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Roctogenarians late in life debuts, comebacks, and triumphs
"Eighty has been the new sixty for about twenty years now. In fact, there have always been late-in-life achievers, those who declined to go into decline just because they were eligible for social security. Journalist, humorist, and history buff Mo Rocca and coauthor Jonathan Greenberg introduce...
| Main Authors: | Rocca, Mo (Author), Greenberg, Jonathan (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
2024.
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Table of Contents:
- Fast-food legends: Colonel Sanders and Clara Peller
- Old money: Warren Buffett
- Like fine wine: Mike Grgich (and other things in your kitchen that have no expiration date)
- Old country: Willie Nelson
- The players: Estelle Getty, Rita Moreno, and Morgan Freeman
- Old spice: Sophia Loren
- Playing for herself: Ruth Slenczynska
- Old chestnut: Rockin' around the Christmas tree
- The writers: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Frank McCourt, and Peter Mark Roget
- The readers
- Old testament: Methuselah
- The changemaker: Mary Church Terrell (and other late-in-life activists)
- Old navy: Jimmy Carter
- Old soldiers never die, they just reenlist: Samuel Whittemore, John L. Burns, and Yoda
- Old glory: "The Star Spangled Banner"
- It could happen to you: Third act personal milestones : Marriage: Carol Channing & Harry Kullijian, Suzanne Pleshette & Tom Poston ; Parenthood: Mr Pickles the tortoise and Sarah ; Coming out: Kenneth Felts
- Old yeller: Ethel Merman
- The widows: Madame Clicquot, Mary Delany, and Myrlie Evers-Williams
- Old news: Mike Wallace
- Turning loss into gain: Henri Matisse, Jorge Luis Borges, and Sam & Betsey Farber
- Old English: Judi Dench
- Ageless Architects: Frank Lloyd Wright, I. M. Pei, and Yasmeen Lari
- Old town: St. Augustine, Florida
- No signs of slowing down: Ed Shadle
- Old ironsides: Jack LaLanne
- A trifecta of horse stories: Michael Blowen and old friends retirement home, Snowman the show jumper, and John Henry the thoroughbred
- Old faithful: Sister Jean
- Founding fathers of comedy: Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks, and Norman Lear (and the Norman Lear Players )
- Old jokes: Eddy Goldfarb
- Unfinished business: Diana Nyad and Brian May
- Old smoky: Tootsie Tomanetz
- It's about time: Tyrus Wong, Carmen Herrera, and John Goodenough
- Old-fashioned: Ann Roth
- Misspent old age: Rudy Giuliani, Phil Spector, John Tyler, and Ezra Pound
- Old fogey: John Fogerty
- An old story: Ebenezer Scrooge
- An appreciation: Maria Luisa Rocca.