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 (six 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
Tom Wolfe only just dying was a surprise. Thought I'd heard that a few years ago, maybe he'd just been badly ill.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 17 May 2018 06:33 (five years ago) link
Stan Lee.
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Thursday, 17 May 2018 07:45 (five years ago) link
Engelbert Humperdinck
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 17 May 2018 07:58 (five years ago) link
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Thursday, 17 May 2018 08:45 (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the last famous person you were surprised to discover people were surprised to discover was actually still alive
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Friday, 18 May 2018 23:30 (five years ago) link
Meh, comics and comics stuff, what do I care?
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Saturday, 19 May 2018 07:03 (five years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f3S7faai9P8/S_TRxE6OJMI/AAAAAAAAAH8/12vVwnq21EA/s1600/ace2.JPG
If Stan Lee had come up with something as good as 8 Ace I'd have some respect, but spidey can get fucked!
― calzino, Saturday, 19 May 2018 07:20 (five years ago) link
I'll always love his "It's the enemy that comes disguised as a friend"
Ace describing the 8-ace, obv.
― Mark G, Saturday, 19 May 2018 08:44 (five years ago) link
Robin Leach
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 20 May 2018 08:42 (five years ago) link
Oddly, Bob Dylan?! I do not know when I acquired this false memory/belief. Even having just googled this, I had a feeling of uncertainty- is he alive or not!
― MrDasher, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 00:50 (five years ago) link
Jerry Maren may not be particularly famous, but he was a munchkin from the Lollipop Guild in the 1939 Wizard of Oz and he's alive, against all my expectations. He's 98.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 01:48 (five years ago) link
also in planet of the apes and lord of the rings (the bakshi one)
― adam the (abanana), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 05:16 (five years ago) link
lollipop guild guy blows my fucking mind. and his wiki entry points to another surviving cast member, judy garland's understudy caren marsh doll (now 99). i mean, there are plenty of people who are 98 and 99, even in hard-living hollywood, but that film has an aura, to me, that makes it feel like it came from practically the silent era.
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 05:22 (five years ago) link
yeah what the fuck
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 05:43 (five years ago) link
Well good job on reminding Death, guys.
― I'm Finn thanks, don't mention it (fionnland), Thursday, 7 June 2018 06:57 (five years ago) link
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/06/jerry-maren-munchkin-wizard-of-oz-obit
― I'm Finn thanks, don't mention it (fionnland), Thursday, 7 June 2018 06:58 (five years ago) link
Yellow card to those that post obits here..
Keep it to people still alive, yeah?
― Mark G, Thursday, 7 June 2018 07:06 (five years ago) link
Video review points out that referring to the death of someone mentioned four posts back is perfectly legit.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 7 June 2018 08:04 (five years ago) link
Two posts back, and the only subsequent one was reacting to it.
― we used to get our kicks reading surfing MAGAzines (sic), Thursday, 7 June 2018 08:09 (five years ago) link
John Calder, who published most of Beckett's prose works.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Thursday, 7 June 2018 09:15 (five years ago) link
The House of Fraser
― We can be herpes (Tom D.), Thursday, 7 June 2018 13:22 (five years ago) link
Julian Bream
― William Thinkpiece Hackery (NickB), Thursday, 7 June 2018 13:36 (five years ago) link
Fair enough, Yellow Card withdrawn.
― Mark G, Thursday, 7 June 2018 13:39 (five years ago) link
Anybody keeping track of how many people mentioned on this thread subsequently died within 4 posts? (Could be that this thread is a crowd-sourced version of that cat that likes to snuggle up to people high on the reaper's list at the old folks home.)
― henry s, Thursday, 7 June 2018 18:02 (five years ago) link
I saw his obit on PBS last night, and remembered the posts on this thread mentioning him and falsely remembered it was in the obit thread. Fucking weird. Sorry man
― flappy bird, Thursday, 7 June 2018 18:04 (five years ago) link
― And Nobody POLLS Like Me (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 June 2018 18:13 (five years ago) link
Stanley Donen
― dat, Sunday, 10 June 2018 17:21 (five years ago) link
Just got this presser and went What?
https://i.imgur.com/MIlgXzh.png
― pplains, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 15:45 (five years ago) link
I mean, maybe he is dead. If anyone could pull that one off, it'd be him.
― pplains, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 15:46 (five years ago) link
Kreskin still alive at 83!
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 15:48 (five years ago) link
We had him on as a guest for low-rated midday talk show. Let me tell ya, Kreskin on the radio is one unique guest.
― pplains, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 16:12 (five years ago) link
Clive King, author of "Stig of the Dump".
― Tim, Wednesday, 27 June 2018 08:30 (five years ago) link
Arlene Dahl
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 28 June 2018 07:55 (five years ago) link
Gloria Hunniford
― Kroos on first (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 28 June 2018 09:13 (five years ago) link
Really? She revealed plans to pen a raunchy novel just the other day.
― Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 29 June 2018 09:38 (five years ago) link
Damn thought this was the obituary thread.
Really? Surprised that she's still around? She revealed plans to pen a raunchy novel just the other day.
(fixed)
― Mark G, Friday, 29 June 2018 13:11 (five years ago) link
I bet her freshly revealed plans to pen a raunchy novel prompted NV's surprise in the first place.
― Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 29 June 2018 13:53 (five years ago) link
James Randy.
― Jeff, Friday, 29 June 2018 13:58 (five years ago) link
.. Randi?
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 29 June 2018 14:00 (five years ago) link