He is only in his 50’s, but I am shocked that Magic Johnson is still alive. He was diagnosed HIV+ about 24 yrs ago, when the prognosis was not that all that good.
There is also Stephen Hawking who is now 73. He was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 1963 and given two years to live
The power of Satan compels you!!
I’m having a flashback to my childhood today and forcing my daughter to watch Punky Brewster. Who knew George Gaynes was still alive?
I was watching a Perry Mason rerun and decided to find out if Barbara Hale, who played Della Street, was still alive. She is. She’s 93, born in 1922.
She’s mentioned in the IMDB link, but I was aware of her already: June Foray, one of the industry’s most prolific voice actors, celebrated her 98th birthday earlier this month.
You remember her as the voice of Rocky the Flying Squirrel and Natasha Fatale from Rocky and Bullwinkle, Granny from the Warner Brothers cartoons, Cindy Lou Who (who was no more than two) from How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and hundreds of other things.
Jerry Lee Lewis turns 80 today.
Jerry Lewis has 9 1/2 years on him, having reached the age of 89.
And no, they are not the same person
I just noticed that Alan Young is still alive at age 95.
You almost spoke too soon. He died October 30.
Goodness gracious great balls of HEY LADY! (Utter classic…)
Again, for UK Dopers, Nicolas Parsons, who has reached the grand old age of 92, is still presenting the funniest programme on radio, Just A Minute. He has presented it since it started in 1967, and I have been listening faithfully from the beginning. He doesn’t even sound old.
Well, I just found out that Don Bluth is still alive. Sure, he’s only 78, but I’d not heard anyone talk about him except in the past tense, like they do with Walt Disney. But just yesterday he did a cameo on this weeks episode of the Nostalgia Critic, and will apparently be in the next week’s episode.
Also from classic animation, dancer Marge Champion, who served as the model for Disney’s Snow White and the Blue Princess, is still alive at 96
Dame Vera Lynn, the “Armed Forces Sweetheart” She’s 98
I thought you meant Vera-Ellen at first then I realized you meant the singer that Roger Waters seemed to like.
[QUOTE=Pink Floyd]
Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?
Remember how she said that
“We would meet again, some sunny day”
Vera! Vera!
What has become of you?
Does anybody else in here feel the way I do?
[/QUOTE]
This thread is killing people! Stop. The last thing I would want is for Alan Young (Mister Ed) to die. Just turned 96.
Seen a few episodes of Emergency! lately and looked up some of the cast; Robert Fuller is still alive at 82. Last acting credits were in 2001.
Just last night I caught an old rerun of What’s My Line and the celebrity guest was an actress named Terry Moore. Can’t say I ever heard of her, so I looked her up on IMDb. She’s had a quite a successful career; nominated for an Oscar in '52, the What’s My Line episode was from '55, and she has acting credits right up to this year. She’s 86.
I remember her from the second season of Adam West’s Batman. She also posed nude for Playboy back in the '80s, IIRC. She was still quite hot even then.