Where are they now...?

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Wombat remarked in the Dave Allen thread, that the late Dave Allen fell into the " Where are they now.." category.

'Twas this gentle remark got me thinking about those who have slipped under the radar for whatever reason.
Some are dead,probably, some are living in obscurity, and some are just happy to be out of the public eye…

The floor is open. :wink:

Slan,
D.

Osama bin Laden :wink:

OK, this thread looks like serious fun. Whenever I need an excuse to stop reading the doctoral thesis I’m stuck with this weekend, I’m gonna try to think of interesting cases.

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Osama… :laughing: :laughing:

Good luck with the homework…

We’ll see what happens… :wink:

Slan,
D.

Larry Storch from “F Troop”

http://www.nndb.com/people/933/000022867/

Bobby Fischer, Grand Master chess champion…you hear about him from time to time, but I don’t think anything has cropped up recently

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4326363.stm


Cheers,
David

Hmm…I was going to post a couple; when I considered the Horrible People category, for some reason Idi Amin came to mind, and there was someone else, so forgettable I’ve already forgotten. Then I realized that the internet has made the whole “where are they now” question nearly obsolete, it’s so easy to answer. As we’ve already seen in this thread, one need only google the name and the answer is there instantly (Amin died in 2003; more on his despicable life here – http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/16/newsid_3921000/3921361.stm)

The internet is spectacularly useful, and I wouldn’t want to be without it, but it does take some of the poignant mystery out of life. Maybe it would be fun to try to find someone who was once famous but has now somehow managed to vanish so thoroughly that even Google can’t find him. :wink:

Thanks Charlene for the awesome site!! Weird, though for ol Larry. He has a “mulatto” daughter? Don’t hear that term since, oh, the mid-60s. :boggle:

:wink: ..and there lies the challenge.. :wink:

Slan,
D.

Jimmy Hoffa?

Hehe.

Suppose I should have said, “vanish on purpose.”
:wink:

Actually I think this thread is a lot of fun if you don’t google but leave it to someone else to do that. I’m just as interested in who falls into this category for others as I am in the answer. So why not just post first for the fun of it and google later?

I got the answer for Dave Allen on last night’s news. He was retired but planning a comeback. His wife was about 7 months pregnant when he died. Hardly scandalous but still interesting, at least to me.

All righty then. Eric Idle. What became of him? Cleese, Palin, Jones, Gilliam…I’ve seen them doing this and that. But where’s Idle?

Odd that someone should raise this topic now. Had been wondering what ever became of Zelda from “Dobie Gillis.”

http://www.pythonline.com/plugs/idle/index.shtml

She became a legislator in California.

Here’s a link you may find as interesting as I often do whenever the questin “Whatever happened to…wossisname…”

http://dpsinfo.com/dps/

(The Dead People Server). It doesn’t have everyone listed though!

http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0473861/bio

“Sheila James Kuehl Kuehl was slated for her own spinoff, Zelda, and four episodes were filmed, but the project was dropped when rumors began to circulate that she was a lesbian. When she was passed over for a promotion in favor of a man with less experience she began to see major obstacles for women in the job market. She went back to school, got a degree in law and is now an attorney specializing in Feminist causes.”

Pam Dawber
The guy who played Squiggy on Laverne and Shirley. (Not Lenny, he’s still famous and a very good musician to boot.)

The guy who played the detective on Perry Mason and the woman who played Della.

From Leave it to Beaver (I don’t know their real names)
Larry Mondello
Miss Landers
Judy Hensler
Gilbert Bates