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

(no)

I also had to look up soup-taking and now I know what it means I'd be grateful if you could explain why it applies to Connery, because I'm not seeing anything in his biography that relates to it

You mean apart from supporting Rangers when they were stealing 9 league titles?

She’s not famous herself exactly, but Serge Gainsbourg’s twin sister Liliane Ginsburg is still alive at 91 as far as I can tell.

I also had to look up soup-taking and now I know what it means I'd be grateful if you could explain why it applies to Connery, because I'm not seeing anything in his biography that relates to it

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he's an irish catholic who supported the soccer team celtic (former by irish catholic immigrants) as a boy and then changed his allegiances to the team rangers (supported by loyalists and orangemen) in the 90s

i accept that's not as bad as wife-beating

he's also a scottish nationalist who took a knighthood from the queen and lives in spain

sorry, splits his time between the bahamas (his primary residence for tax purposes) and spain. ensuring to not spend sufficient time in scotland to have to pay tax

I mean nice work if you can get it

he's an irish catholic who supported the soccer team celtic (former by irish catholic immigrants) as a boy and then changed his allegiances to the team rangers (supported by loyalists and orangemen) in the 90s

Not only as a boy, my dad remembers seeing 'Big Tam' at games at Celtic Park in the 60s.

I was reminded several years back but just checked in again to be sure and, wow, Beverly Cleary still chugging on at a sprightly 103-years-old.

Oh I see now that was mentioned earlier this year. Still worthy of note!

wtf Sean Connery is still alive??

Hey okay how about

Bob Barker

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he died

omg wtf he didn't!

Right?!

She’s not famous herself exactly, but Serge Gainsbourg’s twin sister Liliane Ginsburg is still alive at 91 as far as I can tell.

similarly in the not famous stakes: lucette destouches (mrs l-f céline) recently had her 107th birthday

Lloyd Price!

Norman Lear

Not only Norman Lear, but also Bill Macy from Maude!

joe's sister:
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41%2B3qWeSPSL._SX323_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

(i mean i didn't really even know she existed till i saw a tweet earlier that you could win a nice supper with her in some joe-related thing)

she was played by Julie Walters in Prick up your Ears.

excellent memoir title

"Julie Walters as Elsie Orton"

or maybe I'm wrong, she played his other sister?

it was Frances Barber that played Leonie.

elsie is his mum, his other sister was called marilyn (i just looked this up)

i dimly remember a fond sister being part of the story: i probably remember the john lahr book better than the film, which i haven't seen since it came out

john lahr maybe belongs on this thread also, in that i'd assumed he was long-dead (fact fans: he's the son of the cowardly lion in the wizard of oz)

I've half read the book a long time ago and seen the movie umpteen times. Barber is only 7 years younger than Walters is my excuse for the mixup

Jeffrey Epstein

i have some bad news for you, you might want to sit down

whatta tube

Spookily, Joe Orton’s sister is on the Antiques Roadshow tonight.

Not as an item being valued obviously.

:D

just popping in to say that accusations of soup-taking would see blades drawn round my way, not sure whether ranking it vis a vis domestic violence is what id call an appropriate spend of anyone's time or w/e

What kind of soup is it

not esp interested in defending Sean Connery, but did he beat women, or just say it wasn't so bad (like Sam Kinison)?

Diane Cilento said he beat her.

Jeffrey Epstein

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i have some bad news for you, you might want to sit down

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Uh, the display name

Just watching Mark Eden in "Séance on a Wet Afternoon", still alive at 91.

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5gpHqdmK2ac/T_a02yahrgI/AAAAAAAAC-Y/yOcxhX46MNc/s1600/Mark+Eden+Seance+on+a+wet+afternoon.JPG

... also it seems he's married to Sue Nicholls (Audrey in Coronation Street), so could also go in the Old Time Actors You're Surprised to Find Out Are/Were Married to One Another thread.

... his first wife ended up marrying John Le Mesurier.

Was checking out the different Little Women films on IMDB, and saw that Margaret O'Brien is not only still alive, but also still working!

She's not famous - well, she probably is in France - but Catherine Deneuve's mother, Renée Simonot, is still alive at 108!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9e_Simonot

Surely the oldest yet itt.

... just turned 108 on Tuesday, in fact.

... also she was the French dubbing voice for Olivia de Havilland, a mere slip of a girl at 103.

maybe I'll watch The Heiress tonight... but I don't want to jinx Olivia...

Silent film star ‘Baby Peggy’, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Serra_Cary

wow that's wild to contemplate

She went into residential care a couple years ago, but there's been no news since.

Julie Andrews