Had no idea Roberta Flack was still alive. 85.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 October 2022 23:42 (one year ago) link
I mentioned journalist/non-fiction writer Gay Talese on another thread, he's 90.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 00:18 (one year ago) link
John Kander, of the songwriting team Kander and Ebb, 95.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 00:23 (one year ago) link
Ted Turner, 83.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 17:40 (one year ago) link
Bob Ezrin, 73. Which isn't old but I had no idea he was barely into his twenties when he began producing Alice Cooper records.
― zeuhl's forgotten man (Matt #2), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:44 (one year ago) link
Jimmy Swaggart!
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 29 October 2022 05:09 (one year ago) link
Cleo Laine
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Saturday, 29 October 2022 18:34 (one year ago) link
Saw today that Morton Subotnick will be at the 2023 Big Ears festival. 89
― nickn, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 22:34 (one year ago) link
Until I saw this tweet, Pete Murray.
RIP whoever used to have the hair currently residing on David Hamilton's head.
Over Christmas, listen out for Pete Murray and David Hamilton - together. With a combined age of 181 - we think it's radio's oldest double act! Pete's radio career began in the early '50s; David's in the late '50s. Pete was David's hero - now his friend. pic.twitter.com/Em9kXE114C— BoomRadioUK (@BoomRadioUK) December 10, 2022
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Saturday, 10 December 2022 17:49 (one year ago) link
Frank Drebin, by the looks of it
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 11 December 2022 10:51 (one year ago) link
Pete Murray is 97! And still has his own hair! Whereas David Hamilton hasn't had his own hair since he was 27.
― Gulf VAR Syndrome (Tom D.), Sunday, 11 December 2022 11:04 (one year ago) link
Until I saw this tweet, Pete Murray
You can't have been paying attention when I shouted him in this thread a couple of months ago, then.
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Sunday, 11 December 2022 11:47 (one year ago) link
You're right, I wasn't. My fault, not yours.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Sunday, 11 December 2022 12:28 (one year ago) link
Edna O'Brien, 92.
― Gulf VAR Syndrome (Tom D.), Thursday, 15 December 2022 22:43 (one year ago) link
Tom Lehrer, hanging in there at 94.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 15 December 2022 22:47 (one year ago) link
Garnet Mimms, 89
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 02:35 (one year ago) link
Wow!
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 02:40 (one year ago) link
richard hell
― normal AI yankovic (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 05:41 (one year ago) link
Murray Melvin, 90
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 19:48 (one year ago) link
I saw him in the street once, in Soho, like 10 years ago, he looked great.
― Kiss Me, Dudley (Tom D.), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 19:51 (one year ago) link
Pele
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/22/football/pele-health-christmas-spt-intl/index.html
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 22 December 2022 16:21 (one year ago) link
A perennial (and only just turned 90) but still:
Merry Christmas! pic.twitter.com/LCEN46v5ry— Sir Quentin Blake HQ (@QuentinBlakeHQ) December 24, 2022
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 24 December 2022 19:04 (one year ago) link
Fair play to the guy for rolling along still but his artwork enrages me
― Hello I must be Göring (Matt #2), Saturday, 24 December 2022 20:08 (one year ago) link
i like him but there was a smart point in a recent LRB that QB's artwork greatly launders the nastiness in roald dahl's writing
― mark s, Saturday, 24 December 2022 20:20 (one year ago) link
yesterday was reading The Enormous Crocodile (a book set in Africa) and thinking about exactly this
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Saturday, 24 December 2022 20:38 (one year ago) link
Just watching "White Christmas" and noticed one of the dancers in one of the musical numbers was George Chakiris... still alive at 90.
― Twa pehs an' an ingin ane an' aw (Tom D.), Sunday, 25 December 2022 13:19 (one year ago) link
Okay, that I am really surprised about.
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 26 December 2022 17:07 (one year ago) link
Columnist/author/humorist Dave Barry, 75.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 26 December 2022 17:16 (one year ago) link
Garnet Mimms, 89― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, December 20, 2022 2:35 AM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, December 20, 2022 2:35 AM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink
Ah grand: my first single I bought (well, I won it at a fete) was "It's been such a long way home" and it's a great track.
― Mark G, Monday, 26 December 2022 17:23 (one year ago) link
Stuart Hall (the paedo one), 93 on Christmas Day.
― Twa pehs an' an ingin ane an' aw (Tom D.), Friday, 30 December 2022 13:07 (one year ago) link
the restorative benefits of a prison diet in the nonce wing for a few years did him no harm at all!
― calzino, Friday, 30 December 2022 14:17 (one year ago) link
There might be something in that, Rolf's 92 after all.
― Twa pehs an' an ingin ane an' aw (Tom D.), Friday, 30 December 2022 14:22 (one year ago) link
my brother once made a complete feigning arsewipe out of himself when he met Stuart Hall by excitedly blurting out to a friend "I can't believe we are talking to Stuart Hall" mid conversation.
― calzino, Friday, 30 December 2022 14:35 (one year ago) link
Political satirist Mark Russell, 90 (active on Twitter, per the current politics thread).
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Friday, 30 December 2022 17:41 (one year ago) link
Priscilla Pointer, who played Victoria Principal’s mom on Dallas. Also real mom of Amy Irving. (98)
― Josefa, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 20:22 (one year ago) link
Cynthia Ozick, 94.
― alimosina, Friday, 20 January 2023 21:42 (one year ago) link
Graham Kerr--"the Galloping Gourmet"--turned 89 yesterday. Hope he took a sip of wine and looked mischievously into a camera that wasn't there.
― clemenza, Monday, 23 January 2023 18:40 (one year ago) link
OTM
― A Drunk Man Looks At Partick Thistle (Tom D.), Monday, 23 January 2023 18:49 (one year ago) link
I actually meant my comment as a compliment, having enjoyed watching him a kid, but your post made me think that I'd better look him up and find out what horrible things he did that I didn't know about.
In a 1975 interview publicizing Take Kerr, Kerr renounced the show The Galloping Gourmet, saying that "What I did wasn't art, it was a crime," given the increasing rate of obesity in the United States. He also apologized for two of his trademarks on that show, his wine drinking and his double entendres. He stated that he was trying to convince TV stations to remove reruns of the show from syndication.
Relatively speaking, I guess not too bad.
― clemenza, Monday, 23 January 2023 23:06 (one year ago) link
Yeah, I saw one "I heart cooking TV" show that showed one recipe where he basically said it would not cause weight gain, and it was full of full fat cream and all sorts.So, fair play to him...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 22:58 (one year ago) link
At work today, someone started saying, "The late Stanley Baxter..." and I was like woah there!
― A Drunk Man Looks At Partick Thistle (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2023 23:19 (one year ago) link
roger corman, 96
― sault bae (voodoo chili), Thursday, 26 January 2023 02:11 (one year ago) link
he seems to be a fixture in this thread lol. go roger!
― sault bae (voodoo chili), Thursday, 26 January 2023 02:13 (one year ago) link
Brian Glanville, 91.
He is still writing, mostly obituaries of old footballers. I love this one on the old Juventus footballer, later director (possibly corrupt ofc), and politician.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/jun/20/giampiero-boniperti-obituary
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 28 January 2023 01:12 (one year ago) link
Sly Stone, 79
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 28 January 2023 07:25 (one year ago) link
Petula Clark turned 90 in November.
― clemenza, Monday, 30 January 2023 07:08 (one year ago) link
George Foreman, a mere 81.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 00:40 (one year ago) link
an 81 year old boxer is like the longevity equivalent of a 160 year old person who never got hit in the head for a living
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 31 January 2023 00:49 (one year ago) link
GASMS
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 31 January 2023 21:14 (one year ago) link
Judith Chalmers, 87.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Saturday, 4 February 2023 13:50 (one year ago) link