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

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.

I just looked up Jennifer Slept Here and watched the opening credits + like 15 sec of the show
nothing sends me hurtling back into the past like Ann Jillian!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34vaDAakTSk

Clive Revill.

... who is 89. Michael Craig however is 92.

watching mulan with my daughter, had a moment of panic when i realised i couldn’t remember if james hong was still alive, relieved to find he’s still kicking at 91

I could have sworn James Hong died 1-2 years ago because we discussed his career on ILX but it turns out that's because he came up in this thread back in Aug. 2018

Vera Lynn (103)

Watched ‘The Brasher Doubloon’, a film noir from 1947 and was surprised to find that Carol Janis who played one of the main characters is still alive at 92. Probably better known at all for being Mindy’s dad in ‘Mork and Mindy’.

Hardy Krüger, 91.

Nehemiah Persoff at 100! he paints now

Boris Johnson

Dr. Know from Bad Brains. I guess he recovered from that serious health scare a couple of years back?

I think his health problems were 2015? Harley Flanagan did a big fundraiser for him in 2018 I think.

Jean-Luc Godard, 89. For some reason I thought he died a few years ago.

Tom Lehrer (92)