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
Sumner Redstone (94)
― .oO (silby), Thursday, 7 December 2017 22:21 (six years ago) link
i thought gary oldman was dead. i thought it happened last year and there was a heap of news about it. i can even remember being surprised.
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 8 December 2017 09:50 (six years ago) link
Alan Rickman/Gary Oldman?
― StanM, Friday, 8 December 2017 09:57 (six years ago) link
that occurred to me too, but i thought i remembered them dying in different months
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 8 December 2017 10:05 (six years ago) link
you got Mandela'd my friend
― Number None, Saturday, 9 December 2017 17:05 (six years ago) link
Not really famous, but pretty surprising: John McCain's mom.
― Dan I., Sunday, 10 December 2017 04:22 (six years ago) link
Larry Storch
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 10 December 2017 04:29 (six years ago) link
Dick Van Dyke
― 3.5" flopson (The Reverend), Friday, May 6, 2011 1:40 AM (six years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― © louis jagger/richards (Pillbox), Sunday, 10 December 2017 06:35 (six years ago) link
John McCain's mom - wow, she looks amazing for 105!
― © louis jagger/richards (Pillbox), Sunday, 10 December 2017 06:37 (six years ago) link
Lee Iacocca
― pplains, Thursday, 14 December 2017 15:21 (six years ago) link
June Lockhart (b. 1925), best known as a TV mom on Lassie and a mom-scientist on Lost In Space.
I saw her last night in a small but memorable part in Meet Me In St. Louis (as an east-coast romantic rival who turns out to be good-hearted) and it was driving me crazy who she looked like, until I realized it was Heather Graham on Arrested Development; Graham, of course, appeared in the godawful film version of Lost in Space as the daughter to Mimi Rogers's version of Lockhart's old character. (Lockhart is also in the film, in a cameo as a holographic space principal.)
― Newb Sybok (Doctor Casino), Friday, 22 December 2017 17:27 (six years ago) link
John Cullum, who I saw in the Christine Chubbuck movie last night. I would have sworn he died 5-7 years ago, and that's why they stopped having him as Lee Garner Sr. on Mad Men.
― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 23 December 2017 03:56 (six years ago) link
Kenneth Anger
― methanietanner, Saturday, 23 December 2017 04:05 (six years ago) link
doris day, 95yo
― Mordy, Sunday, 24 December 2017 17:06 (six years ago) link
ugly dave gray
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 25 December 2017 10:21 (six years ago) link
lulu
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 28 December 2017 23:46 (six years ago) link
Sydney Devine.
― Thomas Gabriel Fischer does not endorse (aldo), Friday, 29 December 2017 08:22 (six years ago) link
― © l0u1s jagg3r/richards (Pillbox), Sunday, December 10, 2017 6:35 AM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
You just had to point it out.
― finlay (fionnland), Friday, 29 December 2017 11:57 (six years ago) link
Oops I misread the announcement, it's Rose Marie that died. RIP.
― finlay (fionnland), Friday, 29 December 2017 11:58 (six years ago) link
Leslie Phillips
― Chunky Backgammon (onimo), Monday, 1 January 2018 13:45 (six years ago) link
John Simon, because Clemenza said he died on the Critical Vendettas thread, and I was all like, "Yeah, he did", but then I looked it up, and he's still chuggin' on at 92.
― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 1 January 2018 19:14 (six years ago) link
johnny young
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 1 January 2018 21:12 (six years ago) link
paul sorvino
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 16:07 (six years ago) link
I'm not surprised he's alive, but I'll just say that there are some days in which I take comfort knowing that Tom T. Hall is still out there somewhere, hopefully not in a cold hotel bar in Des Moines.
― pplains, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 16:20 (six years ago) link
Jackie Mason.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 6 January 2018 10:20 (six years ago) link
As a collective, it is surprising to me that basically all of the James Bond girls of the 1960s are still alive. Ursula Andress, Honor Blackman, Shirley Eaton, Daniela Bianchi, Claudine Auger, Luciana Paluzzi, Martine Beswick, Mie Hama, and Diana Rigg - all in their 70s, 80s, or 90s (Blackman). A semi-exception is Karin Dor, who played a villain in You Only Live Twice.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 18:41 (six years ago) link
Clarissa Eden, wife of Anthony Eden (British Prime Minister from 1955-1957) - and she's not even the oldest living Prime Minister's spouse, as Mary Wilson is more than four years older than her.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Wednesday, November 30, 2016 1:39 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Mary Wilson still going and is 102 as of today
― soref, Friday, 12 January 2018 16:17 (six years ago) link
That's cool, congratulations, Mary.
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Friday, 12 January 2018 16:26 (six years ago) link
Imelda Marcos
― it me, Friday, 26 January 2018 21:22 (six years ago) link
read an article in this week's TLS about Louis-Ferdinand Céline and discovered that his widow Lucette is still alive, 105 years old
― soref, Sunday, 4 February 2018 01:30 (six years ago) link
Clu Gulanger
― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 4 February 2018 02:49 (six years ago) link
^^ Outlived his co-star in The Killers Lee Marvin by 30 years. Although his other co-star Angie Dickinson is still alive as well.
Gina. Lollobrigida is 90 and finally got her star on Hollywood Blvd. yesterday. She seems determined not to go before Sophia Loren.
― Josefa, Sunday, 4 February 2018 06:20 (six years ago) link
kenneth anger
― flappy bird, Sunday, 4 February 2018 06:28 (six years ago) link
also Ann Blyth, the daughter in Mildred Pierce
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kxXK9mp6T9g/TkqaPgMQ9BI/AAAAAAAAAs8/BSt_EUYBm_M/s1600/mp-blyth.png
― flappy bird, Sunday, 4 February 2018 06:31 (six years ago) link
Charles Aznavour will return to the Royal Albert Hall for one final time on June 30.
The 93-year-old French vocalist, who last played the London venue in 2015, will perform his greatest hits from his collection of 294 albums.
― mark s, Saturday, 17 February 2018 21:21 (six years ago) link
Liv Ullmann
― flappy bird, Saturday, 17 February 2018 21:25 (six years ago) link
Maybe I should run over to FF to see her
― Prometheus Freed's Rock and Roll Pâté (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 February 2018 21:54 (six years ago) link
I saw The Magician yesterday at 2pm, and when I was leaving, there was a big crowd for another Bergamn (The Devil's Eye I think, in 35mm), and when I was walking to the bathroom Liv was there being fawned over by someone: "you're such an inspiration it's such a pleasure!!" it was cool
― flappy bird, Saturday, 17 February 2018 22:00 (six years ago) link
whenever i read her name i think of howie morris as professor little-old-man in high anxiety: "lillOman! lillOman!"
― mark s, Saturday, 17 February 2018 22:19 (six years ago) link
Gloria Jean (nee Schoonover). I know her best as W.C. Fields' niece in Never Give a Sucker an Even Break.
― Polly of the Pre-Codes (j.lu), Saturday, 17 February 2018 23:16 (six years ago) link
xps Lotta Bergman actresses are doing well, seemingly. Gunnel Lindblom, Harriet Andersson, and Margit Carlqvist are all 86. Bibi Andersson's 82.
― Josefa, Sunday, 18 February 2018 00:59 (six years ago) link
Both of the Smothers Brothers. They seemed really old to me when I watched their revived TV series as a 10-year-old in 1988.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Friday, 2 March 2018 06:01 (six years ago) link
Harry Belafonte just on this Nat King Cole documentary, not so much 'surprised to find still alive' as if he had died we'd have heard about it.
― Mark G, Saturday, 14 April 2018 01:40 (five years ago) link
Craig Breedlove
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 05:18 (five years ago) link
Topol (83)
― valorous wokelord (silby), Thursday, 17 May 2018 01:39 (five years ago) link
Er, 82 for now. Hence I also just learned that at the time of the film of Fiddler he was 36. Wild.
― valorous wokelord (silby), Thursday, 17 May 2018 01:43 (five years ago) link