Monica Vitti - aged 90!
Second behind Gina Lollabrigida, 94. Just ahead of Sophia Loren, 87. Bringing up the rear, the baby of the bunch, Claudia Cardinale, 83.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Saturday, 13 November 2021 13:04 (two years ago) link
Lea Massari, Vitti’s co-star in L’Avventura, also still going at 88.
― Alba, Saturday, 13 November 2021 13:11 (two years ago) link
Starring in L'Avventura is a good portent of a long life, and as I've mentioned before, so is starring in 8 1/2 which gives us the octogenarians Anouk Aimée (89), Sandra Milo (88), Claudia Cardinale, and Barbara Steele (83).
― Josefa, Saturday, 13 November 2021 14:36 (two years ago) link
Susan George, only 71 though. (Had been trying to find out the name of the film "Fright" today)
― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Monday, 15 November 2021 14:02 (two years ago) link
tbh not really sure why i would be surprised at that, maybe cos not heard about her since the 70's
― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Monday, 15 November 2021 14:03 (two years ago) link
Barbara Steele (83).
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Monday, 15 November 2021 14:14 (two years ago) link
Bob Carolgees (and by extension, his dog Spit) (73)
― Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Monday, 15 November 2021 15:24 (two years ago) link
that extension feels a little shaky
― mark s, Monday, 15 November 2021 15:52 (two years ago) link
Folk singer and broadcaster, Jimmie Macgregor, 91.
(He joins Stanley Baxter, Glen Michael, Una McLean and John Cairney in the 90+ Scottish celebrity club).
And, apropos of a conversation I was having with some friends at the weekend, Gudrun Ure is still with us at the age of 95.
― ailsa, Monday, 15 November 2021 16:05 (two years ago) link
Spit is 73?
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 15 November 2021 18:14 (two years ago) link
In puppet dog years.
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Monday, 15 November 2021 18:16 (two years ago) link
Starring in L'Avventura is a good portent of a long life
Unfortunately Monica Vitti has apparently been suffering from Alzheimers for quite a few years
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 15 November 2021 18:46 (two years ago) link
Armin Mueller-Stahl, 90.
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Tuesday, 16 November 2021 22:07 (two years ago) link
... and Mario Adorf, also 90.
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Tuesday, 16 November 2021 22:09 (two years ago) link
Wow, excellent scores. So were you recently watching Lola?
― Sterl of the Quarter (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 November 2021 22:15 (two years ago) link
I was about to but decided to not to.
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Tuesday, 16 November 2021 22:16 (two years ago) link
Have you seen it before?
― Sterl of the Quarter (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 November 2021 22:29 (two years ago) link
She's dead now, but if you'd told me a week ago that the wife of Anthony Eden was still alive I'd have found that pretty surprising
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 16 November 2021 22:30 (two years ago) link
(xp) Yes. It was just too late to start watching a two hour film.
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Tuesday, 16 November 2021 22:31 (two years ago) link
Kim Novak!
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 November 2021 13:46 (two years ago) link
Marina Nikolayevna Oswald Porter, widow of Lee Harvey Oswald - just 80 years old
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 18 November 2021 23:29 (two years ago) link
Actress Neile Adams, who was married to Steve McQueen from the 1950s to early '70s. Enrique Iglesias is her great-nephew. 89 years old.
― Josefa, Thursday, 18 November 2021 23:40 (two years ago) link
Frank Serpico, 85 and active on Twitter
― Josefa, Friday, 19 November 2021 01:44 (two years ago) link
Frederic Raphael, 90.
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Sunday, 21 November 2021 21:15 (two years ago) link
He’s someone who I have a personal interest in and I wonder how his death will be reported, whether it will be just on the obituaries page a few days later or as news reports on the day.
― Alba, Monday, 22 November 2021 12:21 (two years ago) link
Not sure he's that well known anymore.
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Monday, 22 November 2021 12:26 (two years ago) link
shouldn't have crossed kubrick, been totally eyes wide shat
― mark s, Monday, 22 November 2021 12:53 (two years ago) link
I think he is now best known for co-writing Eyes Wide Shut; this piece he wrote for the film's 20th anniversary a couple of years ago reads like parody ("How come Eyes Wide Shut seems, as the cant says, ‘more relevant’ after 20 years?")
https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/features/frederic-raphael-reflects-writing-eyes-wide-shut-with-stanley-kubrick
and for always appearing in Private Eye's yearly literary review round-up, claiming the prize for the most obscure/high-toned/expensive book review of the year.
I would be surprised if his death made the television news. Perhaps there should be a remake of 'Glittering Prizes'...
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 22 November 2021 13:03 (two years ago) link
Oh, it looks like that was Freddy in conversation - a bracing experience, I would imagine.
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 22 November 2021 13:05 (two years ago) link
Perhaps there should be a remake of 'Glittering Prizes'...
They could at least air it again on BBC Four or iPlayer. And maybe ITV could do the same for his follow-up After the War (fat chance).
― Alba, Monday, 22 November 2021 13:13 (two years ago) link
it's true that only a cant would think EWS is relevant, it sucks and is dumb (sorry morbs)
Andrew Loog Oldham (in fact he's only 77 but somehow I'd assumed all those uppers and downers would have taken their toll already)
― mark s, Monday, 22 November 2021 13:36 (two years ago) link
After the War is on the youtube :)
― conrad, Monday, 22 November 2021 14:54 (two years ago) link
Needs more promotion!
― Alba, Monday, 22 November 2021 15:00 (two years ago) link
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0924916/
Actress Jacqueline White (best known for The Narrow Margin (1952)), 99.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Tuesday, 23 November 2021 16:05 (two years ago) link
Ooh, that's a good one.
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 November 2021 16:36 (two years ago) link
Retired for 70 years! Love it. Although... five kids
― Josefa, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 16:44 (two years ago) link
Narrow Margin? With Marie Windsor?
― Sporting with the Fbclid (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 13:54 (two years ago) link
H. Rap Brown (78)
― mark s, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 14:24 (two years ago) link
Johnny Ball, 83. It'd somehow completely escaped my attention that he's Zoe Ball's dad! Wonder if he's still a climate change denier?
― procter and gamble and huff (Matt #2), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 14:42 (two years ago) link
Detroit bop pianist Barry Harris, still teaching workshops, will be 92 in a couple of weeks.
― Briania, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 16:17 (two years ago) link
every time I realise Tom Lehrer is still with us, I wonder if we will truly all go together when we go...
― imago, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 16:34 (two years ago) link
William Klein, 93.
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 November 2021 22:15 (two years ago) link
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Aaron_Boulogne
― Duck and Sally Can't Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 25 November 2021 22:18 (two years ago) link
#OneThread
― Duck and Sally Can't Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 25 November 2021 22:58 (two years ago) link
Ursula Andress, 85
― Alba, Monday, 29 November 2021 03:11 (two years ago) link
Sidney Poitier, 94
― Alba, Monday, 29 November 2021 03:20 (two years ago) link
Just behind Ursula Andress (85) are Bond girls Shirley Eaton and Luciana Paluzzi (both 84)
― Josefa, Monday, 29 November 2021 03:37 (two years ago) link
I expect them to die.
― Alba, Monday, 29 November 2021 03:39 (two years ago) link
Lol
― Josefa, Monday, 29 November 2021 03:39 (two years ago) link
Mel Brooks. Publishing an autobiography at the age of 95.
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 29 November 2021 04:49 (two years ago) link