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

You guys really should watch that Herb Alpert documentary. It's fully a mood booster. He's such a wholesome, joyful dude.

Pat Arrowsmith, CND campaigner, 91.

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.

to quote the 'RIP David Brooks' thread, tbf his soul is dead.

Julie Andrews

― flappy bird, Wednesday, October 16, 2019 8:11 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Holy shit!

Not even 90, hold your tongue

Dick Hyman is still going. 94.

Betty White is currently 99 1/2 years old

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.

a.b.spellman :0 :)

Nancy Banks-Smith, 92.

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.b.spellman :0 :)

(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

Somehow I thought Barney Frank was dead, but nope, still going and only 81!

Just saw a pic of a skeletal but alive Bob Dole on FB.

john barth, 91

Always surprised at Jerry Lee Lewis's longevity.. makes me think I should drink more wine spo-dee-O-dee

Esther Rantzen, 81

Len Deighton, 92

Now that is a good one!

Valentina Tereshkova, 84

Angie Dickinson, 89

Kenneth Baker, 86

when you google him, under 'Is Kenneth Baker still alive?' it says he died in 2016, but they seems to be confusing him with the guy who was inside r2d2

The film director Sidney J. Furie (88) was mentioned recently in this thread. I just watched his film The Naked Runner, a Frank Sinatra vehicle from 1967. It struck me that several of the main cast are still with us, namely Derren Nesbitt (86), Inger Stratton (84), and Edward Fox (84).

Genre film schlockteur Bert I. Gordon, 98

Wow, had no idea!

Norman Lear

― Come and Rock Me, Hot Potatoes (Old Lunch), Sunday, August 11, 2019 12:15 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Just turned 99 this week.

Clu Gulager, 92.

Bill Tidy, 87

Good one.

She's not that old, and I had no reason to think she *wasn't* alive, but Linda Blair, a mere 62.

Lionel Blair: 92

Tony Blair, 1300

Claire Maurier, who played Antoine Doinel's Mom in The 400 Blows (in addition to parts in other French films of note like Amelie and La Cage aux Folles) is still alive at 91!

Super lawyer Martin Garbus, 87.

talk show host Bob Eubanks, just now, in a press release about some TV show he's doing.

Netflix's DVDs-by-mail service.

uh oh i think i owe them some DVDs

My brother has done DVDs he had t returned in over five years

“Some”

Somewhere, I have a DVD that I own Netflix...

Owe?

Dominic Chianese, fuckin Uncle June!

I saw him in person once! He sang some kind of Italian folk song.

bobbie gentry, 79

apparently just went pynchon/salinger 39 years ago?

Television's James Burke, 84. Radio 4 listeners (i.e. not me) may know him from this:

In 2019 he produced a series of five 15-minute programmes for BBC Radio 4 with the title James Burke's Web of Knowledge, in each of which he traced the connections between two widely separated people or themes, the first programme connecting Mozart to the helicopter.[13]

frances sternhagen (mom of cliff in cheers) still alive at 91

Clu Gulager, 92.

Has his own reserved seat at Tarantino's only-shows-actual-film rep cinema, and will (as of 2017) hang in the lobby and chat about the last feature to other viewers.

The Smothers Brothers