people you thought were dead but aren't

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

Everybody in the USA. When I heard about the terrible terrorist cigarette attack on the news.

Roger Ebert
Fidel Castro
Billy Corgan
Justin Bieber

Petula Clark, 93

well... she knows a place

Not a person, I guess, but Bubbles the chimp, 43.

According to animal keepers at the center, Bubbles — whose facial features have changed since his time with Jackson — is now "huge and ugly"...

According to the Simian Society, there were 750,000 pet monkeys in the US in 1971 — more than the number of registered poodles. But monkeys proved to be much more difficult than poodles to care for.

I'm sorry, getting way off topic now. I'll stop.

"huge and ugly"

and every day he regrets signing that NDA

Poodlin' ain't easy! I'll hold off on the chimps for now. Thanks for the intel, pplains.

Be careful. You'll only be able to hold off those chimps for so long.

https://i.ibb.co/zHTDXZhm/2001-output-onlinegiftools.gif

I have a bunch of old magazines with ads for pet spider monkeys: "Eats the same food as you do!" lol

don’t chimps rip your balls off

can vs. do

they go for the eyes first, fwiu

Wasn't there an MMA fool going to fight a chimp? Is he still alive?

Ok, found him, looks like they couldn't find a chimp, which is a shame as I'm pretty sure the chimp would be absolutely fine.

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/mma-fighter-to-face-chimpanzee-in-one-on-one-fight-on-september-11-report-12018878

surprised that chimp fight wasn’t part of president great grandpa’s july 4th

don’t chimps rip your balls off

Yes, plus so much more - I remember there were a couple of famous chimp attacks in the early 00s and wikipedia does not disappoint:

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Buddy and Ollie destroyed a majority of St. James' fingers, his left foot, most of his buttocks, both testicles, part of his torso, and parts of his face including his nose and lips.

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The hospital provided counseling to staff members who initially treated her because of the extraordinary nature of her wounds. Doctors noted she had lost her eyelids, nose, lips, mid-face bone structure, and nine fingers. Doctors removed some of Travis' hair and teeth that were embedded in her bones and reattached her jaw

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Yeah I remember reading that about the travis attack and wishing I hadn’t (also maybe a cw & hide tags for stuff like that dropped in random threads?)

RIP Eva Marie Saint