Or Michael Gibbs.
― Rick O'Shea (Tom D.), Wednesday, 13 April 2022 21:58 (one year ago) link
Or Barry Gibbs.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 13 April 2022 22:00 (one year ago) link
Or country singer Terri Gibbs
― Josefa, Wednesday, 13 April 2022 23:26 (one year ago) link
James Lovelock― Michael Jones, Saturday, 22 February 2020 11:48 (two years ago) bookmarkflaglinkblimey i interviewed lovelock when he was a spry and youthful 70― mark s, Saturday, 22 February 2020 11:58 (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 22 February 2020 11:48 (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink
blimey i interviewed lovelock when he was a spry and youthful 70
― mark s, Saturday, 22 February 2020 11:58 (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink
still with us at 102-and-a-half
reminded bcz i just came across my notes for my article abt gaia for arena magazine back in like 1991? (the one they left my byline off ffs)
doubly reminded when i read a scribble at the top of the interview with him which says his dad was born in 1873 lol
― mark s, Thursday, 21 April 2022 11:42 (one year ago) link
Schlocky B-movie horror director/special effects man, Bert I. Gordon, 99 (100 in September).
― Was Hitler a Hobbit? (Tom D.), Friday, 22 April 2022 20:07 (one year ago) link
Also 99 (100 in November), René Schérer, philosopher and younger brother of Éric Rohmer.
― Was Hitler a Hobbit? (Tom D.), Saturday, 23 April 2022 22:23 (one year ago) link
Carol Burnett (a mere 88)
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Sunday, 24 April 2022 01:25 (one year ago) link
Leslie Phillips, 98, what the fuck why doesn't everyone go on all the time about how Leslie Phillips is still alive, this is genuinely shocking to me, I wish I'd never posted on this thread before (no I haven't done a Ctrl-F).
― Alba, Monday, 25 April 2022 21:22 (one year ago) link
I have now Ctrl-Fed. Only four mentions, t'cha.
― Alba, Monday, 25 April 2022 21:23 (one year ago) link
you jinxed javier pérez de cuéllar imo
― mark s, Monday, 25 April 2022 21:28 (one year ago) link
Ding dong, the secretary general is dead.
― Alba, Monday, 25 April 2022 21:43 (one year ago) link
he's gone back to his aliens
― mark s, Monday, 25 April 2022 22:03 (one year ago) link
marina oswald and her teeth (now 80)
― mark s, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 14:37 (one year ago) link
Experimental animator José Antonio Sistiaga, about to turn 90 next month.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 28 April 2022 06:12 (one year ago) link
Julie Andrews― flappy bird, Wednesday, October 16, 2019 8:11 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglinkHoly shit!
― Wile E. Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 2 May 2022 10:32 (one year 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 01:44 (nine months ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 10 July 2021 01:44 (nine months ago) bookmarkflaglink
87 now: i interviewed him in 1991 (abt north on south street, his hiphop LP lol) and just happened on the tape while sorting thru some stuff -- good to hear he is powering thru
― mark s, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 10:19 (one year ago) link
Cool. I heard him and wife Lani Hall interviewed a few years ago before some small tour they were doing. You probably know her voice from Sérgio Mendes and & Brasil ‘66 records.
― Wile E. Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 10:30 (one year ago) link
And & and & and &
"And" six times in a row
.. finally!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 10:32 (one year ago) link
Thomas Pynchon.
― Was Hitler a Hobbit? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 10:34 (one year ago) link
Running out of time for that career-spanning Oprah interview
― greyfriars boaby (Matt #2), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 10:53 (one year ago) link
well past time for another of his LONG books, the last two were mere slander pamphlets
― mark s, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 10:56 (one year ago) link
Ooh, who was he slagging off?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 11:13 (one year ago) link
Glenda Jackson. I knew nothing of her political career until today, either.
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 14:51 (one year ago) link
The former mayor of Mississauga, Ontario, Hazel McCallion, retired at 94 and is still around at 101.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 5 May 2022 16:36 (one year ago) link
not entirely surprised as i follow several accounts which announce sun ra ark dates etc but:
marshall allen (97) alive and touring (he's at cafe oto next week but it's already sold out)
― mark s, Friday, 6 May 2022 11:49 (one year ago) link
seeing him at Solid Sound Fest, very excited.
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 6 May 2022 14:48 (one year ago) link
Saw him about 4 years ago. He played for like 4 hours and would have probably played longer, he was more supple than most 30 year olds.
― Was Hitler a Hobbit? (Tom D.), Friday, 6 May 2022 14:54 (one year ago) link
Ann Blyth, mentioned a couple times already but I just discovered this yesterday.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Friday, 6 May 2022 15:01 (one year ago) link
Marshall Allen is incredible, met him after a show a few years ago here in Philly, gracious and lovely person too
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Sunday, 8 May 2022 20:19 (one year ago) link
Terrific Random Roles w/John Astin published today: https://www.avclub.com/random-roles-john-astin-addams-family-frighteners-batma-1848715237
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 19:23 (one year ago) link
kinda cool how the AV Club has become just an indistinguishable content farm, but every once in awhile Will Harris still pops out of the ether with a great Random Roles interview. (I mean, the latter half of that sentence is kinda cool. Not the first part.)
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 18:50 (one year ago) link
Singer and activist Barbara Dane is 95 today. Has an autobiography and a documentary about her coming out this fall: https://www.heydaybooks.com/barbara-dane/
― bulb after bulb, Thursday, 12 May 2022 21:13 (one year ago) link
Imelda Marcos
― Alba, Friday, 13 May 2022 17:09 (one year ago) link
otn
― Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Friday, 13 May 2022 17:21 (one year ago) link
otm even
on the nose, as was
― Mark G, Friday, 13 May 2022 17:45 (one year ago) link
Yes, I thought of that after I posted.
― Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Friday, 13 May 2022 18:02 (one year ago) link
Valentina Tereshkova: first woman in outer space, *only* woman to ever go on a solo space mission... and now a Putin supporter in the Russian Duma at 85.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 27 May 2022 04:02 (one year ago) link
i was positive Beau Bridges died a few years ago. was surprised to learn today that wasn't the case.
― akm, Friday, 27 May 2022 05:03 (one year ago) link
Tom Skerritt
― Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Friday, 27 May 2022 07:05 (one year ago) link
Skerritt was really good in East of the Mountains last year. Worth checking out...
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 28 May 2022 08:17 (one year ago) link
Yes, when I checked his wiki page I noticed he was not only still alive but still working.
― Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Saturday, 28 May 2022 11:10 (one year ago) link
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Woodbury
Woody Woodbury, stand-up comic of the "party records" era/actor, 98
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Friday, 3 June 2022 15:16 (one year ago) link
I notice there's a Bert I. Gordon film on tonight. He'll be 100 in September.
― Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Friday, 3 June 2022 15:52 (one year ago) link
Woodbury is even older the Lehrer and Newhart: JFK-era comedy is a good LP bin to have inhabited.
― bendy, Friday, 3 June 2022 16:17 (one year ago) link
Either one of the Smothers Brothers.
― pplains, Friday, 3 June 2022 16:26 (one year ago) link
A good showcase for Woody Woodbury's comedy is the movie For Those Who Think Young (1964). What's interesting about that is several of his castmates from that film are still with us too. There's Nancy Sinatra, about to turn 82 next Wednesday; James Darren, about to turn 86 on Wednesday (same birthday as Nancy); Tina Louise, who is 88; and Ellen Burstyn, who is 89.
― Josefa, Saturday, 4 June 2022 02:26 (one year ago) link
Tony Bennett, 95!Julie Christie, 82!Richard Simmons, a mere 73, but he has not been seen in public since 2014.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 4 June 2022 20:21 (one year ago) link
I remember being surprised to find out that James Burke was still alive. There's a popular video on YouTube from an episode of Connections where he delivers a piece to camera about rocketry, and just as he finishes a rocket takes off in the background - the timing had to be perfect. I have the impression that he's more famous in the United States than the UK. Connections was one of those TV programmes that wasn't repeated very often, or at least I don't remember seeing it ever in the 1980s. Was it ever repeated?
He was big during a brief window at the end of the 1970s (The Human League mentioned him in "Black Hit of Space") but in the UK he fell off the radar shortly after that. And yet The Day the Universe Changed was broadcast by BBC1 in 1985 so perhaps I'm completely wrong.
Stanley Baxter and Fred Harris are still with us. As are Bernard Cribbins and Jim Dale.
Irene Papas is still around as well. She recorded an album with Vangelis and appeared on Aphrodite's Child's 666, which is why I thought of her. One of only two of the main stars from The Guns of Navarone to still be alive (along with James Darren).
― Ashley Pomeroy, Sunday, 5 June 2022 21:27 (one year ago) link