(er, "recorded and released")
― hogarth brooks (unregistered), Sunday, 28 January 2024 01:10 (eight months ago) link
I watched the 1956 musical comedy The Girl Can't Help It last night; Fats Domino and Little Richard are gone, but which musical performers from the film are still around?
Johnny Olenn, 85Nino Tempo, 87Ray Anthony, 100
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, October 21, 2022 6:43 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 28 January 2024 01:15 (eight months ago) link
Wavy Gravy, who will be 88 in May.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 02:46 (seven months ago) link
> Wavy Gravy, 87> ― Ward Fowler, Monday, 8 January 2024 10:17
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(knew i'd seen his name before, didn't realise it was so recently)
― koogs, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 15:02 (seven months ago) link
How many Blues Brothers are still breathing? Aykroyd, Cropper, Murph, Hall, as far as I can tell.
― Washington Post Malone (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 17:45 (seven months ago) link
Blue Lou and Tom Malone are still with us
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:00 (seven months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/pxLubh9.gif
― pplains, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:29 (seven months ago) link
I didn't check the thread before I posted! On me!
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 23:11 (seven months ago) link
Knott's Berry Farm
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 1 February 2024 01:30 (seven months ago) link
John Woodvine, English actor, from the 50s and apparently still working(!), 94.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Monday, 5 February 2024 15:22 (seven months ago) link
... 1950s onwards, that is.
I thought Woodvine had died after he collapsed on stage a decade ago, pleased to see he's still with us. He's the same age as Colin Jeavins, who retired 30 years ago.
June Spencer, the sole survivor of the original Archers broadcast, still with us at 104.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Monday, 5 February 2024 15:45 (seven months ago) link
He was in this in 2022.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/may/20/enys-men-review-mark-jenkin-cannes-2022
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Monday, 5 February 2024 15:52 (seven months ago) link
I watched that just the other night and right enough I did recognise him at the time.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Monday, 5 February 2024 16:18 (seven months ago) link
Ethel Skakel Kennedy, 95
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Monday, 5 February 2024 19:49 (seven months ago) link
Bernie Clifton, 87.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 16:18 (seven months ago) link
Michael Aspel, 91.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Monday, 12 February 2024 08:56 (seven months ago) link
That made me look up Michael Rodd, who is not only still alive but somehow only 80.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Monday, 12 February 2024 09:43 (seven months ago) link
Joe Don Baker turns 88 today!
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 12 February 2024 15:35 (seven months ago) link
I saw a clip of Wayne Newton at the Super Bowl, and was surprised and delighted to see him (1) alive and (2) having a nice chat with Guy Fieri.
― Sam Weller, Monday, 12 February 2024 16:32 (seven months ago) link
I really thought he was dead — like, I have a false memory of reading about his death on social media. I re-watched Charley Varrick the other week (it's on Tubi); he's pretty terrifying in that.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Monday, 12 February 2024 18:35 (seven months ago) link
Terrifying in Mitchell!, too
― B. Amato (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 12 February 2024 18:48 (seven months ago) link
Had the Newton revelation Saturday night when I finally started the 2nd season of Hacks and saw his cameo in the UFC scene.
He might be more plastic than man at this point.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 12 February 2024 18:53 (seven months ago) link
The Drudge Report
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 15 February 2024 21:47 (seven months ago) link
paul dooley turned 96 today
charles durning, however, remains dead
― mookieproof, Thursday, 22 February 2024 23:14 (seven months ago) link
For viewers in Scotland only:
Glen Michael, 97Stanley Baxter, 97Una McLean, 93
Just found out John Cairney died last September, aged 93.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Thursday, 22 February 2024 23:18 (seven months ago) link
Glen Michael and Stanley Baxter are truly the totems of this thread.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Friday, 23 February 2024 10:47 (seven months ago) link
... born within eight days of each other.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Friday, 23 February 2024 10:49 (seven months ago) link
They're the Scottish Harry Belafonte/ Sidney Poitier.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Friday, 23 February 2024 10:51 (seven months ago) link
When Stanley finally goes we should, at least, start a new thread or, my preference, close down the entire site. (Just kiddin', like)
― Michael Jones, Friday, 23 February 2024 11:27 (seven months ago) link
Stanley is also my personal Mandela Effect, mainly because (as he admits in his hugely entertaining biography) he wasn't going to come out until after his death, and his biography weirdly ends with his 'death' - people gather for his last moments and he fades away. But then an epilogue that says he didn't actually die after all is is frail but fine.
So weird that he outlived Victor Lewis-Smith, who did so much to promote Stanley's life, achievements and place in British comedy.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Friday, 23 February 2024 11:36 (seven months ago) link
probably haven't given glen michael a single thought for 15 years or more but oddly heartened to know he's still around
― memphis milano: the new trend of the 80s (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 23 February 2024 12:55 (seven months ago) link
Reminds me that I just read that Edwin Morgan came out when he was 70, I think.
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 February 2024 19:29 (seven months ago) link
Please help the cause against loneliness https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/glen-michael-loneliness-campaign/
― Alba, Friday, 23 February 2024 20:50 (seven months ago) link
He's looking good for 97!
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Friday, 23 February 2024 20:53 (seven months ago) link
Peter Jay, 87.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Saturday, 24 February 2024 13:10 (seven months ago) link
Scargill ! had no idea, thought he died ages ago.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-68457786
― mark e, Saturday, 2 March 2024 20:10 (six months ago) link
He's outlived Thatcher, Ian MacGregor, David Hart etc by quite a while. Which must please him no end.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Saturday, 2 March 2024 21:00 (six months ago) link
Former Canadian Prime Minister Joe Clark, 84. Defeated Pierre Trudeau in 1979, defeated by Pierre Trudeau in 1980.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 2 March 2024 23:20 (six months ago) link
A friend worked a celebrity/autograph event today or yesterday and said Pete Best was there.
― nickn, Sunday, 3 March 2024 04:34 (six months ago) link
Came here to note Ann Vernon, she was in a movie I watched last night (Shakedown, 1950.) James Redd mentioned her when she was 97. She just turned 100 in January.
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 16:37 (six months ago) link
Yay, Ann!
― man in suit and red tie raising his fist (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 16:48 (six months ago) link
Peggy Dow was also in that movie. She’ll be 96 on March 18th.
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 16:57 (six months ago) link
Never heard of that one!
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 19:51 (six months ago) link
Also seems that whilst in the US or at least for that film she dropped the final ‘e’ in her first name so Ann Vernon instead of Anne Vernon.
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 19:52 (six months ago) link
Of course her real name was something entirely different
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 19:53 (six months ago) link
Only e-less for that one movie apparently
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 19:56 (six months ago) link
Not exactly famous but Karl Kohn, who Frank Zappa studied composition with, 97.
― man in suit and red tie raising his fist (Tom D.), Thursday, 7 March 2024 22:28 (six months ago) link
István Szabó, 86
― help me I am in hull (Matt #2), Saturday, 9 March 2024 14:06 (six months ago) link
Gudrun Ure, Supergran herself, 98 today.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 12:24 (six months ago) link