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50+ CROWD | Volume 1 • Issue 8 | December, 2005 |
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By Andy Humm
NYC Plus presents a monthly round-up of news and events that have the greatest impact our lives.
REFLECTION
“Car Sex”
By Wickham Boyle
How a hunk of metal, well-hung and powerful, changed a woman’s life.
THEN AND NOW
“Godot on Broadway, 1956 – Followed by a POSTSCRIPT
By Jerry Tallmer
In the spring of 1956 there opened on Broadway a play by Samuel Beckett called Waiting for Godot that either baffled or angered most of the local critics. It happened to be a masterpiece, as Jerry Tallmer wrote then and reprises now.
MONEY MATTERS
“After You’re Gone …”
By Don Conrad and Hammid Firoozeh
How the new Transfer-on-Death law will affect your estate planning, and allow some investments to bypass probate.
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In This Issue
PROFILE
“The Wonderful Journey of Marian Seldes”
By Jerry Tallmer
Marian Seldes, an actress whose vibrant career stretches back from this very day to Katharine Cornell and the 1940s, is living testimony that getting older can mean getting better. Profile by Jerry Tallmer.
MEMOIR
“Brian Wilson: Our Journey to SMiLE”
By Ken Shane
It took 37 years for Brian Wilson’s SMiLE to see the light of day. At the first public appearance of his masterwork, grown men wept openly and Brian and I put the past behind us.
FEATURE
“The Day Her Son Hung her in the Closet”
By Tim Lavin
Abuse of the elderly is staggeringly common. For its victims, recovery is a long, winding, and often treacherous road – littered with obstacles most of us would rather not imagine.
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BOOKS
“The UN: Neutrality or Ideology”
By Nan Goldberg
Dore Gold, author of Tower of Babble, on how the United Nations, almost from its outset in 1948, pursued a “neutrality” that would result in some of the worst national and international disasters of the 1990s. Interview by Nan Goldberg.
PLASTIC SURGERY
“Cosmetic Surgery: Self-Love or Self-Delusion?”
By Joy Davidson
I’d like to have facial cosmetic surgery, but I’m so anxious about it I keep making and breaking appointments with a surgeon. It’s no big deal … right? Actually, wrong. Dr. Joy Davidson explores the expanding desire to tweak and tighten, along with possible affects on body and soul.
ESSAY
“StoryCorps Preserves the Past for the Future”
By Trudy Whitman
Trudy Whitman invited her parents to sit down for a Q & A at the StoryCorps booth in Grand Central Terminal. What resulted is a recorded chronicle that will be passed down from generation to generation.