Fair enough, Yellow Card withdrawn.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
Julian Bream
― 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
My spelling died.
― Jeff, Friday, 29 June 2018 14:45 (five years ago) link
It’s buried next to mine
― Uncle Redd in the Zingtime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 June 2018 18:58 (five years ago) link
glynis johns, who played the mother in mary poppins, is 94
― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 13 July 2018 10:15 (five years ago) link
another one i was surprised by the obit for, Steve Ditko. Thought he was long gone.
― Stevolende, Friday, 13 July 2018 12:00 (five years ago) link
Kenneth Kaunda
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Friday, 13 July 2018 13:47 (five years ago) link
For some reason I had been under the impression that Dee Snider passed away a few years ago. I must have confused somebody else for him.
― incel clown posse (naus), Friday, 13 July 2018 14:47 (five years ago) link
Possibly D. Schneider (Pat Harrington, Jr., d. 2016) from the hit CBS sitcom One Day at a Time?
― Sgt. Laughter (Old Lunch), Friday, 13 July 2018 14:59 (five years ago) link
She's also one of the handful of still-alive villains from the Batman TV series. Iirc, the others are John Astin, Joan Collins, Barbara Rush, and Julie Newmar (and Lee Meriwether, if you count the movie).
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 13 July 2018 15:04 (five years ago) link
2018 Ditko had put out three comics and kickstartered a Mr A 50th anniversary book before dying, meeting his usual four-comics-annually output just in the first half of the year
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Friday, 13 July 2018 16:45 (five years ago) link
I think we can take it as an unspoken given that posters itt have not kept tabs on the recent activities and output of the famous person they mention.
― Sgt. Laughter (Old Lunch), Friday, 13 July 2018 16:51 (five years ago) link
'I am surprised that Leonardo DiCaprio, who just tweeted yesterday about wrapping his latest film, is still alive.' -- not a post we are likely to see itt
― Sgt. Laughter (Old Lunch), Friday, 13 July 2018 16:53 (five years ago) link
Paul Anka
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 13 July 2018 17:11 (five years ago) link
Otis Rush
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 13 July 2018 17:53 (five years ago) link
No doubt, it's not an error or failing of anyone not to know*. I just think it's notable that this 92-year-old who hasn't been commercially successful since his '30s has spent the last five years being as productive as most alternative cartoonists were in the 1990s. Especially as many of the thread subjects have been retired for decades before their appearances herein.
*Albeit it's odder to have a specific, active opinion that someone so notable in the field you're considering did die a long time ago, vs not having thought about them at all.
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Friday, 13 July 2018 19:33 (five years ago) link
Hal Linden
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 14 July 2018 01:03 (five years ago) link
He was on Gilbert Gottfried’s podcast a year or two back. The guest list for that show could double as this thread.
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Saturday, 14 July 2018 01:49 (five years ago) link
Nancy Sinatra Sr!
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 14 July 2018 09:20 (five years ago) link
wtf! Was she found in that black sarcophagus?
― calzino, Saturday, 14 July 2018 09:24 (five years ago) link
Tommy Docherty
― Mark G, Saturday, 21 July 2018 19:53 (five years ago) link
Lester Piggott
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Friday, 3 August 2018 08:27 (five years ago) link
yeah i was mildly surprised
― the Joao looked at Jonny (Noodle Vague), Friday, 3 August 2018 08:30 (five years ago) link
you can't help having the phiz you are born with, but there is an aristo-haughtiness to that ugly bassa that I always found deeply irritating. Looking at his wiki it seems his family's involvement with horse racing goes back to the 18th century, probably bred like horses in the same stables! I once ripped the piss out of a work colleague who did a tribute painting to Piggott in their workplace, it was a badly drawn montage and was entitled The King of Epsom or something like that!
― calzino, Friday, 3 August 2018 08:58 (five years ago) link
Richard Hell - for some reason I thought he died around when Jim Carroll did
― louise ck (milo z), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 03:53 (five years ago) link
in solidarity?
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 03:56 (five years ago) link
He seems to stil be writing, did a memoir a few years ago.Not sure about playing. I did see an interview with him when the reissue of Blank Generation happened ast year too thouogh.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 08:27 (five years ago) link
yeah. You not thinking of Robert Quine?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 08:40 (five years ago) link
Phil Donahue
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 22:46 (five years ago) link
Richard Hell still does readings a lot at local events.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 22:54 (five years ago) link
John Dean
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 19 August 2018 22:05 (five years ago) link
Marge Champion
― tokyo rosemary, Sunday, 19 August 2018 22:12 (five years ago) link
Andre Previn
― devvvine, Sunday, 19 August 2018 22:25 (five years ago) link
James Hong, Chinese-American actor. I know him from various appearances on the original Hawaii Five-O, but he was also in Chinatown, Airplane!, and a zillion other things. He was a Chinese restaurant waiter in a 1975 episode of All in the Family as well as the maître d' in the Seinfeld episode "The Chinese Restaurant." Daniel Dae Kim claims he has more credits than any other actor, living or dead.
― Josefa, Monday, 20 August 2018 01:51 (five years ago) link