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

Van Dyke Parks

very much alive, he posts on twitter all the time including new videos of himself playing various piano pieces

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

Pattie Boyd. Not that she’s very old; I just had it in my head that she’d died of cancer

the "personal life" section of yarwood's wikipedia is gloomy reading :(

i mean he was rubbish but i wish him no ill

From 2007, Yarwood lived alone in Weybridge, Surrey.[12]

:( :( :( :(

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.

Mary Quant, 91

Bobby Goldsboro, 81 (not actually that old but I assumed he'd died years ago)

Jasper Johns, 91.

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!

Fuck me, he wasn’t even 60 in White Mischief

Benny Golson, 92.

Only 79, but I erroneously thought that Geneviève Bujold was no longer around.

Benny Golson, 92.

Jasper johns gets me every time. I can’t shake the false notion that he died in like 1979.

Sandy Gall, 94

Every day I am amazed Sonny Rollins and Roy Haynes are still with us. People who made records in the 1940s!

(xp) Wow.

Only knew as I saw a book he published last year in a bookshop https://www.hauspublishing.com/product/afghan-napoleon/

Not exactly famous, but John Lennon’s stepmother, Pauline

― 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

Never knew he had a stepmother!

Neither did I. Nor did I know that his mother died when he was 14.

Mother Mary?

Yeah.

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.

*angrily brandishes zimmer frame*

David Allan Coe, a spry 82 years old

Richard Lester, he was 90 ten days ago.

!

Noted here:

Let's list some Old Film Directors who are still alive1

Sonny Barger, 83.

Rod Laver

Costa-Gavras, 88 (also for the Old Film Directors thread)

Maria Shriver, a mere 66.
Richard Dreyfuss, a mere ... 74.

Tuesday Weld and she's only 78

Just watched her as the mystery guest on an old episode of What’s My Line? Always pleased to see people on there who are still with us.

Brad Pitt 58

Pitt the Elder

lol

C.W. McCall, 93! (If the name doesn't mean anything to you, we're operating in different fame universes.)

Always get him confused with B.J. Thomas. But related, McCall cohort Chip Davis is still with us, too, at 74. I'm surprised at the age gap between him and McCall.

I'm wondering if C.W. made the transition from CBs to Twitter.

I doubt it, you're not supposed to tweet and drive.

Breaker Bear "Log On" would fit in well here.

We've got a mighty pile-on
Posting on thru the night

Max Baer Jr., TV's Jethro -- 84.

Well, it's a long, lonesome road
Through the lifetime of a shitposter

Kenneth Anger is 95 years old today. I knew he was still alive, but he seems surprisingly long-lived compared to yr average occultist.