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

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holy shit

sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 05:45 (six years ago)

Mary Quant

a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 05:50 (six years ago)

Irene Papas, 90

panic-buying the upmarket pasta (Matt #2), Thursday, 5 March 2020 13:32 (six years ago)

Supergran

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gudrun_Ure

Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 5 March 2020 15:27 (six years ago)

Stevie Ray Vaughn

Completely faked the crash!

sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Thursday, 5 March 2020 16:07 (six years ago)

Dean Stockwell, 84

Life is a banquet and my invitation was lost in the mail (j.lu), Friday, 6 March 2020 00:38 (six years ago)

do we have a "surprised they're so old" thread?

just read Gerhard Richter is 88, I would have been off by 15 years at least

Webcam Du Bois (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 6 March 2020 11:47 (six years ago)

Dionne Warwick, only 79.

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 6 March 2020 12:27 (six years ago)

idk "famous" but i learned john mccains mother lives on, shes 108

johnny crunch, Friday, 6 March 2020 13:06 (six years ago)

Wow. Not just outliving her son but outliving everyone.

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 6 March 2020 13:29 (six years ago)

Everyone but Catherine Deneuve's mother, who is ca. 5 months older.

Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Friday, 6 March 2020 13:34 (six years ago)

Sidney Poitier

flappy bird, Saturday, 7 March 2020 03:46 (six years ago)

curtis fuller, 85

budo jeru, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 06:38 (six years ago)

Mel Brooks, just saw him on Twitter with his son.

And Dick Van Dyke repping for Bernie too.

in twelve parts (lamonti), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 07:27 (six years ago)

Musical "legend" Anita Bryant, who turns 80 soon. Was thinking god called her home to her eternal reward.

That Imitation Brass Looks Real Good on You (I M Losted), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 14:06 (six years ago)

Nah, she just went to Branson.

pplains, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 14:52 (six years ago)

All I know about her is that she's rudely mentioned in a Dead Kennedys song

akb23 (Matt #2), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 15:04 (six years ago)

vicious homophobic demagogue, and orange juice spokesperson --- these became creatively linked by gay rights activists through an OJ boycott.

Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 15:25 (six years ago)

“Haven’t seen anything like this since the Anita Bryant concert”

Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 15:44 (six years ago)

Local gay actor here used to do a show called Pieface about her at the Orlando Fringe fest every five years or so.

I do believe he did not care for her.

sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 18:23 (six years ago)

Bob Wellings, BBC Nationwide presenter, 85.

the grateful dead can dance (anagram), Thursday, 19 March 2020 12:08 (six years ago)

Mel Brooks, just saw him on Twitter with his son.

And Dick Van Dyke repping for Bernie too.

― in twelve parts (lamonti), Tuesday, March 17, 2020 3:27 AM (four days ago


And Carl Reiner, 98, completes a triple.

Robbie Shakespeare’s Sister Lovers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 21 March 2020 23:00 (six years ago)

jackson browne!

(bcz i always confuse him with warren zevon lol)

mark s, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 16:24 (six years ago)

i keep thinking Rick Stein is dead, i must confuse him with Keith Floyd or something

Let's kill the Queen and be legends (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 26 March 2020 11:26 (six years ago)

i mean apparently he's dead now but

Let's kill the Queen and be legends (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 26 March 2020 11:27 (six years ago)

Drunk Rick Stein chef crushed to death chasing after train to retrieve forgotten coffee

Kyle Kusano-Puffett, who had also taken the drug MDMA, realised he had forgotten his beverage after climbing out of the window of the carriage door

this is what I found from Rick Stein dead

calzino, Thursday, 26 March 2020 11:33 (six years ago)

Might as well add Rick Stein and Keith Floyd to the "oh I always mix these two people up", for I do, too.

Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 26 March 2020 11:34 (six years ago)

but isn't Rick Stein a charmless unreconstructed Tory prick* whereas Keith Floyd was a quite amusing variety of Tory wanker.

*I'm just guessing this - I have never knowingly watched him.

calzino, Thursday, 26 March 2020 11:40 (six years ago)

In my mind they are one and the same chef who enjoyed drinking way too much tbf

Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 26 March 2020 11:45 (six years ago)

It's good that the third person mentioned on this thread, over 16 years ago, is still with us.

Michael Jones, Thursday, 26 March 2020 12:12 (six years ago)

Oh there's another chef I always mix up with Rick Stein, the Scottish seafood one.

Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 March 2020 12:24 (six years ago)

Nick Nairn. Except Rick Stein is the seafood one. My interest in chefs is less than zero.

Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 March 2020 12:26 (six years ago)

OK, so you can make some nice food, who gives a flying fuck?

Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 March 2020 12:27 (six years ago)

https://miro.medium.com/max/640/1*hfqYfoXWFRPYnRFImnA1mQ.png

Let's kill the Queen and be legends (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 26 March 2020 12:29 (six years ago)

lol

Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 26 March 2020 12:30 (six years ago)

Exactly!

Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 March 2020 12:33 (six years ago)

jimmy carter.

i could have sworn i read a bunch of obituaries about a month ago.

treeship., Thursday, 26 March 2020 18:14 (six years ago)

Uderzo, or at least until he had died when i read his obit .
Hadn't realised he'd been around at all.

Stevolende, Thursday, 26 March 2020 18:53 (six years ago)

Donald Trump.

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 26 March 2020 18:55 (six years ago)

I'm sure if we all wish really hard at the same time. Or is taht what we've been doing for the last 3 years.

Stevolende, Thursday, 26 March 2020 19:00 (six years ago)

treesh when Carter dies it'll be hard to miss, flags at half mast, lying in state at the captiol, Trump feeling one-upped and having a tantrum etc

Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 26 March 2020 20:46 (six years ago)

irritating tory and brexiteer joan collins

karmic blowback for dissing pip and jane baker (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 27 March 2020 12:46 (six years ago)

I also thought she had died but realised I was thinking of Elizaveth Taylor

Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 27 March 2020 12:56 (six years ago)

Boris Johnson

coco vide (pomenitul), Friday, 27 March 2020 13:30 (six years ago)

xp Alexis Morell Carrington Colby Dexter Rowan is active on Twitter, where you'll see her posing with various candidates for this thread

Josefa, Friday, 27 March 2020 14:24 (six years ago)

Tatsuya Nakadai, who appeared in Harakiri, Samurai Rebellion, Kwaidan, Yojimbo, Ran and a shitload more - 87 and still acting.

i was joking about the cat soup thing (Matt #2), Saturday, 28 March 2020 22:47 (six years ago)

Penderecki (RIP)

change display name (Jordan), Sunday, 29 March 2020 16:12 (six years ago)

likewise :(

mark s, Sunday, 29 March 2020 16:18 (six years ago)

Jack Jones

"...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 30 March 2020 18:18 (six years ago)

Larry Flynt! A sprightly 77.

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 01:24 (six years ago)


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