The hero can't dead until the last reel!
― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 January 2022 21:24 (two years ago) link
(xp) lol
― I Can't See Gervais In My Mind (Tom D.), Monday, 10 January 2022 21:25 (two years ago) link
Denny Lethargy
― Alex in NYC, Monday, 10 January 2022 21:25 (two years ago) link
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― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 January 2022 21:35 (two years ago) link
Philip Baker Hall.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 10 January 2022 22:29 (two years ago) link
Jean-Louis Trintignant, 91 and still acting.
― bulb after bulb, Monday, 10 January 2022 22:37 (two years ago) link
Alex Honnold
― lukas, Monday, 10 January 2022 22:41 (two years ago) link
race car driver A. J. Foyt, 87 this weekend
― Josefa, Monday, 10 January 2022 23:23 (two years ago) link
Not exactly famous, but John Lennon’s stepmother, Pauline
― Alba, Tuesday, 11 January 2022 21:11 (two years ago) link
"Stepmother! You left me.. but I never left yooooooo..."
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 11 January 2022 21:45 (two years ago) link
Joyce Randolph, Trixie on The Honeymooners, 97.
― Sam Weller, Thursday, 13 January 2022 08:39 (two years ago) link
whaaa?! Could have sworn he died a couple years ago, have a Mandela effect of reading this.
― Ste, Thursday, 13 January 2022 11:24 (two years ago) link
Mike Yarwood.
Robin Askwith posted a picture of him and Richard O'Sullivan together on Richard's birthday.
― Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Thursday, 13 January 2022 11:50 (two years ago) link
Richard O'Sullivan
― Ste, Thursday, 13 January 2022 11:53 (two years ago) link
It seems Pauline was 20 when she became John's Stepmum. about 5 years younger than John, I believe.
― Mark G, Thursday, 13 January 2022 12:00 (two years ago) link
Recently I've been watching old clips of What's My Line? (1950s-60s). Everything about the show (the mannerisms, overwhelming whiteness, etc.) seems somehow prehistoric, so it's interesting to look up the panelists and guests to see which are still alive (ie, Chubby Checker, Joan Collins).
― Sam Weller, Thursday, 13 January 2022 16:00 (two years ago) link
And John Cale!
― Josefa, Thursday, 13 January 2022 16:25 (two years ago) link
Whenever I watch any thing of that era I can’t stop obsessively looking up what became of everyone. xpost
― Alba, Thursday, 13 January 2022 16:26 (two years ago) link
Actually John Cale was on I've Got a Secret I just remembered. The one with Betsy Palmer and Bess Myerson as panelists.
― Josefa, Thursday, 13 January 2022 16:31 (two years ago) link
Wait, did you not watch the VU doc yet?
― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 January 2022 16:37 (two years ago) link
I did, that's where I saw the Cale appearance... it was just that when What's My Line? was mentioned I mixed up the two shows in my mind. Tbf they are very similar.
― Josefa, Thursday, 13 January 2022 17:02 (two years ago) link
I still don't quite understand the whole Dorothy Kilgallen thing
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 13 January 2022 17:29 (two years ago) link
Her death, or why she was on the show to begin with?
― Sam Weller, Thursday, 13 January 2022 18:30 (two years ago) link
Is it because she didn't seem to have any footprint outside of this kind of show?
― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 January 2022 20:36 (two years ago) link
She was a syndicated entertainment columnist who later moved into some crime reporting and was an early skeptic of the Warren Report (supposedly why she died).
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 13 January 2022 20:58 (two years ago) link
Specifically, Kilgallen was the last person to interview Jack Ruby. She claimed that she was going to break the JFK assassination "wide open" before turning up dead in her apartment due to a fatal combo of sleeping pills and alcohol.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 13 January 2022 21:33 (two years ago) link
That must have been after The Band played at Ruby's nightclub.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4-F6GaqnD8
― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 January 2022 21:36 (two years ago) link
Sorry, The Hawks.
― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 January 2022 21:48 (two years ago) link
Van Dyke Parks
― Khafre's clown (Noodle Vague), Friday, 14 January 2022 20:14 (two years ago) link
very much alive, he posts on twitter all the time including new videos of himself playing various piano pieces
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 14 January 2022 20:36 (two years ago) link
I dunno why it surprised me but somewhere in the back of my mind I just assumed he was gone
Will have to follow his Twitter
― Khafre's clown (Noodle Vague), Friday, 14 January 2022 20:42 (two years ago) link
Pattie Boyd. Not that she’s very old; I just had it in my head that she’d died of cancer
― Alba, Monday, 17 January 2022 12:27 (two years ago) link
the "personal life" section of yarwood's wikipedia is gloomy reading :(
― mark s, Monday, 17 January 2022 17:46 (two years ago) link
i mean he was rubbish but i wish him no ill
― mark s, Monday, 17 January 2022 17:47 (two years ago) link
From 2007, Yarwood lived alone in Weybridge, Surrey.[12]
:( :( :( :(
― mark s, Monday, 17 January 2022 17:48 (two years ago) link
I didn't really have a lot of thoughts about whether he was alive or not, I was much too young to be aware of him as a cultural figure, and the film character far eclipsed the real person in my mind, but I was surprised to see Frank Serpico posting on twitter.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 17 January 2022 22:49 (two years ago) link
Mary Quant, 91
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 17 January 2022 22:54 (two years ago) link
Bobby Goldsboro, 81 (not actually that old but I assumed he'd died years ago)
― Someone left a space telescope out in the rain (Tom D.), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 21:36 (two years ago) link
Jasper Johns, 91.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 14:08 (two years ago) link
Joss Ackland
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 8 February 2020 23:19 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
Still with us, 93. He just popped up in the film, "Seven Days From Noon" earlier... that's "Seven Days From Noon" from 1950!
― Someone left a space telescope out in the rain (Tom D.), Friday, 21 January 2022 19:39 (two years ago) link
Fuck me, he wasn’t even 60 in White Mischief
― Alba, Friday, 21 January 2022 21:32 (two years ago) link
Benny Golson, 92.
― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 24 January 2022 20:29 (two years ago) link
Only 79, but I erroneously thought that Geneviève Bujold was no longer around.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 24 January 2022 20:46 (two years ago) link
― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 18:15 (two years ago) link
Jasper johns gets me every time. I can’t shake the false notion that he died in like 1979.
― Dan I., Wednesday, 26 January 2022 17:24 (two years ago) link
Sandy Gall, 94
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 26 January 2022 17:26 (two years ago) link
Every day I am amazed Sonny Rollins and Roy Haynes are still with us. People who made records in the 1940s!
― Johnny Mathis der Maler (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 17:58 (two years ago) link
(xp) Wow.
― Someone left a space telescope out in the rain (Tom D.), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 18:28 (two years ago) link
Only knew as I saw a book he published last year in a bookshop https://www.hauspublishing.com/product/afghan-napoleon/
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 26 January 2022 18:36 (two years ago) link
Not exactly famous, but John Lennon’s stepmother, Pauline― Alba, Tuesday, January 11, 2022 4:11 PM (two weeks ago)
― Alba, Tuesday, January 11, 2022 4:11 PM (two weeks ago)
And, I've just discovered, Paul McCartney's stepmother Angie, now 92 and on Twitter
― Alba, Thursday, 27 January 2022 15:30 (two years ago) link