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...have to be an AARP member to get misty about classic-style Hollywood romantic comedy--or to wonder what ever happened to it. Here were people at their most attractive, dreaming and scheming, who spoke effortlessly in the sort of dialogue that would occur to us only after the door slammed in our face. Witty words for pretty people: that was the clever format. In the mouths of glamorous stars, romantic comedy gave a sly intelligence to the pursuit of love. It made the amorous heart beat smartly...
There are currently 18.5 million licensed drivers who are age 71 or beyond. Conventional wisdom lumps them with teenagers--as mobile menaces who need to have their car keys taken away. But older drivers' advocates such as the AARP and the AAA argue that the focus should be not on taking older drivers off the road but on helping them drive more safely...
...terrible year," he says. "I hit a wall." When he received an invitation to join AARP, he wanted to burn the letter the way some people burned their draft cards during the Vietnam War. What finally pulled him out of his gloom was a call from his brother, who is two years older than he. "Your greatest treasures in life are your wife and your kids," Alan Dychtwald reminded him. And bit by bit, Dychtwald began to remember the ideals that launched him on his career...
...More is Cosmopolitan all grown up, My Generation is the younger sibling of Modern Maturity. The AARP, which tries to recruit everyone over 49, struggled for years to make its membership magazine appeal to the 50-year-old corporate executive as well as the 85-year-old pensioner, says publisher Jim Fishman, 61. "Instead of trying to be all things to all people, we decided to launch a new magazine for the younger portion of our readership...
...much their years that separate boomers from other AARP members, Fishman says. It's attitude. Born in a time of affluence, highly educated and accustomed to rebellion, boomers take it for granted they will reshape the world to fit their needs. "If they think of retirement at all, they think of it as the next phase in their lives rather than stopping." Though My Generation editor in chief Betsy Carter, 56, says the magazine has no formula, most covers feature graying celebrities like Jeff Bridges, 51, and Sissy Spacek, 52. September's issue offered suggestions on how to tell your...