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

Joan Didion, 85

james baker, 90

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

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, March 31, 2019 7:01 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

106 today!

Dick Butkus

Star of Blue Thunder!?

I think that's a sign, because I was just looking up something about Dan O'Bannon, and didn't realize he wrote the Blue Thunder script. Then I thought, huh, I haven't seen the Blue Thunder movie since I was a kid, I should watch it. And now this call back to the TV show? I think I'm in.

Angie Dickinson, 89

Joe Turkel, best known as Lloyd the bartender in The Shining and Eldon Tyrell from Blade Runner. Still alive at 93

this doesn't even belong on this thread but i don't know where to put it. there was a guy i went to law school with and he lived near me. we would sometimes talk at the bus stop, he was really nice. after he graduated he took a rock climbing trip somewhere and he ended up falling from a boulder and he died from the head injury. he was a bon iver fan (i mean this was 2009) and the facebook page about his death had something about a bon iver song. since i don't have any reason to ever think of him but like once a year i run across a reference to bon iver, the idea of him dying has been replaced in my brain with "the guy from bon iver died." then i have to say to myself, "no, not him." i will persist in doing this until he dies for real or i die.

marion ross (mrs. c on happy days), 92

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'.

I've mentioned her before, but still alive at 94 is Jane Withers, once a child star rival of Shirley Temple, and one of America's top ten box office attractions of 1938 and 1939.

She retired at age 21, back in 1947.

Danny Bonaduce, 61
Eddie Kramer, 78

dang Jane Withers!! and she's only 94? what a life

George Schultz, Reagan's second Secretary of State, 99 (100 in a month).

Wonder what that Yale Tiger looks like now.

wonder if he's given up on elizabeth holmes yet

Gina Lollobrigida, 93

This year was such a blur that I didn't realize that Victor Skrebneski, the famed Chicago photographer, had died just this April.

https://i1.wp.com/jodywatley.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/DianaRoss_Skrebneski70s.jpg?resize=768%2C437&ssl=1

Bobby Vinton.

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Anyway, aye, he's 81. And not dead.

― ailsa, Tuesday, March 7, 2017 6:51 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

85 now

I didn't think that she had died, but I was surprised to find that Lina Wertmuller is 92.

not myself but my coworker was surprised the other day to find out Roberta Flack is still among the living

Barry McGuire, 85.

"McGuinn and McGuire, ages gettin' higher..."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/wayne-thiebaud-crocker-exhibition/2020/11/12/ce34aa7c-2398-11eb-a688-5298ad5d580a_story.html

Artist Wayne Thiebaud, 100.

Ed Asner turns 91 today.

Tommy Lasorda, 93. Somehow I thought he had passed like 5 years ago.

hb Ed Asner!

topol, 85

he thought it was the Zeitman series! he hasn't changed

Lee Grant, 95 (and working again!)

Lee Grant is a hero for all times, and has outlived everyone who tried to destroy her career back in the 1950s by some margin.

Larry Niven, 82. I think I'm confusing him with Jerry Pournelle, who is dead.

What’s the difference between Larry Niven and Jeremy Piven

Jeremy Piven never wrote a pokerfaced hard-SF essay about how Superman could not fuck Lois Lane because his ejaculate would fire through the top of her skull like a machine gun

...that we know of.

I didn't know about either... until just now, I guess.

Haha that wasn't just a throwaway Kevin Smith joke?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_Steel,_Woman_of_Kleenex

The essay itself: http://www.rawbw.com/~svw/superman.html

not really pokerfaced? seems humorous (or that is the intent anyway)

You could ask him, seeing as how he's still alive (as per the thread title)!

Yes, it's funny, but played straight.

Composer Gavin Bryers, 77.

Bryars' blood never failed him yet.

For that matter, Harold Budd, 84.

Walter Mondale

― The Reverend, Friday, October 28, 2011 6:16 PM (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Discovered by the Rev 9 years ago but discovered by me just today!

this is not bad btw
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/fritz/112442219

Kinda weird that three-quarters of the 1976 tickets are still alive.

Clint eastwood, 90

he released three films in 2018-19 and starred in one!