Superwidow, Superfly

Dana Grieve

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Woman of Steel, Stolen
(Props to Monty)
Dana Reeve, Superwidow, has died of lung cancer at the age of 44. The Superman curse has outdone itself with this one, turning the Reeves into the unluckiest family on the planet. After Christopher Reeve, a veteran rider, was paralyzed in a horse riding accident in 1995, Dana Reeve became a leading advocate for research into the treatment of spinal cord injuries. Christopher Reeve died in October 2004, and less than a year later, Dana Reeve announced that she had developed lung cancer despite never having smoked in her life. Reeve also continues the curse of the NTI Keynote Speaker, joining Robert Urich on Heaven’s Puffery Clouds. Dana had an acting career of her own and appeared on Oz as Gov. Devlin’s campaign manager in several episodes, including one titled “Obituaries.”

Two of the pooligans expected this family reunion and take 10 points each – Tom’s Knock, Knock, Knocking moves into 4th and Shawn’s – Team Three – Old moves into 11th.

But only briefly, as ….

Shafted

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Deadbelly

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Gordon Parks: He's a zombified man and no one understands him but his embalmer
(Kudos to Joe)

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The Urn-ing Tree
(Further honorifics to Joe)
Gordon Parks, who captured the black experience in pictures still and moving, has died at the age of 93. Parks spent 20 years as a photographer for Life magazine, and was best known for his gritty photo essays on the grinding effects of poverty in the United States and abroad and on the spirit of the civil rights movement. In 1969, Parks became the first black to direct a movie for a major studio, helming The Learning Tree, a chronicle of black life in the rural U.S. during the 1920s that was among the first 25 films selected for the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. Parks also created the blaxploitation genre with 1971’s Shaft. Parks also directed Shaft’s Big Score, but his goal of bringing Shaft Among the Jews to the big screen was thwarted by the Man. Parks other intellectual exercises included The Super Cops and Leadbelly. Parks also wrote fiction, poetry, was an accomplished composer and wrote “Martin,” a ballet about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., because if any medium captures the black experience in America, it’s ballet.

Gordon Parks’ death proved to be Shawn’s Big Score as he takes 20 points to climb into a tie atop the leaderboard.

The Leaderboard
1st Paul - Pushing Daisies
2 hits - 30 points
(tie) Shawn - Team Three – Old
2 hits - 30 points
3rd Monty - Comedy of Terrors
2 hits - 22.85714286 points
4th Me - Our Hearse Is a Very, Very, Very Fine Hearse
2 hits - 14 points
5th Tom - Knock, Knock, Knocking
2 hits - 12.85714286 points