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First Speaker

(4,858 posts)
Mon Mar 12, 2018, 04:58 PM Mar 2018

Older 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...

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Older Duers...who in your 20th century pantheon is still with us...? (Original Post) First Speaker Mar 2018 OP
Buzz Aldrin PJMcK Mar 2018 #1
Stephen Hawking.... Ron Obvious Mar 2018 #24
I know, right?! (n/t) PJMcK Mar 2018 #25
Jesse Jackson! Lifelong Protester Mar 2018 #2
Chuck Yeager Submariner Mar 2018 #3
Paul, Ringo, Keith, Mick Cartoonist Mar 2018 #4
Don't forget Charlie Watts. Sneederbunk Mar 2018 #7
Grace Slick DBoon Mar 2018 #12
Kirk Douglas, 101 recently! nt Leghorn21 Mar 2018 #5
+ 1 red dog 1 Mar 2018 #14
DYLAN dweller Mar 2018 #6
Hancock, Shorter, Ron Carter Sneederbunk Mar 2018 #8
Joan Baez. nt Atticus Mar 2018 #9
Hank Aaron was my favorite player beginning around 1956. Then Braves moved Hoyt Mar 2018 #10
Frederick Douglas? nt Atticus Mar 2018 #11
Rita Moreno, Julie Newmar Cartoonist Mar 2018 #13
Doris Day Freddie Mar 2018 #15
Helen Mirren is only 72 unc70 Mar 2018 #16
Harlan Ellison red dog 1 Mar 2018 #17
oh good grief. Cusak is young enough to be my son, if I had had a kid at 18 yellowdogintexas Mar 2018 #20
Noam Chomsky, Bishop Spong, Thich Nhat Hanh. kwassa Mar 2018 #18
Her Majesty the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. and oh for God's Sake: Betty White!!!! yellowdogintexas Mar 2018 #19
Didn't Eli Wallach leave us a year or two ago...? First Speaker Mar 2018 #21
Keith Richards. I don't know how, but he's still here ... JustABozoOnThisBus Mar 2018 #22
Bob Cousy mpcamb Mar 2018 #23
RBG, RBG lark Mar 2018 #26
Some of mine... Va Lefty Mar 2018 #27
Julie Andrews 50 Shades Of Blue Mar 2018 #28
No love for pitchers? malthaussen Mar 2018 #29
...and Bob Gibson... First Speaker Mar 2018 #31
Seriously. He couldn't hit anybody... malthaussen Mar 2018 #32
Noam Chomsky, Gloria Steinem. zanana1 Mar 2018 #30
Barbara Dane 90 BluesRunTheGame Mar 2018 #33
John Williams jes06c Mar 2018 #34
Jim Steranko MrScorpio Mar 2018 #35
Who *was* Scorpio, anyway...? First Speaker Mar 2018 #37
I'll add Al Jaffee from Mad Magazine. Still working at 97, last I heard. Gidney N Cloyd Mar 2018 #36
Carol Burnett, Tim Conway, Angela Lansbury, Dick Van Dyke, Mel Brooks, Harry Belefonte MerryBlooms Mar 2018 #38

PJMcK

(21,998 posts)
1. Buzz Aldrin
Mon Mar 12, 2018, 05:04 PM
Mar 2018

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!)

Leghorn21

(13,523 posts)
5. Kirk Douglas, 101 recently! nt
Mon Mar 12, 2018, 05:16 PM
Mar 2018

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 couldn’t 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

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
10. Hank Aaron was my favorite player beginning around 1956. Then Braves moved
Mon Mar 12, 2018, 05:25 PM
Mar 2018

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.

Freddie

(9,257 posts)
15. Doris Day
Mon Mar 12, 2018, 06:08 PM
Mar 2018

Tony Bennett
Johnny Mathis
Jack Jones

some entertainers of my parents' generation are still with us

unc70

(6,109 posts)
16. Helen Mirren is only 72
Mon Mar 12, 2018, 06:18 PM
Mar 2018

Grace Slick and Jesse Jackson are just a few years older. This thread is an interesting concept, but let’s restrict it to those at least over 80!

red dog 1

(27,781 posts)
17. Harlan Ellison
Mon Mar 12, 2018, 06:35 PM
Mar 2018

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

(22,231 posts)
20. oh good grief. Cusak is young enough to be my son, if I had had a kid at 18
Mon Mar 12, 2018, 08:40 PM
Mar 2018

like a lot of my friends did. I guess Joan is around the same.

yellowdogintexas

(22,231 posts)
19. Her Majesty the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. and oh for God's Sake: Betty White!!!!
Mon Mar 12, 2018, 08:38 PM
Mar 2018

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

mpcamb

(2,868 posts)
23. Bob Cousy
Tue Mar 13, 2018, 10:05 PM
Mar 2018

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

(23,065 posts)
26. RBG, RBG
Wed Mar 14, 2018, 10:23 AM
Mar 2018

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)
27. Some of mine...
Wed Mar 14, 2018, 10:27 AM
Mar 2018

Carol King-76
John Cleese-78
Jim Palmer-72
Alan Alda-82
Sally Field-71
Pete Townshend-72
Tommy & Dick Smothers-81, 78

MerryBlooms

(11,757 posts)
38. Carol Burnett, Tim Conway, Angela Lansbury, Dick Van Dyke, Mel Brooks, Harry Belefonte
Thu Mar 15, 2018, 01:15 PM
Mar 2018

Sidney Poitier... Those are just off the top of my head. I'm sure there are many more I could add.

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