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

thought he was dead too, have now realised I was confusing him with Reg Presley

I met his cousin once, but now he's dead tooinstead.

Pat Suzuki (90 this month)

Songwriting team Alan and Marilyn Bergman. Alan turned 95 yesterday, Marilyn is 90.

was recently surprised to discover that brecht scholar and theatre critic eric bentley is alive and about to turn 99

also nice to know j.p. donleavy is still pottering around his irish estate

― no lime tangier, Monday, August 31, 2015 5:25 AM (five years ago)

Donleavy checked out last month, but Bentley's still here at 101!

― alimosina, Monday, October 9, 2017 3:10 PM (two years ago)

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

― alimosina, Tuesday, February 11, 2020 12:06 PM (seven months ago)

rip eric bentley

Tom Vu

Melvyn Hayes.

Donald Trump.

oh, and angela lansbury

― it me, Monday, April 27, 2015 10:59 PM (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink

95 today.

Joe Turkel

RIP Sid Hartman, forever. The worst thing that can be said about you is that you repped your set.

https://www.startribune.com/legendary-columnist-sid-hartman-dies-at-100/572788662/

Henry Silva

John Cairney, 90 (older than Robert Burns and Robert Louis Stevenson put together). Also his brother Jim, who was a footballer, is still going at 89.

Joe Turkel

Still with us? Goddamn a true lifer and a life.

Betty Boothroyd, 91. I'm not really surprised the old fucker is still going but I remember thinking she must be at least 91 at some point like 2006 or similar.

lots of melty folk getting excited about Betty excoriating Boris Johnson in the House of Lords is a perfect illustration of a what a degenerate shithole the UK is. But I enjoyed much more listening to her on the British Audio Archives talking about living through the 30's depression in Dewsbury when her mum was working in a factory and her dad was an unfashionable house-husband.

Tom Lehrer.

I could have sworn Sheldon Adelson was dead.

Bobby Seale

I could have sworn Sheldon Adelson was dead.

You're not alone on this -- I thought he was dead too!

Stanley Baxter

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 12:21 (sixteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

11 years on and still going strong, errrrr, Stanley Baxter that is, not Dom. Can't be sure about Dom.

― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Tuesday, 20 October 2015 15:32 (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink

still alive at 90. which for a glaswegian man is positively methuselahesque

― *-* (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 20 October 2016 17:49 (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Still kicking around at 92.

― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Sunday, 25 November 2018 11:28 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

About time for a Stanley Baxter update. Yes, still there, 93 next month.

― Freddie Starr (Hitler in shorts) (Tom D.), Sunday, 28 April 2019 17:06 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Stanley Baxter, one of the patron saints of this thread, was 93 on Friday.

― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Sunday, 26 May 2019 10:47 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Only Stanley Baxter has more mentions I think.

― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Sunday, 26 January 2020 13:46 (eight months ago) bookmarkflaglink

Stanley Baxter

Glen Michael.

― Horizontal Superman is invulnerable (aldo), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 10:45 (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

93 and counting

― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Thursday, 2 May 2019 07:52 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Glen Michael, Stanley Baxter, Annie Ross... thread's turned very Caledonian.

― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Sunday, 26 May 2019 11:15 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Annie gone this year :( However Glen still with us at 94, he is eight days older than Stanley Baxter.

Frank Bough

Chuck Norris, 80.

robert duvall, 89

Dean Stockwell, 84

for a second i got him mixed up with Ross Perot's running mate James Stockdale and was like "there's no fucking way" and indeed there was not.

Jasper Johns.

Jasper Johns 90, Claes Oldenburg 91, Frank Stella 84. All still going

Geoffrey Boycott, 80. I could've sworn he died years ago.

have you had some kind of policy against taking in news about him

Junior Byles.

joe biden

Sly Stone.

Chuck Yeager, 97

whoa, good one

cormac mccarthy, 87

He has a new book on the cards! Supposedly.

Sly Stone.

― Tuomas, Thursday, November 5, 2020

Always genuinely surprised he's still here. Is he still living in a van?

He won a court case for $5 million for two decades in back royalties six years back, so hopefully not. But even when he was reported to be living in the van, it was parked outside a four-bedroom home his lawyer rented for him, that he was "too paranoid" to go inside.

Apparently he didn't see the $5m because it was appealed but having now googled him it seems the Jackson estate bought up his back catalogue last year, so maybe now he's getting something?

A new air freshener for his rear-view mirror.

Judd Hirsch, because my partner and I were trying to remember his name after talking about Taxi and now I'm like 'shit, 85? please don't die before the year is out'.

had a shockingly large role in the Independence Day sequel a couple years back!

Also spotted in Sharknado 2 on one of the down-the-dial Freeview UK channels the other day. Driving a cab, natch.

Judd Hirsch played Marc Maron"s dad who lived in a van out the front of Maron's house on the sitcom 'Maron'


#onethreadbutreallyonethread

He was also in Uncut Gems!!

Now, Judd Nelson, no idea what he is up to.

Joan Didion, 85

james baker, 90