It's about that time of year when I post Doris Day to this thread. It's tradition.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 14:42 (seven years ago) link
happy New Years Doris Day
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 14:43 (seven years ago) link
Kind of surprised that Richard Adams only just went, so up to yesterday or whatever.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 15:15 (seven years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Daily aka Roger from I dream of Jeannie and Barbara Eden who played Jeannie of course.
I had assumed until this year they were long gone.
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 15:38 (seven years ago) link
Speaking of Carrie, I was looking up some stuff on Shampoo yesterday, and she's the first of Beatty's conquests in the film to go--Lee Grant, who played her mother, turned 91 this year on Halloween.
― "I must believe that my charm was not in my ass." (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 18:14 (seven years ago) link
well Debbie Reynolds was just rushed to a hospital with a possible stroke so 2016 can continue to get fucked.
― nomar, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 21:57 (seven years ago) link
Dick Cavett.
― Fake Sam's Club (I M Losted), Thursday, 29 December 2016 00:09 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A6ZpbyxCUAABPiA.png
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Thursday, 29 December 2016 00:11 (seven years ago) link
And now, Debbie Reynolds has died too. Unbelievable. :(
― Roz, Thursday, 29 December 2016 01:49 (seven years ago) link
These celebrity deaths are getting absurd.
― Treeship, Thursday, 29 December 2016 02:12 (seven years ago) link
I feel like an insane person. Everyone says "this happens every year."
― Treeship, Thursday, 29 December 2016 02:16 (seven years ago) link
well what an unfortunate event to end the celebrity year, goddamn
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 December 2016 02:19 (seven years ago) link
I just don't agree that it happens every year, it's absolutely a lot more.
I went a bit mad in 2014 and made a collage of everyone from the Wikipedia deaths page for that year (this took a long time and nobody was interested, think it might be my biggest waste of time ever, I'm even ashamed to be thinking about it now) but it was actually a slow year for celebrity deaths. If I had waited two years this may have been a worthwhile project... nah, who am I fooling
https://haonowshaokao.com/2014/12/30/obituary-for-2014/
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Thursday, 29 December 2016 02:25 (seven years ago) link
I made this yesterday
http://i.imgur.com/7PY6ewR.png
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Thursday, 29 December 2016 02:37 (seven years ago) link
Patricia Morison
― soref, Friday, 30 December 2016 03:43 (seven years ago) link
Whew. Thought this was the 2016 obit thread.
― Mark G, Friday, 30 December 2016 21:12 (seven years ago) link
saw a couple of places "wishing a happy birthday" to carol reed & was like no fucking way, almost came to this thread but luckily I checked first and nope, dead 40 years
― Movie-Movie: The XXX Porn Parody (wins), Friday, 30 December 2016 21:25 (seven years ago) link
rick barry
― mookieproof, Friday, 30 December 2016 22:18 (seven years ago) link
joan collins
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 01:15 (seven years ago) link
donald trump
― loudmouth darraghmac ween (darraghmac), Wednesday, 4 January 2017 01:23 (seven years ago) link
already mentioned, but i could have sworn valerie harper had died and there had been a big to do about her death
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 01:35 (seven years ago) link
nah you were thinking of harper lee, picked up by a valkyrie after clogpopping in #2016
― loudmouth darraghmac ween (darraghmac), Wednesday, 4 January 2017 01:38 (seven years ago) link
that was it, definitely
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 02:00 (seven years ago) link
Valerie Harper was diagnosed with terminal cancer some time ago but has then gone on to live for longer than people expected I think, kind of like Clive James
― soref, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 02:06 (seven years ago) link
half of the cast of the Mary Tyler Moore show are candidates for this thread tbh, until a few minutes ago I hadn't realised that Ed Asner, Gavin MacLeod and Cloris Leachman are all still alive
― soref, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 02:12 (seven years ago) link
cloris leachman! fabulous
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 02:14 (seven years ago) link
this is one of my favourite threads
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 02:15 (seven years ago) link
William Goldman
― it me, Monday, 9 January 2017 21:48 (seven years ago) link
plus Norman Lear, Chuck Berry, Angela Lansbury and Herman Wouk (101!) all live to see another year
― it me, Monday, 9 January 2017 22:25 (seven years ago) link
Super Bowl I MVP Bart Starr
― it me, Monday, 9 January 2017 22:27 (seven years ago) link
Damn, Herman Wouk. They've shown a few What's My Line? eps on Buzzr that he's on--in the first one, it's mentioned he used to write for Fred Allen's radio show in the early '40s.
― "I must believe that my charm was not in my ass." (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 9 January 2017 22:54 (seven years ago) link
Wouk has kept a personal diary since 1937.[21] On September 10, 2008 Wouk formally presented the Library of Congress with his journals, which number more than 100 volumes as of 2012
― it me, Tuesday, 10 January 2017 00:52 (seven years ago) link
wouk wouk wouk
― loudmouth darraghmac ween (darraghmac), Tuesday, 10 January 2017 01:00 (seven years ago) link
I've mentioned this before but even crazier is that the two head coaches from Super Bowl VII (1974) are still alive: Bud Grant and Don Shula, 89 and 87 respectively
― Josefa, Tuesday, 10 January 2017 02:44 (seven years ago) link
Willard Scott (who isn't actually as old as I thought)
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 18:24 (seven years ago) link
Al Alvarez
― heaven parker (anagram), Monday, 30 January 2017 13:37 (seven years ago) link
xxp that's Super Bowl VIII, although Shula was in VII too
― Lee626, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 12:21 (seven years ago) link
Vera Lynn
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/feb/01/dame-vera-lynn-to-mark-her-100th-birthday-by-releasing-album
― heaven parker (anagram), Thursday, 2 February 2017 10:03 (seven years ago) link
john ashbery
― it me, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 18:32 (seven years ago) link
ken dodd
― Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 2 March 2017 23:59 (seven years ago) link
Bobby Vinton.
I was at a quiz the other night, we were asked a question about a singer who died last year to which the answer was Bobby Vee. Subsequently got in discussion about Bobby Vinton & Bobby Vee, friend insisted both were dead. Finally decided to look it up tonight to clarify - I also sort of thought Bobby Vinton had died years ago and assumed Blue Velvet's revival was some sort of tribute, but turns out it was in an advert for Nivea.
Anyway, aye, he's 81. And not dead.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 00:51 (seven years ago) link
he was in a Gidget movie i watched with friends awhile back. he really sucked.
― a but (brimstead), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 00:53 (seven years ago) link
protect ya neck, Bobby Rydell!
― I Ville Valo HIM (unregistered), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 03:49 (seven years ago) link
A friend is seeing Bob Dorough (93)("3 is a Magic Number) tonight in Minneapolis.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 03:54 (seven years ago) link
milton berle
― “Remember,” he says, “Noddy Holder is a gangster.” (contenderizer), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 03:58 (seven years ago) link
he dead
― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 04:36 (seven years ago) link
manuel noriega
― neva missa lost, wednesday nights on abc (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 04:46 (seven years ago) link
xp - it was a while ago
― “Remember,” he says, “Noddy Holder is a gangster.” (contenderizer), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 05:48 (seven years ago) link
Modestly famous I guess, but the production team of Bernie Orenstein and Saul Turteltaub. They wrote a bunch of episodes of That Girl and later produced the last three seasons of Sanford and Son.
86 and 84 respectively.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 16:57 (seven years ago) link
Not "famous" but that article going around about the passing of one of the co-founders at Waffle House at 99, where the other co-founder, also 99, is still alive, blew my mind. I mean that's the kind thing where if you'd asked me I'd have figured they'd have passed away in like 1983.
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 18:00 (seven years ago) link