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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsOlder Duers...who in your 20th century pantheon is still with us...?
...there's another thread about very old celebrities still alive and kicking. God bless 'em all...but we all have favorites, some of whom might not be quite that old. Here's some of my heroes, still blessedly amongst us...
...Stan Lee
...Willie Mays
...Hank Aaron
...Al Kaline
...Harlan Ellison
...Diana Rigg
...Helen Mirren
...James Earl Jones
...Harold Bloom
...Cynthia Ozick
...may they all live to 100--and beyond...
PJMcK
(22,026 posts)Stephen Hawking (not quite as old but he wasn't expected to last this long and he's been tremendously important)
Sean Connery
Dick Van Dyke
John Corigliano (great classical composer)
John Kander (wrote the music for CABARET and CHICAGO)
Stephen Sondheim
Harold Prince
Jimmy Carter
I'm sure there are more...
ETA: Jack Nicklaus (but only because of his golf not his politics!)
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)Man, timing... RIP
PJMcK
(22,026 posts)Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)Jimmy Carter.
Walter Mondale.
Submariner
(12,503 posts)Broke the sound barrier. 95.
Cartoonist
(7,314 posts)David Gilmour and Roger Waters
Sneederbunk
(14,289 posts)DBoon
(22,354 posts)Robbie Kreiger and John Densmore
Dick Dale
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)Without mentioning his name, Douglas went on to compare the rise of Adolf Hitler with the populist rhetoric of Donald Trump in those early stages of the election cycle.
[I've] lived through the horrors of a Great Depression and two World Wars, the second of which was started by a man who promised that he would restore his country it to its former greatness.
I was 16 when that man came to power in 1933. For almost a decade before his rise he was laughed at ― not taken seriously. He was seen as a buffoon who couldnt possibly deceive an educated, civilized population with his nationalistic, hateful rhetoric.
The "experts" dismissed him as a joke. They were wrong.
https://www.indy100.com/article/kirk-douglas-donald-trump-letter-7466021
One of my all-time favorite actors....101?..Wow!
Thanks!
dweller
(23,625 posts)may he stay... forever
✌🏼️
Sneederbunk
(14,289 posts)Still giving pleasure.
Atticus
(15,124 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)to Atlanta where I lived at time. Oh, man.
Ali was my favorite at just about everything, sports, standing up to the man, etc. He was the Greatest of All Time.
Atticus
(15,124 posts)Cartoonist
(7,314 posts)Barbara Eden, oh yeah!
Freddie
(9,258 posts)Tony Bennett
Johnny Mathis
Jack Jones
some entertainers of my parents' generation are still with us
unc70
(6,110 posts)Grace Slick and Jesse Jackson are just a few years older. This thread is an interesting concept, but lets restrict it to those at least over 80!
red dog 1
(27,792 posts)Kirk Douglas
Jimmy Carter
Robert De Niro
Willie Mays
Willie McCovey
Mel Brooks
Woody Allen
Steve Martin
Gilbert Gottfried
Dick Van Dyke
Rip Torn
Michael Shrieve (Former Santana drummer)
Keith Richards
Mick Jagger
Neil Young
Bryan Adams
Phil Lesh (Grateful Dead)
Bill Kreutzman (Grateful Dead)
Mickey Hart (Grateful Dead)
Grace Slick
Marty Balin (Jefferson Airplane)
Spencer Dryden (Jefferson Airplane)
Jeff Beck
Al Cooper
Eric Clapton
Country Joe McDonald
Joni Mitchell
Stephen Stills
Graham Nash
Ray Davies
John Cleese
Eric Idle
Kevin Kline
Dan Aykroyd
Jim Carey
Denis Leary
Reese Witherspoon
John Cusack
Joan Cusack
Cynthia Geary
Jack Nicholson
yellowdogintexas
(22,250 posts)like a lot of my friends did. I guess Joan is around the same.
kwassa
(23,340 posts)yellowdogintexas
(22,250 posts)They have been around for a very long time, and lived through 3/4 of the 20th Century and on into the 21st.
Carl Reiner
Sidney Poitier
Angela Lansbury
Ed Asner
Eli Wallach
Olivia de Havilland
Carol Channing
some of the folks in these lists don't seem old to me because I am also their age. Like Helen Mirren, only 2 years my senior.
oh Dame Judi Dench
Dame Maggie Smith
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,338 posts)mpcamb
(2,870 posts)Last edited Tue Mar 13, 2018, 11:30 PM - Edit history (2)
89
Bill Russell
84
Tom Heinsohn
83
Satch Sanders
79
Sam Jones
84
K. C. Jones
85
Frank Ramsey
86
Blame it on my misspent youth.
lark
(23,090 posts)THE NOTORIOUS RBG is certainly one of my heros who is still around and kicking
Joe Biden
Jimmy Carter
Rosalynn Carter
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)Carol King-76
John Cleese-78
Jim Palmer-72
Alan Alda-82
Sally Field-71
Pete Townshend-72
Tommy & Dick Smothers-81, 78
50 Shades Of Blue
(9,968 posts)malthaussen
(17,184 posts)How about Sandy Koufax?
As for fielders, Bill Mazeroski is still kickin'.
-- Mal
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...how he'd hate playing in today's wimped-out game...
malthaussen
(17,184 posts)... he'd eat these padded-up little girlie batters for lunch if he was playing now.
https://mopupduty.com/bob-gibson-stories-and-anecdotes-040714/
-- Mal
zanana1
(6,108 posts)There are many more, but these two names mean alot to me.
BluesRunTheGame
(1,613 posts)jes06c
(114 posts)MrScorpio
(73,630 posts)First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...I'll never forget the last page of Strange Tales #167...
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,831 posts)MerryBlooms
(11,761 posts)Sidney Poitier... Those are just off the top of my head. I'm sure there are many more I could add.