And, The Next Ancient Superstar to Die, Is.....

Rita Moreno was everywhere a couple of years ago, showing us all how to continue to be healthy and active after 90, but I haven't heard anything from her for a while now. I'm worried.

I considered Rita for my list but is she really a "Superstar". Tippi Hedren, Kim Novak, Dick Van Dyke

No one under 65 has heard of Kim Novak

Clint Eastwood is old old. My mother was born the same year and has been dead almost 10 years

Shirley Jones is in her early 90s. How old is Eva Marie Saint? Lee Remick is 100 in a few weeks.

Although they aren't "Superstars" at r4 ^^

R2 Rita was the very first EGOT. She's been in some of Hollywood's most loved films, including Singing in the Rain and West Side Story.

She is indeed a superstar.

R2 If you consider Marlee Matlin a superstar, then so is Rita Moreno.

Is Marlee Matlin sick?

And she was Sister Mary Pete R6

Not really a superstar in her own right, but I think the next A+++-list celebrity to die will be Yoko.

Why the hell is 60-year-old Marlee Matlin in your poll?

I'm worried about Carly Simon (1943)

Rita was part of a show in her honor in late August and looks fine.

Lee Remick died decades ago from cancer.

"Silent Generation Superstar" = lame joke to include Marlee Matlin 😵‍💫

Marlee Matlin OP??

Since when is 60 ancient?

R16 for crissakes the dumb joke has been explained twice. God forbid you read the thread.

R6, Richard Rodgers was the first person to earn the EGOT, back in 1962. Rita completed her set in 1977, after Helen Hayes.

I've heard that Clint Eastwood isn't doing well. Out of the people on that list, he's probably next.

Dick Van Dyke

R4, I think you meant Lee Grant.

The Marlee Matlin joke was not only a stupid reach, but it wasn't even funny.

Clint Eastwood, Robert Wagner, Joanne Woodward, John Astin, Tippi Hedren, Robert Duvall, William Shatner, Carroll Baker, Rita Moreno, Barbara Eden are all still with us. But for how long?

Maybe not superstars but:

Leslie Caron is 94

Robert Duvall is 94

Bruce Dern is 89

Ellen Burstyn is 92

Brigitte Bardot is 91. Didn't do Hollywood, but she's an icon.

Goldie Hawn!

Gale Gordon, take care of yourself!

Show these ghoulish queens the way to 2026 with health and prosperity!

Gale Gordon was never a superstar so he really doesn't belong on this thread.

But I'm glad to hear he's doing well.

Not an actor but I saw a video of Ralph Lauren last week and he was very frail.

Gale Gordon? He’s doing great for a 119 year old who died 30 years ago, I guess.

Nicholson hasn't been seen in public for a while.

Inshallah it will be Clint Eastwood and he will get just 1.5 seconds smack in the middle of the Oscars in memoriam.

Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Cher, Joni Mitchell, Liza, Martha Stewart...I think those are the deaths that I'll be saddest to hear. And yeah, Gale Gordon.

I don’t think poor Linda Ronstadt is long for this world.

I would have included Joanne Woodward in the poll. She's in her 90s, has battled Alzheimers for 15 years and has been seen in public for over a decade.

The meant Lee grant. She’ll be 100 on Halloween. Also to consider is Shirley MacLaine and her brother. Ann Margaret is up there as well

R4, Lee Remick?!

Robert Wagner.

Sophia Loren is 91.

Last summer in Branson, I saw Lee Remick in "Hello Dolly" with Gale Gordon as Horace Vandergelder. I didn't know she could sing.

I meant Lee Grant, of course, at r4. My mistake.

Marlee Matlin is fairly young and really doesn't belong on this poll.

Eastwood, Nicholson and Loren are definitely top contenders. I feel like Mick Jagger, though 2 years older than my mom would be (she died 2 years ago), is fairly healthy despite many years of boozing and drugs. He seems like he's one who will live a pretty long life - not sure what I'm basing my opinion on that from.

You have to think of some stars that you haven't heard much from in a loooooong time, that have stopped acting decades ago and you barely see or hear about them. The ones that are still working doing whatever and keeping busy, they are less likely to kick the bucket. That's why I have Eastwood, Nicholson and Loren as top contenders.

Marlee Matlin? Really?

[quote]No one under 65 has heard of Kim Novak

R3 here confuses the passive catching of noise with film history and the place of people in it. The latter matters more than what uneducated, uninterested others have heard in a field about which they obviously don't follow.

Joni Mitchell?

I thought they were rolling her body around to be rude.

R33, where did your hear about Woodward's battles?

Maybe she's just sort of eased into it without a struggle.

Cliches hurt.

And for the poster who said no one under 65 has heard of Kim Novak, thing again. Plenty of mid 50somethings (like myself) heard of Kim Novak as a star of yesteryear as we were growing up. Her heyday was late 50s and early 60s, and we would have grown up seeing her movies re-broadcasted on TV (probably not watching them, though).

Mick never drank much or did too many drugs r40. At least much less than his bandmates did. By the 1980s he was totally clean and way into daily exercise (running) and a health nut. He's been the picture of health for 40 years.

r43 it's known that Woodward has had dementia for some time. I think she had it back when Newman passed, it was mentioned here (I've been on DL that long...)

r45 I didn't realize that about Mick (him becoming clean in the 80s and a health nut), despite being born in '69. I was never a huge Stones fan growing up as much as my parents were (those hippies!). I just always felt he was pretty active in his concerts, seemed bendy/flexible and has been (and stayed active for many, many years. He has always had a healthy look about him (to me).

R45, dear, the point was to call every disease a battle, as a reflexive cliche.

I know how long it's been since it was noted publicly of her dementia. It's a sad misfortune for her and her family. But as someone who has worked with and lived with Alzheimer's patients and others with dementia, "battles" are usually not part of the experience. Obliviousness or misery and confusion are the opposite of battles.

Not on the list, but Elizabeth Ashley is getting up there.

Yoko.

Vivian Vance

In what faraway galaxy was Yoko ever a superstar?

Not a superstar but a Silent Generation fixture: Dan Rather

Helen Lawson

Willie Nelson and Joan Collins both could be added to the list.

Woody Allen has been frail and neurotic forever but now he’s truly circling the drain.

Maybe Barbra.

Joan Collins should be added to a pair of cement shoes.

I wonder what shape Warren Beatty is in. It took him (or his people) three days to issue a statement about Diane Keaton.

Also when Annette Benning was up for awards for Nyad he didn't attend any of the ceremonies with her. (It might just be his vanity. He doesn't want people to see how old he is.)

Torta, if Woody has the longevity genes of his parents he still has many years left.

Why isn't Angela Lansbury on this list?

Joanne Woodward has now been suffering from dementia closer to 20 years than 15.

Please God, spare Aliza Kashi.

because she already died r60

Brigitte?

Fonda is a cancer survivor. Eastwood, Nicholson, Sophia Loren, I just can't make up my mind.. Now, if I allow my personal feelings to govern my choice I'd say Clint Eastwood....

No mention of Miss Warwick?

Justine Bateman, who presents as a 95 year old apple core doll.

That's right! Dionne Warwick. How in the world can we overlook her!

Alan Alda is 89.

R58, Warren has not been well.