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...I'm ashamed to be tired. look at these energetic and achieving old coots:
wow! browsing Slate's "80 over 80" (list of powerful/influential people who are over 80), here's some that stood out to me:
http://www.slate.com/id/2199926/?y=1
James Lipton is 81 ?! he looks great! (as does Mike Wallace, who is 90) ...and Alan Greenspan is only 82? he looks 100! Mel Brooks looks way older than 82, too.
John Bennett Fenn, who came up with life-saving AIDS medication in the 1990s and won the Nobel Prize for chemistry at the age of 85 (still working in the lab at 91)
bluesman Pinetop Perkins, still playing gigs at 95 years old.
Cloris Leachman ("Frau Bleucher" from Young Frankenstein), now on "Dancing with the Stars" at 82.
I.M. Pei, 91, fascinating architect who is still designing.
Andrew Wyeth, painter, 91, still alive.
most corrupt? probably Carl Lindner, 89 yrs.
probably most bitter? Barron Hilton, 80, who sold his hotels off and is giving 97% of his fortune to his charity.
most ridiculously media-controlling? Sumner Redstone.
largest beetle collection: David Rockefeller Sr, 93.
and i bet it pisses off Edward Albee, 80, to share the same "writer" grouping with Mary Higgins Clark (also 80, and looking good).
one of my faves: Paul Newman, 83. and Stan Lee, 85.
And holy crap, when was Virgin Comics created? I love you, Sir Richard. http://www.virgincomics.com/pages/Aboutus.aspx?SQS=
"Virgin Comics is a character entertainment company creating original stories and epic myths for worldwide audiences. The company was founded in November 2005 by Sir Richard Branson and Virgin Enterprises Ltd., alongside author Deepak Chopra, filmmaker Shekhar Kapur and entrepreneurs Sharad Devarajan, Gotham Chopra and Suresh Seetharaman.
Virgin is developing new stories with acclaimed filmmakers, actors and musicians including John Woo, Guy Ritchie, Terry Gilliam, Dave Stewart, Ed Burns, Nicolas Cage, Duran Duran, Sachin Tendulkar and others. Feature films based on Virgin Comics’ characters are also in the works, including an animated feature The Secrets of the Seven Sounds, Guy Ritchie's Gamkeeper (with Warner Bros and producer Joel Silver) and Virulents with FOX, directed by John Moore (The Omen, Max Payne). Virgin Comics also formed a joint venture with NBC-Universal to create new science fiction properties for graphic novels and television with the SCIFI Channel. The first title in this series, The Stranded, premiered in January 2008."
and he gave Jenna Jameson her own comic. weird.
wow! browsing Slate's "80 over 80" (list of powerful/influential people who are over 80), here's some that stood out to me:
http://www.slate.com/id/2199926/?y=1
James Lipton is 81 ?! he looks great! (as does Mike Wallace, who is 90) ...and Alan Greenspan is only 82? he looks 100! Mel Brooks looks way older than 82, too.
John Bennett Fenn, who came up with life-saving AIDS medication in the 1990s and won the Nobel Prize for chemistry at the age of 85 (still working in the lab at 91)
bluesman Pinetop Perkins, still playing gigs at 95 years old.
Cloris Leachman ("Frau Bleucher" from Young Frankenstein), now on "Dancing with the Stars" at 82.
I.M. Pei, 91, fascinating architect who is still designing.
Andrew Wyeth, painter, 91, still alive.
most corrupt? probably Carl Lindner, 89 yrs.
probably most bitter? Barron Hilton, 80, who sold his hotels off and is giving 97% of his fortune to his charity.
most ridiculously media-controlling? Sumner Redstone.
largest beetle collection: David Rockefeller Sr, 93.
and i bet it pisses off Edward Albee, 80, to share the same "writer" grouping with Mary Higgins Clark (also 80, and looking good).
one of my faves: Paul Newman, 83. and Stan Lee, 85.
And holy crap, when was Virgin Comics created? I love you, Sir Richard. http://www.virgincomics.com/pages/Aboutus.aspx?SQS=
"Virgin Comics is a character entertainment company creating original stories and epic myths for worldwide audiences. The company was founded in November 2005 by Sir Richard Branson and Virgin Enterprises Ltd., alongside author Deepak Chopra, filmmaker Shekhar Kapur and entrepreneurs Sharad Devarajan, Gotham Chopra and Suresh Seetharaman.
Virgin is developing new stories with acclaimed filmmakers, actors and musicians including John Woo, Guy Ritchie, Terry Gilliam, Dave Stewart, Ed Burns, Nicolas Cage, Duran Duran, Sachin Tendulkar and others. Feature films based on Virgin Comics’ characters are also in the works, including an animated feature The Secrets of the Seven Sounds, Guy Ritchie's Gamkeeper (with Warner Bros and producer Joel Silver) and Virulents with FOX, directed by John Moore (The Omen, Max Payne). Virgin Comics also formed a joint venture with NBC-Universal to create new science fiction properties for graphic novels and television with the SCIFI Channel. The first title in this series, The Stranded, premiered in January 2008."
and he gave Jenna Jameson her own comic. weird.
