Life Done Right™

Writers make up all kinds of stories that usually have some factual basis. The rule of thumb is that if you can think it up, then it’s probably happened somewhere or will shortly. I’m not sure anyone would have come up with this scenario though. A kid’s mother dies so he moves in with an [...]

Presidential candidate John McCain has a perception problem: people, at least some people, think he’s too old to run. Facts: McCain is 71; he’s suffered from skin cancer. Have you ever studied photos of presidents before they took office with photos of when they left office? The job of being president is stressful, man. [...]

Did you require a night light as a kid? Did the dark frighten you so bad that falling asleep seemed more like an episode of the Twilight Zone instead of a Disney nursery rhyme? Since fear is hard-wired into our emotional system (don’t get all academic on me), it’s no surprise that our experience of [...]

Journalist-slash-gossip-girl Nikki Finke thinks Hollywood studios are closer to nursing homes than Animal Houses filled with buffed and toned 20-year-olds looking to hook up with anyone promising to take their virginal career to the next level. She specifically says, “More and more executive suites are filled with over-fifty and over-sixty fogies, all aging, overcompensated, entrenched [...]

Vitamin Water resorts to a football metaphor to hustle their product to a “we’re not sure” demographic. The ghosts of gridiron greats are summoned by “some weird old guy” in order to energize a football player to the Power and the Glory. Does it work for you or is it one more crappy commercial that [...]

How’s your geography? Think you could locate Kolkata on the world map? Have any clue, even, which country claims this city as its own? Try West Bengal. Kolkata is in the news because an older couple (60 and 55) were riding a bus and couldn’t jump off it while it was moving like most younger [...]

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So much for working past 65. Rosie O’Donnell had words for Barbara Walters: “”Barbara Walters is almost twice my age. At some point it becomes necessary to step back. Everyone has to go. Going is part of the gig.” I’m kinda shocked. Barbara certainly offers up her share of opinions and more [...]

Little jerk: “Do you worry you might die in office?” seeing how, if elected, you would be older than Ronald Reagan.
Presidential hopeful John McCain goes on to answer this begging question by referring to his 95-year-old mother’s genes, stating he’s “very active” and emphasizing he runs 24/7. Can’t you just hear Carrie Bradshaw of [...]

The bullies on the playground like to taunt their underdogs with barks more often worse than their bite. Name calling is probably as old as the Greeks and Romans. The idea of belittling your competition in order to get ahead yourself leads to a simple problem: which names inflict the most damage. Language, after all, [...]

Hollywood’s gossipnator Nikki Finke had this to say about Arnold Schwarzenegger reprising his role as the Terminator: “If he was, aging Arnold could only be cast in the role of a Terminator retiree sitting in front of the TV in a Barcalounger stuffing himself with pretzels and beer.”
Gosh, Nikki, Arnold’s a little more [...]

American Idol pop singer Kelly Clarkson recently dissed record producer Clive Davis. He told her she had no number one hits on her new album that she wrote; she told him to mind his own business. The feud escalated to the gossip pages and bad karma has found its way into Clarkson’s life. But you [...]

Actress Glenn Close expressed her opinion on the paucity of good roles for actresses over the age of ingenue: “I can’t complain. I think older women are very hard to write for. I really do, I mean culturally speaking. At a certain age you’re supposed to be in the back room, rocking the grandchildren.”
Hey, [...]

It all started with The Bachelor…this business of finding love in all the wrong virtual places. NBC has their own version of this nonsense called Age of Love. The hook for the show this time around is will the bachelor pick a woman in her 20’s or 40’s. Does age matter? This is high drama [...]

There’s a lot of blather in the article below about how TV has become the hot spot for older actresses not finding work in film because of their age. The cause appears to be The Graduate syndrome: young men falling for older women. The modern interpretation of this phenomenon is MILF. So the next time [...]

Mel Brooks is bringing Young Frankenstein to Broadway. Unfortunately, Cloris Leachman, one of the original cast members of the movie, won’t be invited to appear on stage. Why? Too old, according to Mel Brooks. Cloris is 81. So Cloris challenged him to go three rounds in a boxing ring. You hear that, Las Vegas, we [...]

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Getting laid off these days means sharing your misery with Flickr fans who have come to know you through your words and photos. The ability to add some background story to an image has turned Flickr into more than just a photo dumping site; it has created a social network for mediating a [...]

Watching Paul Abdul on American Idol can sometimes be a strange experience. Her behavior just doesn’t smack of normalcy. Something in the gut says, I can’t put my finger on it, but she’s just not acting the way normal people do. Well, there seems to be some health issues involved. Good for her she’s able [...]

Good news from Germany! Seniors are being hired despite many of them taking early retirement from short-sighted employers. They are known as Silver Workers. Who cares what they’re called, as long as there’s a bathroom nearby, I’m sure most of them will find contentment returning to their old jobs. When all you’ve done is work [...]

Age discrimination may seem like a land far, far away, but according to a recent study, it’s not only real, it’s bleak. Here’s one depressing fact: “Younger workers were about 40 percent more likely to be called in for job interviews than were candidates 50 or older.” If you can play the moracas, I’ll play [...]

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Hopefully you woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. If you did, haul your ass-mind over to A VC and plunge into the debate about whether anyone over 30 doesn’t qualify as an entrepreneur, at least in Silicon Valley. Is there some mental barrier that prevents “older” people from starting [...]