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

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

I just discovered Bruce Dern isn’t dead.

just smells that way

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.)

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

David Hockney

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

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

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!

Mamie Van Doren, 89

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

Chuck Yeager, 97 today.

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

Now 105! "Years active 1923–present"

Define "active."

sexually

"Have you ever done a Century?"

shocked just now by Bob Dole

Sam & Fred from the Impressions.

Radio legend Art Laboe, the original oldie but goodie, is still on-air after nearly 80 years

https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2020/02/12/radio-legend-art-laboe-the-original-oldie-but-goodie-is-still-on-air-after-nearly-80-years/

Mitzi Gaynor, 88.

sam donaldson

haha, wow.

https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200214222617-02-sam-donaldson-headshot-medium-plus-169.jpg

Statler 2020

Jimmy Tarbuck!

Julian Bream, 86

Sonny Barger, 81.

lol

^guessing you read some "Cure Drummer Dies" headlines and assumed it was Tolhurst. he's still very much alive!

the mum out of ‘happy days’, 91

Was in a museum today and saw a Frank Stella sculpture and noticed there was no "d." date on the card. He's 83.

Roger Corman, 93.

only part of him is alive

Kicking myself for missing Corman introducing Masque Of Red Death here in town last month.

Holy shit, just saw a FB endorsement for Bernie Sanders from DICK VAN DYKE. That dude must be at least 100.

That's the Mary Poppins old age makeup.

Van Dyke is barely 94, and still performing live.

was certain dick van dyke died shortly after he stopped doing new years rockin eve

can't keep my dicks in a row

Norman Lloyd went to a World Series game in 2018 … he'd been to one before in 1926, I think

James Lovelock

blimey i interviewed lovelock when he was a spry and youthful 70

Burt Bacharach (91)

Genuinely thought that the guy who built the steam-powered rocket to prove there was a flat earth had already killed himself in a previous launch/accident.

That might have been another guy who built a steam-powered rocket to prove there was a flat earth.

You can't make an omelette etc. (Omelettes are flat, by the way. Not round. Flat.)

also they only have one side and underneath its turtles all the way down

There was a Night Court rerun on today that had John Astin guesting; not only is Astin still alive (turns 90 in March), but he really wasn't <that> old when the episode was taped (just under 60 then).

He played Harry Anderson's Dad, which also brings up the weirdness that Astin has outlived Anderson, ex-wife Patty Duke, almost every fellow TV Batman villain, and pretty much all of The Addams Family cast.

Including the guy who played Gomez in the movie 30 years later.

Roger Corman, 93.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, February 21, 2020 8:09 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

only part of him is alive

― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Friday, February 21, 2020 8:11 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

the remaining part will be stitched together with other human parts to make a complete person

Kim Novak

holy shit

Mary Quant