I think the fact that he only dates models who are 24 or younger, dumping them when they age out, has a lot to do with that.
I was in the used record/DVD store this weekend, and they had a grouped shelf of Tom Hanks movies. It’s quite the contrast putting Bachelor Party and Big next to Greyhound and News of the World. Are they even the same person?
You never see the change from day to day.
Something that made me feel old is learning that in the first season of Full House, Danny has a 30th birthday and Bob Saget was, IIRC, only 31.
I can still remember the first time I saw Jean Stapleton when she was being herself, rather than Edith. I think it was on some awards show, the Emmys or something like that. It was hard for me to believe it was the same person. She was dressed more attractively, her hairstyle was more flattering, and her voice was completely different. My parents had to assure me that yes, it was really Edith Bunker. She just seemed like an entirely different person.
This picture of Jean, with Alice Cooper at a 1973 charity gala, just blows me away.
The Archie and Edith characters were both meant to represent well-worn people with plenty of hard knocks under their belts. As such, lots more mileage than age. But also old-fashioned for their age. IOW in many ways the characters resembled their parents more than their contemporaries.
O’Connor and Stapleton did a great job of putting on that rode hard put away wet mid-century workin’ class persona.
One of the things about younger women especially looking older back in the 1950s and even into the 1960s was they all had common short-coiffed hair cut at a 45º angle. And ‘older’ women (40+, for example) had that styled, stiff helmet hair.
A relative of mine from that era must’ve gone through a can of aquanet every week. I was at some sort of event and she walked past me and a few other people (that didn’t know her). One of them commented that she has the type of hair that would survive a war unscathed. The other pulled out a lighter, lit it and said ‘wanna bet’.
Archie and Edith were also based on their British counterparts, so already had a style to emulate.
My father would have been 120 last year. This one blows my mind.
The kids born to teenaged moms who got all hot and bothered after their n’th viewing of Titanic in 1997 have been voting and drinking legally for half a decade now.
In 2004, the band Bowling for Soup had a sort-of novelty hit song called 1985. Obviously, the song is about pop culture from 1985. Today is farther away from the song than the song was from 1985. So, if I listen to the song, am I nostalgic for nostalgia?
If you somehow transcribe it to vinyl, you can be nostalgic for nostalgia about nostalgia.
He lived through half of American history and I’ve lived through a third of American history. That’s why “within living memory” is so powerful a concept.
I think the reigns of Queens Victoria and Elizabeth II span more than half of U.S. history. Not their lifespans; just actual time as monarchs.
President John Tyler’s last living grandson died this year.
David Mitchell is younger than me.
So is Wil Wheaton.