Harrison Ford is 65. Kim Catrell’s character on Sex In The City, Samantha Jones, is somewhere on the wrong side of 50. What on earth do both of them have in common? They both want to let us know that ‘they still got it’, and they are going to flaunt it.
The two new hottest movie releases coming up are Raiders of the Lost Ark and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Sex In The City: The Movie. Both will be multi-million dollar box office hits, and it will be precisely to see if ‘Indiana’ is just as good as he was, and to confirm that Samantha is always as could as she was.
But what is it with us human beings and our search for the fountain of youth. Some of us don’t care, some of us care a little bit, and some of us care a hell of a lot. Harrison Ford, supposedly, was going through almost a mid life crisis at 65 in preparation for the role. Whereas, the temptress, Samantha, is clearly seeing if anyone is up to her standards, as she knows she is looking and feeling incredibly good.
Sean Connery has always seen himself as ‘a bit of alright’, and who can ever forget Jack Palance’s one armed pushups at the Academy Awards. Joan Collins has been the eternal sex kitten, as has Sophia Loren. My mother still goes weak at the knees for Robert Redford, who is sniffing very close to 70, if not over it.
It’s true, we don’t want to ’stop working at 65′, or be told that just because we’re 79, it’s time to sit in the chair and have the rug laid over our arthritic legs. Ronald Reagan was in his late 60’s when he went for the top job in the US, and now sprightly John McCain wants to be the oldest President on Inauguration Day at 72. The Thai Prime Minister, Samak Sundaravej is 73 and Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe is 84. Even Pope Benedict XVI was 78 when he was elected Pope in 2005, one of the oldest Pontiffs elected in a very long time.
Is 60 the new 40? Is 90 the new retirement age? People are living longer, and from what I am seeing, age is not a limit to doing anything. Whereas years ago, an 80 year old still working was seen as ‘an amazing inspiration’ and almost a freakshow. But I haven’t heard too many people seriously throwing around the suggestion that John McCain is just too damn old! He was asked once what he would do if someone told him he was too old to be running for President, and he said “I’d punch them in the nose”. That’s very ‘old grandpa fighter’, but it’s again not only just saying that one is still physically and mentally fit to do the job, but with a good dose of virility and sexual gumption.
It will remain to be seen whether Harrison Ford can pull it off as the action hero, or whether the only person turned on by his antics is his partner, Calista Flockhart, who is a baby at…43.
Enjoy your day…I’m off to stand in front of a mirror and flex.
May 21, 2008
Raiders of a lost youth.
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Harrison Ford is 65. Kim Catrell’s character on Sex In The City, Samantha Jones, is somewhere on the wrong side of 50. What on earth do both of them have in common? They both want to let us know that ‘they still got it’, and they are going to flaunt it.
The two new hottest movie releases coming up are Raiders of the Lost Ark and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Sex In The City: The Movie. Both will be multi-million dollar box office hits, and it will be precisely to see if ‘Indiana’ is just as good as he was, and to confirm that Samantha is always as could as she was.
But what is it with us human beings and our search for the fountain of youth. Some of us don’t care, some of us care a little bit, and some of us care a hell of a lot. Harrison Ford, supposedly, was going through almost a mid life crisis at 65 in preparation for the role. Whereas, the temptress, Samantha, is clearly seeing if anyone is up to her standards, as she knows she is looking and feeling incredibly good.
Sean Connery has always seen himself as ‘a bit of alright’, and who can ever forget Jack Palance’s one armed pushups at the Academy Awards. Joan Collins has been the eternal sex kitten, as has Sophia Loren. My mother still goes weak at the knees for Robert Redford, who is sniffing very close to 70, if not over it.
It’s true, we don’t want to ’stop working at 65′, or be told that just because we’re 79, it’s time to sit in the chair and have the rug laid over our arthritic legs. Ronald Reagan was in his late 60’s when he went for the top job in the US, and now sprightly John McCain wants to be the oldest President on Inauguration Day at 72. The Thai Prime Minister, Samak Sundaravej is 73 and Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe is 84. Even Pope Benedict XVI was 78 when he was elected Pope in 2005, one of the oldest Pontiffs elected in a very long time.
Is 60 the new 40? Is 90 the new retirement age? People are living longer, and from what I am seeing, age is not a limit to doing anything. Whereas years ago, an 80 year old still working was seen as ‘an amazing inspiration’ and almost a freakshow. But I haven’t heard too many people seriously throwing around the suggestion that John McCain is just too damn old! He was asked once what he would do if someone told him he was too old to be running for President, and he said “I’d punch them in the nose”. That’s very ‘old grandpa fighter’, but it’s again not only just saying that one is still physically and mentally fit to do the job, but with a good dose of virility and sexual gumption.
It will remain to be seen whether Harrison Ford can pull it off as the action hero, or whether the only person turned on by his antics is his partner, Calista Flockhart, who is a baby at…43.
Enjoy your day…I’m off to stand in front of a mirror and flex.