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Still alive in 2019

Benjamin Grimm Jan 21 2019 02:00 PM

The author of the book I'm currently reading, Normal Lear, is 96 years old. http://normanlear.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/book1.jpg>

Willets Point Feb 17 2019 08:26 AM Re: Still alive in 2019

Celebrity Chrysler CEO Lee Iacocca is still breathing at 94.

Theoldmole Feb 19 2019 03:03 PM Re: Still alive in 2019

My mother-in-law, 99 and going strong. We play three-handed whist every day.

Theoldmole Feb 19 2019 03:06 PM Re: Still alive in 2019

And several jazz greats, still playing. Drummer Jimmy Cobb, 90. Tenor saxman Benny Golson, 90. Drummer Roy Haynes, 94.

Lefty Specialist Feb 21 2019 08:44 AM Re: Still alive in 2019

Tommy Lasorda still bleeding Dodger blue at 91.

Frayed Knot Mar 04 2019 07:34 PM Re: Still alive in 2019

Mad Magazine artist Al (Abraham) Jaffee turns 98 next Wednesday (assuming he makes it).

Methead Mar 05 2019 08:23 AM Re: Still alive in 2019

=Theoldmole post_id=3145 time=1550613813 user_id=77] My mother-in-law, 99 and going strong. We play three-handed whist every day.

Awesome. My grandmother turns 100 next month.

41Forever Mar 30 2019 08:25 AM Re: Still alive in 2019

[url]https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/columnists/neal-rubin/2019/03/29/jewish-news-columnist-turns-100-when-he-writes-everyone-listens/3298761002/ This is cool! Guy is 100, still writing columns. Hasn't missed an issue since 1942. Danny Raskin turned 100 in January. On Thursday, the weekly Detroit Jewish News turned 77. He wrote a column for the first edition back on March 27, 1942, and he's had a column in every edition since, except for the few decades when he had two. If you're keeping score at home, that's 4,005 consecutive issues. He is the Lou Gehrig of newspaper columnists, the guy you can't get out of the lineup — and incredibly, almost absurdly, he actually saw Gehrig play.

Double Switch Mar 30 2019 11:53 PM Re: Still alive in 2019

Lawrence Ferlinghetti turned 100 on March 24.

41Forever Apr 12 2019 08:50 PM Re: Still alive in 2019 Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Apr 15 2019 01:21 PM

Author Beverly Cleary of “Ramona” fame turned 103 this week!

whippoorwill Apr 15 2019 11:07 AM Re: Still alive in 2019

^ wowee!

Edgy MD Sep 04 2019 07:45 PM Re: Still alive in 2019

Mickey (Robert Blake) and Woim (Butch the Bully's sidekick) are the only surviving performers from the Our Gang/Little Rascals series.

Lefty Specialist Sep 05 2019 06:38 AM Re: Still alive in 2019

Nice interview in the Times today with Bob Newhart, who just turned 90 and is going back on the road to do stand-up. (Maybe at this point it's more like 'sit-down'.)

MFS62 Sep 05 2019 09:43 AM Re: Still alive in 2019

Don't forget about badass Betty: https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/sports/nfl/packers/fans/2019/08/29/betty-white-crashes-snf-promo-packers-bears-season-opener/2151276001/ Later

kcmets Sep 05 2019 12:58 PM Re: Still alive in 2019

Edgy MD wrote: Woim (Butch the Bully's sidekick) Wow, for fifty some odd years I thought his name was Wayne.

Edgy MD Sep 05 2019 01:25 PM Re: Still alive in 2019

Well, I'll bet he's glad I cleared that up while he's still among the living. "Wayne?! Goddammit I was Woim! It's a colloquial pronunciation of 'Worm'. Everyone should know that! What the hell kind of name is Wayne?! Why I oughta slug ya!"

41Forever Sep 06 2019 08:17 AM Re: Still alive in 2019

Those "our Gang" shorts were on seemingly every day when I was a kid in the late 1960s and early 1970s, yet I bet my kids, 22 and 27, would have no knowledge of them at all. I took my daughter for fro-yo this week, and the place had a Roadrunner cartoon running on a screen, and she had no idea who that was. I know our exposure was a result of only five channels and no other options in terms of VHS, DVDs or YouTube. But it's like those Warner Bros. things disappeared!

Frayed Knot Sep 06 2019 01:12 PM Re: Still alive in 2019

=41Forever post_id=21053 time=1567779420 user_id=69]I took my daughter for fro-yo this week, and the place had a Roadrunner cartoon running on a screen, and she had no idea who that was.

You're simply a bad parent. There's no other explanation.

41Forever Sep 06 2019 02:12 PM Re: Still alive in 2019

Frayed Knot wrote: =41Forever post_id=21053 time=1567779420 user_id=69]I took my daughter for fro-yo this week, and the place had a Roadrunner cartoon running on a screen, and she had no idea who that was. You're simply a bad parent. There's no other explanation.

Well, I WAS buying her fro-yo.

LWFS Sep 06 2019 05:45 PM Re: Still alive in 2019

Frayed Knot wrote: =41Forever post_id=21053 time=1567779420 user_id=69]I took my daughter for fro-yo this week, and the place had a Roadrunner cartoon running on a screen, and she had no idea who that was. You're simply a bad parent. There's no other explanation. Well, I WAS buying her fro-yo.

I've gone out of my way this summer to introduce old-school Looney Tunes into my kid's media diet. Not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it's right up her Gumball- and Teen Titans-loving alley.



Same with the more PG fare of one Mel Brooks, who is just as pretty as he ever was at 93.

Frayed Knot Sep 25 2019 05:48 PM Re: Still alive in 2019

Barbara Walters turns 90 today

Johnny Lunchbucket Mar 13 2020 07:50 AM Re: Still alive in 2019

Fold-in genius cartoonist Al Jaffee turns 99 today, still alive in 2020 and twittering away: [TWEET]https://twitter.com/og_aljaffee/status/1237046916132802560[/TWEET]

Willets Point Mar 13 2020 09:26 AM Re: Still alive in 2019

Wow! I would've never guessed Al Jaffee was still alive nor on Twitter. Good for him.

MFS62 Oct 16 2020 03:57 PM Re: Still alive in 2019

Angela Lansbury is 95 today. I guess it is probably too late for a 2020 thread, so let's keep this one going. Later

G-Fafif Oct 16 2020 06:46 PM Re: Still alive in 2019

2019 thread is still alive in 2020.