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

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Roy Barraclough

soref, Saturday, 27 August 2016 13:10 (nine years ago)

Bill Maynard

nate woolls, Saturday, 27 August 2016 13:18 (nine years ago)

would like to read this. always wondered if it's where Echo and the Bunnymen got the title from?

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51tZHrE-TOL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

soref, Saturday, 27 August 2016 13:22 (nine years ago)

Gene Wilder (RIP)

Ludo, Monday, 29 August 2016 19:55 (nine years ago)

so i am like 1 day to late in posting this :P

Ludo, Monday, 29 August 2016 19:55 (nine years ago)

He hasn't made an appearance at the cinema in 25 years, in fairness.

Andrew Farrell, Monday, 29 August 2016 19:58 (nine years ago)

two weeks pass...

fuck, Brian Rix died less than two weeks after he was mentioned upthread

heaven parker (anagram), Friday, 16 September 2016 15:26 (nine years ago)

Roger Whittaker

heaven parker (anagram), Friday, 16 September 2016 15:27 (nine years ago)

Little game here where I'll say "I wonder if Buddy Hackett is still alive?"

BRB

pplains, Friday, 16 September 2016 17:29 (nine years ago)

Died 13 years ago. OK THEN.

pplains, Friday, 16 September 2016 17:29 (nine years ago)

Mel Brooks AND Carl Reiner.

Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 29 September 2016 18:17 (nine years ago)

We're not far off from both of them being able to do an actual 100-year-old man bit.

pplains, Thursday, 29 September 2016 18:38 (nine years ago)

Rusty Warren

“a tub of horses” (Myonga Vön Bontee), Saturday, 1 October 2016 05:16 (nine years ago)

dennis norden

ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 1 October 2016 05:30 (nine years ago)

mort sahl

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 1 October 2016 05:31 (nine years ago)

Zeffirelli

(SNIFFING AND INDISTINCT SOBBING) (Tom D.), Saturday, 1 October 2016 11:51 (nine years ago)

two weeks pass...

Someone mentioned Chuck Berry's new album on ILM, and I was a bit surprised to find out him, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Little Richard are all still alive. For some reason I thought LR at least had died a while ago.

Tuomas, Thursday, 20 October 2016 10:55 (nine years ago)

Once I saw this thread was bumped, I knew it would be someone mentioning Chuck Berry. I had the exact same thought process as you

Vinnie, Thursday, 20 October 2016 11:26 (nine years ago)

I mean, this would be like Scott Joplin releasing a new album in 1956.

pplains, Thursday, 20 October 2016 13:11 (nine years ago)

Or Lady Gaga in 2076

Josefa, Thursday, 20 October 2016 13:33 (nine years ago)

Apparently Carroll Baker is contributing to the new Criterion edition of the '60s Something Wild. She's 85 now.

a full playlist of presidential sex jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 20 October 2016 17:45 (nine years ago)

Stanley Baxter
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, December 24, 2003 4:21 AM (twelve years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

still alive at 90. which for a glaswegian man is positively methuselahesque

*-* (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 20 October 2016 17:49 (nine years ago)

Getting all excited about seeing Stanley Baxter on the 34 bus
― Tom D., Friday, 9 March 2007 17:22 (nine years ago) Permalink

I think he sat behind me.

Patti Labelle is in here with her high but mediocre singing voice. (Tom D.), Thursday, 20 October 2016 17:56 (nine years ago)

wonder if the bold yin is still catching buses these days.

*-* (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 20 October 2016 18:06 (nine years ago)

four weeks pass...

Bruce Kent (whatever ever happened to... nuclear annihilation)

The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Saturday, 19 November 2016 00:07 (nine years ago)

Just re-reminded that Fats Domino is still alive.

i need microsoft installed on my desktop, can you help (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 20:54 (nine years ago)

Wow.

pplains, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 03:20 (nine years ago)

Wonder if in 25 years, there'll be posts like "Just discovered that Ritchie Blackmore is still alive."

pplains, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 03:21 (nine years ago)

Mishka the Talking Husky

memories of a cruller (unregistered), Saturday, 26 November 2016 23:05 (nine years ago)

Benny Golson

“a tub of horses” (Myonga Vön Bontee), Sunday, 27 November 2016 04:54 (nine years ago)

Orson Bean

a full playlist of presidential apocalypse jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 27 November 2016 05:42 (nine years ago)

He was just on Gilbert Gottfried's podcast, on which I'm sure he managed to drop even more F-bombs than the host.

rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Sunday, 27 November 2016 05:46 (nine years ago)

Orson Bean's ex-wife Carolyn (1960s & 70s) is apparently still alive also. Their daughter Susannah was married to Andrew Breitbart when he died in 2012.

Josefa, Sunday, 27 November 2016 06:06 (nine years ago)

Glen Michael.

Horizontal Superman is invulnerable (aldo), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 10:45 (nine years ago)

^ surprised he hasn't come up before

The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 10:47 (nine years ago)

He probably did, but it was written "sheeawa scheeawa scheeawa, scheeawa scheeawa".

Horizontal Superman is invulnerable (aldo), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 13:29 (nine years ago)

Clarissa Eden, wife of Anthony Eden (British Prime Minister from 1955-1957) - and she's not even the oldest living Prime Minister's spouse, as Mary Wilson is more than four years older than her.

Camaraderie at Arms Length, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 13:39 (nine years ago)

Mary Wilson

The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 14:18 (nine years ago)

... seriously

The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 14:19 (nine years ago)

https://st33.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/mary-wilson.jpg

soref, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 14:23 (nine years ago)

One of the more interesting PM spouses.

The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 14:27 (nine years ago)

Desmond Morris

Darcy Sarto (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 14:41 (nine years ago)

Bob Barker

ed.b, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 18:44 (nine years ago)

Ed Meese

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 18:54 (nine years ago)

Glen Michael.

― Horizontal Superman is invulnerable (aldo), Wednesday, November 30, 2016 2:45 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

paladin sadly has passed on

harold melvin and the bluetones (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 18:57 (nine years ago)

my friend's autistic brother-in-law once gave him a glen michael biography for his xmas

harold melvin and the bluetones (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 18:58 (nine years ago)

(xp) His light has dimmed

The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 19:05 (nine years ago)

Doc Severinsen

a full playlist of presidential apocalypse jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 19:22 (nine years ago)

kirk douglas

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, June 19, 2013 5:10 AM (three years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Is Kirk Douglas still alive?
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Holy crap, he is!

― pplains, Saturday, August 29, 2015 9:30 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this is always kirk douglas for me

― balls, Saturday, August 29, 2015 9:40 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Prompted by seeing that he'd just celebrated his 100th!

The Pleasure Principal (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 19:28 (nine years ago)

Dan Rather

Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 14:24 (nine years ago)


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