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

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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)

Benny Golson, 92.

Turned 93 today!

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)

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)

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.

Sam Weller, Monday, 31 January 2022 09:18 (four years ago)

Brad Pitt 58

Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Monday, 31 January 2022 09:46 (four years ago)

Pitt the Elder

calzino, Monday, 31 January 2022 10:15 (four years ago)

lol

Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Monday, 31 January 2022 10:27 (four years ago)

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

clemenza, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 17:06 (four years ago)

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.

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 17:10 (four years ago)

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

clemenza, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 17:13 (four years ago)

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

Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 17:19 (four years ago)

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

The creator of Ultra Games, for Nintendo (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 17:44 (four years ago)

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

Reader, I buried him (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 18:07 (four years ago)

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

Sam Weller, Thursday, 3 February 2022 11:28 (four years ago)

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

calzino, Thursday, 3 February 2022 11:42 (four years ago)

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

Ward Fowler, Thursday, 3 February 2022 11:49 (four years ago)

I don't know why I thought reggae singer Horace Andy was dead, but he's not. He's got a new album coming out in April, in fact, which is how I found out:

https://soundcloud.com/on-u-sound-records/horace-andy-this-must-be-hell

but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 3 February 2022 15:32 (four years ago)

Happy Birthday, Tom Smothers!

deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Thursday, 3 February 2022 15:36 (four years ago)

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

I think his sorcery is simply better than that of all the others

Josefa, Friday, 4 February 2022 01:12 (four years ago)

Frank Williams, who played the vicar in 'Dad's Army', 90.

joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Saturday, 5 February 2022 21:59 (four years ago)

Last man standing?

Mark G, Saturday, 5 February 2022 22:04 (four years ago)

Ah, Pike is still going...

Mark G, Saturday, 5 February 2022 22:04 (four years ago)

Steven Wright, a mere 66. I know he tours, but for a legendary comedian he's kind of quiet.

Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 6 February 2022 00:01 (four years ago)

Ryan Reynolds, 45

Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Sunday, 6 February 2022 00:39 (four years ago)

He only survived by inhabiting the skin of a Pokémon

Muad'Doob (Moodles), Sunday, 6 February 2022 01:19 (four years ago)

Kiernan Shipka, 22

Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Sunday, 6 February 2022 01:22 (four years ago)

fuck it lets just list celebrities and their ages

Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Sunday, 6 February 2022 01:22 (four years ago)

do you understand life expectancy

― mookieproof, Thursday, December 9, 2021 3:16 PM (one month ago)

mookieproof, Sunday, 6 February 2022 02:27 (four years ago)

Kiernan Shipka, 22

I feel bad about it, but that has me laughing.

clemenza, Sunday, 6 February 2022 02:35 (four years ago)

not to put a dark word on ms shipka, whom we like

Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Sunday, 6 February 2022 08:36 (four years ago)


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