Word: codgerization
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Burgess Meredith, Hollywood's favorite codger, is dead at 89. Meredith appeared in almost 100 films over seven decades, from Winterset in 1936 to Grumpier Old Men. But it was after Rocky in 1976 that his image became indelible: the rasps in his throat, the twinkles in his eye are so familiar that the young, unweathered Meredith is barely recognizable...
...Stefanie Powers, 51, returned last week in Hart to Hart: Home Is Where the Hart Is, an NBC movie based on their decade-old series about high-living husband-and-wife detectives. George C. Scott and Louis Gossett Jr. are among the stars who will join the old-codger crime-fighting brigade later this spring. Add to these such veteran TV sleuths as Angela Lansbury in Murder, She Wrote, Andy Griffith in Matlock and Peter Falk in occasional Columbo movies, and you've got enough votes to block Clinton's Medicare reforms...
Walter Matthau in Dennis the Menace: "I'm an old codger named Mr. Wilson, and the little blond kid next door drives me nuts. Baby-sitting Dennis is like having to listen to MTV at top volume. But he will foil a thief, retrieve the stolen booty and make me a better human being. G.D. that...
Well, it worked, this story of a cute blond boy (Macaulay Culkin, the onscreen key to Home Alone's popularity), abandoned by his parents, who triumphantly foils a housebreaking criminal and wins the love of the crusty codger who lives next door. (It worked so well that Hughes Xeroxed the plot for Dennis the Menace.) It worked, Hughes believes, because "successful movies tend to reflect the opposite of American life. The more ugly and violent the streets become, the more people want to escape that reality...
...kind of people we are looking for have lots of other alternatives," Hayes says. "We find it difficult to draw Black graduates who are offered double salaries and more exciting jobs than working with some old codger...