# He (or she) is alive...........
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [July 8, 2018, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531 "2018-07-08T20:44:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2018, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/1 "2018-07-08T20:44:57Z")
Real simple. Think of a celebrity who you think is dead, check, find out they’re not. Post name here.
Ray Stevens.
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### Author:  [@Clark\_Cello](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clark_Cello)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2018, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/2 "2018-07-08T21:04:13Z")
Not Abe Vigoda ☹
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### Author:  [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2018, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/3 "2018-07-08T21:51:59Z")
> [@Clark\_Cello](#):
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> Not Abe Vigoda ☹
He is not just _merely_ dead…
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### Author:  [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2018, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/4 "2018-07-08T22:00:49Z")
[Gordon’s Alive?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFnmT82yGpk)
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2018, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/5 "2018-07-08T22:03:42Z")
Paul is dead.
Oops, he’s alive for real and over 64.
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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2018, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/6 "2018-07-08T22:38:52Z")
I hadn’t heard about Sophia Loren in forever, so I checked. She’s still alive, at the age of 84.
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### Author:  [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2018, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/7 "2018-07-08T23:05:56Z")
Kirk Douglas is still hanging in there at 101. Just last night, we saw him in something, and I mentioned that I thought he was still alive.
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2018, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/8 "2018-07-08T23:29:19Z")
Doris Day is still alive at 96.
So’s Carol Channing at 97.
That surprised me.
I’m aware (and very grateful) that Mel Brooks is still alive. I saw him in person on stage just a couple of years ago and he was still great!!
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2018, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/9 "2018-07-09T00:00:52Z")
Olivia de Havilland is still alive. 102yo.
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2018, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/10 "2018-07-09T00:05:56Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#):
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> Olivia de Havilland is still alive. 102yo.
Yes. A certain doper has a connection with Ms. de Havilland.
[So, I was having brunch with Olivia de Havilland in Paris last week . . .](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=653317)
Sadly, **Eve** has been absent a while.
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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2018, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/11 "2018-07-09T00:14:40Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#):
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> [Gordon’s Alive?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFnmT82yGpk)
Oh well, who wants to live forever? _ **DIVE!!!** _
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2018, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/12 "2018-07-09T00:22:31Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#):
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> Yes. A certain doper has a connection with Ms. de Havilland.
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> [So, I was having brunch with Olivia de Havilland in Paris last week . . .](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=653317)
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> Sadly, **Eve** has been absent a while.
That is a very cool thread. And just think I met ‘Bozo’ the clown and didn’t run away in fear. Clowns=Creeps!
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### Author:  [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2018, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/13 "2018-07-09T00:24:06Z")
Following the instructions, checking people who I think are dead. Turns out . . . well, yes, they’re dead. Real simple, indeed. I could do this all day.
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### Author:  [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2018, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/14 "2018-07-09T00:30:14Z")
Every year I think I’ve heard that James Earl Jones is dead. Nope. When he does, I probably won’t believe it.
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### Author:  [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2018, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/15 "2018-07-09T00:33:16Z")
Ann Jillian. In fact she did die. She’s my most solid “glitch in the matrix” proof. (I hate the term Mandela Effect )
She did her own show and Mr. Mom and then she got breast cancer and she died.
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### Author:  [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2018, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/16 "2018-07-09T00:34:23Z")
> [@HelenGawn](#):
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> Every year I think I’ve heard that James Earl Jones is dead. Nope. When he does, I probably won’t believe it.
I really hope Lucas film has done what they can (Im sure they havent) to record quite a bit of dialogue from him to make a Vader film, or a really good new video game.
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### Author:  [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2018, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/17 "2018-07-09T13:59:27Z")
Gallagher.
For certain values of celebrity, admittedly.
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2018, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/18 "2018-07-09T14:12:41Z")
[Beverly Cleary](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Cleary) still around at 102. I read her books in elementary school.
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### Author:  [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2018, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/19 "2018-07-09T14:29:00Z")
Newton Minow.
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### Author:  [@Grumbacher\_Red](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumbacher_Red)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2018, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/20 "2018-07-09T14:35:17Z")
Dick Van Dyke, still kicking at 92-93.
That makes me happy!
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