Word: nonagenarians
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...many comedians are senior to Ronald Reagan. Besides, says George Burns, "we fellows in show biz have to stick together." Reagan's 90-second videotaped routine will kick off a one-hour CBS special titled Kraft Salutes George Burns' 90th Birthday, to be broadcast next week. Did the nonagenarian jokester have any pointers for the Great Communicator? Explains Burns: "I don't tell him what to do, and he doesn't tell me how to sing the Red Rose Rag." Also doing their schtik are Milton Berle, Bill Cosby, Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, Walter Matthau and Billy Crystal. Burns will...
...Hungarian, Martin Hensler, and Gielgud's letters become saturated with a new, blissful sense of mutual dependence. It makes for a bitter end when, after Gielgud has seen most of his friends die, Hensler succumbs to a "really horrendous" battle with cancer. After the richest of lives, the nonagenarian's final letter movingly depicts the ravages of age: "Everything is such an effort and I have to be helped around still on my two wretched sticks ? I crawl about from one room to another and try not to let me down." His long life's journey is dazzling...
...inhabitants have gone to watch a game on the community screen. The scale of the Super Bowl happening is staggering. It has commanded the largest audience ever for a single sporting event televised in the U.S. ... One of every three Americans--male and female, newborn to nonagenarian--will see at least some of the game. --TIME...
...Havana. Then, in his late 80s, he formed the Buena Vista Social Club with a gaggle of other aging all-stars. The eponymous album and motion picture reintroduced much of the world to Cuban music and made the charismatic Segundo perhaps the most recognizable beardless Cuban alive. The gregarious nonagenarian reveled in his stardom: he played for the Pope, surrounded himself with women and transported millions of listeners to a simpler, more romantic era with his rich baritone. He was, as Buena Vista Social Club collaborator Ry Cooder put it, "the last of the best." --By Nathan Thornburgh
...explain how one of the world's most recognizable people could remain incognito all these years, or why he'd want to. But let's assume for a second that the Big E is still around. Why, this very evening, perhaps in Argentina at a reunion of nonagenarian Nazis, or in Bin Laden's cave, or deep in Area 51, some thoughtful soul will stick 68 candles into a Twinkie and lead a chorus of "Happy Birthday, Dear Elvis." You can join in from afar...