Bacall is still alive?!
Heck, I’d do 'er . . . keeping in mind images from The Big Sleep . . .
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,” by Don McLean
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.
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.
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…
Perhaps she was thinking of Mickey Mouse?
He stays alive not for himself, but for the moviegoing public and for the foreign markets that are more important than ever nowadays. 
"And her tears flowed like wine
"Yes, and her tears flowed like wine
"She’s a real sad tomato
“She’s a busted Valentiiiiine . . .”
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!
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.
fatgail, I think I love you.
Yeah! Save your energy for Otto’s next death-themed thread!