Well, that is not true. I'm shooting film my whole life (my father was a photographer and we had several cameras at home). I use digital for about 95% of my pictures, but I have more analog than digital cameras, all of them are in perfect shape and I use them regularly. My favourite BW film is Kodak Tri-X [0], which is still being produced. I'm also using Kodak Ektar, Portra and still have few rolls of Kodak E100, although that one is not in production anymore.
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodak_Tri-X