Recently I've been watching old clips of What's My Line? (1950s-60s). Everything about the show (the mannerisms, overwhelming whiteness, etc.) seems somehow prehistoric, so it's interesting to look up the panelists and guests to see which are still alive (ie, Chubby Checker, Joan Collins).
― Sam Weller, Thursday, 13 January 2022 16:00 (four years ago)
And John Cale!
― Josefa, Thursday, 13 January 2022 16:25 (four years ago)
Whenever I watch any thing of that era I can’t stop obsessively looking up what became of everyone. xpost
― Alba, Thursday, 13 January 2022 16:26 (four years ago)
Actually John Cale was on I've Got a Secret I just remembered. The one with Betsy Palmer and Bess Myerson as panelists.
― Josefa, Thursday, 13 January 2022 16:31 (four years ago)
Wait, did you not watch the VU doc yet?
― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 January 2022 16:37 (four years ago)
I did, that's where I saw the Cale appearance... it was just that when What's My Line? was mentioned I mixed up the two shows in my mind. Tbf they are very similar.
― Josefa, Thursday, 13 January 2022 17:02 (four years ago)
I still don't quite understand the whole Dorothy Kilgallen thing
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 13 January 2022 17:29 (four years ago)
Her death, or why she was on the show to begin with?
― Sam Weller, Thursday, 13 January 2022 18:30 (four years ago)
Is it because she didn't seem to have any footprint outside of this kind of show?
― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 January 2022 20:36 (four years ago)
She was a syndicated entertainment columnist who later moved into some crime reporting and was an early skeptic of the Warren Report (supposedly why she died).
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 13 January 2022 20:58 (four years ago)
Specifically, Kilgallen was the last person to interview Jack Ruby. She claimed that she was going to break the JFK assassination "wide open" before turning up dead in her apartment due to a fatal combo of sleeping pills and alcohol.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 13 January 2022 21:33 (four years ago)
That must have been after The Band played at Ruby's nightclub.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4-F6GaqnD8
― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 January 2022 21:36 (four years ago)
Sorry, The Hawks.
― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 January 2022 21:48 (four years ago)
Van Dyke Parks
― Khafre's clown (Noodle Vague), Friday, 14 January 2022 20:14 (four years ago)
very much alive, he posts on twitter all the time including new videos of himself playing various piano pieces
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 14 January 2022 20:36 (four years ago)
I dunno why it surprised me but somewhere in the back of my mind I just assumed he was gone
Will have to follow his Twitter
― Khafre's clown (Noodle Vague), Friday, 14 January 2022 20:42 (four years ago)
Pattie Boyd. Not that she’s very old; I just had it in my head that she’d died of cancer
― Alba, Monday, 17 January 2022 12:27 (four years ago)
the "personal life" section of yarwood's wikipedia is gloomy reading :(
― mark s, Monday, 17 January 2022 17:46 (four years ago)
i mean he was rubbish but i wish him no ill
― mark s, Monday, 17 January 2022 17:47 (four years ago)
From 2007, Yarwood lived alone in Weybridge, Surrey.[12]
:( :( :( :(
― mark s, Monday, 17 January 2022 17:48 (four years ago)
I didn't really have a lot of thoughts about whether he was alive or not, I was much too young to be aware of him as a cultural figure, and the film character far eclipsed the real person in my mind, but I was surprised to see Frank Serpico posting on twitter.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 17 January 2022 22:49 (four years ago)
Mary Quant, 91
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 17 January 2022 22:54 (four years ago)
Bobby Goldsboro, 81 (not actually that old but I assumed he'd died years ago)
― Someone left a space telescope out in the rain (Tom D.), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 21:36 (four years ago)
Jasper Johns, 91.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 14:08 (four years ago)
Joss Ackland
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 8 February 2020 23:19 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
Still with us, 93. He just popped up in the film, "Seven Days From Noon" earlier... that's "Seven Days From Noon" from 1950!
― Someone left a space telescope out in the rain (Tom D.), Friday, 21 January 2022 19:39 (four years ago)
Fuck me, he wasn’t even 60 in White Mischief
― Alba, Friday, 21 January 2022 21:32 (four years ago)
Benny Golson, 92.
― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 24 January 2022 20:29 (four years ago)
Only 79, but I erroneously thought that Geneviève Bujold was no longer around.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 24 January 2022 20:46 (four years ago)
― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 18:15 (four years ago)
Jasper johns gets me every time. I can’t shake the false notion that he died in like 1979.
― Dan I., Wednesday, 26 January 2022 17:24 (four years ago)
Sandy Gall, 94
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 26 January 2022 17:26 (four years ago)
Every day I am amazed Sonny Rollins and Roy Haynes are still with us. People who made records in the 1940s!
― Johnny Mathis der Maler (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 17:58 (four years ago)
(xp) Wow.
― Someone left a space telescope out in the rain (Tom D.), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 18:28 (four years ago)
Only knew as I saw a book he published last year in a bookshop https://www.hauspublishing.com/product/afghan-napoleon/
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 26 January 2022 18:36 (four years ago)
Not exactly famous, but John Lennon’s stepmother, Pauline― Alba, Tuesday, January 11, 2022 4:11 PM (two weeks ago)
― Alba, Tuesday, January 11, 2022 4:11 PM (two weeks ago)
And, I've just discovered, Paul McCartney's stepmother Angie, now 92 and on Twitter
― Alba, Thursday, 27 January 2022 15:30 (four years ago)
Never knew he had a stepmother!
― Someone left a space telescope out in the rain (Tom D.), Thursday, 27 January 2022 15:43 (four years ago)
Neither did I. Nor did I know that his mother died when he was 14.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Thursday, 27 January 2022 15:44 (four years ago)
Mother Mary?
― Someone left a space telescope out in the rain (Tom D.), Thursday, 27 January 2022 15:46 (four years ago)
Yeah.
― Mark G, Friday, 28 January 2022 22:36 (four years ago)
somehow only just finding out that Kimberle Crenshaw is a current professor. Was aware that the idea of intersectionality had been coined in the late 80s and had assumed she wasn't still around.
― Stevolende, Friday, 28 January 2022 23:16 (four years ago)
*angrily brandishes zimmer frame*
― mark s, Friday, 28 January 2022 23:21 (four years ago)
David Allan Coe, a spry 82 years old
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 28 January 2022 23:27 (four years ago)
Richard Lester, he was 90 ten days ago.
― Someone left a space telescope out in the rain (Tom D.), Saturday, 29 January 2022 19:17 (four years ago)
!
― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 29 January 2022 19:37 (four years ago)
Noted here:
Let's list some Old Film Directors who are still alive1
― Josefa, Saturday, 29 January 2022 19:43 (four years ago)
Sonny Barger, 83.
― Someone left a space telescope out in the rain (Tom D.), Saturday, 29 January 2022 23:09 (four years ago)
Rod Laver
― Reader, I buried him (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 30 January 2022 08:45 (four years ago)
Costa-Gavras, 88 (also for the Old Film Directors thread)
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Sunday, 30 January 2022 22:51 (four years ago)
Maria Shriver, a mere 66.Richard Dreyfuss, a mere ... 74.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 31 January 2022 01:34 (four years ago)
Tuesday Weld and she's only 78
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 31 January 2022 02:54 (four years ago)