Big news, Abe Vigoda

[DainBramaged]

Hanging in there.......still alive



http://www.abevigoda.com/

[graham4anything]

1. I smelled something fishy here

[RetroLounge]

12. I see what you did there

RL

[johnp3907]

2. Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[markiv]

3. didnt he give the eulogy at Roger Moore's funeral? nt

[awoke_in_2003]

4. damnit, you got me. nt

[Auggie]

5. 92 years old ... a supposedly making another movie!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001820/?ref_=sr_1

[bvar22]

6. I used to have an app...

add-on to FireFox (2.0?) that put his photo on the bottom bar,
and let me know that he was still alive... everyday.
I always smiled,
and Fish, on Barney Miller, was The BEST!

[WCGreen]

7. Those rolling eyes at every turn....

Vaudeville on the 19" screen.

[rmax]

8. And he doesn't look a day older than he did when he was on "Barney Miller".

[toby jo]

9. My neighbor is 92, sharp as a tack, lives on her own, liberal inside and out.

I love her. Christ, she tells me stories of the neighbors going to town with their horse and buggy to get supplies, they left in the morning before dawn and got home after dark. And how they cleared their hayfield by hand - saws, the kind without gas, then dug out the stumps. And the day electric came to town. It was well appreciated, she says, especially the lights. But with TV, folks went off in their own 'little worlds', and there wasn't the camaraderie of card games, dances, pie contests, story-telling and whatnot.

Good people, our elders.

[DainBramaged]

10. My Mom was the same way, she passed at 92 four years ago

until her last two weeks she was as smart and as Liberal as any of us. When Grandma died in 1972, she was 94 and had a coal stove and furnace in her house in Paterson NJ. She refused to modernize. She had come here in the 1800's and told the stories of the horse and buggy races in the fields of Paterson and how they went to the falls for picnics.


If there was only a way to preserve their memories for the future.....

[rufus dog]

11. He got whacked in the 70's when I was just a kid

I saw it with my own eyes.

[HeiressofBickworth]

13. I was on a bus in Seattle a week ago

and a very dapper old gentleman got on and sat beside me. It was a lovely spring day and he had on a white linen suit, white silk tie, white patent leather shoes and a white straw hat. He was a very chatty guy, told me about his bum knee and how he told his doctor he wasn't going to have an operation on it (actually, he said something about butchers and slicing). He had been in the service for 31 years, had been a pilot for a while and then in some other business after that. At one point, he called me a "young brat". I'm 67. I told him that I hadn't been called a brat since I WAS a young brat and that he wasn't that much older than me. He said he was 103!! I scrutinized his face which was incredibly wrinkled and I believed him. He was one of those characters one rarely meets.