Fred Melamed (I just for some reason thought he died)
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 3 September 2018 06:54 (five years ago) link
Current Sling TV pitch-person Dr. Ruth.
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 3 September 2018 07:36 (five years ago) link
Shelley Duvall
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 14:59 (five years ago) link
Matt Drudge
(I think maybe I confused him with Breitbart?)
― ilxor-com-dog-meat-drawer-7-840-x-600.jpg (unregistered), Friday, 7 September 2018 01:30 (five years ago) link
easy mistake to make. also because Drudge never gives interviews and rarely has his picture taken.
― flappy bird, Friday, 7 September 2018 16:41 (five years ago) link
Martial Solal
― calzino, Saturday, 8 September 2018 11:37 (five years ago) link
I wouldn't expect someone who played with Sidney Bechet and did the Breathless soundtrack to be still here.
― calzino, Saturday, 8 September 2018 11:39 (five years ago) link
Peregrine Worsthorne
I think it is the wasp thread got me thinking of him : "you'd sting me with a wasp?" "is this a conversation".
― calzino, Monday, 10 September 2018 20:30 (five years ago) link
Walter Laqueur
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 07:53 (five years ago) link
Hal Holbrook!
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 07:06 (five years ago) link
Richard "Les Nessman" Sanders (who's not as old as I thought--was in his late 30s when WKRP started)
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 07:21 (five years ago) link
Frank Bough. For some reason I thought he'd died years ago and then I saw a Twitter account under his name, thought that someone had maybe just set one up under his name and then checked....he's 85 now.
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 19:25 (five years ago) link
Gene Shalit (92)
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 2 October 2018 19:31 (five years ago) link
bill hayden
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 11:20 (five years ago) link
Jan Troell, director of The Emigrants and The New Land.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 17:09 (five years ago) link
Sandy Gall, Richard Baker.
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 14:40 (five years ago) link
Shirley Williams
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Saturday, 27 October 2018 22:37 (five years ago) link
Hank Aaron
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Saturday, 27 October 2018 22:41 (five years ago) link
sandy koufax
― maura, Sunday, 28 October 2018 13:38 (five years ago) link
Willie Mays
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 1 November 2018 16:12 (five years ago) link
tsk tsk, keep up w/ yr Hall of Famers
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 November 2018 16:13 (five years ago) link
Whitey Ford just turned 90 btw
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 November 2018 16:17 (five years ago) link
want to go to seder with Sandy Koufax
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Thursday, 1 November 2018 16:49 (five years ago) link
(xp) At least one old geezer called Whitey has lived to see 90 without being beaten to death and having their tongue ripped out.
― Alma Kirby (Tom D.), Thursday, 1 November 2018 16:59 (five years ago) link
Gangster boss Whitey Bulger now being wheeled out of sight of the cameras, pleading with the other inmates for...for some kind of sanity.
Uh oh and a barrage of locks now knocking Whitey unconscious.
Wow, this is...this is a great day for Boston.
― omar little, Thursday, 1 November 2018 17:08 (five years ago) link
Rod Laver
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Sunday, 4 November 2018 08:46 (five years ago) link
had him on my deadpool long list a few years back
― adam the (abanana), Wednesday, 21 November 2018 10:43 (five years ago) link
oh, that wasn't a new message i was replying to.
― adam the (abanana), Wednesday, 21 November 2018 10:44 (five years ago) link
Ed Meese
― The Poppy Bush AutoZone (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 21 November 2018 13:21 (five years ago) link
Dušan Makavejev
― flappy bird, Thursday, 22 November 2018 02:47 (five years ago) link
Twenty One contestants Herbert Stempel and Charles Van Doren.
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 22 November 2018 14:25 (five years ago) link
cutty
― old yeller-at-clouds (darraghmac), Thursday, 22 November 2018 15:31 (five years ago) link
Kirk Douglas, when his son Michael had a recent photo of his 102 year old wheelchair bound self at a publilc event. MIchael Douglas getting a star or something?MD was on Stephen colbert a couple of days ago.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 22 November 2018 15:37 (five years ago) link
Holland, Dozier and Holland are all still alive. they're not even that old.
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 24 November 2018 07:25 (five years ago) link
Mr. Blobby
― StanM, Saturday, 24 November 2018 10:25 (five years ago) link
https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/thumbor/LsVwbZUxFUhxGujBw88urYdE4QQ/fit-in/1024x1024/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-/usr/1/13254/mrblobby.jpg
― calzino, Saturday, 24 November 2018 10:43 (five years ago) link
Stanley Baxter― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 12:21 (fourteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Still kicking around at 92.
Right... I've had to keep this under wraps for ages. We've just finished editing a Christmas special (90') on Stanley Baxter for C5 He;'s 92, on top form, and he allowed our cameras into his house. He's v.v. funny. Details closer to transmission. Press pls go to Mark Borkowski— Victor Lewis-Smith (@TVOFFAL) November 25, 2018
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Sunday, 25 November 2018 11:28 (five years ago) link
Clive James. Could have sworn he died a couple of years ago.
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo)
he's been terminally ill for about 4 or 5 years and has been writing about his imminent death, in terms that make it seem like it's just round the corner, ever since. due to this ive assumed multiple times over recent years that he must have passed away.
― corbyn's gallus (jim in glasgow), Thursday, August 6, 2015 10:33 PM (three years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
He sounds a little embarrassed about it, to be fair
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 1 January 2019 10:47 (five years ago) link
I think if you still possess a sense of embarrassment then life really hasn't prepared you for death yet.
― calzino, Tuesday, 1 January 2019 11:12 (five years ago) link
Hugh Downs. He'll be 100 in 20...21.
― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 14:52 (five years ago) link
Harriet Andersson
― flappy bird, Thursday, 3 January 2019 04:40 (five years ago) link
How embarrassed must he be in 2019?
― Never Turn Your Back On Virginia Woolf (Tom D.), Thursday, 3 January 2019 08:30 (five years ago) link
he's still writing (a long poem in September) : https://www.theguardian.com/profile/clive-james
― StanM, Thursday, 3 January 2019 09:13 (five years ago) link
Reading his Wiki page, it's probably not significant that the BBC interview where he said the disease "had beaten him" and that he was "near the end" came a couple of months after his wife had thrown him out after discovering he'd been having an affair with a model for 8 years - is it?
― Never Turn Your Back On Virginia Woolf (Tom D.), Thursday, 3 January 2019 09:21 (five years ago) link
she must have taken him back in then, that most recent article mentions her taking his temperature
― StanM, Thursday, 3 January 2019 09:30 (five years ago) link
It worked then.
― Never Turn Your Back On Virginia Woolf (Tom D.), Thursday, 3 January 2019 09:46 (five years ago) link
who'd have thought some old twat whose career high was an 80's lol foreigns tv show would still have enough ego + self-regard to consider writing an Epic Poem with himself as the hero 🤢
― calzino, Thursday, 3 January 2019 09:59 (five years ago) link
When it comes to jawdropping once-seen-never-forgotten quintessentially Australian monuments and landmarks, Clive James's ego dwarfs Syndney Opera House AND Ayers Rock.
― Never Turn Your Back On Virginia Woolf (Tom D.), Thursday, 3 January 2019 10:07 (five years ago) link
I like his LP with Pete Atkin, "Beware The Beautiful Stranger"
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 3 January 2019 10:29 (five years ago) link
He's turned rightwing in his old age though just like his mates Amis, McEwen et al - the last thing I read of his was a review in the TLS where he praised Tony Abbott, Australia's very own Donald Trump
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 3 January 2019 10:37 (five years ago) link