Since our launch on April 15, I have been proud of our coverage of tax colloquia, conferences, and scholarship, as well as our coverage of tax issues in the 2004 Presidential Campaign (including the many tax aspects of the red state-blue state divide). I would like to think that our coverage of these issues is what attracted our partners Foundation Press, LexisNexis, Tax Analysts, and West. But I also am fond our less high-brow content, such as our Book Club and our coverage of various Tax Prof moves and our weekly Tax Prof Spotlight, as well as our navel-gazing About This Blog. Yet what really got our site meter spinning in 2004 was our occasional coverage of tax issues involving the rich and famous. So here, in my 1,318th (!) and last post of 2004, is a recap of the year’s Celebrity Tax Lore on TaxProf Blog:
- Mel Brooks
- William F. Buckley
- Sandra Bullock
- Jack Kent Cooke
- Sheryl Crow
- The Day After Tomorrow Movie
- Detroit Pistons-Indiana Pacers Brawl
- Extreme Makover TV I
- Extreme Makeover TV II
- Extreme Makeover TV III
- Frasier TV Finale
- Friends TV Finale
- Mark Guthrie
- Incredible Hulk
- Mike Krzyzewski
- David Letterman I
- David Letterman II
- Jennifer Lopez
- Courtney Love
- James McGreevey
- Madonna
- Bill O’Reilly
- Dan Rather
- Pete Rose
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Britney Spears I
- Britney Spears II
- Jon Stewart
- Superman
- Oprah Winfrey I
- Oprah Winfrey II
- Oprah WInfrey III
- Oprah Winfrey IV
In addition, in October we ran a post on From Liberace to Tupac Shakur: Using Celebrity Wills in the Classroom, which included links to the wills of these celebrities from the old and new zeitgeist:
- John Belushi
- Humphrey Bogart
- Marlon Brando
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- John Candy
- Winston Churchill
- Kurt Cobain
- Calvin Coolidge
- Howard Cosell
- James Dean
- Princess Diana
- Joe DiMaggio
- Walt Disney
- Albert Einstein
- T.S. Eliot
- Chris Farley
- W.C. Fields
- Ben Franklin
- Clark Gable
- Jerry Garcia
- Jimi Hendrix
- Harry Houdini
- John Houseman (Professor Kingsfield)
- Rock Hudson
- Lyndon Johnson
- Janis Joplin
- Andy Kaufman
- John Kennedy
- Robert Kennedy
- Bruce Lee
- John Lennon
- Liberace
- Keith Moon
- Jim Morrison
- Jacqueline Onassis
- River Phoenix
- Cole Porter
- Elvis Presley
- Gilda Radner
- Franklin Roosevelt
- Babe Ruth
- Tupac Shakur
- William Shakespeare
- Frank Sinatra
- John Steinbeck
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- Harry Truman
- Mark Twain
- George Washington
- Ted Williams
- John Wayne
- Stevie Wonder
