A good choice for sure. Popularity waned, I had no idea if he was living or dead.
Diana Rigg died today. I am quite certain that I read an article in the late 90s that she had died back then, so for a few years I believed she was already gone, until she unexpectedly turned up in a TV show I was watching.
Here is a non-human and non-living one that is quite surprising:
Everquest is still “alive” and just released its 26th expansion pack in December 2019. This means not only are players still playing, but enough are playing to justify the development and sale of expansion packs.
Wow.
Yep, I jumped on within the last year or two to take a trip down memory lane!
Some things are better left as memories.
I never played it. Is it free to play or does it have a monthly charge now?
I’d love to know how long it would take to fully play the base game and all expansions.
Last I checked, there is free-to-play, but it is limited. The monthly sub gives you access to both EQ and EQ2.
It’s hard to play, just because the UI is SO dated. Graphics don’t matter to me, but the UI part definitely does. It makes me sad, because no game has ever filled me with wonder the way stepping into EQ did that first time.
Did they really not update it to a new UI and make it more modern? I would have thought it had been through a number of graphical and interface updates over the years.
I wonder how much they make from it still.
It is definitely more modern than the way it started, but unlike WoW, they didn’t have the capital (or the interest) to completely rework everything.
Blizzard, as they have always have been good at, took all of the lessons learned by Verant/SOE and seems to have set things up to far more extensible/moddable than it ever was in EQ.
I don’t know what the actual size of the playerbase is, but there were definitely quite a few people playing when I tried to play again. Even the newbie zones were busier than I would have expected.
I don’t know how long it would take to go through everything, but there is (like in WoW) a benign neglect for older content. Power creep has trivialized the older stuff, and the goal is to just get you into new content as fast as possible, so you are more likely to be excited about buying the expansions they release.
Actually, Woody Allen is one for the list. He’s always looked middle-aged to me, even in films where he is in his 30s. He’s in his early 80s now, but actually looks pretty good for his current age. I would have guessed him older than he is, not based on his looks, but by how long he’s been around.
I remember when his affair with Soon-yi Previn came to light, someone I know commented that “What did Mia farrow expect, he was already robbing the cradle with her,” but he was only 10 years older than Farrow, not an impossible age gap at all, especially considering they weren’t that young when they got together.
And out of curiosity, did anyone else see the movie Hannah and Her Sisters, and know immediately that their relationship was doomed?
This is the one that comes to my mind. It occurs to me that he played an old man back in 1985’s Back to the Future. Thirty-five years later and he’s still kicking. Abe Vagoda was famous for looking old for decades, so I think Lloyd’s the man now.
Wilfred Brimley would have been a strong candidate for this thread, had he not had the poor timing to die just a few months back.
Darn- I was going to bring up lovely June Lockliver (Lockhart’s name in a Mad Magazine spoof 50+ years ago).
For some reason I thought Tony Bennett had finally died, but apparently not.
I thought James Earl Jones(89) and Dick Cavett(83) were dead but they are not.
BTW Jones was only paid around $9k for Darth Vader voice in episode 4. He got a raise after that but he did not say how much the raise was.
Lloyd was only 47 in 1985. Yes, Doc was considerably older, but Lloyd wore prosthetic makeup to make him look elderly.
I personally don’t have that feeling with Lloyd. I became familiar with him from when he played Jim of the TV series Taxi. So I think of him as a contemporary of people like Danny Devito, Judd Hirsch, Tony Danza, and Marilu Henner, who are all still alive. (Yes, Jeff Conaway and Andy Kaufman are dead. But I feel that’s more a case of them dying before their time.)
I’ve been watching some of the Dick Cavett Show interviews on youtube and it has bewildered me to learn he is still alive and is only 84. He’s perpetually remained in my mind a creature of the 1970s with his neat blonde hair and tweed jacket.
This man was a fixture of my youth. The guests he had coupled with the laid back freewheeling nature of late night in the 1970s means looking back at the archive is full of absolute gold. I don’t think 50 years from now people will be looking back in great nostalgia at Colbert’s show and I say this as a fan.
Then I’m going with Ric Flair, dude looked too old to be wrestling back when I was a kid in the 80s. As far as I know he still makes occasional appearances.
George Schultz, who was a member of the Nixon cabinet, will be 100 on December 13th…the oldest living former cabinet member.
That reminds me that Ramsey Clark is still alive. At 92, he’s younger than Schultz, but he served earlier. He was LBJ’s Attorney General from 1966 to 1969. As far as I know, he’s the earliest-serving cabinet secretary who is still alive.
I didn’t watch his show but have enjoyed watching clips on Youtube including the notorious exchange between Mailer and Vidal. He is also a fine writer and I enjoyed his pieces in the New York Times some years back.
When I opened the thread I thought of Ramsey Clark, who I found out was alive when I googled characters from the Chicago 7 film.
To add a new name ( I think): Eva Marie Saint, who starred in On the Waterfront and North By Northwest in the 1950s. She may be the biggest star from that decade still alive.