He did an "Elf" cast reunion read through, Christmas just gone.
― Mark G, Saturday, 16 January 2021 21:12 (three years ago) link
I feel like Noam Chomsky has been 90 years old for the last 20 years.
― Dan I., Monday, 18 January 2021 20:10 (three years ago) link
looked like he was going for the late period LBJ longhaired look for a while but now he has a beard
― Josefa, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 01:21 (three years ago) link
love it when old dudes grow their hair out, duke ellington did it too
― brimstead, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 15:56 (three years ago) link
piers anthony, 86
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 16:36 (three years ago) link
remember when Piers Anthony put some of his porn short stories into Anthonology
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 17:22 (three years ago) link
yeah he is a very creepy dude, even by the standards of sci-fi writers of his generation
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 17:37 (three years ago) link
Anthonology is the only one of my dad's SF books that he ever got alarmed to find me reading
― shivers me timber (sic), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 19:52 (three years ago) link
I read that book a good 35 years ago and I am still haunted by the horrifying imagery of the dairy farm story and the space Barbie story.
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 19:59 (three years ago) link
I googled idly to see what else our mans Piers has been up to and HOLY SHIT
https://hradzka.dreamwidth.org/386011.html
LOCK HIM UP, LOCK HIM UP IMMEDIATELY
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 20:03 (three years ago) link
.....
the latter book there is available on ebay for more dollars than Anthony's age, presumably because most copies were seized by international authorities, or self-combusted from shame
― shivers me timber (sic), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 20:22 (three years ago) link
wish i hadn't clicked that one, djp
― treeship., Tuesday, 19 January 2021 20:32 (three years ago) link
I wish he hadn't written that in the first place
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 20:33 (three years ago) link
me too. i was barely reading this thread, and had forgotten which thread it was, and when i clicked your link i was expecting some risible opinion piece by piers morgan
― treeship., Tuesday, 19 January 2021 20:35 (three years ago) link
Thank fucking god I never tried anything outside of the Xanth novels.
― Joe Biden Stan Account (milo z), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 20:48 (three years ago) link
yuck, no thanks for that
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 21:21 (three years ago) link
Lina Wertmüller, 92.
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 10:58 (three years ago) link
Having just watched "The Battle of Algiers" it's interesting how many of the people portrayed in the film are still alive:
Saadi Yacef (who co-produced the film and appears in it playing a character based on himself), 92.Zohra Drif (the Milk Cafe bomber), 86.Djamila Bouhired (another female bomber), 85.
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 19:01 (three years ago) link
Not too famous, but still alive: Anne Vernon, who played the mother in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. 97 years old.
― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 January 2021 21:05 (three years ago) link
Gavin MacLeod, 89
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 29 January 2021 21:57 (three years ago) link
Françoise Gilot, 99.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 29 January 2021 22:15 (three years ago) link
xp his cousin connor macleod is even older
― mookieproof, Friday, 29 January 2021 22:42 (three years ago) link
George Chakiris, 86
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 30 January 2021 23:13 (three years ago) link
Not to be confused with George Maharis, also still alive at 92
― Josefa, Sunday, 31 January 2021 00:00 (three years ago) link
Elsa Klensch, 87. I'm forcing myself--stupefied--to make it through Altman's Ready to Wear for the first time since it came out, and she has a cameo. I'd forgotten all about her; she was on CNN for years.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 04:54 (three years ago) link
I heard that Al Jaffee is still alive at 99, but I'm actually not surprised--I'll be surprised if he ever dies!
― Dan I., Thursday, 4 February 2021 01:35 (three years ago) link
Al was still doing the Fold-In every issue in MAD until it stopped regular publication at the end of 2019
(but one of the few specials they published last year was an Al Jaffee one with new material)
― shivers me timber (sic), Thursday, 4 February 2021 01:54 (three years ago) link
diamond pvmic
― mookieproof, Thursday, 4 February 2021 02:20 (three years ago) link
Mamie Van Doren, 89
― it's after the end of the world (Matt #2), Friday, February 7, 2020 7:25 PM (eleven months ago) bookmarkflaglink
90 today. Apparently she is active on Facebook under that name.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Saturday, 6 February 2021 17:43 (three years ago) link
I was absolutely sure Peter Perrett from the Only Ones had died decades ago, but nope. Still releasing records at the age of 68, although he does suffer from COPD but hopefully there's some years in him yet.
― faramir otm (Matt #2), Sunday, 7 February 2021 09:58 (three years ago) link
Roy Medvedev, Soviet dissident. 95 years old. supporter of Putin
― Dusty Benelux (jim in vancouver), Monday, 8 February 2021 17:37 (three years ago) link
(xp) Pretty sure Peter Perrett's surprised to discover he's still alive in 2021.
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Monday, 8 February 2021 18:43 (three years ago) link
I've just had the exact same thing with Amanda Barrie, could have sworn she died about 5 years ago.
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Wednesday, 10 February 2021 23:08 (three years ago) link
Lol, Tom D.
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 10 February 2021 23:09 (three years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, January 29, 2021 5:15 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
i met someone who was her acquaintance. she still paints, still hosts people over at her apartment (or was doing so, pre-covid)
― treeship., Wednesday, 10 February 2021 23:59 (three years ago) link
last famous people who are still alive / figured out how to live....
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 11 February 2021 01:07 (three years ago) link
Roy Walker, comedian and former Catchphrase host
― AlanSmithee, Saturday, 13 February 2021 18:09 (three years ago) link
Archie Shepp! I had no idea.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 February 2021 18:09 (three years ago) link
I also find that surprising!
― The return of our beloved potatoes (the table is the table), Monday, 15 February 2021 18:12 (three years ago) link
Ronny Cox
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 00:36 (three years ago) link
For some reason I immediately thought of Alex Cox, and was kind of surprised he was alive, too.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 00:57 (three years ago) link
Bob Dole
― frogbs, Friday, June 3, 2016 3:38 PM (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink
However, according to the article that bumped him in my mind, he 1) is 97 and 2) has stage four lung cancer. Thoughts and prayers, and all that.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Thursday, 18 February 2021 15:57 (three years ago) link
Some good news: Just read that Wrecking Crew guitarist Bill Pitman, (pictured with Carol Kaye) the man who told a young Phil Spector he would never be a musician and ended up on all of his sessions, as well as everything from Mr Tambourine Man to Star Trek, turned 101 last week. pic.twitter.com/VPM6CFbaxW— Robert Rotifer (@robertrotifer) February 19, 2021
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Friday, 19 February 2021 10:40 (three years ago) link
Carroll Baker, 90 this year (fingers crossed).
― I'm Going to Bring a Watermelon to Mark Grout Tonight (Tom D.), Friday, 19 February 2021 11:08 (three years ago) link
Gina Lollobrigida, 93
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 February 2021 02:32 (three years ago) link
That's one of those rivalry situations where she won't die until Sophia Loren dies
― Josefa, Saturday, 20 February 2021 02:37 (three years ago) link
or until she's the last dreamy star gedge namechecks
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 February 2021 02:41 (three years ago) link
Dillinger! I thought I heard he was dead a few years ago but it seems I was wrong. Excellent news.
― Tim, Sunday, 21 February 2021 17:03 (three years ago) link
Issue #1: Morton Kondracke! (81)
― clemenza, Monday, 22 February 2021 14:13 (three years ago) link
MORTON KONDRACKE!
https://i.ibb.co/ng8CLWm/3bb7c8557ff0a35541b63e57397a880e.png
FIGHT!
― pplains, Monday, 22 February 2021 14:20 (three years ago) link