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

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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Fair enough, Yellow Card withdrawn.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

Gloria Hunniford

Really? She revealed plans to pen a raunchy novel just the other day.

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)

I bet her freshly revealed plans to pen a raunchy novel prompted NV's surprise in the first place.

James Randy.

.. Randi?

My spelling died.

It’s buried next to mine

glynis johns, who played the mother in mary poppins, is 94

another one i was surprised by the obit for, Steve Ditko. Thought he was long gone.

Kenneth Kaunda

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.

Possibly D. Schneider (Pat Harrington, Jr., d. 2016) from the hit CBS sitcom One Day at a Time?

glynis johns, who played the mother in mary poppins, is 94

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).

another one i was surprised by the obit for, Steve Ditko. Thought he was long gone.

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

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.

'I am surprised that Leonardo DiCaprio, who just tweeted yesterday about wrapping his latest film, is still alive.' -- not a post we are likely to see itt

Paul Anka

Otis Rush

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.

No doubt, it's not an error or failing of anyone not to know*. I just think it's notable that this 92-year-old who hasn't been commercially successful since his '30s has spent the last five years being as productive as most alternative cartoonists were in the 1990s. Especially as many of the thread subjects have been retired for decades before their appearances herein.

*Albeit it's odder to have a specific, active opinion that someone so notable in the field you're considering did die a long time ago, vs not having thought about them at all.

Hal Linden

He was on Gilbert Gottfried’s podcast a year or two back. The guest list for that show could double as this thread.