My god, is he still alive!

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 24 Apr 07 - 03:47 PM

When I was a kid, I loved the movie "March of the Wooden Soldiers" with Laurel & Hardy.   In my adult years, I was always shocked when I read an obit from one of the actors when they passed away during the 1980's and 90's.    The actor who played Silas Barnaby died in 1990 - he was ony 22 years old when he filmed the role as the old man. The actor who played Tom-Tom passed away in 1998.   Even when I watched the film in the 1960's, it had a feeling of the distant past and it was a shock to revist the film and put it in perspective.

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 24 Apr 07 - 03:46 PM

But is that living?

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 24 Apr 07 - 03:39 PM

Shatner is definitely still alive..its all the English cereals he eats and advertises.

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 24 Apr 07 - 03:11 PM

We never thought he'd last this long when he looked like THIS!

John

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
From: Shaneo
Date: 24 Apr 07 - 02:58 PM

Our accordion player ,considering the amount of whiskey he drinks.

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Apr 07 - 02:52 PM

Cheetah, the chimp from Tarzan movies just had a birthday party...72 or 75...

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 24 Apr 07 - 02:47 PM

Doc Watson made his "last and final appearance" at the WVA Festival for about 5 years in a row some while back. Although he hasn't been back there since the final last and final final last show about 10 years ago, so far as I've heard he's still pickin'.

(And still sounds purty good.)

John

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
From: MMario
Date: 24 Apr 07 - 01:56 PM

good point

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 24 Apr 07 - 01:54 PM

MM,

Can you prove that WShatner IS still alive?

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
From: MMario
Date: 24 Apr 07 - 01:52 PM

I keep being astonished that William Shatner is still alive - but that is primarily wishful thinking.

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
From: Ebbie
Date: 24 Apr 07 - 01:47 PM

I remember how astonished and thrilled I was when I learnt that my grandfather was born in 1868- "just three years after Lincoln died", my brothers and I kept marveling to each other.

But it happens often. A friend of mine who had learned many songs from Burl Ives' recordings came to music one night and suggested that we sing some of the songs because "Burl Ives died today". And so we did. Afterward I confessed to my friend that I had thought that Ives had died long since, that I had no idea he was still alive.

My friend said, Actually, I didn't know either.

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
From: Wesley S
Date: 24 Apr 07 - 01:43 PM

There is a highly fictionalized account of Wyatt Earp in Hollywood called "Sunset". It stars James Garner as Earp and Bruce Willis as Tom Mix.

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
From: treewind
Date: 24 Apr 07 - 01:41 PM

My earliest remembered experience of that sort of time-shock was hearing a lady on the radio describing how she'd had tea with Brahms.

The most recent was a few months ago hearing that someone had died who I had no idea was still alive until then. B***ered if I can remember who it was.

I went to hear Stéphane Grappelli in about 1976, on advice that "you should really grab the chance while he's still alive" and he kept going for another 22 years after that.

We like telling people we live in a house that was built while Mozart was still alive.

Anahata

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
From: Midchuck
Date: 24 Apr 07 - 01:23 PM

I was astonished when I learnt that Wyatt Earp, who I associate very much with the 'Wild West' lived until 1927

I understand he was a consultant in Hollywood for studios making western movies, in his later years.

Peter

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
From: Amos
Date: 24 Apr 07 - 01:19 PM

Dick Cheney...and his boss.


A

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
From: Blowzabella
Date: 24 Apr 07 - 01:16 PM

Completely unrelated but I was astonished when I learnt that Wyatt Earp, who I associate very much with the 'Wild West' lived until 1927 - by which time my parents were 7 years old .... Time, eh - it means not a lot really ....

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 24 Apr 07 - 01:10 PM

Sorry, I know that was a bit flippant but there ya go.

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 24 Apr 07 - 01:09 PM

Mugabe!

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
From: Midchuck
Date: 24 Apr 07 - 12:58 PM

Well, Segovia only made it to 94 - but he was picking from age 4 until the end.

Peter.

Subject: My god, is he still alive!
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 24 Apr 07 - 12:44 PM

I was amazed to find that the great cellist Pablo Casals had given a recital for Queen Victoria and, much, much later, for John F Kennedy. I was also amazed that Percy Grainger lived until 1961! Now, I know the dates add up, but I'm still surprised. Has anybody else out there got similar examples of "My god, is he still alve!".