Thank you so much. Awesome interview!
Keith Richards: I saw Keith Richards (on television) playing a concert in the early 80’s. He looked like he was on death’s door, maybe 3 months to live. Every time I’ve seen him since, he looks like he’s taken two steps closer (to death) and one step back. I’m constantly amazed to hear he’s still alive, every time I’ve heard over the past 30 years.
Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me once started a story about him with “when Keith Richards dies, if, indeed, he can die…”
it’s people like Eva Marie Saint, Kaye Ballard, George Kennedy and Carol Channing that really surprise me. Mainly because I haven’t heard anything about them in some time.
Eva Marie Saint did voice work for Avatar: The Legend of Korra 2012 - 2014 She was in five episodes as the elderly Katara, from the first series.
June Whitfield: Career started in the 1940s and first found fame in 1953 on Take It From Here and then on Tony Hancock’s radio and TV shows. Had a long career which saw her star in sitcom Terry and June, appear in several of the Carry-On films. In the nineties played Edwina’s Mother in Absolutely Fabulous. She is still active and has appeared on many famous TV shows such as Dr Who, Last of the Summer Wine, Friends, Coronation Street and too many others to fully list.
Funny to read that today, having literally just spotted her an hour ago in You, Me and the Apocalypse (playing God, no less). And at 90 she’s looking far better than fellow cast member Diana Rigg who appears to be advancing in decrepitude at a mere 77.
Looking at IMDb there appears to be an AbFab movie in the works for next year, so June is still going strong.
Keely Smith is 87
I was watching a Rockford Files episode in which the late Avery Schreiber appeared and decided to see how his partner Jack Burns was doing. He’s 82 years old.