militant's one-time guru peter taaffe still active at 80: no longergeneral secretary of militant's successor party the socialist party (spiffy name) he remains its political secretary :) 👍🏽
― mark s, Wednesday, 20 July 2022 22:07 (one year ago) link
Morton Subotnick, 89
― ~insert pun here~ (Matt #2), Wednesday, 20 July 2022 23:48 (one year ago) link
Just caught the end of "To Catch a Thief" and Brigitte Auber, who has a pretty significant role in it, is still alive at 97.
― Tom D: panel beater, bouncer and tree surgeon (Tom D.), Saturday, 23 July 2022 15:50 (one year ago) link
About once a month I suddenly think “hey! It’s so great that Burt Bacharach is still alive.” He is 94
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 23 July 2022 17:08 (one year ago) link
Not surprised as such but Shatner on shit TV last night surprised me
― seo layer (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 23 July 2022 17:31 (one year ago) link
Are you a Bacharach fan, fgti?
― Meme for an Imaginary Western (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 July 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link
Yeah, huge fan. I’ve met him a couple of times! Lovely, lovely man
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 23 July 2022 20:16 (one year ago) link
He was friends with Stravinsky if you can believe it
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 23 July 2022 20:22 (one year ago) link
lol amazing
― mookieproof, Saturday, 23 July 2022 20:23 (one year ago) link
A "lovely, lovely man"... also handsome, talented, married to Angie Dickinson. Not bad really.
― Tom D: panel beater, bouncer and tree surgeon (Tom D.), Saturday, 23 July 2022 21:34 (one year ago) link
Wrote a few good tunes too, not too bad a life.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 23 July 2022 22:43 (one year ago) link
Watching Jeremy Isaacs interviewing Diana Rigg on BBC4, surprised to see that Isaacs is still around.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 23 July 2022 22:54 (one year ago) link
Dennis Lotis, popular big band singer in the UK in the 1950s, 97.
― Let's Get Ready to Trimble (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 14:55 (one year ago) link
Norman Lear― it me, Thursday, August 6, 2015 10:21 AM (six years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― it me, Thursday, August 6, 2015 10:21 AM (six years ago) bookmarkflaglink
https://www.vulture.com/article/norman-lear-stories-memories.html
100 today.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 19:02 (one year ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/27/opinion/archie-bunker-donald-trump-norman-lear.html?referringSource=articleShare
And one from the man himself!
― Mark G, Thursday, 28 July 2022 17:48 (one year ago) link
Ruth Buzzi, 86. Although she just had a series of strokes.
― My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 July 2022 16:47 (one year ago) link
Sad to hear about the strokes. She's been an enjoyable twitter follow.
― peace, man, Friday, 29 July 2022 17:29 (one year ago) link
My friends! Between Frankie Avalon, Chubby Checker and Gary U.S. Bonds and the rest of the gang, we are going to have an unforgettable BLAST!!! See you there! Use promo code DIONFAN & book now at https://t.co/AbBuqaE5SO pic.twitter.com/U47BSS5F4m— DION (@thewandererdion) August 1, 2022
― Sam Weller, Tuesday, 2 August 2022 14:09 (one year ago) link
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― My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 2 August 2022 14:57 (one year ago) link
Several thread mainstays on one cruise
― Sam Weller, Tuesday, 2 August 2022 15:11 (one year ago) link
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11076635/Spoon-bender-Uri-Geller-says-use-Mind-Power-prevent-Russian-nuclear-attack.html
Uri Geller. Although I assume shoddily built weapons and poorly trained troops will be the true risk to Russia.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 16:34 (one year ago) link
I learn from the internet that Chubby Checker married Catharina Lodders - Miss World 1962 - in 1964, and they've remained together ever since. Awww:https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/american-singer-chubby-checker-pictured-with-his-fiancee-model-and-picture-id543479227?s=612x612
Part of me thinks "that's so sweet" and another part of me thinks "why should they be happy".
― Ashley Pomeroy, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 17:58 (one year ago) link
Maybe the Checkers are locked in a twisted game of one-upsmanship.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 19:17 (one year ago) link
Danielle Steel (clued in by this article)
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 20:46 (one year ago) link
looking forward to this one next July
pic.twitter.com/6tXVY6f4ab— New Beverly Cinema (@newbeverly) August 8, 2022
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Monday, 8 August 2022 17:53 (one year ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/15/italian-actor-gina-lollobrigida-95-says-she-will-run-in-general-elections
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 15 August 2022 20:46 (one year ago) link
Barbara Eden, 91.
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Friday, 19 August 2022 19:33 (one year ago) link
Rosey Grier, 90.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Friday, 19 August 2022 23:16 (one year ago) link
Gary Busey, 163
― Toonie Orlando (Neanderthal), Friday, 19 August 2022 23:23 (one year ago) link
Jerry Allison, drummer for the Crickets, turns 83 in a few weeks.
― pplains, Saturday, 20 August 2022 00:13 (one year ago) link
Artist Frank Stella, 86. And he's selling NFTs (learned this thanks to KM).
― nickn, Saturday, 20 August 2022 00:18 (one year ago) link
María Elena Holly, Buddy Holly's widow: she'll turn 90 in December.
― clemenza, Saturday, 20 August 2022 15:23 (one year ago) link
Not a lot of middle ground with that crew!
― pplains, Saturday, 20 August 2022 15:27 (one year ago) link
Relative of famous person Buddy Holly - his older brother Larry Holley, 96.― Halfway there but for you, Friday, March 4, 2022 5:15 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, March 4, 2022 5:15 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink
Died a month after I posted this. The Holl(e)y Curse strikes again!
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 20 August 2022 15:34 (one year ago) link
Seeing reports from people who would know on FB that Jerry Allison of Buddy Holly & the Crickets has passed on.― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, August 22, 2022 7:48 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, August 22, 2022 7:48 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
AND AGAIN
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 22 August 2022 19:50 (one year ago) link
Well hell!
― pplains, Monday, 22 August 2022 23:59 (one year ago) link
Hope Holiday, the woman who picks up Jack Lemmon in the bar on Christmas Eve in "The Apartment", 91.
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 August 2022 21:51 (one year ago) link
abdullah ibrahim
― mark s, Thursday, 1 September 2022 12:27 (one year ago) link
thankfully
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 1 September 2022 20:29 (one year ago) link
Sure this has been discussed before, but what's the oldest band whose members are all still with us? Asking because it just occurred to me that all of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young are alive.
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 1 September 2022 23:14 (one year ago) link
The five original members of Manfred Mann, formed 1962, are all still alive.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 2 September 2022 03:10 (one year ago) link
The Seekers were another band formed in 1962 in Australia, whose original members were alive, until a few weeks ago.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 2 September 2022 03:53 (one year ago) link
Tempted to say the Shadows - the Marvin/Welch/Bennett lineup from 1961 onwards is still alive and was together through all the various reunions. No real settled bass player after Jet Harris (who died about 10 years ago) and certainly nobody who did TV spots etc.
― Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Friday, 2 September 2022 08:42 (one year ago) link
John Rostill was their bass player - and an especially good one - from 1963 till they first split up in 1969. He died in 1973 though.
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Friday, 2 September 2022 09:39 (one year ago) link
Scratch that idea then.
― Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Friday, 2 September 2022 09:45 (one year ago) link
The thing is they're not actually that old, Marvin and Welch were born in 1941, they were teenagers when the recorded "Apache".
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Friday, 2 September 2022 09:49 (one year ago) link
When I saw the start of that post in MacZing I thought it was going to be about Lee Marvin and Raquel Welch.
― I’d Rather Gorblimey (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 September 2022 13:35 (one year ago) link
Doc Severinsen, who just played his last concert and retired at 95.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Friday, 2 September 2022 14:07 (one year ago) link
Doc is here?
― pplains, Friday, 2 September 2022 14:16 (one year ago) link
The three original Grand Funk dudes are still around.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 2 September 2022 14:23 (one year ago) link