Mel Brooks. Publishing an autobiography at the age of 95.β Zelda Zonk, Sunday, November 28, 2021 11:49 PM (seven months ago) bookmarkflaglink
β Zelda Zonk, Sunday, November 28, 2021 11:49 PM (seven months ago) bookmarkflaglink
Happy 96th birthday!
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Tuesday, 28 June 2022 12:50 (one year ago) link
mel b still also one of only a tiny no. of ppl to use twitter correctly: https://i.imgur.com/EJHoE3k.png
― mark s, Tuesday, 28 June 2022 13:00 (one year ago) link
PJ Proby. I was absolutely certain he'd died years ago but he's still performing ... at 83.
― Eavis Has Left the Building (Tom D.), Friday, 1 July 2022 16:29 (one year ago) link
By using Twitter correctly do you mean not following anyone from your official account if youre a celebrity?
― o. nate, Friday, 1 July 2022 18:27 (one year ago) link
i mean not following anyone at all whoever you are
― mark s, Friday, 1 July 2022 18:56 (one year ago) link
but it's definitely funnier when you have 348.5k followers
as you'd expect from a comedy genius
― mark s, Friday, 1 July 2022 18:57 (one year ago) link
It was funnier still when I thought it was the erstwhile Spice Girl.
― Eavis Has Left the Building (Tom D.), Friday, 1 July 2022 19:07 (one year ago) link
The famous-within-a-coterie Robert Madle in 1958 co-founded an organization known as First Fandom. Anyone who did anything in science fiction fandom prior to January 1, 1938 was eligible to join. Robert Madle is 102. He might have outlived "fandom."
― alimosina, Monday, 4 July 2022 23:36 (one year ago) link
Harrison Ruffin Tyler Sr. is not very famous, but he is alive. Harrison Ruffin Tyler Sr. is the last living grandson of President John Tyler, who was born in 1790.
― alimosina, Monday, 4 July 2022 23:39 (one year ago) link
Eva Marie Saint turns 98 today!
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 00:37 (one year ago) link
And Gina Lollobrigida is 95 today!
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 01:09 (one year ago) link
When EMS goes, will that bring the curtain down on all the references on Lloyd Cole's Rattlesnakes? Like "Vogue" and Lauren Bacall.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 10:37 (one year ago) link
When Joe Turkel died a few days ago I remember thinking "I didn't realise Joe Turkel was still alive". He was the spooky butler in The Shining and Dr Tyrell in Blade Runner. He was only in his fifties in those films but he looked older.
I didn't realise he was still alive until he died.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 16:48 (one year ago) link
doc severinsen turned 95 today
he's a good american equivalent to the various englishes panto performers who still survive
― mookieproof, Thursday, 7 July 2022 22:24 (one year ago) link
Earl Holliman, 93.
― Eavis Has Left the Building (Tom D.), Friday, 8 July 2022 22:32 (one year ago) link
https://is-or-was.com/
― Sudden Birdnet Thus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 9 July 2022 07:22 (one year ago) link
This is either really easy or I'm pretty good at it.
― Sudden Birdnet Thus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 10 July 2022 21:08 (one year ago) link
Norman Jewison, 95
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 01:23 (one year ago) link
Another 95yo: actor-singer Ed Ames
― Josefa, Tuesday, 12 July 2022 01:49 (one year ago) link
Ah, yes. I have just been thinking about him for some reason.
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 02:08 (one year ago) link
Nancy Kwan, 83.
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 11:06 (one year ago) link
Glad to hear it!
― Eavis Has Left the Building (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 11:19 (one year ago) link
As I work my way through The Sopranos again, I'm a little surprised that, 15 years later, Frankie Valli's still alive (88). Even released an album last year.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 12 July 2022 18:39 (one year ago) link
one of my friends saw him live recently, though no idea how he sounds.
be funny if he's a Tom Waits-ish baritone now
― We were clothed, except for Caan, who was naked. Don't know why. (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 20:19 (one year ago) link
He's totally convincing in The Sopranos (and also strikingly different than all the other captain-level wiseguys). I remember really taken aback the first time I saw his name in the credits.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 01:34 (one year ago) link
"remember being"
― clemenza, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 01:35 (one year ago) link
Nancy Olson, best known for playing Betty Schaefer in Sunset Boulevard, 94.
― and who is not flawed? (Matt #2), Thursday, 14 July 2022 01:36 (one year ago) link
Barry Humphries, a spry 88.. born just a little after Elvis
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 14 July 2022 16:51 (one year ago) link
Marion Ross (Happy Days' Mrs Cunningham), 93.
― Tom D: I was in the army (Tom D.), Friday, 15 July 2022 19:18 (one year ago) link
... also 93, Clu Gulager.
― Tom D: I was in the army (Tom D.), Friday, 15 July 2022 19:21 (one year ago) link
Patrick Duffy, former Labour MP is 102. Never heard of the fucker tbh but a notable detail about him is that he was the only MP to verbally attack Thatcher over the death of Bobby Sands while getting booed by all sides of the house, including by his Labour Right colleagues.
― calzino, Friday, 15 July 2022 19:51 (one year ago) link
he was good in Man from Atlantis
― bury my heart in wounded kieth (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 July 2022 20:54 (one year ago) link
this cunt is very old, but I don't think he's been around long enough for his circulatory system to start developing primitive gills!
― calzino, Friday, 15 July 2022 21:06 (one year ago) link
I thought Marion Ross was a lot closer to Henry Winkler's age for whatever reason.
― billstevejim, Saturday, 16 July 2022 02:11 (one year ago) link
His name came up here three years ago, but it's worth mentioning that the actor William Daniels, who played Dustin Hoffman's dad in The Graduate and is known for his strangely old world transatlantic accent, is still kicking at the age of 95.
― Josefa, Saturday, 16 July 2022 05:25 (one year ago) link
Rachel Robinson, widow of baseball star Jackie (1919-1972), turned 100 yesterday.
― nickn, Wednesday, 20 July 2022 16:34 (one year ago) link
Peter Bonerz from The Bob Newhart Show is in the Marcel The Shell movie.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 20 July 2022 19:04 (one year ago) link
For some reason Nicholas van Hoogstraten popped into my mind. He's an infamous British landlord who styled himself as a cartoonish imitation of Peter Rachman (he legally changed his name to Nicholas Adolf von Hessen for no reason other than to have "Adolf" in his name). He emigrated to Zimbabwe several years ago and is apparently still alive. 77 isn't all that old, but he seems to have been around forever on account of the fact he became infamous at an early age.
He presents himself as a sinister crime boss with establishment connections, but as with e.g. Kenneth Noye he didn't seem particularly good at it, although he presumably lives a decent life in Zimbabwe.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Wednesday, 20 July 2022 19:04 (one year ago) link
Clu Gulager, 92.β Wouldn't disgrace a Michael Jackson (Tom D.), Saturday, July 31, 2021 6:51 AM (eleven months ago)
β Wouldn't disgrace a Michael Jackson (Tom D.), Saturday, July 31, 2021 6:51 AM (eleven months ago)
... also 93, Clu Gulager.β Tom D: I was in the army (Tom D.), Saturday, July 16, 2022 5:21 AM (five days ago)
β Tom D: I was in the army (Tom D.), Saturday, July 16, 2022 5:21 AM (five days ago)
looking forward to this one next July
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Wednesday, 20 July 2022 19:46 (one year ago) link
Miiko Taka, the American actress who played the Japanese woman Marlon Brando wants to marry in the film Sayonara (1957), her first film role in a career that lasted into the 1980s. Will turn 97 on Sunday.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 20 July 2022 21:46 (one year ago) link
(xp) LOL in July I turn to thoughts of Clu Gulager.
― Tom D: I was in the army (Tom D.), Wednesday, 20 July 2022 21:55 (one year ago) link
militant's one-time guru peter taaffe still active at 80: no longergeneral secretary of militant's successor party the socialist party (spiffy name) he remains its political secretary :) ππ½
― mark s, Wednesday, 20 July 2022 22:07 (one year ago) link
Morton Subotnick, 89
― ~insert pun here~ (Matt #2), Wednesday, 20 July 2022 23:48 (one year ago) link
Just caught the end of "To Catch a Thief" and Brigitte Auber, who has a pretty significant role in it, is still alive at 97.
― Tom D: panel beater, bouncer and tree surgeon (Tom D.), Saturday, 23 July 2022 15:50 (one year ago) link
About once a month I suddenly think βhey! Itβs so great that Burt Bacharach is still alive.β He is 94
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 23 July 2022 17:08 (one year ago) link
Not surprised as such but Shatner on shit TV last night surprised me
― seo layer (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 23 July 2022 17:31 (one year ago) link
Are you a Bacharach fan, fgti?
― Meme for an Imaginary Western (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 July 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link
Yeah, huge fan. Iβve met him a couple of times! Lovely, lovely man
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 23 July 2022 20:16 (one year ago) link
He was friends with Stravinsky if you can believe it
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 23 July 2022 20:22 (one year ago) link
lol amazing
― mookieproof, Saturday, 23 July 2022 20:23 (one year ago) link