

Or are you suggesting I am the only socially dysfunctional nutter here?

[Dr. Zorders 1,271]

Let me elaborate a little further.

 

By being on my radar simply means I have entered them onto a spreadsheet so I don't forget that I have considered them. I will then consult this list of 1000 names to compile the 400 name list I use for the workplace game that I run.

 

I am not actively following them on Twitter or hacking into their mobile phones.

 

It is also worth noting that this approach has failed to catch Peaches Geldof or Kate O' Mara.

 

*backs away some more*

 

I bet there are people on here who have more information than me.

 

Or are you suggesting I am the only socially dysfunctional nutter here?

 

Yeah there deffo are. Like Rotten Ali supposedly. And whoever that guy is that runs the DDP, even if he doesn't necessarily actively research it for himself, just researches according to what names he's given by the competitors.

[Bibliogryphon 9,586]

It also does not mean I am good at this game I have 1/20 in each of my DDP teams.

 

However I am joint leader in my works game.

[Deathray 2,940]

I am always looking out for people who I should keep tabs on. I have about 1400 people who are on my radar.

 

I've got a list about that long of "good ideas for lists" but 0 people actually on any lists...

 

At least there's eight months to get some of them done.

[Predictor 1,018]

Mostly super old actors. What I really need to do is become friends with one of the workers at the following place:

 

Motion Picture Country Home

in Woodland Hills

 

Hollywood Cares for Elderly at Own HomeAssociated Press June 10, 2004

Tucked away on a lush 50-acre spread in a far corner of the suburbs, Hollywood cares for its own.

For over six decades, Mack Sennett, Norma Shearer, Mary Astor, Johnny Weissmuller and scores of other film-world notables have spent their late years here. So have far less famous folks from behind the scenes at Hollywood's dream factories. Some saved their money and paid their way. Others were broke, so they paid nothing.

 

The official name is the Motion Picture and Television Fund's Woodland Hills campus a state-of-the-art, full-service retirement facility with a $100 million annual budget. Yet for many, it will always be "The Old Actors Home."

 

The quaint moniker refuses to die, despite official pleadings that the property also includes a hospital and accepts all kinds of workers from the movie and TV industries, from extras to producers.

 

"We've tried campaigns and marketing techniques (to get rid of the name)," says Kenneth Scherer, head of the money-raising arm of the Fund, as the support organization is known in Hollywood. "It is a huge misnomer. But it's said with great affection and a sense of pride."

 

Some of the home's famous occupants have left behind undying legends. Longtime residents remember Astor, the femme fatale of "The Maltese Falcon," wheeling around the campus on her bicycle, nodding graciously to those she passed.

 

Tarzan star Weissmuller became a problem, roaming the halls late at night bellowing his famous jungle yell. He wouldn't stop, so the Fund rented him a house in Mexico and hired an attendant and doctor. Weissmuller and his wife remained there, free of charge, until his death in 1984.

 

The Fund had its beginnings in 1921 when the film industry's big guns, notably Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin, formed a charitable organization to help co-workers caught in the ups and downs of a fickle business.

In 1940, the Fund's farsighted head character actor Jean Hersholt, after whom the special humanitarian Oscar was named found a 48-acre walnut and orange grove for sale in Woodland Hills, which is now the far reaches of the San Fernando Valley. He persuaded the board to buy it for $850 an acre. The Motion Picture Country House opened in 1942 with accommodations for 24 retired film workers. It now houses 400.

 

Four years later, Ronald Reagan, Shirley Temple, Robert Young and other stars of the time helped dedicate a hospital addition, with 40 private rooms and 10 surgical beds. It now has 250 acute-care beds. As its clientele changed, the home accommodated. It's Alzheimer's Unit, donated in 1992 by Kirk and Anne Douglas and named "Harry's Haven" for the actor's father, is considered a leader in care and treatment of the disease.

 

The late Lew Wasserman and his wife Edie were mainstays of the Fund for 40 years, both in donations and using their considerable influence to enlist new benefactors. "One day I received a phone call from Lew telling me, 'Be in my office tomorrow morning at 9,'" recalls Jeffrey Katzenberg, co-founder of the Dreamworks company. "I had no idea what it was about. When you got one of those calls from Lew, it didn't matter what it was about; you appeared." Wasserman, the last of Hollywood's true moguls, proceeded to recruit Katzenberg to head a new Fund effort to enlist younger members.

 

Today, the Fund continues to help hard-up industry people with cash payments a total of $750,000 last year. Half of those living at the campus do not pay. Explains producer Walter Seltzer, a longtime Fund supporter: "We tell people, 'If you can afford it, pay your way. If not, be our guest.'" To qualify for the home, applicants must have worked in any aspect of the film or TV industries for at least 20 years. The waiting time is usually a few months, with no preference given to celebrities or those who can pay their own way, Fund officials say.

 

One recent day, a few retirees were gathered in the Viewing Room, a comfortable place with a big-screen TV and shelves packed with hundreds of feature films no doubt with credits including past and present residents. "I like it here," remarked Audrey Totter, 86, the blonde star of mid-century noir and action films such as "Lady in the Lake" and "Alias Nick Beal." "I keep busy with my ceramics and decoupage," she said. "The food is good. And if you don't like what you're served, you can send it back to the kitchen and get something else."

 

The studios regularly screen new releases in the facility's Louis B. Mayer theater, and about 20 residents are still card-carrying members of the motion picture academy and receive Oscar ballots each year. Totter, meanwhile, doesn't attend any of the screenings. "In our day we made classics," she said. "The pictures today are all about sex."

 

Famous residents:--Bud Abbott, Mary Alden, Gilbert M. Anderson, Johnny Arthur, Mary Astor, Chester Conklin, Ellen Corby (died in hospital), Wendell Corey (died in hospital),Maurice Costello, Dorothy Davenport, Yvonne DeCarlo (died in hospital), Billie Dove, Norman Fell (died in hospital), Max Fleischer, Harrison Ford (silent film actor), Larry Fine, Anita Garvin (died in hospital),James Gleason (died in hospital), Gareth Hughes, Richard Jaeckel (died in hospital), DeForest Kelley (died in hospital), Marion Leonard, Karen Morley (died in hospital), Hattie McDaniel (died in hospital), Mae Murray, Jean Parker (died in hospital), Virginia Pearson ,Marin Sais, Mack Sennett, Norma Shearer, Gale Sondergaard (died in hospital), Jan Sterling (died in hospital), Florence Turner, Van Wakely (died in hospital), Johnny Weissmuller (in hospital), Clara Kimball Young

Imagine the insider information I could get on the current elderly stars residing there atm.

 

I already have info for people like Kirk Douglas' speech therapist. I should ask her how he's doing.

[Spade_Cooley 9,536]

My actual research is a Google Doc where I write down every name I come across over the year that is either 1) seriously ill 2) somewhat ill but not mentioned on the forum or 3) old and obscure and then spend a few hours escaping from the Christmas din each year paring that into 20 names that I'm happy with.

 

You get picks from anywhere. Like I said before, this year I got Claudio Abbado as a pick through reading a copy of an Italian newspaper that my cousin brought with him when he came over to England. Bobby Eaton came from reading a wrestling forum. Yosra El-Essawy came from my fascination with how fucking insane and creepy Beyonce's fanbase is.

 

Everyone has their own specialist field for picks which becomes apparent when you see some of the more popular threads on this forum, whether it's the rasslin', old-ass Brit sci-fi or motorsport. Just sprinkle enough of those in to get the unpicked bonuses.

[Rotten Ali 600]

I am always looking out for people who I should keep tabs on. I have about 1400 people who are on my radar. If I see someone on the news or in the paper who looks ill or is reported as being unwell I will make a note of them. I am now having to remove people from the list, for example hangers on who time has passed like Jack Tweed and Frankie Cocozza will make way for someone more worthwhile, but this site is still the best for research. If the DL don't tell me they are dead then they are probably still breathing. Sometimes I make mistakes and miss important deaths but there is always someone here who will correct you when you make a mistake.

 

Keep up the good work guys.

 

*slowly backs away*

 

Fuuuuuckin' 'ell.

 

And we thought Spade was bad.

 

Let me elaborate a little further.

 

By being on my radar simply means I have entered them onto a spreadsheet so I don't forget that I have considered them. I will then consult this list of 1000 names to compile the 400 name list I use for the workplace game that I run.

 

I am not actively following them on Twitter or hacking into their mobile phones.

 

It is also worth noting that this approach has failed to catch Peaches Geldof or Kate O' Mara.

 

Peaches was on my (about 1800 name) long list but so many guys are just too hard to judge. Many of the most nailed on choices are coffin dodgers and my Sun Wukong list (which is currently 9 out of 50) is doing much better than my most researched lists.

[Death Impends 7,979]

I regularly search various key words on Google news/some of the sites where the obits count for "cancer", "diagnosed", "hospitalized", etc along with names mentioned on here, slap anyone reasonably ill or with a smidgen of an obit chance on a WordPad document along with another list of names that are just really old. I think Jaruzelski's the oldest person to be on the former list rather than the latter, never really bothered to migrate Rev. Billy for some reason.

 

Strangely the pool I'm doing best in this year is the Hare's Dead Pool, (even though it'd be for the better if my guys would cark it later in the year) composed mostly of random Methuselahs and the occasional terminally ills. May have to consider thinking outside the box some more for DDP and other pools since a very-conservative attitude this year seems to be biting me in the butt, all the moreso now since I jokered Wilko.

[Phantom 2,533]

Research? Not entirely, I might look up to see how old someone is or what their current health status is if a name springs into my head. usually I just keep a running list of names in a notebook and update that throughout the year.

[Bibliogryphon 9,586]

You may have noticed that I like lists so compiling them is all part of the research but when it comes down to picking the actual DDP teams it is very difficult to make the right choices.

 

But I do find it fun seeing how everyone else has compiled the lists. I will often spend time looking through the entries on the DDP site to get some ideas or just for the humorous write ups.

[charon 4,943]

 

Peaches was on my (about 1800 name) long list but so many guys are just too hard to judge.

 

I think some more research and judgement may be justified Ali.........

 

[Guest Zorders Mum]

I reserch 30 minutes a month so I can help my son win one of these days