Elderism #35
Saturday, December 27th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »That broth-like pall in the air up near Madison Avenue and 77th? Those downturned moustaches on the waiters in Times Square? All is in hommage to the late, great Eartha Kitt--she who Orson Welles famously proclaimed "the most exciting woman alive," ...
Elderism #34
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Michael Riedel's column in the New York Post today is about 86 year-old Broadway titan James M. Nederlander Sr.--whose bright red vest either says, "Merry Christmas" or "I am a riverboat gambler." Although the producer of "Annie," "Nine," Noises Off," et al. ...
Elderism #33
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Jim Brown, the running back for the NFL Cleveland Browns from 1957 to 1965 who never missed a game, is 72 now. He tells Esquire: "I'm not a Martin Luther King and a Gandhi motherfucker. I don't know what they were talking ...
Elderism #32
Sunday, December 21st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »From Charles Taylor's review of Bruce Jay Friedman's new book, "Three Balconies" in today's New York Times Book Review: "A friend of mine had an uncle who, years after surviving a concentration camp, would respond to every petty inconvenience and ...
Elderism #31
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »In the current issue of Esquire, composer Philip Glass--who doesn't like the word "minimalist" applied to his music, but who cops to writing "music with repetitive structures"--talks about how experience trumps expectation: "People always ask, 'Is it what you thought it ...
Elderism #30
Monday, December 8th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »A lot of my gay friends hate Clint Eastwood because of his treatment of same-sexers in Mystic River. Indeed, some of Eastwood's post-Unforgiven career moves have seemed a little...reckless, as Gail Sheehy points out in her interview with Eastwood in ...
Elderism #29
Friday, December 5th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »I've always loved the seeming disparity between the highly stylized, incantatory prose of Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison and her more spontaneous public persona. A friend of mine who was a colleague of Morrison's in the English department at Princeton ...
How I Think Woody Allen Will Spend His 73rd Birthday Today
Monday, December 1st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »-Lamenting that the wealth of cholesterol in birthday cake is like a parka around your heart -Listening to the Jupiter Symphony while vacuuming his bookshelves -Editing a scene in which Scarlett Johansen tells him her feelings towards him are "complicated" -Encouraging a small ...
Elderism #28
Sunday, November 23rd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Management guru Tom Peters--he's the guy who co-wrote In Search of Excellence back in the 80's--was interviewed by the Financial Times this weekend. He had this to say on the topic of accomplishment: "Are you throwing enough spaghetti at the wall ...
