the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually still alive

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Barbeau's tits

Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Sunday, 13 April 2014 04:05 (twelve years ago)

Olivia de Havilland

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, April 12, 2014 10:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

When Joan Fontaine died, there was a lot of talk about O. de H., because they had been so bitterly separated for so many years. (And I'm morbidly curious to see what TCM does when the last major Gone With the Wind star finally dies.

In the meantime, I am pleasantly surprised that Diana Serra Cary (Baby Peggy), Luise Rainer, and Kenneth Anger are still with us. But in all of these cases, it's just a matter of time.

#TweetFromAnUnknownWoman (j.lu), Sunday, 13 April 2014 05:00 (twelve years ago)

doris day

― Frogman Henry, Friday, February 8, 2008 2:00 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Doris Day

― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Friday, February 18, 2011 4:50 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Same here.

http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/doris-day-rare-public-appearance-huge-party-celebrating-90th-birthday-201484

pplains, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 17:41 (twelve years ago)

three months pass...

Keely Smith

sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 8 August 2014 20:25 (eleven years ago)

Peter Vaughan

The aim of Rooney is spot correct (Daphnis Celesta), Friday, 8 August 2014 20:36 (eleven years ago)

James Cotton

Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 8 August 2014 20:40 (eleven years ago)

David Bellamy

soref, Friday, 8 August 2014 20:54 (eleven years ago)

^ dead to me

The aim of Rooney is spot correct (Daphnis Celesta), Friday, 8 August 2014 20:57 (eleven years ago)

I had no idea that he is now a cranky climate change sceptic, still hadn't gotten over Johnny Ball

soref, Friday, 8 August 2014 21:14 (eleven years ago)

something to do with the Homeopathic Society to boot

The aim of Rooney is spot correct (Daphnis Celesta), Friday, 8 August 2014 21:15 (eleven years ago)

oh god wait Johnny Ball's a climate change sceptic? oh god :(

The aim of Rooney is spot correct (Daphnis Celesta), Friday, 8 August 2014 21:16 (eleven years ago)

add Tony Soper to this thread list by the way

The aim of Rooney is spot correct (Daphnis Celesta), Friday, 8 August 2014 21:17 (eleven years ago)

wish i could find a clip of whatever TV show Tony Soper used to present that had really evocative birdsong played over the end credits, think it may have been a curlew call in particular

The aim of Rooney is spot correct (Daphnis Celesta), Friday, 8 August 2014 21:21 (eleven years ago)

four months pass...

Bob Uecker

Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 5 January 2015 22:56 (eleven years ago)

Billy Davis, Jr. - then I realized I was conflating him with Don Cornelius just because Solid Gold and Soul Train blurred together in my mind from watching them as a small kid.

Johnny Fever, Monday, 5 January 2015 22:58 (eleven years ago)

I thought Christopher Lee had been dead for years, then I read that he died today which also isn't true.

tsrobodo, Monday, 5 January 2015 23:01 (eleven years ago)

He has risen from the grave before, iirc

Josefa, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 01:21 (eleven years ago)

George Kennedy

Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 18:11 (eleven years ago)

Sheila Reid. I could have sworn she died last year.

the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 18:41 (eleven years ago)

Dabney Coleman

Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 19:26 (eleven years ago)

Piers Anthony.

Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 21:27 (eleven years ago)

rasputin

local eire man (darraghmac), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 22:37 (eleven years ago)

three weeks pass...

Chris Rea is alive! (also, he isn't Robert Palmer) (yeah, I know, there's nothing similar to them, but he somehow was, in my mind)

StanM, Sunday, 1 February 2015 18:07 (eleven years ago)

Fool if you think he's over, because he's only just begun

(this post brought to you by Predictable Dad Jokes About Dad Music Incorporated)
(when I was 13 Chris Rea was dad music and every dad ever by law had "Road To Hell", "Auberge" and a Dire Straits album but he's not even that any more, right, everything I like is dad music instead, I know)

club mate martyr (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 1 February 2015 21:37 (eleven years ago)

Chase No Face

i ain't marchant anymore (unregistered), Sunday, 1 February 2015 21:40 (eleven years ago)

Zsa Zsa Gabor still alive

Mark G, Sunday, 1 February 2015 21:50 (eleven years ago)

Tim Hunkin

soref, Sunday, 1 February 2015 22:24 (eleven years ago)

Carol Channing

Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, 1 February 2015 22:26 (eleven years ago)

Richard Adams, author of Watership Down (among other things), did a talk/signing at the local bookshop before Christmas and I was surprised for the reason in the thread title; sort of meant to go but forgot about it

club mate martyr (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 2 February 2015 12:45 (eleven years ago)

2003 roll call (bold=still going)

Richard Widmark
Saddam Hussein
Stanley Baxter
Thora Hird
Anita O’Day
Clive Dunn
Dennis Hopper
Mickey Rooney
JD Salinger
George Jones
Joe Namath
Red Auerbach
Studs Terkel
Ursula Moray Williams
Reg Varney
Dave Allen
Christopher Lee
Gene Wilder
Richard Pryor
Windsor Davies

Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 2 February 2015 13:33 (eleven years ago)

i would have put money on windsor davies being dead even back in 2003. my fervent hope is that christopher lee is immortal.

bizarro gazzara, Monday, 2 February 2015 13:43 (eleven years ago)

christ there were 11 series of Never the Twain?

woof, Monday, 2 February 2015 13:53 (eleven years ago)

João Havelange, 98

anima corrective (nakhchivan), Saturday, 7 February 2015 17:42 (eleven years ago)

Harper Lee, last week.

Matt DC, Saturday, 7 February 2015 17:45 (eleven years ago)

yeah both of those

pro war Toby Keith songs would rub you the wrong way (imago), Saturday, 7 February 2015 17:54 (eleven years ago)

two weeks pass...

Bob Elliott (from Bob and Ray)

soref, Sunday, 22 February 2015 12:27 (eleven years ago)

Bill Treacher aka Arthur Fowler
Denis Norden (93 years old!)

sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Monday, 23 February 2015 13:55 (eleven years ago)

Yeah, I thought Bill Treacher was dead as well until he rocked up on one of the EastEnders things this week.

ailsa, Monday, 23 February 2015 14:12 (eleven years ago)

i haven't thought about denis norden in years, i guess mainly because i was sure he was dead

bizarro gazzara, Monday, 23 February 2015 15:35 (eleven years ago)

I can kind of remember Denis Norden dying in 2002 or something.

Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 16:27 (eleven years ago)

tom lehrer

norway srna (nakhchivan), Saturday, 28 February 2015 16:27 (eleven years ago)

one month passes...

Bob Elliott

pplains, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 14:09 (eleven years ago)

tom lehrer

― norway srna (nakhchivan), Saturday, February 28, 2015 4:27 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:O

imago, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 14:16 (eleven years ago)

Percy Sledge (except he isn't any more)

ailsa, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 14:33 (eleven years ago)

george cole

bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 11:34 (eleven years ago)

Max Von Sydow will always be the answer to to this question for me.

Hydroelectric New Deal Demiurge (B.L.A.M.), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 12:38 (eleven years ago)

martin strong, editor of the great rock discography

♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 12:46 (eleven years ago)

sounds like good news for Max or bad news for you xp

soref, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 12:47 (eleven years ago)

Connie Francis

Josefa, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 14:30 (eleven years ago)

Arthur Scargill

and Denis Healey is 98 years old!

sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 14:33 (eleven years ago)


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