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...entire Sun Belt populated by a new cadre of semi-retirees, fit and healthy, working part time from their homes while enjoying the fruits of well-invested savings and well-funded pension plans. That's what the management is counting on at the headquarters of the Del Webb Corp. in Phoenix, Ariz., developers of the Sun City chain of retirement communities. Del Webb executives are quivering in anticipation of a flood of boomers pouring into the retirement-home market. LeRoy Hanneman, 54, Del Webb's CEO, stands on a hill from which he can see his company's future...
...says, to provide homes for those few fortunate enough and farsighted enough to have developed sufficient skills, harbored appropriate attitudes and, probably most important, put away enough money for a retirement that is going to take on a shape we've never seen before. Based on its research, Del Webb already outfits its new houses with high-capacity wiring for home offices and offers options such as home exercise rooms. Integrated computer, security and entertainment systems will be the next must-haves in boomer retirement housing...
...fact, the Del Webb version of the future sounds pretty nice, the kind of fantasy that most of us have imagined at one time or another, and that, if everything breaks exactly right, a few of us will certainly experience: fit, healthy and well off, we will enjoy all those things--exotic travel, continuing education, 36 holes a day--that we could neither afford nor find the time for while we were raising our families. Professionally, we'll be called upon as part-time consultants by younger workers eager for the wisdom born of experience, or we will generously donate...
...even if we're living the high life in Maple Boomer Retirement Ridge Heaven, don't expect us to mellow much, to lessen our demands, our insistent wish that the world pay attention to us, us, us!!! In a Del Webb survey of boomer attitudes, respondents said their greatest contribution in retirement will include "demanding funding for medical research." The red ribbon for AIDS and the pink ribbon of breast cancer will be replaced by gray ribbons of gerontology...
...embassy demonstration in Yemen, a Marine colonel (Samuel L. Jackson) orders his men to shoot at the demonstrators; 83 Yemenis are killed. At the colonel's court martial, his attorney (Tommy Lee Jones) cries bureaucratic cover-up--which the script, from a story by former Navy Secretary James Webb, sees as more damning than the massacre of civilians. The issues demand nuance, not the rhetorical bombast offered in this muddle. It has something to offend every political sensibility but little to offer in thoughtful drama...