Shouldn't it have been the Antarctic though.
― pplains, Friday, 13 March 2020 01:43 (four years ago) link
Glynis Johns, 96.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 14:52 (four years ago) link
Wow! That makes 3 of the main 4 adults from the '64 Mary Poppins still with us
― Josefa, Wednesday, 22 April 2020 15:23 (four years ago) link
Eric Chappell
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 April 2020 09:23 (four years ago) link
Valentina Tereshkova
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 April 2020 12:31 (four years ago) link
Bobbie Gentry
― Alba, Saturday, 2 May 2020 21:11 (four years ago) link
joss ackland.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 17:02 (four years ago) link
A hardy perennial but "The Masque of the Red Death" was on last night and reminded me of him. Roger Corman, 94 last month.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Saturday, 16 May 2020 09:37 (four years ago) link
I heard Joss attributes his longevity to his habit of always travelling with a well-stocked (for any eventuality) spunky backpack.
― calzino, Saturday, 16 May 2020 09:44 (four years ago) link
joan plowright, 90
― a denim head and an aficionado of Japanese craftsmanship (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 17 May 2020 20:29 (four years ago) link
Claes Oldenburg, 91
― calzino, Monday, 25 May 2020 12:22 (four years ago) link
Do we have a thread for people you thought were alive but aren't? An obituary for Ray Manzarek came up on my Facebook feed for some reason - I clicked through only to discover it was from 2013. RIP Ray, sorry it took me 7 years to learn you were dead
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 25 May 2020 12:48 (four years ago) link
Yes, I posted Joan Rivers on it recently.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Monday, 25 May 2020 12:52 (four years ago) link
I missed that too. Must have been before we had the rolling obituary threads.
― Spocks on the Run (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 May 2020 12:54 (four years ago) link
people you thought were still alive but aren't
― Alba, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 11:37 (four years ago) link
Dickie Davies, 87.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Friday, 29 May 2020 10:08 (four years ago) link
Earl HollimanClu Gulager
Shocked to see Clu's name in credits for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Both born in 1928. Both surely would have guest starred on Bounty Law.
― punning display, Friday, 29 May 2020 12:51 (four years ago) link
Speaking of Earl Holliman (I mentioned this somewhere before) all four of the original 1974 cast of TV's Police Woman are still alive... Ed Bernard (81); Charles Dierkop (83); Angie Dickinson (88); and Earl Holliman (91).
― Josefa, Friday, 29 May 2020 13:58 (four years ago) link
Walter Ernest "Wally" Fawkes (born 21 June 1924) is a British-Canadian jazz clarinetist and a satirical cartoonist. As a cartoonist, he usually worked under the name "Trog" until failing eyesight forced him to retire in 2005 at the age of 81.
― fetter, Friday, 29 May 2020 14:37 (four years ago) link
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Bacharach#/media/Datei:Marlene_Dietrich_and_Burt_Bacharach_visit_Jerusalem_during_a_1960_concert_tour_of_Israel_-_Photo_by_Fritz_Shlezingel.png
(Burt Bacharach & Marlene Dietrich, 1960)
― meisenfek, Sunday, 31 May 2020 14:19 (four years ago) link
Johnny Shannon, go-to character actor for Cockney gangsters e.g. in "Performance", 87.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Friday, 5 June 2020 10:31 (four years ago) link
for some reason I always think Steve Earle died 20 years ago from cancer or something. Wtf?
― brimstead, Saturday, 13 June 2020 21:33 (four years ago) link
just did a play at the public theater before mama rona took over
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 13 June 2020 21:47 (four years ago) link
Might be confusing Steve Earle with Warren Zevon.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 13 June 2020 21:51 (four years ago) link
Or Stevie Ray Vaughn
― nickn, Saturday, 13 June 2020 23:06 (four years ago) link
nah i think maybe it’s because in some photos from back then he looks slightly like Bill Hicks? Idk
― brimstead, Sunday, 14 June 2020 01:51 (four years ago) link
Rhonda Fleming, 96.
― Rapsputin (Tom D.), Friday, 19 June 2020 12:32 (four years ago) link
Gena Rowlands, 90 today
― or something, Saturday, 20 June 2020 13:16 (four years ago) link
Murray Walker, 96
his 2nd showing on this thread after Soref posted him 6 years ago.
― calzino, Saturday, 20 June 2020 13:20 (four years ago) link
Connie Francis
― Alba, Thursday, 1 October 2020 02:10 (four years ago) link
the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually still alive
― mookieproof, Thursday, 1 October 2020 02:27 (four years ago) link
My shop teacher.
― pplains, Thursday, 1 October 2020 02:35 (four years ago) link
tell us more about mr. _____
― mookieproof, Thursday, 1 October 2020 02:59 (four years ago) link
Only winged him, eh?
― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Thursday, 1 October 2020 05:30 (four years ago) link
xpSexist!
― nickn, Thursday, 1 October 2020 07:18 (four years ago) link
― mookieproof, Wednesday, September 30, 2020 9:59 PM
I looked up Mr. Johnson (fuckit, no googleproofing) out of curiosity, and there he was, at the same address in the same town of 800 people. He's now 76.
His voter registration, like most of us around here, shows that he's a member of the Optional Party.
The next link was from the 1940 census, which listed him as a five-year-old living... in that same town of 800 people!
― pplains, Thursday, 1 October 2020 13:01 (four years ago) link
Roy Haynes, 95. Total ledge.
― calzino, Tuesday, 10 November 2020 13:20 (three years ago) link
Was asked if Barbara Windsor was still alive the other day and hesitantly answered no, thinking she died at some point in the last four years. Then did the exact same with June Brown who only left Eastenders for good earlier this year.
― nashwan, Friday, 13 November 2020 10:40 (three years ago) link
Babs is still alive but has dementia, I believe.
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 13 November 2020 10:46 (three 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