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Forget dreaming about that acting career that never materialized after high school or college. A New York casting agency, Grant Wilfrey, needs grey-haired men for Julie and Julia starring Amy Adams and Meryl Streep. C’mon, baby, show us your chops!!
Searching for Distinguished Grey haired caucasion men, must be 5′10 or shorter age 40-60 yrs old, […]

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 […]

Singapore thinks they have this whole disparity between those in the workforce and those retiring thing figured out: get seniors to take classes at SIM University in order to keep them in the workforce longer. One retired teacher said, “Why sit at home when I can learn new things every day.” Indeed! Why sit around […]

For those of you who vote Republican because somehow you have bought the trickle down argument that Republican policies create more wealth, you might be interested to know that average incomes fell for most since Bush took office. You can go on believing the middle class is getting richer, but in reality it’s still the […]

Risk can be your best friend when an idea so consumes your soul that you can’t imagine living one more moment without gambling your life away to prove you are right…right as in my passion will soon be your passion…I just know it, I feel it, or as they sing in A Chorus Line, “gimme […]

Marc Andreessen, the guy who developed the Netscape web browser back in the early days of the internet, must be feeling his age because he has a blog entry on the relationship between age and productivity. This was a hot topic a couple of months ago (see below). But like any good scientist, Marc did […]

Everyone knows Baby Boomers will not go gently into the night like the Depression era seniors. Unemployment usually tests the mettle of anyone’s identity. When the job doesn’t come knocking on your door, then it’s time to hit the road, jack…literally. Baby Boomers who sat at a desk for most of their lives are discovering […]

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 […]

Pity the man who finds himself so enamored with working that he fails to recognize the date when he’s supposed to retire. He just keeps work work working and before he knows it, he’s out of time and hopefully has a will that makes his grandkids life a piece of heaven by comparison.
Why 70 Is […]

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, […]

Actress Sylvia Kristel, the sensual star of the soft porn classic, Emmanuelle, recently offered up some advice for her fellow actresses: “Don’t Get Old! You’re much better off as a love goddess to die around the age of 40.” Hey, sounds like the plot of a good retirement movie. Famous porn actress fakes her death […]

In the near future, not only will women NOT need men to reproduce, they will have little use for them as cash providers as well. You see, women love language and language is the key to a good education, so as they scale the corporate ladder, their domination will be complete in record time. Whether […]

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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 […]

Plain and simple: the CDC needs to terminate the employment of Robert Cooksey, the CDC “expert” (we have to put that in quotes) on tuberculosis, who failed to warn his own son-in-law that his strain of tuberculosis was not only deadly to himself but potentially anyone he encountered. It’s criminal that this man, paid by […]

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 […]

One thing is for sure: globalization is lowering the standard of living for younger men in the United States, according recent research. The whole notion of the next generation doing better financially than the previous generation is no longer a gimme. So for all you grandparents out there, brace yourself, the “requests” for a helping […]

The rush to send U.S. manufacturing jobs abroad is a devil’s deal that totally sells out our country’s competitive advantage in the global marketplace. Companies have been seduced by the low cost of labor in developing countries, but they are missing the big picture: they are transferring their intellectual property for free. Once developing nations […]

Actor Kevin Costner joins Julia Iglesias in the Grandpa Dad’s Club. Costner sired a baby boy with his 33-year-old wife; he’s 52. But hey, don’t let that stop you old farts from being the father you never were to your older kids. There’s still time to bring home the baby without throwing out your […]

Never, ever give up on your dream. If you want it bad enough, you can still get it, even if you’re 97-years-old like Mae Laborde. Mae now has a career in Hollywood playing herself basically, but what comes through is a lifetime of character. You can’t buy that at your local CVS!
No Fading Star: Actress […]