Not only Norman Lear, but also Bill Macy from Maude!
― Michael Jones, Sunday, 11 August 2019 10:26 (four years ago) link
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)
― mark s, Sunday, 11 August 2019 10:50 (four years ago) link
she was played by Julie Walters in Prick up your Ears.
― calzino, Sunday, 11 August 2019 10:56 (four years ago) link
excellent memoir title
― seven against feebs (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 11 August 2019 11:00 (four years ago) link
"Julie Walters as Elsie Orton"
or maybe I'm wrong, she played his other sister?
― calzino, Sunday, 11 August 2019 11:00 (four years ago) link
it was Frances Barber that played Leonie.
― calzino, Sunday, 11 August 2019 11:03 (four years ago) link
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)
― mark s, Sunday, 11 August 2019 11:29 (four years ago) link
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
― calzino, Sunday, 11 August 2019 11:42 (four years ago) link
Jeffrey Epstein
― Trump, two days ago (Mark G), Sunday, 11 August 2019 12:02 (four years ago) link
i have some bad news for you, you might want to sit down
― Criss Angel Raw: The Mindfreak Unplugged (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 11 August 2019 13:02 (four years ago) link
whatta tube
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 11 August 2019 13:32 (four years ago) link
Spookily, Joe Orton’s sister is on the Antiques Roadshow tonight.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 11 August 2019 19:24 (four years ago) link
Not as an item being valued obviously.
:D
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 11 August 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link
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
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Monday, 12 August 2019 00:43 (four years ago) link
What kind of soup is it
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Monday, 12 August 2019 15:57 (four years ago) link
not esp interested in defending Sean Connery, but did he beat women, or just say it wasn't so bad (like Sam Kinison)?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 August 2019 16:01 (four years ago) link
Diane Cilento said he beat her.
― tokyo rosemary, Monday, 12 August 2019 16:08 (four years ago) link
― Trump, two days ago (Mark G), Sunday, August 11, 2019 12:02 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Criss Angel Raw: The Mindfreak Unplugged (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, August 11, 2019 1:02 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
Uh, the display name
― Mark G, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 06:25 (four years ago) link
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.
― Euripedes' Trousers (Tom D.), Thursday, 15 August 2019 19:41 (four years ago) link
... his first wife ended up marrying John Le Mesurier.
― Euripedes' Trousers (Tom D.), Thursday, 15 August 2019 19:43 (four years ago) link
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!
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 15 August 2019 19:47 (four years ago) link
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.
― The Inner Mounting Phlegm (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 September 2019 11:24 (four years ago) link
... just turned 108 on Tuesday, in fact.
― The Inner Mounting Phlegm (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 September 2019 11:27 (four years ago) link
... also she was the French dubbing voice for Olivia de Havilland, a mere slip of a girl at 103.
― The Inner Mounting Phlegm (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 September 2019 11:29 (four years ago) link
maybe I'll watch The Heiress tonight... but I don't want to jinx Olivia...
― flappy bird, Thursday, 12 September 2019 20:47 (four years ago) link
Silent film star ‘Baby Peggy’, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Serra_Cary
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 29 September 2019 16:59 (four years ago) link
wow that's wild to contemplate
― weird ilx but sb (Doctor Casino), Monday, 30 September 2019 23:44 (four years ago) link
She went into residential care a couple years ago, but there's been no news since.
― Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 00:13 (four years ago) link
Julie Andrews
― flappy bird, Thursday, 17 October 2019 00:11 (four years ago) link
Tom T. Hall
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 17 October 2019 03:43 (four years ago) link
Martin LaSalle.
― Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Thursday, 17 October 2019 11:57 (four years ago) link
Andre Gregory. For some reason I thought he died 15-20 years ago.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 17 October 2019 23:00 (four years ago) link
If I weren't such a fair-weather basketball fan I'd have known this, but I didn't realize Oscar Robertson was still alive (discovered while looking up the Kansas City Kings after buying my goddaughter's daughter a Kings hat). Actually just turned 80.
― clemenza, Saturday, 19 October 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
Gorbachev
― wasdnuos (abanana), Monday, 4 November 2019 14:49 (four years ago) link
woah
― Number None, Monday, 4 November 2019 17:14 (four years ago) link
he always looked a bit older than he really was
― Josefa, Monday, 4 November 2019 17:39 (four years ago) link
Norman Lloyd, 105 today. (Not a surprise in the parts of the Internet I frequent.) Surprise: He is reported to be attached to a pilot in development for ABC.
― Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Friday, 8 November 2019 15:41 (four years ago) link
Mário Zagallo. Only 88, mind you, I thought he was older.
― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Friday, 8 November 2019 16:00 (four years ago) link
Dick Cavett. 82 but I would have thought older.
― Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Saturday, 9 November 2019 03:14 (four years ago) link
Pete Doherty
― StanM, Saturday, 9 November 2019 03:36 (four years ago) link
... 83.
― 'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Saturday, 9 November 2019 13:11 (four years ago) link
Vera Miles, 90.
― flappy bird, Friday, 15 November 2019 20:28 (four years ago) link
Margarita Pracatan
― ailsa, Thursday, 28 November 2019 13:11 (four years ago) link
Burt Young (thank you, Russian Doll
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Thursday, 28 November 2019 18:28 (four years ago) link
As mentioned in some other thread, Ken Rosewall, 85.
― 'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 November 2019 18:29 (four years ago) link
Connie Francis, 81.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 30 November 2019 02:46 (four years ago) link
Infamous Hollywood producer Joel Silver, 67.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 1 December 2019 03:20 (four years ago) link
Chanson singer Juliette Gréco. She joined the French Resistance in her teens, turned 92 this year.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 1 December 2019 11:10 (four years ago) link
M. Emmet Walsh, who I genuinely thought had died until I saw Knives Out last night. (He's 84.)
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 14:41 (four years ago) link