About a decade ago, I learned the “fun fact” that President John Tyler had two living grandsons. One of them died in 2020, but the other is still with us at 95:
I be a lot of people think Alan Greenspan died years ago, but he’s 98 and still alive.
I was surprised that Perry Farrell, of Jane’s Addiction and Porno for Pyros, was still alive, at least as of a few days ago.
Paige died in June. I had her as a pick in the Death Pool
He’s 65. Why is that surprising?
Drugs & Drinking, maybe?
But if that was a qualifier, about 100 000 aging-but-not-old entertainers would need to feature in this thread.
Once you make it past twenty-seven, you’re usually safe.
I saw Wayne Newton in a brief appearance the the Bender Jamboree…
Sophia Loren turned 90 on September 20th.
This is actually kind of the opposite, but it blows my mind that:
It has been over 10 years since Robin Williams and Joan Rivers died.
I’m obviously aware it happened, but I feel like they were just with us. Making us laugh.
While checking murderers on Columbo, three of the first four female murderers are still alive.
Lee Grant - Apparently 96-98
Susan Clark - a “young” 81
Vera Miles - 95
She had a good run.
I was looking at the Time Person of the Year list to see who is the oldest specific recipient still alive and it appears to be Jim Lowell who won in 1968 along with two other members of the Apollo 8 crew. I remember listening to some of his commentary on the Apollo 13 DVD around 20 years back; he was obviously old then and I am pleasantly surprised he is still around. Although I have to say that giving the person of the year to the Apollo 8 crew in 1968 is really weird. While it was an important mission, the obvious space mission to give it was Apollo 11 in 1969 when they gave it to the “middle Americans”. Meanwhile 1968 was a hugely eventful year in which the logical choice would have been Richard Nixon or otherwise RFK or MLK.
Incidentally my all-time Abe Vigoda entry is another Time person of the year: Madame Chiang who I was astonished to learn in around 2002 was still alive; she died in 2003 at the age of 105.
Jim Lovell (note the spelling) was born in 1928 and is now 96.
Jimmy Carter won the award in 1976. He’s still alive (as of this moment) and is 4 days shy of turning 100.
Fay Wray was another one. She was famous for starring in the 1933 version of King Kong. She lived another 70 years; passed away in 2004 at 96.
She was a good example of an “OG” Vigoda. It reached a point in my family that if King Kong was on, we had to say, “Fay Wray is still alive, you know…”
Yes, many of us wondered whatever happened to Fay Wray, that delicate satin-draped frame.
Another entry in the Abe Vigoda Hall of Fame is Luise Rainer. She won back-to-back Best Actress Oscars in 1936 and 1937 (becoming the first person to do so). But then she mostly dropped out of acting and was generally forgotten.
But she lived to be 104 years old and didn’t die until 2014.
Brigitte Bardot is 90 today!