First points on the board

With today's expiration of the sweetheart William F. Buckley Jr. at the age 82, yours truly has taken an 18 point lead over the rest of the pack. 

Meanwhile, however, Tom-list posterboy Leonard Nimoy was looking quite spry in a recent appearance on the Colbert Report.

Roy Scheider RIP

In what is either a testament to the resilience of the human body or the poor prognosticating of everyone in this pool, all 12 entrants are still even with a big goose egg zero on the leader board.