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Celeste Holm: An Actress’s Tempestuous Twilight

Posted on 07/16/2012 by | Legacy | Comments

LegacyActress Celeste Holm will be remembered for the convention-defying characters she inhabited so artfully — from flirtatious Ado Annie in the Broadway production of Oklahoma! in 1943, to “forthright, pert and frustrated” fashion editor Anne Dettrey in the 1947 film classic, Gentleman’s Agreement. In The Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors, she’s described as “a warm and clever actress, as comfortable in drama as she was in comedy . . . one of the darlings of the postwar film era.” But Holm, …

Relying On Dividends For Income? Tax Hikes May Be In Your Future

Relying On Dividends For Income? Tax Hikes May Be In Your Future

Posted on 07/16/2012 by | Money and Work | Comments

Money & SavingsIf you’re one of millions of older Americans who rely on dividends to supplement your income, brace yourself. A sharp increase in dividend tax rates, scheduled to take effect Jan.1, will impact all investors but it will take a harsher toll on those at or nearing retirement, according to a new study for the Edison Electric Institute (EEI). The analysis was released just weeks before the House is expected to vote on whether to extend the current federal income tax rates, including …

County Fairs Provide Cheap Entertainment

County Fairs Provide Cheap Entertainment

Posted on 07/16/2012 by | The Ultimate Cheapskate | Comments

Entertainment | Food | Home & Family | Money & Savings | Your LifeWhat do you get when you combine Ferris wheels with farm animals and funnel cakes? That’s right, good old-fashioned fun at a county or state fair. With summer disappearing like a heat mirage on a desert highway, fair season is gearing up across the country. Having grown up in rural Ohio where kids anticipated fair week every bit as much as Christmas morning, I’m always surprised at the number of people I meet who have never been to a county …

The Takeaway: Parents Helping Less With Education Costs

The Takeaway: Parents Helping Less With Education Costs

Posted on 07/16/2012 by | AARP Blog Author | Comments

News RoundupsMark this as one more way in which the Great Recession has affected Americans’ financial planning: Parents are contributing less to their children’s college costs than they did just a few years ago, according to a recent poll. In addition, more college students are living at home with parents to save money.

The Secret To Weight Loss? Pen and Paper

The Secret To Weight Loss? Pen and Paper

Posted on 07/16/2012 by | Personal Health and Well-being | Comments

Personal HealthThe most effective secret to weight loss for older, overweight women? Keeping a food diary. That was the surprising result of new research from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle that found that women who kept food journals lost six pounds more than those who didn’t. The researchers also found that skipping meals was a bad idea. Older women who skipped meals lost almost eight fewer pounds over a year than the women who did not. And the …

Good TV This Week: Sigourney Weaver Gets ‘Political’

Posted on 07/15/2012 by | AARP Blog Author | Comments

EntertainmentAnyone looking forward to scathing wit or incisive drama from a program touted as a “Limited Series Event” — one rich with Oscar and Emmy winners in its pedigree, no less — had better dial down their expectations before watching “Political Animals.”  However, this dishy, inside-the-Beltway USA summer soap with Sigourney Weaver as a Hillary Clintonesque former First Lady-turned-Secretary of State just might hook you in spite of its occasional attacks of cringe-worthy dialogue and other flaws.   Premiering tonight, …

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