What do you mean by would have been? He's still alive. He and his partner adopted a child a few months ago and he sang a tribute to Elizabeth Taylor a couple days ago.
Has anyone ever managed to make a joke on this forum without at least one person thinking they were being serious?
Zanza, I bet if you were the first one to post in this thread you would've reacted just as Magikot did. You're riding a wave of unexperienced hindsight and claiming wisdom.
I thought it was another post in the Houdini thread until I saw who the poster was. I don't "get" anything .