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
howard hodgkin :(
― mark s, Thursday, 9 March 2017 20:56 (seven years ago) link
:( I like his work a hell of a lot more than some of the other "living legends" of Brit art.
― calzino, Thursday, 9 March 2017 21:04 (seven years ago) link
Drag Racers Shirley Shahan & Shirley Muldowney
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 9 March 2017 21:29 (seven years ago) link
len deighton, spy novelist and inventor of the cookstrip
― mark s, Thursday, 9 March 2017 21:34 (seven years ago) link
Clifton James, portrayer of stereotypical small-town sheriffs in The Silver Streak, Superman II, and two Roger Moore Bond films, is 95. His marriage is 66. Wowie.
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 15:37 (seven years ago) link
^also a Method actor and stage purveyor of Mamet (I saw him in American Buffalo with Pacino)
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 15:39 (seven years ago) link
He'll always be Carr from Cool Hand Luke to me...his "...spends a night in the box" monologue is all time
― Wet Pelican would provide the soundtrack (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 16:19 (seven years ago) link
right!
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 16:28 (seven years ago) link
Which reminds me that Monty Hall is also 95 and is about to have his 70th wedding anniversary this year
― Josefa, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 17:01 (seven years ago) link
hef: 91 today, smoking in any jacket
― mark s, Sunday, 9 April 2017 19:09 (seven years ago) link
I knew he was still alive; more surprised to learn he's 91!
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Sunday, 9 April 2017 19:10 (seven years ago) link
His nephew Jon does one man shows across the country. Talks about the one time he visited the mansion.
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 9 April 2017 19:15 (seven years ago) link
i assume one man refers to the audience
― stanley weebeard (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 9 April 2017 19:15 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CpsFDhTWgAAEGB5.jpg
― mark s, Sunday, 9 April 2017 19:17 (seven years ago) link
Hugh Hefner's son has one of those Mark Lamarr/Kermode hairstyles:
http://akns-images.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/2015526/rs_560x415-150626092244-1024-cooper-hugh-hefner-holly-madison-ls-62615_copy.jpg
― soref, Sunday, 9 April 2017 19:29 (seven years ago) link
I assume one man refers to the audience
― stanley weebeard (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, April 9, 2017 3:15 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
He did have a show cancelled for that reason in 08
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 9 April 2017 19:35 (seven years ago) link
Betty Boothroyd (who I just saw on The One Show while waiting for Masterchef to come on)
― Bernie Lugg (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 12 April 2017 18:58 (seven years ago) link
momentarily i thought you meant barbara castle and feared my brane was failing
― mark s, Wednesday, 12 April 2017 19:02 (seven years ago) link
Well Betty is from that part of t'Heavy Woolen district known as Dewsbury, which is renowned for it's residents temperance and healthy living habits!
― calzino, Wednesday, 12 April 2017 19:19 (seven years ago) link
http://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/Oral-history-curator-s-choice/021M-OH1CD0297601-0001V0
― calzino, Wednesday, 12 April 2017 19:20 (seven years ago) link
Orson Bean, still kicking. Good for him!
― passionate plant-based athlete (voodoo chili), Monday, 24 April 2017 14:51 (seven years ago) link
valery giscard d'estaing is still somewhat active in french politics, at 91
― mark s, Monday, 24 April 2017 14:55 (seven years ago) link
Franco Zeffirelli; 94
― remy bean, Saturday, 29 April 2017 14:21 (seven years ago) link
Ken Nordine: 97
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 22:34 (seven years ago) link
Theresa May, 5 days
― May o God help us (darraghmac), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 23:29 (seven years ago) link
ha
― early morning reverse rumplestiltskin rage (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 23:47 (seven years ago) link
phil donahue
― early morning reverse rumplestiltskin rage (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 15 June 2017 05:27 (seven years ago) link
Gene Chandler
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 22 June 2017 19:20 (seven years ago) link
Gena Rowlands
― it me, Thursday, 22 June 2017 19:25 (seven years ago) link
Gene Hackman
― you yourself have seen plenty bananas in your life (Old Lunch), Thursday, 22 June 2017 19:29 (seven years ago) link
Jake Lamotta
― Wet Pelican would provide the soundtrack (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 22 June 2017 22:13 (seven years ago) link
Carl Reiner
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Friday, 23 June 2017 03:02 (seven years ago) link
Herb Alpert
― charlie brown from outta town (GM), Wednesday, 12 July 2017 14:12 (seven years ago) link
not news to this thread but aww: https://www.google.com/amp/www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4607626/amp/Kirk-Douglas-reveals-marriage
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 12 July 2017 14:16 (seven years ago) link
Amazed that Mary Ward who played 'Mother' in Prisoner Cell Block H is still alive, at 103
― Ste, Thursday, 3 August 2017 19:02 (seven years ago) link
Ilyich Ramírez Sánchez/Carlos the Jackal. Was even in court earlier this year for one of his 1974 attacks.
― clemenza, Monday, 7 August 2017 03:43 (seven years ago) link
horrible Minneapolis sports columnist Sid Hartman, who, I just learned, was also the general manager for the Minneapolis Lakers basketball dynasty—in 1949
― it me, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 20:44 (seven years ago) link
Harry Dean Stanton, until yesterday. I could have sworn he died at some point in the last two or three years and that I already experienced the media discussion of his passing.
― joygoat, Saturday, 16 September 2017 11:38 (seven years ago) link
^ proving the point I was making on the HDS thread.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Saturday, 16 September 2017 11:51 (seven years ago) link
Wink Martindale is still kicking.
― WilliamC, Sunday, October 1, 2017 1:28 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 1 October 2017 17:39 (six years ago) link
tbf he's only 83 but if you'd asked me i'd've guessed that's how old he was in 1990.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 1 October 2017 17:41 (six years ago) link
Lt. William Calley
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 1 October 2017 18:48 (six years ago) link
New Yorker cartoonist George Booth
― it me, Friday, 6 October 2017 23:32 (six years ago) link
REALLY?
― pplains, Saturday, 7 October 2017 18:58 (six years ago) link
I thought he might've died in the 70s!
Ross Perot
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 7 October 2017 22:28 (six years ago) link
I knew he was alive, but I've been really surprised that he's kept silent (as far as I know) on the last three elections at least. He must have been constantly sought out for opinions and quotes.
― clemenza, Saturday, 7 October 2017 22:31 (six years ago) link
was recently surprised to discover that brecht scholar and theatre critic eric bentley is alive and about to turn 99
also nice to know j.p. donleavy is still pottering around his irish estate
― no lime tangier, Monday, August 31, 2015 6:25 AM (two years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Donleavy checked out last month, but Bentley's still here at 101!
― alimosina, Monday, 9 October 2017 20:10 (six years ago) link
Bill Maynard, whose birthday is today.
― Thomas Gabriel Fischer does not endorse (aldo), Monday, 9 October 2017 21:41 (six years ago) link