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Entertainment for Senior Citizens
 Aging Issues in China to Be Explored in Olympic Blog
by Former Beijing Resident
Jacquelyn Kung completed doctoral work and now
employed by Erickson Retirement Communities
Aug. 13, 2008 - Jacquelyn Kung, an employee of
Erickson Retirement Communities who was born in China, is writing a
daily blog of her on-site observations at the Beijing Olympic games and
a look at aging issues in China.
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Olympic Features with Unique Senior Citizen
Perspective Provided by Suzanne Roberts
Tomorrow she features the Golden Eight, a legendary
rowing team now all over 60
 Aug.
13, 2008 – Senior citizens who enjoy the Olympics may thoroughly enjoy
coverage from a senior’s perspective. The television show Seeking
Solutions with Suzanne, helmed by Emmy Award winner, Suzanne Roberts,
86, has unique features for seniors on the Comcast and CNN television
show targeting older Americans. Tomorrow (Aug. 14) Suzanne introduces
the Golden Eight – rowers all over age 60.
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more...
Extra-Ordinary Interview by 86-Year-Old TV Host of
Holocaust Survivor Gerda Klein
Comcast, CNN show for senior citizens by Suzanne
Roberts begins on Sunday, May 4
 April 21, 2008 - Suzanne Roberts, the 86-year-old
host of the Comcast and CNN television show targeting older Americans,
"Seeking Solutions with Suzanne," will provide a rate glimpse into an
extraordinary story of survival and courage in recognition of Holocaust
Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) with the premiere of "One Survivor
Remembers" -- an interview Roberts taped last month with holocaust
survivor and noted author Gerda Weissmann Klein.
Read more...
Hallmark Channel May Be Overlooked Bright Spot for
Senior Citizens
April features new family shows plus a week of
westerns - but not Roy or Gene
 March 27, 2008 – Senior citizens who find today’s
television programming a little boring, which has to be a bunch, may
want to check out the Hallmark Channel, which features programming from
Hallmark that has warmed the hearts of many of us as we matured. Below
are some of the highlights for April 2008.
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more...
Seniors Did Not Do Too Well at Academy
Awards, But Near Centenarian Honored
All time senior citizen favorites – Gone with Wind,
Sound of Music
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Feb. 25, 2008 – Senior citizens did not do as well
at winning Oscars last night as they have in recent years. In fact, the
older men and women in the motion picture business were almost blanked.
But, there was a touching moment for older viewers as Robert Boyle, who
will be 100 next year, made a fine speech in accepting a special honor
from the Academy. Still, seniors, who prefer movies like Gone with
the Wind and Sound of Music in a recent poll, had to feel a little left out by
the success of violent movies and one about a pregnant teenager.
Read more...
New Florence Henderson Show Interviews Stars Senior
Citizens Know
 Retirement Living show has guests like Carol
Burnet, Bob Newhart
Jan. 11, 2008 – Tired of Paris Hilton and the hoard
of media stars you never heard of? Check out the Florence Henderson Show
that starts on Thursday, Jan. 17, at 3 p.m. EST on Retirement Living TV
(RLTV). She’ll have people you know, like Carol Burnett, Bob Newhart,
Garry Marshall, Dom DeLuise, Shelley Berman, Betty Garrett, Jason
Alexander, Bob Mackie, Judge Judy and Monty Hall.
Read more....
Hallmark Joins Cable Channels in More Programming
for Seniors, Boomers
Lucy, Cheers and 7th Heaven added with
more Matlock, Touched by Angel
 Nov. 28, 2007 – Although network television has
long focused their programming on young people, a number of cable
channels are increasingly targeting senior citizens and older baby
boomers. The Hallmark Channel today announced it has acquired the rights
to “Cheers,” “I Love Lucy,” and “7th Heaven,” along with
additional episodes of “Matlock” and “Touched by An Angel.”
Read more...
Walter Cronkite Joins Growing List of Contributors
to Retirement Living TV
'Cronkite Commentaries' featuring introduction by
CBS News Anchor Katie Couric premieres November 20
 Nov. 15, 2007 - Retirement Living TV (RLTV), the
first network dedicated to people 55+, today announced its association
with the highly-respected icon of American journalism, Walter Cronkite.
His weekly editorials will air on Daily Cafe, a live two-hour program
anchored daily from Washington, DC, and hosted by former CNN anchors
Felicia Taylor and Bobbie Battista.
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more...
Older Americans Have Least Sympathy for Paris Hilton
Hilton, Spears, Lohan, Richie all get more sympathy
from the young
 June 6, 2007 – Older Americans – boomers and senior
citizens age 55 and older – are less sympathetic to the problems of
Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, and Nicole Richie than are
younger adults. The Gallup News Service analysis says Americans are
widely unsympathetic to all four women they dub the “Spoiled Brat Pack.”
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more...
Senior Citizens Showing Little Interest in Oscars,
Even with Senior Contenders
Oldest nominee, Clint Eastwood, could win
for director and best film
 Feb.
22, 2007 – Senior citizens are not very interested in watching the
Academy Awards this year; only 32 percent say they plan to watch,
according to a Harris Poll. The reason, according to 39 percent of these
seniors, is they don't watch many movies, which conflicts with other
surveys that show seniors are big movie fans, they just like to watch at
home. There are, however, some of our own senior citizens nominated for
the prestigious Oscars.
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more...
Julie Christie Stars in New Film about a Couple's
Struggle with Alzheimer's Disease
'Away from Her' tells story of a 50-year marriage and
its memories
 Feb. 14, 2007 - Julie Christie stars as Fiona in
"Away from Her," a movie planned for release on May 4 that will touch
the hearts of many senior citizens. It is described as "a beautifully
moving love story" that deals with memory and its circuitous, enigmatic
paths over the course of a long marriage.
Read more...
PBS to Air Epic Documentary About World War II Next
September
Promotion begin this Wednesday to during two nights
of military history for Veterans Day
 November 7, 2006 - PBS (Public Broadcasting
Service) has announced that it will air the new Ken Burns documentary
series, THE WAR, in September 2007 and begin promoting it this
week (see sidebar below). The seven-part documentary series,
directed and produced by Burns and Lynn Novick, explores the history
and horror of the Second World War from an American perspective by
following the fortunes of so- called ordinary men and women who get
caught up in the greatest cataclysm in human history.
Read more...
Senior Citizen Entertainment
Website Features Original Video Like Sex and the
Classics Targeting Boomers, Seniors
Bea Arthur and Sally
Struthers star but there is much more in TV Land
 August
31, 2006 – As you would assume, as editor and publisher of
SeniorJournal.com, I spend most of every day on the Internet. Today, I
discovered something spectacularly new, innovative and designed for our
audience of senior citizens and older baby boomers. If you have not seen
it, you need to check out TVLand.com. Below is a link to a sample of
their original classic productions – a five minute skit, Sex and the
Classics, a take-off on Sex and the City, but starring Bea
Arthur and Sally Struthers. You'll love it.
Read more...
 More Seniors Go to the Movies as Attendance Drops
Sharply for Others
Senior citizens, however, led trend in
preferring movies at home
May 16, 2006 – Senior citizens – 65 and older –
were trendsetters for preferring to watch movies at home. In a 1995
survey, 73% of seniors said they preferred to watch movies at home,
while the survey found only 69% of all adults preferred home movies. Now,
seniors and all adults surveyed by Pew Research Center are up to a 75%
preference for home movies. Interestingly, however, more seniors are
going out monthly to the movies in 2006 (13%) than they did in 1995
(10%), while the trend is reversed for all ages – just 26% in '06 versus
31% in '95. Read
more...
Documentary on Memory Loss of Aging Hits U.S. Film
Festivals
 Canadian
documentary was a top ten in Canada for 2005
April 27, 2006 – It was a top film in Canada last
year and it is now bouncing around film festivals in the U.S., but it
may be hard for readers of SeniorJournal.com to watch. Memory for
Max, Claire, Ida and Company captures the experiences of residents,
families and caregivers at the Jewish Home for the Aged at the Baycrest
Centre for Geriatric Care in Toronto. It allows viewers to share their
humor, fear and anger about their failing minds.
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more...
Movies for Seniors
Nostalgia Stirred for Seniors by New Film 'Marilyn
Hotchkiss'
 Fulfillment
of 40-year old promise to meet at the ballroom dance school
March 29, 2006 – A movie that's sure to arouse
nostalgia in many a senior citizen opens in theaters on Friday. "Marilyn
Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School" takes us back to the
1960s, when dancing was hand-in-hand – and occasionally, if lucky,
cheek-to-cheek. It's also about unforgotten teenage love of 40 years
earlier. Read
more...
Senior Citizens Have Little Interest in Oscar Winner
but Favor 'Good Night'
Most Americans pushing for "Crash" but seniors not
interested
March 2, 2006 – While much of the world argues
which movie should win the Oscar, senior citizens seem to have little
interest. In a new poll 22 percent of those over age 60 said none of the
nominees should win, and 36 percent said they just were not sure, which
probably indicates a lack of interest. Seniors do join the younger
audience in picking Reese Witherspoon for best actress.
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more...
Anthony Hopkins Stars as Real Senior Hero in
'World's Fastest Indian'
It's been the best film
I've been in, says Hopkins
By Tucker Sutherland,
editor
 Jan. 25, 2006 – It's certainly not often that we
are treated to a movie that features a senior citizen as the hero. Well,
fellow seniors, mark your calendar for February 3, 2006, because a good
one is coming. Anthony Hopkins stars in "The World's Fastest Indian" as
the obsessed and somewhat quirky true-life senior citizen, Burt Munro,
who was determined to set the world speed record on a motorcycle… and
he did at 68.
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more...
TV Show Says Depression Was Lincoln's Driving Force
History channel presents Lincoln on January 16
Dec. 28, 2005 – Senior citizens – many not
strangers to depression – may find hope and encouragement in a special
program by the History Channel that features the "remarkable
accomplishments" of President Abraham Lincoln, despite his life-long
struggle with depression.
Read more...
Rock ‘N’ Roll Turns 50 in July
“Rock Around the Clock” by The Comets first to top
the charts to start era
June 29, 2005 - The first week of July 2005 marks
the 50th anniversary of a monumental moment in popular culture and
memorable moment for millions of senior citizens. It was
in this week in 1955 that "Rock Around The Clock" by Bill Haley & The
Comets was certified as the first-ever rock 'n' roll record to top the
Billboard charts. The record stayed #1 for 8 weeks, eventually sold in
excess of 25 million copies worldwide - and spawned the entire rock era.
Read more...
Frankly, My Dear, It's a Damned
Memorable Line...
Top 100 Memorable Movie Lines in 100 Years Picked by
Experts
GONE WITH THE WIND's 'Frankly, My Dear, I
Don't Give a Damn' Tops AFI's List of 100 Greatest Movie Quotes of All Time
June 22, 2005 - The American Film Institute (AFI)
revealed the top movie quotes of all time in AFI's 100 Years - 100 Movie
Quotes, a three-hour special television event on CBS hosted by actor and
action star Pierce Brosnan with commentary from many of Hollywood's most
celebrated actors and filmmakers. A jury of 1,500 film artists, critics and
historians selected "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn," spoken by Clark
Gable in the celebrated Civil War romance epic, GONE WITH THE WIND as the
most memorable movie quote of all time. These lines will bring back memories
for senior citizens.
Read more...
Sexy Senior Citizen Movie From Brazil Out on DVD
 The Other Side of the Street Gets Good Reviews
for Actors
June 10, 2005 – A sexy movie about senior citizens,
what will they think of next? The Other Side of the Street was
made in Brazil and stars Academy Award nominated actress Fernanda
Montenegro. The movie with senior citizen love scenes had a limited release in February and is now
available on DVD. It has received a number of three-star ratings,
based primarily on the acting.
Read more...
Tony Martin, Cyd Charisse Martin and Doctor Named
Icons of Successful Aging
UCLA Center on Aging, totally supported by
contributions, raises funds
June 8, 2005 - The UCLA Center on Aging raised
nearly $360,000 during its ninth Annual ICON Award event. Held at the
Beverly Hilton Hotel on June 4, more than 400 people gathered to honor
this year's ICON Award recipients, Dr. William Dignam, long time faculty
of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and entertainment
legends Cyd Charisse Martin and Tony Martin.
Read more...
Sites We Like
TV-Now Provides Entertainment and Tools Seniors Will
Appreciate
 Their
50-pack classic movie packages grabbed our attention
By Tucker Sutherland, editor
May 26, 2005 – I had never heard of the Website
until TV-Now.com placed an ad with SeniorJournal.com. What grabbed my
attention was the headline on their ad – “Classic Mystery TV.” I had to
take a look and found the site a treasure for senior citizens who enjoy
movies and television entertainment. The site has been on the Web since 1994, but one of
their newest additions is the marketing of these gigantic classic movie
collections at a very low price.
Read more...
Senior Citizen Goldie Hawn Speaks From the Heart In
Book About the People, Places and Events That Have Touched Her Life
 May
2, 2005 - Academy Award winner Goldie Hawn is one of the screen's most
beloved actresses and a senior citizen who turns 60 in November. Her
memorable performances in a wide variety of hit motion
pictures-including Cactus Flower, Butterflies Are Free, Shampoo, Foul
Play, Private Benjamin, Overboard, The First Wives Club and The Banger
Sisters -not to mention her unforgettable three-year run on Rowan &
Martin's Laugh-In, have endeared her to audiences around the world.
Read more...
Roy Orbison, Rock Icon Remembered on his Birthday
He would have been 69 years old on Saturday, April 23
April
23, 2005 - Out of the tiny oil town of Wink, in West Texas, he became a
worldwide superstar, topping the charts around the planet for four
decades. He toured with The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys,
Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Eagles and Patsy Cline, and made a
tremendous impact on every single soul that heard his sound. Elvis
Presley called Roy "The Greatest singer in the world."
Read more...
Senior Citizens Pick 'Aviator' and 'Million Dollar
Baby' for Top Pics in Oscars
For All Ages It Would be Close Race Between 'Ray' and
'The Aviator'
Feb. 23, 2005 - Senior Citizens 59 and older pick
'The Aviator' as the winner of the Oscar for Best Picture, while voters
of all ages pick 'Ray.' The seniors pick 'Million Dollar Baby' for
number two, while the rest of America says it should be 'Aviator.' The
senior pick may be influenced by fellow senior Clint Eastwood's starring
and directing role in 'Million Dollar Baby.'
Read more...
Senior Citizens – Hoffman, Streisand, DeNiro, Danner
– Break Movie Record with Meet the Fockers
1/3/05 - Editor's Note:
The original story was written on Dec. 28. The Fockers, however, continued
to set new attendance records on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.
 Dec.
28, 2004 – Four senior citizens, led by Dustin Hoffman, 67, and Barbra
Streisand, 62, hit the movie screen in a big way this week with the
number one movie, “Meet the Fockers.” This sequel to the 2000 hit “Meet
the Parents,” took in almost $45 million on the Christmas weekend and
broke the record for Christmas Day.
More... 12/28/04*
Latest Sinatra Christmas Album Features New Version of
Silent Night
Sinatra music you can also listen to free while you surf
the Web - He's back for one last time.
By Tucker Sutherland, editor
 Dec.
13, 2004 – There is no time like the holiday season for feeling nostalgic
and for many senior citizens there is no one that can arouse this nostalgia
better that old “Ol’ Blue Eyes,” Frank Sinatra. This season there is a new
collection of his Christmas songs that feature a new recording of “Silent
Night.” We are giving free promotion to this album “The Frank Sinatra
Christmas Collection,” because we think our readers will be interested, and
because the promoters are providing our readers a free download you can
listen to while you surf the Web.
More... 12/13/05*
 Robert
De Niro at 61 Voted Best Living Senior Actor, Best One Liner
Nov. 1, 2004 – Robert De Niro is on a roll. At 61 years
young he was just voted the world’s greatest living movie star over 50, and
his line in ‘Taxi Driver’ – “You talking me” – has been selected as the best
one-liner in movie history.
More... 11/01/04*
Steve McQueen, Dead Since 1980, to Star in New TV
Commercial
 Oct.
15, 2004 – Despite the fact that Steve McQueen would be 74 years old – if he
had not died from lung cancer 24 years ago – the actor so many seniors once
loved is returning to the television screen next month in a new commercial
introducing the Ford Mustang, another passion of older Americans, for 2005.
More... 10/15/04*
AARP Expecting Large Crowd for Las Vegas Fun and
Frolic
Oct. 5, 2004 – Close
to 20,000 AARP members – no longer just seniors, since membership starts
at 50 – will flock to Las Vegas for three days of fun and frolic October
14-16. This is the fourth
annual Life @ 50+ National Event and Expo for AARP members and guests
and is promising to have something for everyone.
More... 10/05/04*
Canadian TV Viewers to See Movie Prize Winner on
Elderly - “Rage Against the Darkness”
 102-year
young actress stars in documentary about growing old and moving to
nursing home
Sept. 9, 2004 – The prize winning documentary, Rage
Against the Darkness, which was shot over three years and follows four
families through the crisis of putting an elderly relative into a
seniors’ home, will come to Canadian television this month.
More... 9/09/04*
Senior Citizens Forming Theatre Groups Across Nation
– Now 590
By Bonnie L. Vorenberg,
Senior Theatre Expert
Aug. 1, 2004 - Senior theatre thrives. What was
once a trend, is now a movement. New books, plays, research, academic
programs, funding and some healthy media coverage helps expand the
field. It’s challenging, rewarding and fun. With all this vibrancy, it’s
a great time to be in senior theatre.
More... 8/01/04*
Middle Age Females Play More Games Online Than Teen
Males, Who Barely Beat Out Even Older Women
June 25, 2004 - Women between the ages of 35 and 49 are
more likely to visit online gaming Websites than even teenage boys, who
barely beat out older women between the ages of 55 and 65, according to a
Nelson//Net Surveys report.
More... 6/25/04*
Column About Aging Goes Halfway Over the Hill with
Humor
June 21, 2004 --
When a close friend celebrated her 50th. birthday by scheduling Botox
treatments, Jena Ball was bemused. When her mother complained about all
the junk mail trying to sell her burial plots, electric wheelchairs, and
hearing aids, she laughed. Then a cashier at the local deli gave her a
senior discount 15 years too early and she realized that old age
stereotyping was getting out of hand.
More... 6/21/04*
Doris Roberts Featured
New
PBS Documentary Highlights Productive Aging in America
Sept. 9, 2003 - A new PBS
documentary on aging in America has just been completed and is scheduled to
air in early November. The show is hosted by Academy Award winning actress
Mercedes Ruehl. More> 9/09/03*
70 Senior
Bands
New Horizons Band Attracts Senior
Adults into Music Making
The New Horizons Band program, now in
its twelfth year of expansion, involves more than 70 New Horizons
Bands in the United States and Canada. The program, founded by Eastman
School of Music professor Roy Ernst, is designed to attract senior
adults into music making.
Click 4/15/03*
At Least 3 Senior Beauty Pageants in
2002
 By Tucker Sutherland, editor
They do not get much
national attention but we have found at least three beauty pageants
for senior-age women that were held in 2002. Click
12/16/02*
Bob Barker, 78,
Gets Game Show in Prime Time
Who says youth rules on prime-time
television?
Bob Barker, age 78, begs to differ. After a 30th anniversary special
for ``The Price Is Right'' did unexpectedly well in the ratings this
winter, CBS ordered six more prime-time shows.
Click 4/4/2 AP
Administration on Aging Awards Grant
to Help Promote PBS Program on Caregiving
April 3, 2002 - Barksdale Ballard & Co., a public
relations firm in Vienna, Va., has received a grant of $99,750 from
the
Administration on Aging (AoA) to support an upcoming PBS documentary,
And
Thou Shalt Honor.... The grant will enable Barksdale Ballard to
promote AoA's National Family Caregiver Support Program through its grassroots
outreach campaign for the PBS special.
Click 4/3/2*
60-Year-Young
UK
Lady
Barrister
(Lawyer)
Becomes
Internet
Popstar
‘Pesha’
BLACKPOOL,
UK
--
07/01/2001
--
Pesha
believes
you
can
still
record
in
your
kitchen
and
make
a
world
winning
single. The
high
moral
content
and
positive
themes
of
her
songs
will
attract
both
worldwide
listeners
and
sections
of
the
public
who
wouldn’t
normally
listen
to
pop
songs.
click
to
story
7/2/01
''I
Love
Lucy
50th
Anniversary
Experience''
Tours
the
''Heart''land
of
America
"The
I
Love
Lucy
50th
Anniversary
Experience"
will
give
fans
the
chance
to
reach
out
and
touch
all
of
the
magic
that
changed
television
history
in
a
comprehensive,
cutting-edge,
interactive
attraction
that
begins
touring
America.
click
to
story
5/15/01
Debbie
Reynolds
Creating
Movie
Museum
May
14,
2001
-
Debbie
Reynolds,
69,
is
raising
money
for
a
museum
that
will
house
her
collection
of
Hollywood
memorabilia.
The
collection,
including
3,000
costumes
from
films
made
from
the
Silent
Era
to
the
1970s,
as
well
as
thousands
of
sets
and
pieces
from
those
movies,
is
worth
millions
of
dollars,
said
son
Todd
Fisher,
34.
click
to
story
5/14/01
New
Cable
TV
Series
-
"Active
Living"
-
Targets
Baby
Boomers
April
30,
2001
--
``Active
Living,''
the
new
cable
television
series
for
Baby
Boomers,
will
be
hosted
by
Robert
Urich
and
debuts
in
May. click
to
story
4/30/01
'Living
In
Balance,'
New
Baby
Boomer
Publication
Debuts
in
Florida
A
new
baby
boomer-targeted
publication,
``Living
In
Balance,''
has
attracted
top
notch
celebrities
to
grace
its
cover
and
grant
interviews,
such
as
actress
and
best
selling
author,
Shirley
MacLaine,
master
motivator,
Anthony
Robbins,
and
former
Good
Morning
America
Host,
Joan
Lunden.
It
is
currently
distributed
in
the
Miami
-
Palm
Beach
area.
Click
for
story*
3/26/01
Do
You
Like
to
Watch
Movies
at
Theater
of
Home?
See
this
Gallup
Survey
by
age
group.
Click
>
Bob
Hope
TV
Specials
Now
Available
on
Video
12/04/00*
Hope
Enterprises,
Inc.,
signed
a
marketing
agreement
with
The
Frederiksen
Group,
to
bring
all
256
of
his
NBC
television
specials
to
market
through
a
multi-channel
campaign.
>
Silent
Movies
Now
Available
11/20/00
Nearly
1,000
silents
have
become
available
on
videotape,
and
can
be
purchased
at
around
$25
and
rented
for
much
less.
>
PBS
Show
Hosted
by
Jack
Lemmon
to
Feature
People
Over
100
11/16/00*
A
new
biography
series
opening
in
December
on
PBS
profiles
individuals
who
are
100
years
of
age
and
older.
Each
30-minute
episode
of
THE
LIVING
CENTURY
profiles
one
centenarian.
Includes
link
to
schedule.
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