Dick Van Dyke is still with us at age 90, (91 in two days)
So is Mary Tyler Moore at 79, (80 in 18 days)
And Carl Reiner at age 94
And Rose Marie at 93.
Jerry Van Dyke is 85.
Maury Amsterdam lived to age 87.
Ann Morgan Guilbert died earlier this year at age 87.
The past is a series of presents. The present is living history we are privileged to witness
At least iconic comedy.
Only Richard Deacon checked out early.
Same for MARY TYLER MOORE -- everyone is still around and in their eighties and nineties except Ted Knight who died nearly a decade after the show ended.
But there is indeed a pattern of famed comics lasting a long time. So do presidents.
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LBJ's mistress on JFK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcXeutDmuRA
The old saying "laughter is the best medicine" must have some truth to it.
shareAll or most of those people were smokers for a good part of their lives. I passionately hate smoking, but this group suggests it's not the automatic premature death sentence it's made out to be.
shareSmoking is not healthy.
There have been plenty of people that smoked a lot and yet their body aged to a very ripe age before letting them go.
Smoking is not 'automatic death', but nothing says that the smokers couldn't and wouldn't have lived a much better and just as long (if not longer) 'lives' without smoking.
The problem with smoking is not the DEATH, it's the lowering of quality of life. When your lungs are constantly stuffed with thousands of poisonous chemicals, it's a given that your body isn't going to work as well, this means your mind can't work as well, either, and you can't even exercize as much, thus you are forced to live in an unhealthy body (on so many levels) for a long time.
Even these people would've been happier in a non-smoke-and-chemicals-filled body, and possibly even 'lived longer' (though that's not much of a bonus, who wants to live long in an aging body?)
I mean, please don't make smoking sound like some kind of healthy, good thing. Regardless of how LONG you live, smoking will make you FEEL BAD for that duration, and you would feel much better if you didn't smoke and hadn't smoked. Healthy lungs feel better, and food tastes better, when you can actually taste it.
Can you also imagine the sweet sensation of being able to enjoy the pleasant, uplifting aromas of early morning forest after a rain? A smoker doesn't know what that means, and they're missing out.