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

Wow. Not just outliving her son but outliving everyone.

Everyone but Catherine Deneuve's mother, who is ca. 5 months older.

Sidney Poitier

curtis fuller, 85

Mel Brooks, just saw him on Twitter with his son.

And Dick Van Dyke repping for Bernie too.

Musical "legend" Anita Bryant, who turns 80 soon. Was thinking god called her home to her eternal reward.

Nah, she just went to Branson.

All I know about her is that she's rudely mentioned in a Dead Kennedys song

vicious homophobic demagogue, and orange juice spokesperson --- these became creatively linked by gay rights activists through an OJ boycott.

“Haven’t seen anything like this since the Anita Bryant concert”

Local gay actor here used to do a show called Pieface about her at the Orlando Fringe fest every five years or so.

I do believe he did not care for her.

Bob Wellings, BBC Nationwide presenter, 85.

Mel Brooks, just saw him on Twitter with his son.

And Dick Van Dyke repping for Bernie too.

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jackson browne!

(bcz i always confuse him with warren zevon lol)

i keep thinking Rick Stein is dead, i must confuse him with Keith Floyd or something

i mean apparently he's dead now but

Drunk Rick Stein chef crushed to death chasing after train to retrieve forgotten coffee

Kyle Kusano-Puffett, who had also taken the drug MDMA, realised he had forgotten his beverage after climbing out of the window of the carriage door

this is what I found from Rick Stein dead

Might as well add Rick Stein and Keith Floyd to the "oh I always mix these two people up", for I do, too.

but isn't Rick Stein a charmless unreconstructed Tory prick* whereas Keith Floyd was a quite amusing variety of Tory wanker.

*I'm just guessing this - I have never knowingly watched him.

In my mind they are one and the same chef who enjoyed drinking way too much tbf

It's good that the third person mentioned on this thread, over 16 years ago, is still with us.

Oh there's another chef I always mix up with Rick Stein, the Scottish seafood one.

Nick Nairn. Except Rick Stein is the seafood one. My interest in chefs is less than zero.

OK, so you can make some nice food, who gives a flying fuck?

https://miro.medium.com/max/640/1*hfqYfoXWFRPYnRFImnA1mQ.png

lol

Exactly!

jimmy carter.

i could have sworn i read a bunch of obituaries about a month ago.

Uderzo, or at least until he had died when i read his obit .
Hadn't realised he'd been around at all.

Donald Trump.

I'm sure if we all wish really hard at the same time. Or is taht what we've been doing for the last 3 years.

treesh when Carter dies it'll be hard to miss, flags at half mast, lying in state at the captiol, Trump feeling one-upped and having a tantrum etc

irritating tory and brexiteer joan collins

I also thought she had died but realised I was thinking of Elizaveth Taylor

Boris Johnson

xp Alexis Morell Carrington Colby Dexter Rowan is active on Twitter, where you'll see her posing with various candidates for this thread

Tatsuya Nakadai, who appeared in Harakiri, Samurai Rebellion, Kwaidan, Yojimbo, Ran and a shitload more - 87 and still acting.

Penderecki (RIP)

likewise :(

Jack Jones

Larry Flynt! A sprightly 77.

John Astin turned 90 yesterday!

julian priester. 84

He plays on Alice by Sunn O))) right? Which is a good 10 years ago but still. Glad to hear he's still kicking.

Ann Jillian. For some reason I thought she had succumbed to breast cancer, but she's a very spritely 70.

Me too!

damn James, would have figured you for a Gen Xer at the oldest

She's not dead?

I mean, that's great news and everything.

Pizza party!

Richard Donner! 89, thought he'd popped it years ago. Apparently he's planning to direct yet another Lethal Weapon film, lord save us.