Dead or Alive: a macabre guessing game

[daft twat]

Loretta Lynn has passed. She is another in an increasingly long line of celebrities I thought might have already been dead ages ago. Like if you told me she died in 1996, I would have believed you.

So the game is this: Name a celebrity you think might exist (or not!) in this gray area. RM guesses dead or alive without looking it up. Eventually someone looks it up, posts the truth, and then adds a new name.

First celebrity: Angela Lansbury

[epilogue]

Totally alive

[Norah]

Do we have a picture of Angela Lansbury?

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Alive.

[washing machine]

Dying

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[B]

Henry the Eighth

[Mickey]

Dev

[daft twat]

Judd Hirsch
Bobby Orr
James Garner
Kathie Lee Gifford
Gallagher

[wease]

Judd Hirsch
Bobby Orr
James Garner
Kathie Lee Gifford
Gallagher

Alive
Don’t know them
Dead
Alive
Dead

[Simple Torture]

Judd Hirsch
Bobby Orr
James Garner
Kathie Lee Gifford
Gallagher

Alive
Don’t know them
Dead
Alive
Dead

Bobby Orr is alive

[bart]

...orr is he

[Simple Torture]

The actors who played the following parts on Gilligan's Island:

Gilligan
The Skipper
The Professor
Mary Ann
Ginger
Mr. Howell
Mrs. Howell

[bart]

pretty sure Ginger is the only one still alive

[Simple Torture]

Not really part of the guessing game, but I recently heard tbat Ron Howard is the last surviving person to have appeared on The Andy Griffith show; I'm not sure if they meant main cast or altogether, but it'd be crazy if it was all actors, not just the regulars.

[Simple Torture]

pretty sure Ginger is the only one still alive

bart is correct.

[wease]

pretty sure Ginger is the only one still alive

bart is correct.

Damn. She must be close to 100 by now

[daft twat]

Judd Hirsch
Bobby Orr
James Garner
Kathie Lee Gifford
Gallagher

Alive
Don’t know them
Dead
Alive
Dead

3 for 4 on your guesses.

[Simple Torture]

pretty sure Ginger is the only one still alive

bart is correct.

Damn. She must be close to 100 by now

88

[Simple Torture]

Burt Bacharach
Bob Barker
Boutros Boutros-Ghali