# Why doesn't Mickey Rooney die? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 29, 2008, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456 "2008-01-29T15:11:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/61 "2008-01-30T01:48:50Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] Hey **Otto** , Mickey is only 87, he is not even close to Bob Hope or George Burns level age yet. Some other old Studio Hands still kicking: \*\*June Lockhart \*\* born in 25 June 1925, New York, New York, USA \*\*Margaret O’Brien \*\* born 15 January 1937, San Diego, California, USA \*\*Lauren Bacall \*\* was born Betty Joan Perske on September 16, 1924 in New York City Ernestine \*\*Jane \*\* Geraldine \*\*Russell \*\* was born on June 21, 1921 in Bemidji, Minnesota. [/QUOTE] Bacall is still alive?! Heck, I’d do 'er . . . keeping in mind images from _The Big Sleep_ . . . ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/62 "2008-01-30T01:51:50Z")
[QUOTE=fatgail] Wow. Judy Garland wasn’t exactly sunshine and rainbows either, you know. I mean, talk about opiate detox. [/QUOTE] MGM studios can’t make the nut they’re auctioning Dorothy’s shoes. Gable is gone, the good witch is a slut and I’ve got the parking lot blues. The wizard brought benzadrine smiles and he never let Dorothy doze. She died as she walked down the aisle and all that remains is her clothes. Over the rainbow a Kansas tornado can twist up a little girl´s head. Aunt Em’s on relief and the tinman’s a thief and even the wizard can’t wake the dead. – [“Magdalen Lane,”](http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Magdalene-lane-lyrics-Don-McLean/5C2F8AC7A596AE9748256CA8002ADF6B) by Don McLean ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/63 "2008-01-30T03:10:29Z")
Clearly, we have no Bible scholars here. Is it not written in the Book of Midgets, Ch.3 v.11-13: "Unless the Lord shorteneth those days, Rooney, whom the unclean call The Mick, shall stalk the land on wee knobbly legs for fivescore and twelve years minus a day. Though ye may cry out and beg the Lord to “PLEASE MAKE HIM SHUT UP!” it shall not come to pass. Ye shall hear him sing and watch him dance 'til the sins of thy people are put paid. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/64 "2008-01-30T03:23:07Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] Bacall is still alive?! Heck, I’d do 'er . . . keeping in mind images from _The Big Sleep_ . . . [/QUOTE] Not only is she still alive, she is still making movies. She also played herself getting mugged on the Sopranos in 2006. That is how I knew she was still alive. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/65 "2008-01-30T03:47:23Z")
I’ll go out on that limb and just say it: I hope he puts on that Big Show in the barn damned soon. He scares me. Even when I liked those old movies, he gave me the creeps. I’m not sure he’s human… ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/66 "2008-01-30T04:31:01Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] First, I have not wished death upon him. Second, to say that he is “made of sugar and happiness” displays a rather gaping ignorance of Rooney and his personal history. [/QUOTE] Perhaps she was thinking of Mickey Mouse? ---
**Author:** ![Stan\_Shmenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Stan\_Shmenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stan_Shmenge)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/67 "2008-01-30T05:32:26Z")
He stays alive not for himself, but for the moviegoing public and for the foreign markets that are more important than ever nowadays. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/68 "2008-01-30T05:54:24Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] Not only is she still alive, she is still making movies. She also played herself getting mugged on the Sopranos in 2006. That is how I knew she was still alive. [/QUOTE] "And her tears flowed like wine "Yes, and her tears flowed like wine "She’s a real sad tomato “She’s a busted Valentiiiiine . . .” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/69 "2008-01-30T05:56:05Z")
Apropos of nothing, I recall an old bit from _Mad_ magazine: While I was going to St. Ives I met a man with seven wives I know it sounds absurd and looney, But that poor man was Mickey Rooney! ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/70 "2008-01-30T07:46:27Z")
I don’t know why MR hasn’t died, but when he does, his eternal punishment in Hell will be to watch his own performance in _Breakfast at Tiffany’s._ And if I had no other reason to despise him, that performance would be reason enough. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/71 "2008-01-30T15:14:53Z")
[QUOTE=fatgail] wha… GORBACHEV SINGS TRACTORS! TURNIP! BUTTOCKS! [/QUOTE] **fatgail** , I think I love you. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456/72 "2008-01-30T15:27:48Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] Seriously people, lighten up. [/QUOTE] Yeah! Save your energy for Otto’s _next_ death-themed thread! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-doesnt-mickey-rooney-die/435456.md?page=3)