people you thought were dead but aren't

Also, apparently this thread put a jinx on Katharine Hepburn, who died only a few months after she was mentioned here.

heh I thought Katherine Hepburn was still alive :)

I had a discussion the other day about someone that was all about whether they were alive or dead. I forget who it was now, and we never checked for confirmation either.

But yeah, Harvey Dent.

David Blaine was who we were talking about.

No, he was just buried alive.

I think people were hoping.

i just watched holiday today (Grant/Hepburn. excellent), she looks even more severe than usual but the character is wonderfully vibrant, as is grant (he does flips); i hadn't seen in ten yrs probably i was afraid i'd be disappoinged; lots of thoughtful lefty easter eggs in the script.

Clive Dunn

I love how Abe Vigoda has a simple website devoted to his living 'status', I guess everyone must think he is dead.

http://www.abevigoda.com/

ok wtf

Erich von Däniken!

Olivia de Havilland from 'Gone with the Wind' is still alive and still making a mockery of my Death Pool. Come on Ollie!

I was fairly sure Alec Guinness had died at least 3 different times before he actually did die.

Yes, for some he was the king of this

Yes, for some reason he was the king of this, that should read. I can think of at least two occasions when I bet someone that Alec Guinness was dead when he wasn't.

Charles Aznavour

For some reason I thought Pratchett was dead til I read an article by him today about his alzheimers. I think I confused him with Douglas Adams.

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Smith_(actress)";>Liz Smith</a>

Very pleased to find she's not and has just received an MBE. Good on her.

Liz Smith that is.

peter o'toole

he almost won a oscar last year brutha

I thought Harold Pinter was dead after I saw Synecdoche, New York. 3 weeks later. . .

For a period of maybe 3-4 years, I was under the assumption Thomas Dolby had killed himself sometime in the 80's by jumping off a building, I was under the belief I learned this from Pop Up Video. Only maybe 2 years ago did I learn he's still alive.

Last November I was surprised to learn Claude Levi-Strauss is still alive and would be turning 100 in a few weeks (nov 28).

Also a local Media Magnate, who has a collection of listed and appraised celebrity memorabilia stored where I work has something by Abe Vigoda, and in the description mentions he is deceased. Turning 88 in February, actually.

Jack Chick

We can all hope...

ariel sharon.

According to the Dead Pool thread, Fidel Castro is still alive. According to wikipedia, he's still alive! WTF, I thought he died and everyone talked about it.

he did die but he's still alive

http://wizardishungry.com/iiam-busted.gif

Also Fidel Castro, on more than one occasion. Thank you very much ILM.

Castro's been on his death *bed* for ages hasnt he?

I wonder if Kim Jon Il is actually dead. I have this weekend at bernies feeling about him.

everybody's dead!
~~except you~~

Angela Lansbury

clint eastwood

That's just silly.

saw a preview for some current movie he's in, otherwise i'd still be thinking he was

I could've swore that Andrew Wyeth had been dead already for years.

J.D. Salinger. He had his 90th birthday the other day, I hadn't realised he's still around.

Claude Lévi-Strauss - strange how the original structuralist has outlived all the post-structuralists.

mikhael gorbachev

I thought Ricardo Montalban had died a few years back, but maybe I'd confused him with Scotty, or someone.

http://i561.photobucket.com/albums/ss51/tr_fudge/74794386_full.jpg

http://i561.photobucket.com/albums/ss51/tr_fudge/pat_harrington_1_full.jpg

schneider from one day at a time. not actually sure if i thought he was dead?

(looking through a 'where are they now' thing, might as well get these out of the way)

http://i561.photobucket.com/albums/ss51/tr_fudge/ann_b_davis_now_full.jpg

i knew she was alive, she looks nice

(ann. b davis)

Bob Uecker

i was set straight on uecker a few months ago heh. i guess auto-archiving people into deadness is normal but certain people just seem to attract it (mostly old people lol)

http://www.tamierin.com/html/cont_2.jpg

not in my pool either but better red than dead :) she played nu-pippi longstocking; she fine

http://i561.photobucket.com/albums/ss51/tr_fudge/_0001_51105315_full.jpg

sry again but wtf: Dwayne Hickman was a permanent fixture on "Love That Bob."
how hard is it to put together a decent where are they now thing? honestly. if it means 'bob denver is best known for dobie gillis' i suppose i'm all for it

Is that Richard Dawson in the Family Feud photo?

For the last two years or so I had thought Douglas Crimp had died around 20 years ago (it turns out it was Craig Owens)

Prior to hearing word of his recent death, I had no idea Claude Levi-Strauss was still alive.

Cy Twombly

I was like wut! I don’t remember that.

Robert Crumb

Robert Duvall, 95

His co-stars in Network have been dead for 49 years (Peter Finch) and 44 years (William Holden) - Faye Dunaway is alive of course.

Thinking about this later today, it also means that he was 45 when he filmed Network.
Reader, I am 46.

Eddie Floyd, 88.

not knocking on coffin yet

Robert Duvall, 95

Oops

Vini Reilly

And very glad we are, especially after listening to his new album.

Ralph Nader, 92

I met him once in 2004 when he was running for President. He gave a speech on campus and I approached him and with a suggestion for his campaign slogan: "George and John make me want to Ralph!". Sadly he did not like it one bit.

it's funny that his early triumph was the Corvair thing: "Unsafe at Any Speed!" Yet I see more Corvairs on the road today than most models of that era, except for maybe Mustangs

or maybe I'm self-selecting and have Dodge Dart blindness

I frequently drive by a garage in western Mass. that only works on Corvairs, so there must be a fair few of them still on the road.

haven't seen many Pintos lately

Pintos greatly outnumbered Vegas into the 90s, but I don't see them now.

Vegas famously started rusting in the showroom.

James Baker III

Frank Langella, born 1938.