When Suzanne Pleshette's demise was announced, you thought: who knew she was still alive?
Same for Netscape Navigator (1994-2008). Well, not dead, but not exactly on life support.
Who else is still alive we presume dead? (David Lee Roth's career doesn't count.) Deposit names in the Comments section.
Well, I know this isn't necessarily an age thing, but Ernest Borgnine is still with us at age 91. Due to his wonderfully craggy features, he always seemed old even when he was younger, so imho, his continued presence is remarkable. And hey, 91. Not a bad run there, Ernie, not bad at all.
Posted by: Andrew Tonkin | February 01, 2008 at 11:32 PM
Ray Walston?
Posted by: bartleby | February 01, 2008 at 11:55 PM
Harry Morgan?
Posted by: wht | February 02, 2008 at 01:13 AM
Tony Martin, who's crooning at Feinstein's in Manhattan this week at age NINETY-FIVE.
It just might be your last chance to catch a live performance of "Tenement Symphony" from "The Big Store."
("The Cohens and the Kellys
The Campbells and Vermicellis
All form a part of my tenement symphony...")
Posted by: woid | February 02, 2008 at 02:04 AM
David Hasselhoff...:-))
Posted by: Theo | February 02, 2008 at 04:49 AM
Paul Harvey??
Posted by: Dave | February 02, 2008 at 05:17 AM
Abe Vigoda. Or Patrick McGoohan.
Posted by: Seb | February 02, 2008 at 05:55 AM
Mel Brooks
Posted by: StonedCrow | February 02, 2008 at 10:03 AM
Tony Curtis, Ed Asner, Elvis Presley ( I just saw him shopping in Hoboken on Thursday )
Posted by: reaper | February 02, 2008 at 10:21 AM
I always thought Jonathan Frid, who played "Barnabas" in "Dark Shadows was dead. But then he showed up at some Dark Shadows convention. Damn, Who told me he died?
Posted by: Hellbound Alleee | February 02, 2008 at 10:29 AM
Jesse Helms. He's got a tombstone in a cemetery in North Carolina, but its empty.
Posted by: Skip Elsheimer | February 02, 2008 at 11:20 AM
Abe Vigoda! Still not dead!
Posted by: Ben | February 02, 2008 at 01:56 PM
i thought richard simmons was dead. but he isnt.
Posted by: madeleine | February 02, 2008 at 01:59 PM
Paul McCartney, James Bond and Chad Pennington!
Posted by: davin | February 02, 2008 at 02:13 PM
Walter Cronkite (born 1916).
Phyllis Diller (born 1917).
Posted by: Cryptic Ned | February 02, 2008 at 08:12 PM
(Sing Along With) Mitch Miller; our favorite Structuralist, Claude Levi-Strauss; Mr. Lysergic Acid Diethylamide hisself, Albert Hofmann; and Art Linkletter. The elderly say the darndest things!
Posted by: CheeseSnobWendy | February 02, 2008 at 08:33 PM
hal linden?
oh and
CAROL CHANNING. i thought she was dead until i saw her on tv talking about a bank robbery on VH1
Posted by: zombot | February 02, 2008 at 09:21 PM
Can we count the living dead, like GOP politicians?
Posted by: RioRico | February 02, 2008 at 11:32 PM
I was going to say Gerald Ford, but he is actually dead, so nevermind.
Pinetop Perkins is still kickin'.
Posted by: Z | February 02, 2008 at 11:34 PM
Sure, count GOP'ers. Meanwhile, toss in Pelosi's speakership and Reid's Senate leadership to the list of living-but-presumed-dead.
Posted by: Irwin Chusid | February 03, 2008 at 12:01 AM
Ralph Macchio? Even he doesn't know if he's alive anymore.
Posted by: John Hirschfelder | February 03, 2008 at 04:13 AM
Ariel Sharon.
Posted by: Uncle Snuckles | February 03, 2008 at 05:22 AM
Bartleby>> Ray Walston died a few years back, sorry to say.
Posted by: Andrew | February 03, 2008 at 10:04 AM
Mickey Rooney, age 87, height 62" and shrinking
Posted by: Mickey Rooney | February 03, 2008 at 05:24 PM
How 'bout Keith Richards? Most of us know he's not dead, but a lot of us still can scarcely believe it.
Posted by: Parq | February 04, 2008 at 08:14 AM