Er, 82 for now. Hence I also just learned that at the time of the film of Fiddler he was 36. Wild.
― valorous wokelord (silby), Thursday, 17 May 2018 01:43 (eight years ago)
Tom Wolfe only just dying was a surprise. Thought I'd heard that a few years ago, maybe he'd just been badly ill.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 17 May 2018 06:33 (eight years ago)
Stan Lee.
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Thursday, 17 May 2018 07:45 (eight years ago)
Engelbert Humperdinck
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 17 May 2018 07:58 (eight years ago)
― 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
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Friday, 18 May 2018 23:30 (eight years ago)
Meh, comics and comics stuff, what do I care?
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Saturday, 19 May 2018 07:03 (eight years ago)
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f3S7faai9P8/S_TRxE6OJMI/AAAAAAAAAH8/12vVwnq21EA/s1600/ace2.JPG
If Stan Lee had come up with something as good as 8 Ace I'd have some respect, but spidey can get fucked!
― calzino, Saturday, 19 May 2018 07:20 (eight years ago)
I'll always love his "It's the enemy that comes disguised as a friend"
Ace describing the 8-ace, obv.
― Mark G, Saturday, 19 May 2018 08:44 (eight years ago)
Robin Leach
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 20 May 2018 08:42 (eight years ago)
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!
― MrDasher, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 00:50 (eight years ago)
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.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 01:48 (eight years ago)
also in planet of the apes and lord of the rings (the bakshi one)
― adam the (abanana), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 05:16 (eight years ago)
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.
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 05:22 (eight years ago)
yeah what the fuck
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 05:43 (eight years ago)
Well good job on reminding Death, guys.
― I'm Finn thanks, don't mention it (fionnland), Thursday, 7 June 2018 06:57 (eight years ago)
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/06/jerry-maren-munchkin-wizard-of-oz-obit
― I'm Finn thanks, don't mention it (fionnland), Thursday, 7 June 2018 06:58 (eight years ago)
Yellow card to those that post obits here..
Keep it to people still alive, yeah?
― Mark G, Thursday, 7 June 2018 07:06 (eight years ago)
Video review points out that referring to the death of someone mentioned four posts back is perfectly legit.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 7 June 2018 08:04 (eight years ago)
Two posts back, and the only subsequent one was reacting to it.
― we used to get our kicks reading surfing MAGAzines (sic), Thursday, 7 June 2018 08:09 (eight years ago)
John Calder, who published most of Beckett's prose works.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Thursday, 7 June 2018 09:15 (eight years ago)
The House of Fraser
― We can be herpes (Tom D.), Thursday, 7 June 2018 13:22 (eight years ago)
Julian Bream
― William Thinkpiece Hackery (NickB), Thursday, 7 June 2018 13:36 (eight years ago)
Fair enough, Yellow Card withdrawn.
― Mark G, Thursday, 7 June 2018 13:39 (eight years ago)
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.)
― henry s, Thursday, 7 June 2018 18:02 (eight years ago)
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
― flappy bird, Thursday, 7 June 2018 18:04 (eight years ago)
― And Nobody POLLS Like Me (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 June 2018 18:13 (eight years ago)
Stanley Donen
― dat, Sunday, 10 June 2018 17:21 (eight years ago)
Just got this presser and went What?
https://i.imgur.com/MIlgXzh.png
― pplains, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 15:45 (seven years ago)
I mean, maybe he is dead. If anyone could pull that one off, it'd be him.
― pplains, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 15:46 (seven years ago)
Kreskin still alive at 83!
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 15:48 (seven years ago)
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.
― pplains, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 16:12 (seven years ago)
Clive King, author of "Stig of the Dump".
― Tim, Wednesday, 27 June 2018 08:30 (seven years ago)
Arlene Dahl
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 28 June 2018 07:55 (seven years ago)
Gloria Hunniford
― Kroos on first (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 28 June 2018 09:13 (seven years ago)
Really? She revealed plans to pen a raunchy novel just the other day.
― Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 29 June 2018 09:38 (seven years ago)
Damn thought this was the obituary thread.
Really? Surprised that she's still around? She revealed plans to pen a raunchy novel just the other day.
(fixed)
― Mark G, Friday, 29 June 2018 13:11 (seven years ago)
I bet her freshly revealed plans to pen a raunchy novel prompted NV's surprise in the first place.
― Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 29 June 2018 13:53 (seven years ago)
James Randy.
― Jeff, Friday, 29 June 2018 13:58 (seven years ago)
.. Randi?
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 29 June 2018 14:00 (seven years ago)
My spelling died.
― Jeff, Friday, 29 June 2018 14:45 (seven years ago)
It’s buried next to mine
― Uncle Redd in the Zingtime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 June 2018 18:58 (seven years ago)
glynis johns, who played the mother in mary poppins, is 94
― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 13 July 2018 10:15 (seven years ago)
another one i was surprised by the obit for, Steve Ditko. Thought he was long gone.
― Stevolende, Friday, 13 July 2018 12:00 (seven years ago)
Kenneth Kaunda
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Friday, 13 July 2018 13:47 (seven years ago)
For some reason I had been under the impression that Dee Snider passed away a few years ago. I must have confused somebody else for him.
― incel clown posse (naus), Friday, 13 July 2018 14:47 (seven years ago)
Possibly D. Schneider (Pat Harrington, Jr., d. 2016) from the hit CBS sitcom One Day at a Time?
― Sgt. Laughter (Old Lunch), Friday, 13 July 2018 14:59 (seven years ago)
She's also one of the handful of still-alive villains from the Batman TV series. Iirc, the others are John Astin, Joan Collins, Barbara Rush, and Julie Newmar (and Lee Meriwether, if you count the movie).
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 13 July 2018 15:04 (seven years ago)
2018 Ditko had put out three comics and kickstartered a Mr A 50th anniversary book before dying, meeting his usual four-comics-annually output just in the first half of the year
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Friday, 13 July 2018 16:45 (seven years ago)
I think we can take it as an unspoken given that posters itt have not kept tabs on the recent activities and output of the famous person they mention.
― Sgt. Laughter (Old Lunch), Friday, 13 July 2018 16:51 (seven years ago)