It's a sliding scale. 90 for philosophers, 80 for ingenues of yesteryear...
― Josefa, Wednesday, 5 May 2021 19:15 (three years ago) link
50 for junkie rock stars
― electrical wizard (Matt #2), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 19:49 (three years ago) link
funnily enough I also nominated Habermas just upthread
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 19:58 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three years ago) link
Johnny Rivers
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 7 May 2021 22:51 (three 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
Wendy Carlos― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Monday, June 6, 2016 3:29 PM (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Monday, June 6, 2016 3:29 PM (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink
<3 <3 <3
http://www.wendycarlos.com/
― 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
James Lovelock, who was recently in a youtube video about microwaving hamsters
― wasdnuos (abanana), Saturday, 22 May 2021 04:51 (two years ago) link
Michael Fish, weather forecaster. I was surprised to find he was only 43 when he gave his famous forecast in 1987.
"Earlier on today, apparently, a woman rang the BBC and said she heard there was a hurricane on the way. Well, if you're watching, don't worry, there isn't!"
He looked close to retirement then.
― Luna Schlosser, Saturday, 22 May 2021 12:28 (two years ago) link
Forgot Brian De Palma (80) was still around. I guess he's working on a couple of things, but I never even heard of his last one, sorta released in 2019, nor perhaps the one before that, in 2012.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 22 May 2021 12:44 (two years ago) link
He was right!
xpost
― MLM disaster unfolding in East London Tech City (Matt #2), Saturday, 22 May 2021 14:24 (two years ago) link
No he wasn't, unless you're being pedantic about what constitutes a 'storm' vs. a 'hurricane'.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Saturday, 22 May 2021 14:28 (two years ago) link
I got confused for a second and thought it was Josefa who didn’t know who Peter Marshall’s sister was, but then I blinked and read more carefully.
― Blue Yoda No. 9 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 23 May 2021 06:41 (two years ago) link
Trying to remember now what Peter Marshall said about the Laugh-In guys, maybe that Dick Martin was a mensch but not Dan Rowan.
― Blue Yoda No. 9 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 23 May 2021 06:42 (two years ago) link
Here: Who do we love from ROWAN & MARTIN'S LAUGH-IN?
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 23 May 2021 16:05 (two years ago) link
Peter Marshall on Gilbert Gottfried's podcast is some seriously funny shit.https://www.gilbertpodcast.com/peter-marshall/
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 23 May 2021 20:38 (two years ago) link
Legit thought that Brenda Vaccaro (81) had passed some time ago but then was reminded that she was in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 23 May 2021 20:46 (two years ago) link
Richard Ingrams, 83, younger than I thought.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Sunday, 23 May 2021 22:02 (two years ago) link
But older in spirit.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 24 May 2021 12:08 (two years ago) link