Life Done Right™

Mimi Weddell started acting at the age of 65 after her husband died so please, no more of your lame excuses about how you’re too old to do something that you’ve always dreamed about doing but never had the courage to try. In fact, why not audition for this print ad!
Synopsis: Hats Off, a feature-length […]

Psssst! Wanna live longer? Here’s the magic formula: abstain “from smoking, weight management, blood pressure control, regular exercise and avoiding diabetes.” That’s it. So stop going to Dunkin Donuts, quit having that “social” cigarette, avoid screaming at every driver who cuts you off, play tennis instead of golf, and step on the scale to […]

Harrison Ford is back as Indiana Jones. Harrison is 65-years-old and still swinging from his lasso to save the world from Nazi enemies. I guess it sure beats dangling in a leather mask wearing a pair of high heels and turning blue like a certain professor in the news lately. Life. It’s all about choice, […]

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When you climb over the sixty barrier, a funny thing happens: people start to treat you like a trophy on the shelf and for some reason like to add to your collection. Vacheron Constantin, the maker of expensive watches, threw a little party last night for legendary record producer Clive Davis for his […]

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 […]

Film director Francis Ford Coppola finally got off his vineyard ass and directed a new movie called Youth Without Youth. Daily Variety says the story is about “an elderly professor whose miraculous return to youth offers the chance to complete his magnum opus and rediscover lost love.” Sounds inviting. The trailer offers up some Asian […]

Author J.K. Rowling announced at a reading of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows at Carnegie Hall in New York that Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts School, is gay. Albus was born in 1881, so maybe that constitutes a Guinness book record for longest fictional headmaster who remained in the closet before being […]

Check out this cover image of the New York Times Sunday Magazine! The story: “Are we prepared for many more people living to 100 and beyond - for parent-child dynamics, sibling rivalries and other relationships that go on and on and on?” Date: February 23, 2004. It’s still a relevant question that is only going […]

He’s known as the minister of fitness and his name is Harry Schneider. If you walk into his gym, though, leave your narcissistic behavior behind, because his brand of fitness is all about bringing families together. Harry is “interested in bringing faith, encouragement and support as part of a fitness regime.” Harry nabbed the Super […]

Scott Schuman, the Sartorialist fashion photographer, posted two photos that demonstrate the adage, dance it or cut it off. He stumbled into a church playing accordion jazz music and found lots of seniors dancing as if they were at their Jr. prom. Ah Italy, our toe taps for you!
Check out the dancers

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Some folks like to clean the gutters…others like to pick out pumpkins. Cathie Jung, 74, likes to wears tight-fitting corsets in order to break the record for the world’s smallest waist at 15 inches. Aim high, kiddies, the tabloids await your idiocy with pleasure!
The 70-year-old with the world’s smallest waist - just 15 […]

Tomoji Tanabe was born on September 18, 1895. He’s still alive and just celebrated his 112th birthday. He’s also from Japan. So if you have plans to live beyond your allotted time, we suggest you move to Japan and start downsizing those meals by eating sushi and living in a cramped Tokyo apartment that forces […]

Older women love hearing how they don’t “look their age.” Why, with all that plastic surgery and collagen injections, why should you. The ability to live longer though brings with it a complicated set of questions that need to be addressed. The facts about how much longer you are going to live offer a good […]

They really don’t make ‘em the way they used to anymore…not like Luciano Pavarotti. He died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 71. His body might be forgotten, but not his voice.
Pavarotti dead at 71

Living to 100 entitles you to pretty much do as you please. If life hasn’t killed you already, then you were either born with incredible genes or mother nature has played Rip Van Winkle instead of the grim reaper. Here’s one centenarian who likes to flick her life butts on the ash pile of her […]

The Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute website features a fascinating glimpse into the biographies of several of their members. They call it “The Face of Experience.” How wonderful to see such an experienced collection of individuals who have devoted their lives to understanding the human mind and have worked to make so many peoples’ lives […]

Hollywood has been trying to make The Curious Case of Benjamin Button for years. It finally went into production with Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett starring with David Fincher directing. It’s the story of a 50-year-old man who begins to age backwards and freaks out when he falls in love with 30-year-old Cate on his […]

Socialite Brooke Astor died of pneumonia; she was 105. After you’re done changing out of your grass-stained pants, consider this: “At night — almost every night, even into her 90s — she could be found surrounded by crystal and caviar, done up in her designer dresses and magnificent jewels, seated to the right of the […]

Most cities, especially around tourist hot spots, feature street vendors hustling everything from knock-off purses to umbrellas to socks to whatever the hell sells at a discount bargain. Mexico City is “plagued” with street vendors who make navigating the streets an exercise that feels more like a pro football tryout than a leisurely stroll on […]

A superhero by nature performs without much choice in whether she wants to place her life in jeopardy or not. Instinct rules the mind and propels the body into action against the badass villains. In the case of a Vietnamese grandmother, reduced “school dinner services and cutting down on food portions” tipped the scales of […]