Ed Asner turns 91 today.
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 15 November 2020 17:55 (three years ago) link
Tommy Lasorda, 93. Somehow I thought he had passed like 5 years ago.
― epistantophus, Sunday, 15 November 2020 23:42 (three years ago) link
hb Ed Asner!
― epistantophus, Sunday, 15 November 2020 23:43 (three years ago) link
topol, 85
he thought it was the Zeitman series! he hasn't changed
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 17 November 2020 02:44 (three years ago) link
Lee Grant, 95 (and working again!)
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 19 November 2020 03:46 (three years ago) link
Lee Grant is a hero for all times, and has outlived everyone who tried to destroy her career back in the 1950s by some margin.
― fire up the curb your enthusiasm theme music (again) (Matt #2), Thursday, 19 November 2020 10:11 (three years ago) link
Larry Niven, 82. I think I'm confusing him with Jerry Pournelle, who is dead.
― fire up the curb your enthusiasm theme music (again) (Matt #2), Thursday, 19 November 2020 10:12 (three years ago) link
What’s the difference between Larry Niven and Jeremy Piven
― is right unfortunately (silby), Thursday, 19 November 2020 14:20 (three years ago) link
Jeremy Piven never wrote a pokerfaced hard-SF essay about how Superman could not fuck Lois Lane because his ejaculate would fire through the top of her skull like a machine gun
...that we know of.
― @oneposter (💹) (sic), Thursday, 19 November 2020 21:18 (three years ago) link
I didn't know about either... until just now, I guess.
― pplains, Thursday, 19 November 2020 21:35 (three years ago) link
Haha that wasn't just a throwaway Kevin Smith joke?
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 19 November 2020 21:37 (three years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_Steel,_Woman_of_Kleenex
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 19 November 2020 21:39 (three years ago) link
The essay itself: http://www.rawbw.com/~svw/superman.html
― @oneposter (💹) (sic), Thursday, 19 November 2020 22:21 (three years ago) link
not really pokerfaced? seems humorous (or that is the intent anyway)
― Politically homely (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 19 November 2020 22:26 (three years ago) link
You could ask him, seeing as how he's still alive (as per the thread title)!
― fire up the curb your enthusiasm theme music (again) (Matt #2), Thursday, 19 November 2020 22:39 (three years ago) link
Yes, it's funny, but played straight.
― @oneposter (💹) (sic), Thursday, 19 November 2020 23:13 (three years ago) link
Composer Gavin Bryers, 77.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 22 November 2020 19:58 (three years ago) link
Bryars' blood never failed him yet.
― huge rant (sic), Sunday, 22 November 2020 21:20 (three years ago) link
For that matter, Harold Budd, 84.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 23 November 2020 02:55 (three years ago) link
Walter Mondale― The Reverend, Friday, October 28, 2011 6:16 PM (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― The Reverend, Friday, October 28, 2011 6:16 PM (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink
Discovered by the Rev 9 years ago but discovered by me just today!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 23 November 2020 05:38 (three years ago) link
this is not bad btwhttps://vimeo.com/ondemand/fritz/112442219
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Monday, 23 November 2020 15:16 (three years ago) link
Kinda weird that three-quarters of the 1976 tickets are still alive.
― pplains, Monday, 23 November 2020 18:09 (three years ago) link
Clint eastwood, 90
― CRVTCHΞS (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 02:58 (three years ago) link
he released three films in 2018-19 and starred in one!
― huge rant (sic), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 03:28 (three years ago) link
(no reason you should know, just hoping to compound your surprise)
Pat Boone, 86
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 29 November 2020 01:42 (three years ago) link
Silvia Pinal, 89.
― ILXceptionalism (Tom D.), Monday, 30 November 2020 21:35 (three years ago) link
spider john koerner
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 30 November 2020 21:47 (three years ago) link
Davie Allan, must be around 80? I was thinking of either Link Wray or Dick Dale, both no longer with us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS7sRfknXXQ
― in the blue blue house at the centre of the garden (Matt #2), Monday, 30 November 2020 21:50 (three years ago) link
Coincidentally, Margarita Lozano, who played Ramona in "Viridiana", is also still alive and is also 89.
― ILXceptionalism (Tom D.), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 22:32 (three years ago) link
They've already been mentioned, but still alive: Gene Shalit (94) and Willard Scott (86).
― Sam Weller, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 09:18 (three years ago) link
Mario Adorf, 90.
― ILXceptionalism (Tom D.), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 23:14 (three years ago) link
Johnny Tillotson of 'Poetry in motion' fame (82)
― Mark G, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 23:16 (three years ago) link
Jürgen Prochnow, 79.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 23:49 (three years ago) link
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, President of France (1974-1981), 94. RIP.― pomenitul, woensdag 2 december 2020 23:15... people you thought were dead.― ILXceptionalism (Tom D.), woensdag 2 december 2020 23:22no joke was coming here to post him in "Last famous person ..."weird. RIP.― budo jeru, donderdag 3 december 2020 1:32very weird. same thing here. I could quite literally have sworn he’d been dead for years!― fat ass deep state operative (breastcrawl), donderdag 3 december 2020 1:38
― fat ass deep state operative (breastcrawl), Thursday, 3 December 2020 00:48 (three years ago) link
(the last famous animal...) Cora, the Asian elephant who was central to the plot of Smokey and the Bandit II (1980). She's 62.
― Josefa, Friday, 4 December 2020 16:04 (three years ago) link
Jackie Mason, 92
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 4 December 2020 16:20 (three years ago) link
Cora an amazing actress with an impeccable sense of timing.
https://i.imgur.com/Tm3o7Y1.gif
― pplains, Friday, 4 December 2020 17:09 (three years ago) link
She outlived Burt Reynolds and Jerry Reed, may they RIP
― Josefa, Friday, 4 December 2020 17:48 (three years ago) link
Tony Jacklin. Though he's not really that old, 76.
― ILXceptionalism (Tom D.), Sunday, 6 December 2020 15:21 (three years ago) link
steve lawrence, 85
― mookieproof, Monday, 7 December 2020 04:37 (three years ago) link
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/episode-11-pictured-victoria-jackson-as-eydie-gorme-mike-myers-as-picture-id138370564
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 December 2020 13:55 (three years ago) link
Steve Lawrence has outlived a fair amount of his Blues Brothers costars (he played their booking agent in both films).
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 7 December 2020 14:34 (three years ago) link
Aaron Neville, 79.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 12 December 2020 22:48 (three years ago) link
I knew Brian Murphy was still alive but his wife (Linda Regan, probably most famous for HiDeHi) has just posted a photo of him which makes you think he's been gone for a while but his body hasn't realised yet.
My wonderful hubby https://t.co/kaHzzirA5m pic.twitter.com/c359h6Hq73— Linda Regan (@Linda_Regan) December 14, 2020
― pedantly admonishment (aldo), Monday, 14 December 2020 14:44 (three years ago) link
Always delighted to check into this thread to report that Angie Dickinson (89) and Gena Rowlands (90) are still with us.
― Godless Tiny Tim (Tom D.), Monday, 14 December 2020 14:57 (three years ago) link
Bob Dole, 97(!)
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 21:06 (three years ago) link
the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually still alive
― pplains, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 21:22 (three years ago) link
Abdullah Ibrahim aka Dollar Brand, 86. Hope I'm not jinxing him with a mention here.
― accordion no (Matt #2), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 22:34 (three years ago) link
Anna Halprin (100!).
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Thursday, 17 December 2020 04:39 (three years ago) link