Carpenter that is
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 23:02 (two years ago) link
Erno Rubik
― it me, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 23:45 (two years ago) link
UK film director Desmond Davis (Girl With Green Eyes, Smashing Time)
― soref, Thursday, 24 June 2021 08:13 (two years ago) link
Joanne Woodaward
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 22:29 (two years ago) link
-woodward.
Rude of me
James Ivory, 93.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 22:43 (two years ago) link
Canadian rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins, age 86
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 23:11 (two years ago) link
He's gotta make sure Robbie doesn't have the last word.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 23:46 (two years ago) link
with Rumsfeld kicking it, I had to double check that, yes, Kissinger is still alive at 98
― rob, Thursday, 1 July 2021 13:41 (two years ago) link
I was going to say Derrida but I looked it up and he's been dead for more than a decade -- missed that
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 1 July 2021 13:54 (two years ago) link
is there a "people you didn't realise were dead" thread?
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 1 July 2021 14:03 (two years ago) link
I watched Poverty Row noir ‘Strange Illusion’ from 1945 last night and was pleasantly surprised that the actor who played the protagonist is still with us. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Lydon
― Dan Worsley, Thursday, 1 July 2021 14:13 (two years ago) link
Today I learned that director Martin Brest (Beverly Hills Cop, Midnight Run, etc.) has been more or less a recluse since the failure of Gigli. This article was fascinating:
https://web.archive.org/web/20141222232939/http:/www.playboy.com/articles/what-happened-to-director-martin-brest
He's just ... gone.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 2 July 2021 23:11 (two years ago) link
Jackie Joseph, who played "Audrey" in the original 1960 The Little Shop of Horrors and was a regular on The Doris Day Show in the early '70s. (87 yo).
― Josefa, Saturday, 3 July 2021 15:21 (two years ago) link
I knew he was still alive, but it's still worth noting Ahmad Jamal turned 91 yesterday.
― MoMsnet (calzino), Saturday, 3 July 2021 15:26 (two years ago) link
June Lockhart (b. 1925), best known as a TV mom on Lassie and a mom-scientist on Lost In Space.I saw her last night in a small but memorable part in Meet Me In St. Louis (as an east-coast romantic rival who turns out to be good-hearted) and it was driving me crazy who she looked like, until I realized it was Heather Graham on Arrested Development; Graham, of course, appeared in the godawful film version of Lost in Space as the daughter to Mimi Rogers's version of Lockhart's old character. (Lockhart is also in the film, in a cameo as a holographic space principal.)― Newb Sybok (Doctor Casino), Friday, December 22, 2017 12:27 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink
I saw her last night in a small but memorable part in Meet Me In St. Louis (as an east-coast romantic rival who turns out to be good-hearted) and it was driving me crazy who she looked like, until I realized it was Heather Graham on Arrested Development; Graham, of course, appeared in the godawful film version of Lost in Space as the daughter to Mimi Rogers's version of Lockhart's old character. (Lockhart is also in the film, in a cameo as a holographic space principal.)
― Newb Sybok (Doctor Casino), Friday, December 22, 2017 12:27 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink
Still with us at 96 (inspired by a Svengoolie screening of The She-Wolf of London).
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Sunday, 4 July 2021 02:35 (two years ago) link
What, no mention of Petticoat Junction?
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 July 2021 03:39 (two years ago) link
Alfred Brendel, 90.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 July 2021 19:48 (two years ago) link
Felicia Farr, 88.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Monday, 5 July 2021 14:35 (two years ago) link
Is her husband still alive? Think so.
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 July 2021 16:46 (two years ago) link
Prepare yourself for a shock, Jack Lemmon is not still alive.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Monday, 5 July 2021 17:20 (two years ago) link
Can't keep track anymore, sorry, so not much of a shock.
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 July 2021 17:42 (two years ago) link
Herb Alpert: trumpeter, Tijuana Brass impresario, cofounder of A&M Records, and last person to perform the Super Bowl rendition of the national anthem as an instrumental. Still around at 86 - just one of those people who I pictured as already being middle-aged in the mid-60s.
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 10 July 2021 00:44 (two years ago) link
^^His partner in both A & M and Almo Sounds Jerry Moss is also still kickin' at 86.
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 10 July 2021 00:59 (two years ago) link
Herb Alpert was the last performer I saw in live performance pre-pandemic, back in December 2019. His wife Lani Hall, from Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66, is still alive as well though a decade or so younger than him. They still have it, I enjoyed seeing the two of them together.
― Josefa, Saturday, 10 July 2021 01:18 (two years ago) link
Trivia question: Only one Super Bowl out of the 55 we've had has NOT featured the singing of the National Anthem. What tune was performed in its place that year and who sang it (the singer is still alive)?
― Josefa, Saturday, 10 July 2021 01:44 (two years ago) link
*singing or instrumental performance of it, that is
― Josefa, Saturday, 10 July 2021 01:53 (two years ago) link
You guys really should watch that Herb Alpert documentary. It's fully a mood booster. He's such a wholesome, joyful dude.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 10 July 2021 04:42 (two years ago) link
Pat Arrowsmith, CND campaigner, 91.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Saturday, 10 July 2021 06:00 (two years ago) link
Came in to say Ed Meese, searched thread, saw that every 2-3 years someone here is surprised to find out Ed Meese was still alive, well, today it's me.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 10 July 2021 17:21 (two years ago) link
to quote the 'RIP David Brooks' thread, tbf his soul is dead.
― it is to laugh, like so, ha! (Aimless), Saturday, 10 July 2021 17:23 (two years ago) link
Julie Andrews
― flappy bird, Wednesday, October 16, 2019 8:11 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
Holy shit!
― peace, man, Wednesday, 14 July 2021 01:18 (two years ago) link
Not even 90, hold your tongue
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Wednesday, 14 July 2021 01:47 (two years ago) link
Dick Hyman is still going. 94.
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 14 July 2021 11:16 (two years ago) link
Betty White is currently 99 1/2 years old
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 14 July 2021 11:27 (two years ago) link
I somehow have it in my head that Edward James Olmos died about 20 years ago, and I'm continually surprised when I find out he's still with us. This happens every few years. Of course I'll probably train myself out of it around the time he does actually die, after which I'll be convinced he's still alive forevermore.
― hosonono (Matt #2), Wednesday, 14 July 2021 11:30 (two years ago) link
a.b.spellman :0 :)
― mark s, Saturday, 17 July 2021 12:55 (two years ago) link
Nancy Banks-Smith, 92.
― Soundtracked by an eco jazz mixtape. (Tom D.), Monday, 19 July 2021 11:22 (two years ago) link
John Norman, 90, writer of shitty BDSM-themed SF/fantasy novels (the 'Gor' series, which he's still unbelievably pumping out!). I assumed he'd died in 1947 or something.
― a cad, a bounder, a rotter, a really bad sort (Matt #2), Thursday, 22 July 2021 16:56 (two years ago) link
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 22 July 2021 18:56 (two years ago) link
(the 'Gor' series, which he's still unbelievably pumping out!).
Ha, the latest one (May 2021) is "Avengers of Gor," really going for that "wait I thought this was a franchise property" accidental purchase cash
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 22 July 2021 19:01 (two years ago) link
Somehow I thought Barney Frank was dead, but nope, still going and only 81!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 22 July 2021 22:44 (two years ago) link
Just saw a pic of a skeletal but alive Bob Dole on FB.
― “Heroin” (ft. Bobby Gillespie) (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 22 July 2021 22:47 (two years ago) link
john barth, 91
― mookieproof, Friday, 23 July 2021 01:12 (two years ago) link
Always surprised at Jerry Lee Lewis's longevity.. makes me think I should drink more wine spo-dee-O-dee
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 23 July 2021 01:19 (two years ago) link
Esther Rantzen, 81
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 10:41 (two years ago) link
Len Deighton, 92
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 12:46 (two years ago) link
Now that is a good one!
― Wouldn't disgrace a Michael Jackson (Tom D.), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 15:47 (two years ago) link
Valentina Tereshkova, 84
― Kim Kimberly, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 15:49 (two years ago) link
Angie Dickinson, 89
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 18:58 (two years ago) link