Jürgen Habermas, 91
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Sunday, 11 April 2021 15:56 (three years ago) link
The film, "Buck and the Preacher", is on just now and I'm watching it thinking, "Yeah, Harry Belafonte, he's always turing up in this thread, but I wonder when Sidney Poitier died?", then I find out Sidney Poitier is still alive too! Is, in fact, 94 too! Born 9 days before Belafonte to be precise.
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 April 2021 12:54 (three years ago) link
Kenneth Cope, 90 today
― Call of Scampi: Slack Nephrops (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 14 April 2021 12:59 (three years ago) link
It has occurred to me that four of the principal female cast of Fellini's 8 1/2 are still alive:
Claudia Cardinale (83 today)Anouk Aimée (89 this month)Sandra Milo (87)Barbara Steele (83)
(Rossella Falk who died in 2013 would've been the only other to belong to that group).
― Josefa, Thursday, 15 April 2021 15:34 (three years ago) link
Winnie Ewing, 91.
― Authoritarian Steaks (Tom D.), Wednesday, 28 April 2021 10:18 (two years ago) link
Freddie 'Parrot Face' Davies, after he tweeted about being old and irrelevant after he was a question on The Chase answered incorrectly.
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Friday, 30 April 2021 10:19 (two years ago) link
Swiss film director Alain Tanner, 91.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 30 April 2021 11:22 (two years ago) link
Bruce "father of Crispin" Glover, 89, who I could swear died years ago but seems not.
― electrical wizard (Matt #2), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 00:58 (two years ago) link
Unless I saw wrong, pretty much (all?) the entire original Tropicalia crew is still alive and kicking. Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Tom Zé ...
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 4 May 2021 01:05 (two years ago) link
René Schérer, philosopher and brother of Éric Rohmer, 98.
― Authoritarian Steaks (Tom D.), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 14:17 (two years ago) link
I didn't know that the philosopher Jürgen Habermas was still alive until yesterday, when a news article came up about him rejecting an award being given by the UAE. I thought he'd been dead for years! He's 91, soon to be 92.
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 17:30 (two years ago) link
What's the borderline age for assuming someone is no longer alive? Somewhere above 80? 90?
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 5 May 2021 17:43 (two years ago) link
It's a sliding scale. 90 for philosophers, 80 for ingenues of yesteryear...
― Josefa, Wednesday, 5 May 2021 19:15 (two years ago) link
50 for junkie rock stars
― electrical wizard (Matt #2), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 19:49 (two years ago) link
funnily enough I also nominated Habermas just upthread
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 19:58 (two years ago) link
I think for me someone can be in their 70s as long as I haven’t heard about them for ages.
― Alba, Wednesday, 5 May 2021 20:48 (two years ago) link
RIP Lloyd Price, who I am surprised to learn was still alive until very recently.
― ian, Friday, 7 May 2021 22:10 (two years ago) link
Wow, me too.
I always assumed it was his "Stagger Lee" that inspired the Clash's nod on "London Calling."
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 May 2021 22:22 (two years ago) link
Johnny Rivers
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 7 May 2021 22:51 (two years ago) link
There's an old "Tales of the Unexpected" on just now, starring French actress, Micheline Presle, who Wiki tells me is still alive at 98.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Sunday, 9 May 2021 09:42 (two years ago) link
Julio Iglesias, 77
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 9 May 2021 15:44 (two years ago) link
actor norman lloyd (not ~famous~ but you’d probably recognize him) is 106
― mookieproof, Sunday, 9 May 2021 19:18 (two years ago) link
Tommy Steele, a sprightly 84 years old
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 9 May 2021 19:19 (two years ago) link
Jazz bassist Richard Davis is 91 and apparently still alive. I learned this while researching a piece on pianist Andrew Hill (Davis played on almost all of Hill's Blue Note albums).
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 9 May 2021 19:42 (two years ago) link
Yep, he got a street named after him in Madison (where he still resides) a couple years ago:https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/new-city-street-honors-legendary-bassist-former-uw-music-professor-richard-davis/article_76f83dcf-16c9-521c-a9ff-16cf1cb3147f.htmlAnd when Springsteen played Milwaukee in ‘08, he brought Davis onstage for “Meeting Across The River”:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gnWNO0l-y4
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 9 May 2021 19:52 (two years ago) link
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 May 2021 20:30 (two years ago) link
In high school I played in a couple of bands with a bassist who went on to study with Davis, and currently owns the bass that Davis played on Out To Lunch!, the Hill dates, at Coltrane’s funeral with Albert Ayler’s group, Astral Weeks, and just about every other significant recording he was involved in.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 9 May 2021 21:59 (two years ago) link
Mike Stoller of Leiber & Stoller fame, 88.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Monday, 10 May 2021 14:22 (two years ago) link
woah, yeah, that shocks me.
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Monday, 10 May 2021 14:23 (two years ago) link
But Jerry died a little while back.
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 May 2021 14:28 (two years ago) link
gena rowlands (90)
― na (NA), Monday, 10 May 2021 14:30 (two years ago) link
Still sometimes kick myself that I didn't go to see Leiber and Stoller when they did a book tour to promote Hound Dog. Someone I know, with whom you are probably familiar, actually interviewed both of them.
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 May 2021 14:46 (two years ago) link
Robert Wagner, 91. Just caught a glimpse of him looking huge and old in an episode of NCIS - playing opposite David McCallum, a mere 87.
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 10 May 2021 20:51 (two years ago) link
Not totally surprised by that, RJ seems to have signed some Beat the Devil deal.
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 May 2021 20:59 (two years ago) link
Ray Reardon
― mahb, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 21:01 (two years ago) link
Norman Loyd (Daniel Auschlander on St. Elsewhere) died today. I remember being surprised he was still alive about four years ago. He was 106.
― akm, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 21:57 (two years ago) link
CBA to search (impossible right now anyway, as I’m on Zing), but I watched a Grace & Frankie episode last night with Ed Asner as a guest star, and was... surprised.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 23:06 (two years ago) link
ed asner is active on twitter, i seem to remember.
he's also a 9/11 truther!
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 23:09 (two years ago) link
― mookieproof, Sunday, May 9, 2021 3:18 PM (two days ago)
oh shit i killed him
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 23:12 (two years ago) link
damn
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 00:05 (two years ago) link
FINALLY.
― pplains, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 01:19 (two years ago) link
Holy buckets! Norman Lloyd was in Hitchcock's Saboteur. That is definitely one of them movies were you'd reasonably expect everyone involved in it was now well and truly checked out. Well like, but not just yesterday!
― calzino, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 07:24 (two years ago) link
Jasper Johns, 91 today.
― calzino, Saturday, 15 May 2021 10:06 (two years ago) link
My guy
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Saturday, 15 May 2021 13:49 (two years ago) link
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― davey, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 14:02 (two years ago) link
Garth Hudson
― balsamic panic (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 14:10 (two years ago) link
Albert Brooks, thank goodness.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 21 May 2021 20:47 (two years ago) link
he's pretty active (and mildly funny) on twitter
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Friday, 21 May 2021 20:47 (two years ago) link
Peter Marshall.I think I knew this but while checking to see if he was still alive I saw his sister was Joanne Dru!And their actual last name is LaCock.
― Notes on Scampo (tokyo rosemary), Friday, 21 May 2021 21:45 (two years ago) link
Marshall also active on twitter
― Josefa, Friday, 21 May 2021 21:57 (two years ago) link