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

Imelda Marcos

read an article in this week's TLS about Louis-Ferdinand Céline and discovered that his widow Lucette is still alive, 105 years old

Clu Gulanger

^^ Outlived his co-star in The Killers Lee Marvin by 30 years. Although his other co-star Angie Dickinson is still alive as well.

Gina. Lollobrigida is 90 and finally got her star on Hollywood Blvd. yesterday. She seems determined not to go before Sophia Loren.

kenneth anger

also Ann Blyth, the daughter in Mildred Pierce

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Charles Aznavour will return to the Royal Albert Hall for one final time on June 30.

The 93-year-old French vocalist, who last played the London venue in 2015, will perform his greatest hits from his collection of 294 albums.

Liv Ullmann

Maybe I should run over to FF to see her

I saw The Magician yesterday at 2pm, and when I was leaving, there was a big crowd for another Bergamn (The Devil's Eye I think, in 35mm), and when I was walking to the bathroom Liv was there being fawned over by someone: "you're such an inspiration it's such a pleasure!!" it was cool

whenever i read her name i think of howie morris as professor little-old-man in high anxiety: "lillOman! lillOman!"

Gloria Jean (nee Schoonover). I know her best as W.C. Fields' niece in Never Give a Sucker an Even Break.

xps Lotta Bergman actresses are doing well, seemingly. Gunnel Lindblom, Harriet Andersson, and Margit Carlqvist are all 86. Bibi Andersson's 82.

Both of the Smothers Brothers. They seemed really old to me when I watched their revived TV series as a 10-year-old in 1988.

Harry Belafonte just on this Nat King Cole documentary, not so much 'surprised to find still alive' as if he had died we'd have heard about it.

Craig Breedlove

Topol (83)

Er, 82 for now. Hence I also just learned that at the time of the film of Fiddler he was 36. Wild.

Tom Wolfe only just dying was a surprise. Thought I'd heard that a few years ago, maybe he'd just been badly ill.

Stan Lee.

Engelbert Humperdinck

Stan Lee.

― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Thursday, 17 May 2018 08:45 (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

Meh, comics and comics stuff, what do I care?

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If Stan Lee had come up with something as good as 8 Ace I'd have some respect, but spidey can get fucked!

I'll always love his "It's the enemy that comes disguised as a friend"

Ace describing the 8-ace, obv.

Robin Leach

Oddly, Bob Dylan?! I do not know when I acquired this false memory/belief. Even having just googled this, I had a feeling of uncertainty- is he alive or not!

Jerry Maren may not be particularly famous, but he was a munchkin from the Lollipop Guild in the 1939 Wizard of Oz and he's alive, against all my expectations. He's 98.

also in planet of the apes and lord of the rings (the bakshi one)

lollipop guild guy blows my fucking mind. and his wiki entry points to another surviving cast member, judy garland's understudy caren marsh doll (now 99). i mean, there are plenty of people who are 98 and 99, even in hard-living hollywood, but that film has an aura, to me, that makes it feel like it came from practically the silent era.

yeah what the fuck

Well good job on reminding Death, guys.

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/06/jerry-maren-munchkin-wizard-of-oz-obit

Yellow card to those that post obits here..

Keep it to people still alive, yeah?

Video review points out that referring to the death of someone mentioned four posts back is perfectly legit.

Two posts back, and the only subsequent one was reacting to it.

John Calder, who published most of Beckett's prose works.

The House of Fraser

Julian Bream

Fair enough, Yellow Card withdrawn.

Anybody keeping track of how many people mentioned on this thread subsequently died within 4 posts? (Could be that this thread is a crowd-sourced version of that cat that likes to snuggle up to people high on the reaper's list at the old folks home.)

I saw his obit on PBS last night, and remembered the posts on this thread mentioning him and falsely remembered it was in the obit thread. Fucking weird. Sorry man

Julian Bream

Stanley Donen

Just got this presser and went What?

https://i.imgur.com/MIlgXzh.png

I mean, maybe he is dead. If anyone could pull that one off, it'd be him.

Kreskin still alive at 83!

We had him on as a guest for low-rated midday talk show. Let me tell ya, Kreskin on the radio is one unique guest.

Clive King, author of "Stig of the Dump".

Arlene Dahl