The young are a different race. Which only becomes apparent when you are no longer remotely young. A lot of guys in their 40's endure a ton of misery because they're still under the illusion they're young. Which the beautiful stranger disabuses them of in the most brutal fashion. Moral? There is no moral. Just you've had your five minutes on stage now get off. Only a glutton for punishment tries to stay on stage.
I remember my wife was commenting to a sixteen year old Danish exchange student who was staying with us how she thought George Clooney was attractive (they were watching some film with Clooney in it). The girl said, no he is an old man. This was before Clooney did his fat thing in Syriana.
Just because I think I am cool like Fernando Lamas but I am really just as cool as Abe Vigoda.
ReplyDeleteVigoda as a mafioso was the one sour note in Godfather. Copolla must've been out to lunch the day he made that casting decision.
ReplyDeleteCesar Romero, Fernando Lamas and the Corinthian leather guy, Ricardo Montalban, were the murderer's row of latin lovers.
I went to a club in Williamsburg on Saturday night with a bunch of kids in their early twenties.
ReplyDeleteI was Abe Vigoda.
The young are a different race. Which only becomes apparent when you are no longer remotely young. A lot of guys in their 40's endure a ton of misery because they're still under the illusion they're young. Which the beautiful stranger disabuses them of in the most brutal fashion. Moral? There is no moral. Just you've had your five minutes on stage now get off. Only a glutton for punishment tries to stay on stage.
ReplyDeleteIt stinks to be wise.
I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.
ReplyDeleteI remember my wife was commenting to a sixteen year old Danish exchange student who was staying with us how she thought George Clooney was attractive (they were watching some film with Clooney in it). The girl said, no he is an old man. This was before Clooney did his fat thing in Syriana.
ReplyDeleteOuch.
A man has to know his limitations.
ReplyDeleteI think more Barney Miller looking at that picture than Tessio.
ReplyDeleteFish.
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