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

Pele

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/22/football/pele-health-christmas-spt-intl/index.html

A perennial (and only just turned 90) but still:

Merry Christmas! pic.twitter.com/LCEN46v5ry

— Sir Quentin Blake HQ (@QuentinBlakeHQ) December 24, 2022

Fair play to the guy for rolling along still but his artwork enrages me

i like him but there was a smart point in a recent LRB that QB's artwork greatly launders the nastiness in roald dahl's writing

yesterday was reading The Enormous Crocodile (a book set in Africa) and thinking about exactly this

Just watching "White Christmas" and noticed one of the dancers in one of the musical numbers was George Chakiris... still alive at 90.

Okay, that I am really surprised about.

Columnist/author/humorist Dave Barry, 75.

Garnet Mimms, 89

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, December 20, 2022 2:35 AM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Ah grand: my first single I bought (well, I won it at a fete) was "It's been such a long way home" and it's a great track.

Stuart Hall (the paedo one), 93 on Christmas Day.

the restorative benefits of a prison diet in the nonce wing for a few years did him no harm at all!

There might be something in that, Rolf's 92 after all.

my brother once made a complete feigning arsewipe out of himself when he met Stuart Hall by excitedly blurting out to a friend "I can't believe we are talking to Stuart Hall" mid conversation.

Political satirist Mark Russell, 90 (active on Twitter, per the current politics thread).

Priscilla Pointer, who played Victoria Principal’s mom on Dallas. Also real mom of Amy Irving. (98)

Cynthia Ozick, 94.

Graham Kerr--"the Galloping Gourmet"--turned 89 yesterday. Hope he took a sip of wine and looked mischievously into a camera that wasn't there.

OTM

I actually meant my comment as a compliment, having enjoyed watching him a kid, but your post made me think that I'd better look him up and find out what horrible things he did that I didn't know about.

In a 1975 interview publicizing Take Kerr, Kerr renounced the show The Galloping Gourmet, saying that "What I did wasn't art, it was a crime," given the increasing rate of obesity in the United States. He also apologized for two of his trademarks on that show, his wine drinking and his double entendres. He stated that he was trying to convince TV stations to remove reruns of the show from syndication.

Relatively speaking, I guess not too bad.

Yeah, I saw one "I heart cooking TV" show that showed one recipe where he basically said it would not cause weight gain, and it was full of full fat cream and all sorts.So, fair play to him...

At work today, someone started saying, "The late Stanley Baxter..." and I was like woah there!

roger corman, 96

he seems to be a fixture in this thread lol. go roger!

Brian Glanville, 91.

He is still writing, mostly obituaries of old footballers. I love this one on the old Juventus footballer, later director (possibly corrupt ofc), and politician.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/jun/20/giampiero-boniperti-obituary

Sly Stone, 79

Petula Clark turned 90 in November.

George Foreman, a mere 81.

an 81 year old boxer is like the longevity equivalent of a 160 year old person who never got hit in the head for a living

GASMS

Judith Chalmers, 87.

Kenneth Anger turned 96 yesterday.

Patricia Routledge, 94 today

Happy 94th birthday to Patricia Routledge. Seen here showcasing her Tony Award winning singing talents on the 1973 album – Presenting Patricia Routledge pic.twitter.com/lTh49uZsBf

— 𝐃𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐧𝐨 (@agnes_guano) February 17, 2023

Ray Reardon, 90.

Eric Bogle, writer of "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" and "No Man's Land" / "The Green Fields of France" / "Willie McBride"

In 2009, Bogle told an audience in Weymouth that he had read about a girl who had been presented with a copy of the song by then prime minister Tony Blair, who called it "his favourite anti-war poem". According to Bogle, the framed copy of the poem credited him, but stated that he had been killed in World War I.

What a photo

Dick Van Dyke, 97, says ‘beautiful young wife half my age’ keeps me going https://t.co/C0OXXOU6Pt pic.twitter.com/n9STIoWAQ8

— New York Post (@nypost) February 20, 2023

Waheeda Rehman.

Guy Roux.

Leotyne Price, 96

Leontyne, even

Barbara Bain, 91.

Catherine Robbe-Grillet, 92 (last spotted, by me anyway, in the video for "Brando" by Scott Walker/Sunn O))) )

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 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

now 95 as he has a leap-year-day birthday (so actually that make him a limber 24)

the beared photos that google throws up are startling and nearly terrifying (but i still somewhat confuse him with jess yates)

bearded but also beared

Dick Van Dyke crashes his car into a gate in Malibu

The 97-year-old is said to have lost control of the wheel of his Lexus over wet streets in Malibu, California, recently drenched by rain.

Bruised and bloodied, the Mary Poppins star appears to have only suffered "minor injuries", police said.

Somebody has a beard? (xp)

Don't want to be ageist at all, but I wonder if it's wise for Dick Van Dyke to be driving any other car than Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang

i mean the cursed and sinister IRL car fleming based CCBB on had a bodycount so

buried at midnight in an unmarked grave in 1927 but today walks* among us once more (and hence belongs in this thread)

*is on show in a museum

Diagnosis: fender bender

another happy birthday to a thread MVP, John Astin, celebrating 93 years