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

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hmmm, I find it plausible if unlikely

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 19 January 2020 16:32 (four years ago) link

I think it's awesome Suzy Delair is still "parmi nous".

SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 19 January 2020 16:47 (four years ago) link

mike yarwood -- in fact he's only 78

mark s, Sunday, 19 January 2020 20:14 (four years ago) link

was surprised to find christopher biggins is only 71, could have sworn he was 40 at least in the early 80s.

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 19 January 2020 20:16 (four years ago) link

Shecky Greene (93)

Οὖτις, Monday, 20 January 2020 16:06 (four years ago) link

Jean-Luc Godard (89)

van dyke parks generator (anagram), Friday, 24 January 2020 12:17 (four years ago) link

Ivry Gitlis (97)

pomenitul, Friday, 24 January 2020 14:46 (four years ago) link

rod laver (81)

culture of mayordom (voodoo chili), Friday, 24 January 2020 16:12 (four years ago) link

g k chesterton

Catherine, Boner of JP Sweeney & Co (darraghmac), Friday, 24 January 2020 16:27 (four years ago) link

Ole "Gunner" Solskjaer

GK Chessington's World of Adventure (Noodle Vague), Friday, 24 January 2020 16:35 (four years ago) link

Dracula

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 24 January 2020 16:43 (four years ago) link

Beverly Cleary still going strong at 103!

a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 24 January 2020 17:26 (four years ago) link

henry woolf of rutland weekend TV (90)

mark s, Sunday, 26 January 2020 12:41 (four years ago) link

Colin Jeavons, oftimes weaselly British character actor, 90.

Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Sunday, 26 January 2020 12:59 (four years ago) link

Oh wow to both of those

GK Chessington's World of Adventure (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 26 January 2020 13:10 (four years ago) link

tom lehrer

― norway srna (nakhchivan), Saturday, February 28, 2015 4:27 PM (four years ago)

Tom Lehrer.

Come to think of it, this phenomenon would make good subject matter for a Tom Lehrer song.

― a defense for Euro-Blackface (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, April 21, 2016 9:28 AM (three years ago)

Still alive!

it's after the end of the world (Matt #2), Sunday, 26 January 2020 13:42 (four years ago) link

Only Stanley Baxter has more mentions I think.

Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Sunday, 26 January 2020 13:46 (four years ago) link

to even things up: olivia de havilland olivia de havilland olivia de havilland olivia de havilland

mark s, Sunday, 26 January 2020 13:52 (four years ago) link

Rhonda Fleming (96)

Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Sunday, 26 January 2020 13:53 (four years ago) link

Jules Feiffer (91 today!)

... (Eazy), Sunday, 26 January 2020 14:22 (four years ago) link

Beverly Cleary still going strong at 103!

― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, January 24, 2020 12:26 PM bookmarkflaglink

Beezus Christ!

... that's Traore! (Neanderthal), Sunday, 26 January 2020 14:40 (four years ago) link

Angela Lansbury (94)

Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 26 January 2020 18:15 (four years ago) link

Lindsay Lohan (33)

wasdnuos (abanana), Sunday, 26 January 2020 20:38 (four years ago) link

sad lol

Gene Hackman, 89.

Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 26 January 2020 20:50 (four years ago) link

Briefly thought Cormac McCarthy had passed. Still alive, 86.

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 23:38 (four years ago) link

des o'connor

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 23:39 (four years ago) link

Jean-Luc Godard (89)

― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Friday, January 24, 2020 7:17 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

his most recent movie was his best! (2018)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAXMVkV3idE

flappy bird, Sunday, 2 February 2020 06:57 (four years ago) link

Bill Tidy.

Michael Jones, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 19:27 (four years ago) link

Good one.

(includes digression on farting) (Tom D.), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 20:17 (four years ago) link

Earl holliman

Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 20:22 (four years ago) link

george shultz (99)

mookieproof, Thursday, 6 February 2020 00:59 (four years ago) link

Mamie Van Doren, 89

it's after the end of the world (Matt #2), Saturday, 8 February 2020 00:25 (four years ago) link

Earl Holliman

The main cast of Police Woman are all still alive: Ed Bernard (80); Charles Dierkop (83); Angie Dickinson (88), and Earl Holliman (90)

Josefa, Saturday, 8 February 2020 00:48 (four years ago) link

Joss Ackland

Michael Jones, Saturday, 8 February 2020 23:19 (four years ago) link

Johnny Mathis.

(These last two because I was convinced both had passed away sometime in the late '00s)

Michael Jones, Sunday, 9 February 2020 16:22 (four years ago) link

yr first post sent me off down a rabbithole to remind myself of the details abt joss ackland and paula yates, those detals being (it turns out) that i have him confused with jess yates

mark s, Sunday, 9 February 2020 16:35 (four years ago) link

I just discovered Bruce Dern isn’t dead.

akm, Monday, 10 February 2020 02:23 (four years ago) link

just smells that way

sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Monday, 10 February 2020 02:28 (four years ago) link

Hal Holbrook

(Prompted by seeing someone who looked like him (but wasn’t) make a cameo appearance in a Lionel Richie video. Hey, I’m working from home and I like to watch the old pop videos channel while I’m on my lunch break.)

Michael Jones, Monday, 10 February 2020 14:49 (four years ago) link

All right, I'm asking: In which Lionel Richie video is there a Hal Holbrook lookalike running around?

pplains, Monday, 10 February 2020 15:11 (four years ago) link

David Hockney

alimosina, Monday, 10 February 2020 23:59 (four years ago) link

As Dan Bern sang, Warhol’s dead, David Hockney’s still alive, I don’t need to paint.

Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 00:02 (four years ago) link

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

alimosina, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 17:06 (four years ago) link

Lionel Richie video: Running With The Night. At 02:42, the street drinker...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PnhlXLHKAE

It doesn't really look like him now I've seen it again!

Michael Jones, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 20:27 (four years ago) link

Mamie Van Doren, 89

I always mixed her up with Monique van Vooren. Monique van Vooren missed this topic a couple of weeks ago.

alimosina, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 17:13 (four years ago) link

Chuck Yeager, 97 today.

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 13 February 2020 13:40 (four years ago) link

Speaking of St. Elsewhere alums, Norman Lloyd is still alive at 104.

Now 105! "Years active 1923–present"

alimosina, Thursday, 13 February 2020 16:26 (four years ago) link

Define "active."

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 13 February 2020 16:44 (four years ago) link

sexually

sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Thursday, 13 February 2020 16:47 (four years ago) link

"Have you ever done a Century?"

nickn, Thursday, 13 February 2020 17:20 (four years ago) link


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