Initials/Twenty Questions

Living?
Real?
Female?

Boo Radley
Bobby Riggs

NOT
Bob Roberts
Bill Bojangles Robinson
Bill Russell
Bert Remsen
Burt Reynolds
Buddy Rodgers
Bobby Riggs
Betsy Ross
Betty Rubble
Barney Robble or BamBam
Boo Radley
Bobby Riggs
female
living

Yes - real

going to bed now, folks, see you in 8 hours' time!

Living?

Clary said yes to living, fealola...

No I said NO to living but yes to real

Beryl Reid?

Whoops! Sorry I misquoted you, Clary.

So it's a dead real person? What about the male/female? I missed that.

Must be male, because "female" is listed under all the things this person is NOT (after all the names that have already been guessed).

You got it! A real dead man.

However many are there left??

Anyone else good on the arithmetical side of things can tell me.

Lets see:

BR

Real, dead man

Not:

Basil Rathbone
Bill Bojangles Robinson
Bert Remsen
Buddy Rodgers

17 to go

In entertainment?
From Europe?

Sorry for the interruption, but I just wanted to mention that, in one of those uncanny coincidences for which there is no logical explanation, Harold Acton -- whose name turned up on this thread a couple of days ago -- is mentioned in an article in today's New York Times. The Times article is about the restoration project that New York University recently completed on Acton's villa in Florence, which he left to NYU when he died. (Gee, what are the odds of someone osso used in a question having an Italian connection?)

For anyone who's interested, the article (which includes some cool pictures of the villa) is at:

New York Times article on Harold Acton's villa in Florence

Very cool, bree! Thanks.

Thanks Bree!
Not in entertainment,
YES
European - even English.

Writer?

Yes, he wrote a lot but isn't primarily known for that

Politician?