― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 05:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― webcrack (music=crack), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 08:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
Sammy Davis Jr, cept he really was dead when I displayed surprise at seeing him on TV whilst I thought him dead.
― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 08:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 08:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
Anyone see the interview with Henry Grimes in this month's Wire? Bassist with Albert Ayler in the 60s, the first question the poor fella asks is, "So, how is Albert doing?". Interviewer has to break the news that Ayler died in 1970.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 09:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 16:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 17:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― baggy (baggy), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 18:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 18:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― kate, Tuesday, 7 January 2003 18:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 18:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 07:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 07:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Simon Generic, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 08:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
Yogi Berra's still alive?!
― Mark C, Monday, 17 March 2008 01:09 (sixteen years ago) link
When Jane Russell turned up in a photograph for the Oscars I was amazed.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 17 March 2008 01:11 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought Frank Zappa was dead for ages. then I read in the paper that he had just died. I killed him with my negative beliefs.
-- webcrack (music=crack), Tuesday, January 7, 2003 2:05 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Link
I love that nobody cared enough to correct him.
― Rock Hardy, Monday, 17 March 2008 01:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Thought for years that the actor that played Zack from Saved By The Bell was dead, it went around my school as a rumour. Believed it because why would anyone bother making that up? And it's not as if he was in the public eye a lot after the show finished, anyway.
― Bodrick III, Monday, 17 March 2008 01:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Walter Cronkite. He already seemed to be kind of old in the famous clip where he announced that Kennedy was dead. I guess he would have only been in his mid-40s at the time though.
― j-rock, Monday, 17 March 2008 07:12 (sixteen years ago) link
he was still producing stuff as of a few years ago, CBS seems to have disavowed him entirely now probably because of his politics.
― tremendoid, Monday, 17 March 2008 07:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Gene Wilder
― admrl, Monday, 17 March 2008 07:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I was fairly sure Alec Guinness had died at least 3 different times before he actually did die.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 17 March 2008 07:39 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought Gene Wilder had died too, until I checked it on IMDb.
― Tuomas, Monday, 17 March 2008 07:44 (sixteen years ago) link
i thought harold gould died. not so
― tremendoid, Thursday, 7 August 2008 18:54 (fifteen years ago) link
(Dave Allen died in 2005, don't be confused by the opening post)
― StanM, Thursday, 7 August 2008 19:07 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.deathlist.net/
― Billy Dods, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:29 (fifteen years ago) link
I remember being a bit surprised when I found out Doris Day is still alive. For some reason I seem to assume every celebrity who had his or her heyday before the 60s must be dead by now.
― Tuomas, Friday, 8 August 2008 06:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Also, apparently this thread put a jinx on Katharine Hepburn, who died only a few months after she was mentioned here.
― Tuomas, Friday, 8 August 2008 06:50 (fifteen years ago) link
heh I thought Katherine Hepburn was still alive :)
― Ludo, Friday, 8 August 2008 09:34 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 8 August 2008 09:35 (fifteen years ago) link
But yeah, Harvey Dent.
― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 8 August 2008 09:36 (fifteen years ago) link
David Blaine was who we were talking about.
― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 8 August 2008 10:04 (fifteen years ago) link
No, he was just buried alive.
― NickB, Friday, 8 August 2008 10:09 (fifteen years ago) link
I think people were hoping.
― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 8 August 2008 10:25 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― tremendoid, Friday, 8 August 2008 10:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Clive Dunn
― blueski, Friday, 8 August 2008 11:16 (fifteen years ago) link
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/
― MaresNest, Friday, 8 August 2008 12:47 (fifteen years ago) link
ok wtf
Erich von Däniken!
― Øystein, Monday, 11 August 2008 10:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Olivia de Havilland from 'Gone with the Wind' is still alive and still making a mockery of my Death Pool. Come on Ollie!
― JTS, Monday, 11 August 2008 12:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Yes, for some he was the king of this
― Tom D., Monday, 11 August 2008 12:13 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Tom D., Monday, 11 August 2008 13:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Charles Aznavour
― Keep Carmody and Carry On (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Friday, 2 January 2009 10:05 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Trayce, Friday, 2 January 2009 10:11 (fifteen years ago) link
<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.
― Not me I'm the Emotional Type (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 2 January 2009 10:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Liz Smith that is.
― Not me I'm the Emotional Type (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 2 January 2009 10:57 (fifteen years ago) link
peter o'toole
― Gaz Promantino (Brohan Hari), Friday, 2 January 2009 10:58 (fifteen years ago) link
he almost won a oscar last year brutha
― missile loaded | com mode engaged | its a go (tremendoid), Saturday, 3 January 2009 01:58 (fifteen years ago) link
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).
― Girlfriend, you've been scooped like ice cream (mehlt), Saturday, 3 January 2009 02:08 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Girlfriend, you've been scooped like ice cream (mehlt), Saturday, 3 January 2009 02:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Jack Chick
― I was into Hongro before he got big (Batty), Saturday, 3 January 2009 02:22 (fifteen years ago) link
I was absolutely positive that Michael Gambon had died a couple of years ago.
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 17:41 (three years ago) link
xp - curse of the thread strikes again!
Gambon and on and on
― Babby's Yed Revisited (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 17:42 (three years ago) link
Phil Spector? Honestly thought he died a few years ago.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 17 January 2021 17:47 (three years ago) link
Genuinely thought that Sondheim had died years ago.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 27 November 2021 06:20 (two years ago) link
Shane McGowan definitely died a few years ago.
― namaste darkness my old friend (ledge), Saturday, 27 November 2021 23:48 (two years ago) link
somehow my mom, who wasn’t real tech savvy, found this comedian on youtube that she really fell for. statuesque southern lady who tells clean funny stories: absolutely my mama’s jam! thru the magic of Algorithm, mom got to enjoy randomly coming across videos of this gal’s routines for a couple of years — until tragedy struck. she told me sadly that her comedian had died. oh no, i said, how did it happen? mom didn’t know because the memorial video youtube had shown her didn’t mention a cause of death. she mourned, i sympathized. when mom’s next birthday approached i decided to search online to see if that lady had ever put out a book or dvd or other gift-type merch, and discovered that 1.) HOMEGIRL LIVES and 2.) WAS TOURING and 3.) HAD A PERFORMANCE COMING UP IN OUR CITY IN TWO FLIPPING DAYS
obviously i dropped everything and got us tickets and told mom i was taking her somewhere special, and she was game, because she was awesome. so there we were in a lutheran church at 10:30 on a thursday morning, packed in with a crowd of hyped old ladies, my mom completely baffled, me giggling like a lunatic and trying not to bounce in our pew because i was even hyped-er than the ladies around us. random woman gets up front and gives a generic intro and then WHABAM, back from the dead, big as life, neon pink power suit and sparkly jewelry transfixing the crowd, my mom’s idol appeared. i’d never seen her so stunned, i’ve never seen anyone so stunned. it was dope.
― a swift, a shrike, a kite, a (cat), Sunday, 28 November 2021 04:55 (two years ago) link
thread winner
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 28 November 2021 06:09 (two years ago) link
What was with the memorial video??Also, please share idol’s name.
― Alba, Sunday, 28 November 2021 07:53 (two years ago) link
Jeanne Robertson, rip in peace (she died for real this august). and my best guess for the memorial is that some other lady with a similar name (and features?) must have passed away, her family put together a video honoring her, and youtube figured oh hey people who enjoy the comedy stylings of this one lady must want to watch the funeral of this similar lady? which turned out to be the right call in the end because my mom realizing JR was still alive was pretty much a top 3 moment in both our lives, i can still get totally blissed out on the memory <3
― a swift, a shrike, a kite, a (cat), Sunday, 28 November 2021 08:11 (two years ago) link
Simon Callow again , think somebody said he wasn't dead a couple of years ago and now he's been in Hawkeye so he must be undead or something or reanimated again. Must be like.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 28 November 2021 11:04 (two years ago) link
cat, that is some down-home wholesome humor right there.
― pplains, Sunday, 28 November 2021 15:33 (two years ago) link
Oh jeez what a beautiful story
― huile about oeuf (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 28 November 2021 16:02 (two years ago) link
does this count?
thank you for watching #ThisIsGoingToHurt, it was an honour to play the SHOlong live our NHS 💙 pic.twitter.com/9KAWRNx3R1— Ambika Mod (@ambikamod) March 22, 2022
― koogs, Thursday, 24 March 2022 04:32 (two years ago) link
Hazel McCallion, former long-time mayor of Mississauga Ontario, 101.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 5 May 2022 14:10 (two years ago) link
Margaret Keane, painter of big eyed children, age 94.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 8 May 2022 22:30 (two years ago) link
Ramblin' Jack Elliott, 90 and still performing.
― nickn, Sunday, 5 June 2022 20:51 (two years ago) link
Bob Newhart, 92
― When the Pain That You Feel is the Bite of an Eel, That's a Moray (Old Lunch), Sunday, 5 June 2022 20:55 (two years ago) link
Philip Baker Hall, 24 hours ago.
― pplains, Thursday, 16 June 2022 03:27 (two years ago) link
Arthur Scargill, back on the front of the tabloids.
― Alba, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 16:47 (one year ago) link
John Barth, author of The Sot-Weed Factor
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 16:52 (one year ago) link
David Jason
― Alba, Friday, 16 September 2022 15:00 (one year ago) link
*falls thru bar into coffin*
― mark s, Friday, 16 September 2022 15:01 (one year ago) link
Buzz Aldrin
― pplains, Monday, 23 January 2023 15:12 (one year ago) link
Ray Reardon
― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Friday, 10 March 2023 15:11 (one year ago) link
Legit thought that Milan Kundera had been dead for awhile (he just passed yesterday)
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 11:10 (eleven months ago) link
I had the same thought.
― Kim Kimberly, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 12:59 (eleven months ago) link
King Juan Carlos of Spain
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 21 August 2023 16:23 (nine months ago) link
sorry lads, thread's overhttps://i.postimg.cc/5tW9B6t8/Screenshot-20231015-230545.jpg
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 15 October 2023 22:27 (eight months ago) link
satori enabler (Noodle Vague) at 3:11 10 Mar 23Ray Reardon
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 15 October 2023 22:33 (eight months ago) link
whoa, brandon wilson's still on twitter.
― pplains, Monday, 16 October 2023 00:24 (eight months ago) link
Watched The Devils last night, discovered today that Vanessa Redgrave is still going!
― imago, Sunday, 28 January 2024 14:50 (four months ago) link
For some reason I thought that David Jason was dead, but looks like he's got a new series on daytime TV.
― emil.y, Sunday, 28 January 2024 15:11 (four months ago) link
Damn, I thought he was dead too!
― imago, Sunday, 28 January 2024 15:21 (four months ago) link
Briefly mixed up David Jason with David Janssen (who is definitely dead)
Was reading about Antonio Margheriti's Gamma One series and discovered that Lisa Gastoni is still alive
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 29 January 2024 05:57 (four months ago) link
Wow, I love the Gamma One series and Lisa Gastoni. Did you see the recently circulated photo of three of the Talking Heads posed in front of the Wild Wild Planet poster?
― Josefa, Monday, 29 January 2024 07:44 (four months ago) link
No! Wild Wild Planet is one of my faves
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 29 January 2024 08:33 (four months ago) link
found the picture:
Last night, along with our partners at A24, we kicked off our STOP MAKING SENSE residency in Brooklyn with a gorgeous 4K restoration, exclusive merch, an electric crowd and….a surprise appearance by The Talking Heads themselves, DAVID, TINA AND CHRIS!! 🤯📷: @RB3Photography pic.twitter.com/iEMpNY51mb— Alamo Drafthouse NYC (@AlamoNYC) January 28, 2024
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 29 January 2024 08:40 (four months ago) link
Max Boyce is apparently still touring and just showed up in my local paper.
― Piedie Gimbel, Monday, 29 January 2024 15:19 (four months ago) link
Putting together my 1947 mix and there's a record from French singer Line Renaud, a quick google shows she is still alive at the age of 95
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 29 January 2024 17:26 (four months ago) link
Tippi Hedren (94)
― Hongro Hongro Hippies (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 2 May 2024 21:14 (one month ago) link
I was thinking I'd never seen her in anything except the two Hitchcocks, but no: also Pacific Heights (remember her), Citizen Ruth (no), and I Heart Huckabees (no).
― clemenza, Thursday, 2 May 2024 21:37 (one month ago) link
Jac Holzman, founder of Elektra and Nonesuch (92)
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Thursday, 2 May 2024 21:54 (one month ago) link
also i did not know his son (adam) played keyboards with Miles Davis and now plays in Steven Wilson's band, and his grandson (russell) plays drums in Caroline Polachek's band
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Thursday, 2 May 2024 21:58 (one month ago) link
Roar is definitely badfilm, but one that's worth watching.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 2 May 2024 22:16 (one month ago) link
The Harrad Experiment (1973) is an interesting one where Tippi Hedren features and her daughter Melanie Griffith and future son-in-law Don Johnson are also in the cast
― Josefa, Thursday, 2 May 2024 22:22 (one month ago) link
Dan Morgenstern, 94. He saw Fats Waller perform in 1938!!!
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 3 May 2024 22:27 (one month ago) link