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

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Hugh Hefner's son has one of those Mark Lamarr/Kermode hairstyles:

http://akns-images.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/2015526/rs_560x415-150626092244-1024-cooper-hugh-hefner-holly-madison-ls-62615_copy.jpg

soref, Sunday, 9 April 2017 19:29 (nine years ago)

I assume one man refers to the audience

― stanley weebeard (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, April 9, 2017 3:15 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

He did have a show cancelled for that reason in 08

Neanderthal, Sunday, 9 April 2017 19:35 (nine years ago)

Betty Boothroyd (who I just saw on The One Show while waiting for Masterchef to come on)

Bernie Lugg (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 12 April 2017 18:58 (nine years ago)

momentarily i thought you meant barbara castle and feared my brane was failing

mark s, Wednesday, 12 April 2017 19:02 (nine years ago)

Well Betty is from that part of t'Heavy Woolen district known as Dewsbury, which is renowned for it's residents temperance and healthy living habits!

calzino, Wednesday, 12 April 2017 19:19 (nine years ago)

http://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/Oral-history-curator-s-choice/021M-OH1CD0297601-0001V0

calzino, Wednesday, 12 April 2017 19:20 (nine years ago)

Orson Bean, still kicking. Good for him!

passionate plant-based athlete (voodoo chili), Monday, 24 April 2017 14:51 (nine years ago)

valery giscard d'estaing is still somewhat active in french politics, at 91

mark s, Monday, 24 April 2017 14:55 (nine years ago)

Franco Zeffirelli; 94

remy bean, Saturday, 29 April 2017 14:21 (nine years ago)

one month passes...

Ken Nordine: 97

Οὖτις, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 22:34 (nine years ago)

Theresa May, 5 days

May o God help us (darraghmac), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 23:29 (nine years ago)

ha

early morning reverse rumplestiltskin rage (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 23:47 (nine years ago)

phil donahue

early morning reverse rumplestiltskin rage (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 15 June 2017 05:27 (eight years ago)

Gene Chandler

to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 22 June 2017 19:20 (eight years ago)

Gena Rowlands

it me, Thursday, 22 June 2017 19:25 (eight years ago)

Gene Hackman

you yourself have seen plenty bananas in your life (Old Lunch), Thursday, 22 June 2017 19:29 (eight years ago)

Jake Lamotta

Wet Pelican would provide the soundtrack (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 22 June 2017 22:13 (eight years ago)

Carl Reiner

﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Friday, 23 June 2017 03:02 (eight years ago)

two weeks pass...

Herb Alpert

charlie brown from outta town (GM), Wednesday, 12 July 2017 14:12 (eight years ago)

not news to this thread but aww: https://www.google.com/amp/www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4607626/amp/Kirk-Douglas-reveals-marriage

﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 12 July 2017 14:16 (eight years ago)

three weeks pass...

Amazed that Mary Ward who played 'Mother' in Prisoner Cell Block H is still alive, at 103

Ste, Thursday, 3 August 2017 19:02 (eight years ago)

Ilyich Ramírez Sánchez/Carlos the Jackal. Was even in court earlier this year for one of his 1974 attacks.

clemenza, Monday, 7 August 2017 03:43 (eight years ago)

four weeks pass...

horrible Minneapolis sports columnist Sid Hartman, who, I just learned, was also the general manager for the Minneapolis Lakers basketball dynasty—in 1949

it me, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 20:44 (eight years ago)

Harry Dean Stanton, until yesterday. I could have sworn he died at some point in the last two or three years and that I already experienced the media discussion of his passing.

joygoat, Saturday, 16 September 2017 11:38 (eight years ago)

^ proving the point I was making on the HDS thread.

The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Saturday, 16 September 2017 11:51 (eight years ago)

two weeks pass...

Wink Martindale is still kicking.

― WilliamC, Sunday, October 1, 2017 1:28 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Doctor Casino, Sunday, 1 October 2017 17:39 (eight years ago)

tbf he's only 83 but if you'd asked me i'd've guessed that's how old he was in 1990.

Doctor Casino, Sunday, 1 October 2017 17:41 (eight years ago)

Lt. William Calley

to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 1 October 2017 18:48 (eight years ago)

New Yorker cartoonist George Booth

it me, Friday, 6 October 2017 23:32 (eight years ago)

REALLY?

pplains, Saturday, 7 October 2017 18:58 (eight years ago)

I thought he might've died in the 70s!

pplains, Saturday, 7 October 2017 18:58 (eight years ago)

Ross Perot

to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 7 October 2017 22:28 (eight years ago)

I knew he was alive, but I've been really surprised that he's kept silent (as far as I know) on the last three elections at least. He must have been constantly sought out for opinions and quotes.

clemenza, Saturday, 7 October 2017 22:31 (eight years ago)

was recently surprised to discover that brecht scholar and theatre critic eric bentley is alive and about to turn 99

also nice to know j.p. donleavy is still pottering around his irish estate

― no lime tangier, Monday, August 31, 2015 6:25 AM (two years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Donleavy checked out last month, but Bentley's still here at 101!

alimosina, Monday, 9 October 2017 20:10 (eight years ago)

Bill Maynard, whose birthday is today.

Thomas Gabriel Fischer does not endorse (aldo), Monday, 9 October 2017 21:41 (eight years ago)

one month passes...

Sumner Redstone (94)

.oO (silby), Thursday, 7 December 2017 22:21 (eight years ago)

i thought gary oldman was dead. i thought it happened last year and there was a heap of news about it. i can even remember being surprised.

rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 8 December 2017 09:50 (eight years ago)

Alan Rickman/Gary Oldman?

StanM, Friday, 8 December 2017 09:57 (eight years ago)

that occurred to me too, but i thought i remembered them dying in different months

rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 8 December 2017 10:05 (eight years ago)

you got Mandela'd my friend

Number None, Saturday, 9 December 2017 17:05 (eight years ago)

Not really famous, but pretty surprising: John McCain's mom.

Dan I., Sunday, 10 December 2017 04:22 (eight years ago)

Larry Storch

A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 10 December 2017 04:29 (eight years ago)

Dick Van Dyke

― 3.5" flopson (The Reverend), Friday, May 6, 2011 1:40 AM (six years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

© louis jagger/richards (Pillbox), Sunday, 10 December 2017 06:35 (eight years ago)

John McCain's mom - wow, she looks amazing for 105!

© louis jagger/richards (Pillbox), Sunday, 10 December 2017 06:37 (eight years ago)

Lee Iacocca

pplains, Thursday, 14 December 2017 15:21 (eight years ago)

June Lockhart (b. 1925), best known as a TV mom on Lassie and a mom-scientist on Lost In Space.

I saw her last night in a small but memorable part in Meet Me In St. Louis (as an east-coast romantic rival who turns out to be good-hearted) and it was driving me crazy who she looked like, until I realized it was Heather Graham on Arrested Development; Graham, of course, appeared in the godawful film version of Lost in Space as the daughter to Mimi Rogers's version of Lockhart's old character. (Lockhart is also in the film, in a cameo as a holographic space principal.)

Newb Sybok (Doctor Casino), Friday, 22 December 2017 17:27 (eight years ago)

John Cullum, who I saw in the Christine Chubbuck movie last night. I would have sworn he died 5-7 years ago, and that's why they stopped having him as Lee Garner Sr. on Mad Men.

Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 23 December 2017 03:56 (eight years ago)

Kenneth Anger

methanietanner, Saturday, 23 December 2017 04:05 (eight years ago)

doris day, 95yo

Mordy, Sunday, 24 December 2017 17:06 (eight years ago)

ugly dave gray

rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 25 December 2017 10:21 (eight years ago)


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