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

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Saw something on FB yesterday about how Beverly Clearly is looking forward to her impending 100th birthday later this month.

Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 1 April 2016 17:55 (ten years ago)

...and in checking out Ms. CLEARY's wiki, how did I not know that Sarah Polley played Ramona in the TV version I used to see as a kid?

Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 1 April 2016 18:08 (ten years ago)

two weeks pass...

Claus Von Bulow

pplains, Thursday, 21 April 2016 03:57 (ten years ago)

Tom Lehrer.

Come to think of it, this phenomenon would make good subject matter for a Tom Lehrer song.

a defense for Euro-Blackface (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 21 April 2016 09:28 (ten years ago)

Jimmy Cricket

nashwan, Thursday, 21 April 2016 09:57 (ten years ago)

Robert Shapiro

Chicamaw (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 21 April 2016 10:04 (ten years ago)

woah: Dershowitz's campaign to acquit Bülow was assisted by Jim Cramer and future New York Attorney General and Governor Eliot Spitzer who were then Harvard Law School students.[23]

never ending bath infusion (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 21 April 2016 12:33 (ten years ago)

Liz Windsor

Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Thursday, 21 April 2016 12:35 (ten years ago)

Vera Lynn (just heard her being interviewed on the radio there).

ailsa, Thursday, 21 April 2016 12:41 (ten years ago)

isn't there a robyn hitchcock song about vera lynn being dead that's from like twenty years ago

Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 21 April 2016 13:20 (ten years ago)

In 2013 Lynn joined a PETA campaign against pigeon racing, stating that the sport was "utterly cruel".

Romeo Daltrey (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 April 2016 13:37 (ten years ago)

Hugh Hefner (b. 1926). I couldn't have told you *when* he might have died, as you'd expect it to have been a memorably big deal... but it just seemed reasonable that he would have.

sisterhood of the baggering vance (Doctor Casino), Monday, 2 May 2016 19:53 (ten years ago)

already been posted itt but Arthur Scargill

Is Jack Nicholson really qualify as "Partyman"? (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 23:18 (ten years ago)

David Bellamy

schlep and back trio (anagram), Sunday, 8 May 2016 21:30 (ten years ago)

^ good one.

Nancy Banks-Smith.

(Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Sunday, 8 May 2016 21:35 (ten years ago)

Jules FEIFFER thanks to Scott's old jews thread

kevin smith what a bro (Myonga Vön Bontee), Sunday, 8 May 2016 21:44 (ten years ago)

muhammad ali

global tetrahedron, Sunday, 8 May 2016 21:53 (ten years ago)

bill clinton

nakhchivan, Sunday, 8 May 2016 21:56 (ten years ago)

george h.w. bush

remove butt (abanana), Sunday, 8 May 2016 22:07 (ten years ago)

teddy sheringham

nakhchivan, Sunday, 8 May 2016 22:17 (ten years ago)

bill bellamy

dynamicinterface, Sunday, 8 May 2016 23:02 (ten years ago)

Heinz Wolff

suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Monday, 9 May 2016 08:11 (ten years ago)

Pluto (Shervington)

Mark G, Monday, 9 May 2016 09:39 (ten years ago)

John Gorman (the one who was in The Scaffold, not the footballer)

soref, Friday, 13 May 2016 20:31 (ten years ago)

Maurice Williams (of 'and The Zodiacs' of "Stay" fame)

Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 13 May 2016 20:43 (ten years ago)

lester james peries, filmmaker from sri lanka

i'd assumed he'd died decades ago

he's alive, 97 y.o.

wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 13 May 2016 20:56 (ten years ago)

Alan Young, who died this week at age 96.

Only thing more surprising would be to have found out the horse was still alive too.

pplains, Sunday, 22 May 2016 18:02 (ten years ago)

(Bamboo Harvester died in 1970, don't bother checking.)

pplains, Sunday, 22 May 2016 18:03 (ten years ago)

Rose Marie

Arthur, Sunday, 22 May 2016 19:13 (ten years ago)

Harry Dean Stanton!

glumdalclitch, Monday, 23 May 2016 04:05 (ten years ago)

Michael J. Pollard

rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 25 May 2016 23:50 (ten years ago)

Saw Terry Moore on a mid-50s What's My Line the other night on Buzzr, and not only is she still alive (at age 87), but according to imdb she's got three movies coming out this year!

Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 26 May 2016 00:06 (ten years ago)

When I was in Lisbon, I saw some ad for a João Gilberto concert, which surprised me, because I though he had died years ago... But I guess I was thinking of Tom Jobim.

Tuomas, Thursday, 26 May 2016 08:24 (ten years ago)

Bill Dana

rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Friday, 3 June 2016 18:56 (ten years ago)

Bob Dole

frogbs, Friday, 3 June 2016 19:38 (ten years ago)

Muhammad Ali... a couple days ago...

flappy bird, Saturday, 4 June 2016 04:40 (ten years ago)

Ah, you're not supposed to post people who just died..

Mark G, Saturday, 4 June 2016 21:08 (ten years ago)

I had him on a deadpool a few years ago, but I just checked and Jerry Maren is still alive. He was the middle munchkin of the lollipop guild in the wizard of oz. Aalso starred as an ape in planet of the apes and was rotoscoped into a hobbit for the bakshi lord of the rings.

remove butt (abanana), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 00:08 (ten years ago)

Wendy Carlos

rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 01:29 (ten years ago)

John Ashcroft. He isn't even that old! But somehow he seems like a creature from another time.

Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 15:26 (ten years ago)

John Nott

soref, Thursday, 9 June 2016 10:02 (ten years ago)

i was shocked to see tommy steele on the poster for a show at the bristol hippodrome a few months ago.

mark e, Thursday, 9 June 2016 10:37 (ten years ago)

Robert Hardy (90 years old)

Foster Twelvetrees (Ward Fowler), Friday, 10 June 2016 13:55 (ten years ago)

Sheldon Harnick

tokyo rosemary, Friday, 10 June 2016 18:32 (ten years ago)

three weeks pass...

Judge Wapner!! (96)

Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 14:51 (nine years ago)

Della Reese...just turned 85.

Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 7 July 2016 04:40 (nine years ago)

Francesca de la tour. There was a history of Rising Damp on a few days back. I thought I'd heard she'd died years back but when it wasn't mentioned I looked her up and seems she's still with us.

Stevolende, Thursday, 7 July 2016 07:05 (nine years ago)

Yeah, she still appears in movies every so oft.

Mark G, Thursday, 7 July 2016 09:09 (nine years ago)

I saw her younger brother Andy do comedy in the '80s, supporting Rik Mayall. He was a better comic actor than stand-up, I think.

Michael Jones, Thursday, 7 July 2016 10:43 (nine years ago)


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