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Bandleader/trumpeter Ray Anthony, the first one to cover the main theme from "Dragnet", just turned 101 years old.
Zowie! I just saw him on a sheet music cover, and he was a cutie!
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Browsing the updated list (thanks, litefoot) I realized that some major names are missing.
Carl Davis, born October 28th, 1936 is 86 now and still active as far as I know. Along with John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith and John Barry the composer mainly responsible for turning me into a soundtrack collector thanks to Kevin Brownlow's and David Gill's brilliant documentary series about the silent era Hollywood.
Lalo Schifrin, born June 21st, 1932 is 90 years old. I will always remember standing next to Nick Redman during a symposium in Vienna in which Schifrin participated, who was whispering to me: "You realize you're seeing one of the true greats". Well, how can you disagree with Nick Redman?
Jean-Paul Rappeneau, born April 8th, 1932 also is 90 years old. Starting as a screenwriter (That Man from Rio with Jean-Paul Belmondo/ Private Lives with Brigitte Bardot) he became a successful director (Le Sauvage with Catherine Deneuve and Yves Montand/The Horseman on the Roof with Juliette Binoche). His most famous and best film is Cyrano de Bergerac with Gérard Depardieu (in my opinion one of the finest films ever made in France).
Pierre Richard, born August 16th, 1934 is 88. One of the biggest stars in Europe during the 1970s and 80s he is still acting. His most famous film is Le grand Blond avec une Chaussure noire (The Tall Blond with One Black Shoe) for which Vladimir Cosma wrote one of the all-time great movie themes. I don't think he ever did an English language movie even though several of his films got (inferior) American remakes (The Man with the Red Shoe with Tom Hanks, Three Fugitives with Nick Nolte and Martin Short, The Toy with Richard Pryor, Father's Day with Billy Crystal and Robin Williams, Two Much with Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith)
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Actress Janis Paige turned 100 in September, 2022.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0656712/
Saw her about 10-ish years ago performing. Her vision was much compromised, but not her sense of humor. She even cracked up her own band.
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• Gerald Fried is 94 now (composer for Star Trek and 100 other shows).
• Newton Minow is 97 (FCC chairman; "television is a vast wasteland").
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