Update:
Norman Lear (age 101)
Don’t look at me. He was alive when I left him.
Where I come from, whoever touched it last broke it.
The murderer always says that in Agatha Christie novels.
Yeah, that was a shock to me; I had just assumed he’d passed away sometime around the turn of the century.
It can’t be me. I’m the obvious suspect.
kissinger
… until he … well … died
Right. Kissinger killed Norman Lear. He died several days before Lear in order to throw suspicion off himself and onto @Northern_Piper who discovered the body, and @Little_Nemo who last saw him alive.
Funny that that post was made 4 days before her birthday.
Creed Bratton
Really? He’s only 80. I didn’t figure he had died.
I guess I mean, like Abe Vigodas, he plays ‘the old guy’. 80 isn’t young, but yeah. We’ll hear about it when (if) it happens.
I recently watched a 1967 Tom Lehrer concert on PBS, which prompted me to look up his Wikipedia page.
I was surprised to see that he put out his first album at the age of 25. (He’d been writing and performing novelty songs since his teens - and in fact entered Harvard at 15.) At the height of his popularity, he was only in his early 30s.
On his records, he always seemed to maintain a very professorial demeanor, so I’d assumed he was older than that.
He is still alive at 95.
Maybe Ruth Buzzi is thought to fit this list because she and Artie Johnson frequently did a skit on Laugh In where she played a little old lady sitting on a park bench being “hit on” by an old man (Artie Johnson.) Always made me laugh way back then!
When my husband and I ran into her in a shop in Santa Barbara along about 20 years ago, she looked a lot younger than she had to have been at that time. Nice lady, too. We had a very pleasant chat with her. I thought she was just another shopper, but DH (seven years older than I am) recognized her.
Mary Costa, the voice behind Briar Rose (aka Aurora°) in Disney’s Sleeping Beauty, is still kicking it at 93. During her career after that, she was a frequent guest on the radio station where my grandfather was an announcer, and became friends.
°: I don’t think the character spoke or sang after being compelled to become “Princess Aurora.”
At the time, I believe I was in my forties. (I’m 61, now. My next birthday will only last a minute, as that will be my sixty-second birthday.)) I noticed that the woman with whom @Seanette was conversing bore a significant resemblance to Ruth Buzzi, but she looked much too young. I thought that she looked about my age, but I can remember, as a child, being allowed to stay up late each week to watch Laugh In, and she was on that show, already an adult while I was still a child, so surely she must be closer to my parents’ age than to mine.
As I started to mention the resemblance, I noticed that she was wearing a name tag with the name “Ruthy” on it, and identifying her as a participant in the Concours d’Elegance event that was taking place nearby. Anyway, she did turn out to be Ruth Buzzi. She was pleased that I thought she looked so much younger than she surely had to be.
I later verified what I thought, that she was right about my parents’ age, significantly older than I, significantly older than she looked.
She’s 87 now, to my 61, so that makes her about twenty-six years older than I am. If I was in my forties when we met her, then she must have been in her late sixties or early seventies; but she certainly could have passed for being in her forties. I wonder if, at that age, I will be able to pass for forties. I am pretty certain that I could, now, at 61. I have some idea in my head of how a guy should look by the time he’s in his fifties, and since I turned fifty, I have taken note that I just do not see it in the mirror; and even now, at 61, I still do not see it. But I’ve got some years, yet, to catch up to how old Ms. Buzzi was when we met her.
More recently, I have learned that she and her husband have long been avid collectors of antique luxury automobiles, which would certainly make sense with regard to her having been a participant in the Concours d’Elegance which is all about showing of such vehicles.
Something recently caused me to think of Brigitte Bardot, to wonder if she was still alive, and how old she might be.
Apparently, yes, she is still alive, at 89.
He’s been dying for an awful long time. I’m still rooting for him to make it to a hundred. Several months to go, yet.