Some people find their greatest accomplishments early.
Others continue learning and contributing well into old age.
The entertainment industry may celebrate youth, but a long career demonstrates that experience has its own value.
A person’s worth doesn’t disappear simply because the years pass.
In many cases, perspective becomes richer with time.
A Living Connection to the Past
There are very few people who can personally remember the world of nearly a century ago.
That makes someone approaching 103 more than an elderly celebrity.
He is a living connection to a vanished era.
He can potentially remember a time before many of the technologies and institutions that define modern life.
He belongs to a generation that experienced enormous changes firsthand.
For fans of entertainment history, that connection is priceless.
Old movies can tell us what the past looked like.
But living people can tell us what it felt like.
The Final Chapter Hasn’t Been Written
