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

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Telma Hopkins!

but that was last week.

today it was ARNOLD STANG!!!!

don't know why i though telma hopkins died.

Zsa Zsa Gabor just turned 91 a few days ago.

abe vigoda

I think Ernest Borgnine is still at it too.

doris day

she's getting a grammy tomorrow

Shirley Temple

!!!

Leonard skinner, but he's now dead.

I was surprised that Bosko even lived.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, June 15, 2004 4:15 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark

dying here

had no idea Sam Beckett lived until 1989 until the other day

j.d. salinger, but then he died not long after i found out

Louie Anderson

He was on Tim & Eric a year or two ago.

Kenneth Mars, but once again after he was dead.

Jane Russell

Clive Dunn

(Oof, I had no idea about his background:

And I bet you're NOT EVEN MAKING THIS UP.

Wonder if there was ever any some sort of Southeastern-style rivalry between him and Lewis Grizzard.

Constance Towers, of The Naked Kiss fame, age 87, and she just ended a 20-plus year run on General Hospital last year.

(Oof, I had no idea about his background:

And I bet you're NOT EVEN MAKING THIS UP.

― pplains, Thursday, August 6, 2020 8:44 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

lmao

I keep forgetting whether Terry Rypdal is dead or alive -- guess I'm confusing him with late jazz guitar greats like Jon Abercrombie and Larry Coryell?

and he just had the nerve to release a single titled As If The Ghost … Was Me!?, so maybe he's just as confused as I am 🤔

Paco Rabanne
(as featured in the Sopranos line "You smell like Paco Rabanne crawled up your ass and died")

Ned Beatty. John Madden. Both of them stocky guys I considered OLD circa 1993 but who were only then in their mid 50s.

Ralph Nader, 86.

Former superstar produced Arthur Baker. He's only 65, but I don't know what that translates to in cocaine years.

Alain Delon, 84.

Hal Lindsey, who wrote The Late, Great Planet Earth. Still hosts a TV show about biblical prophecy at age 90. He may live to see the end of the world after all.

Peter Yarrow was just interviewed on TV about the DC march.

Pat Buchanan, 81. Do people still publish him or put him on TV?

Only on The 700 Club on Disney's Freeform, which is contractually obligated to air the show forever.

lol no wait, that's pat robertson. buchanan is on the mclaughlin group on some pbs affiliate.

Shel Talmy

Harry Belafonte!

Monica Vitti

Tommy James (73).

archie shepp

Glynis Johns (96)

Tippi Hedron, 90.

Glynis Johns is one of the handful of surviving villains from the '60s Batman show. IIRC, the others are Julie Newmar, John Astin, Joan Collins, and Barbara Rush.

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Tippi Hedron, 90.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 13:51 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

All the more remarkable for what she's managed to survive!

Chris Holmes out of WASP.

Sadaharu Oh. (I also thought he'd be older than 80.)

eric burdon

thought he was dead too, have now realised I was confusing him with Reg Presley

I met his cousin once, but now he's dead tooinstead.

Pat Suzuki (90 this month)

Songwriting team Alan and Marilyn Bergman. Alan turned 95 yesterday, Marilyn is 90.

was recently surprised to discover that brecht scholar and theatre critic eric bentley is alive and about to turn 99

also nice to know j.p. donleavy is still pottering around his irish estate

― no lime tangier, Monday, August 31, 2015 5:25 AM (five years ago)

Donleavy checked out last month, but Bentley's still here at 101!

― alimosina, Monday, October 9, 2017 3:10 PM (two years ago)

I am not surprised that Eric Bentley is alive at 103. He will never die.

― alimosina, Tuesday, February 11, 2020 12:06 PM (seven months ago)

rip eric bentley

Tom Vu

Melvyn Hayes.

Donald Trump.

oh, and angela lansbury

― it me, Monday, April 27, 2015 10:59 PM (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink

95 today.

Joe Turkel

RIP Sid Hartman, forever. The worst thing that can be said about you is that you repped your set.

https://www.startribune.com/legendary-columnist-sid-hartman-dies-at-100/572788662/

Henry Silva

John Cairney, 90 (older than Robert Burns and Robert Louis Stevenson put together). Also his brother Jim, who was a footballer, is still going at 89.

Joe Turkel

Still with us? Goddamn a true lifer and a life.

Betty Boothroyd, 91. I'm not really surprised the old fucker is still going but I remember thinking she must be at least 91 at some point like 2006 or similar.

lots of melty folk getting excited about Betty excoriating Boris Johnson in the House of Lords is a perfect illustration of a what a degenerate shithole the UK is. But I enjoyed much more listening to her on the British Audio Archives talking about living through the 30's depression in Dewsbury when her mum was working in a factory and her dad was an unfashionable house-husband.

Tom Lehrer.

I could have sworn Sheldon Adelson was dead.

Bobby Seale

I could have sworn Sheldon Adelson was dead.

You're not alone on this -- I thought he was dead too!

Stanley Baxter

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 12:21 (sixteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

11 years on and still going strong, errrrr, Stanley Baxter that is, not Dom. Can't be sure about Dom.

― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Tuesday, 20 October 2015 15:32 (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink

still alive at 90. which for a glaswegian man is positively methuselahesque

― *-* (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 20 October 2016 17:49 (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Still kicking around at 92.

― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Sunday, 25 November 2018 11:28 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

About time for a Stanley Baxter update. Yes, still there, 93 next month.

― Freddie Starr (Hitler in shorts) (Tom D.), Sunday, 28 April 2019 17:06 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Stanley Baxter, one of the patron saints of this thread, was 93 on Friday.

― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Sunday, 26 May 2019 10:47 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Only Stanley Baxter has more mentions I think.

― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Sunday, 26 January 2020 13:46 (eight months ago) bookmarkflaglink

Stanley Baxter

Glen Michael.

― Horizontal Superman is invulnerable (aldo), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 10:45 (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

93 and counting

― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Thursday, 2 May 2019 07:52 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Glen Michael, Stanley Baxter, Annie Ross... thread's turned very Caledonian.

― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Sunday, 26 May 2019 11:15 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Annie gone this year :( However Glen still with us at 94, he is eight days older than Stanley Baxter.