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

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.

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

Happy Birthday, Tom Smothers!

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

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

Last man standing?

Ah, Pike is still going...

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

Ryan Reynolds, 45

He only survived by inhabiting the skin of a Pokémon

Kiernan Shipka, 22

fuck it lets just list celebrities and their ages

do you understand life expectancy

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

Kiernan Shipka, 22

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

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

http://consequence.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/The-Who.jpeg

Peter Lax, 95.

Not surprised he is still alive, surprised he is so old, although I suppose I shouldn’t be.

Barbara Bain, 90.

Joe Don Baker celebrated his 86th birthday yesterday and I could of sworn he passed a decade or so ago.