The loveliest, most poignant scene in the film takes place in the sleepy office of the town's newspaper, where David goes in quest of information and chats with the elderly editor (Angela McEwan), who, it turns out, has history with the family.
His fishing boats and hunting trips were dinner parties and excursions to Cannes with Ertegun and the Glimmer Twins and talks with William Shawn, the elderly editor of The New Yorker, who was only a little easier to reach than the President.
There is, he argues, a generational gap between the Camelot-obsessed elderly editors at the main networks and their younger, savvier contemporaries at local stations.Tyler Cowen, an economics professor at George Mason University and the author of a forthcoming book on celebrity*, also subscribes to the view that the coverage has been excessive, and out of contact with the broad mass of Americans.
And with that we are treated to a angry, hectoring montage of stunt scenes – as opposed to, say, an elderly sound editor bent low over an Avid.
Rita Hayworth's biggest hit was this dazzling 1944 Technicolor musical in which she played Rusty, a chorus girl working at a Brooklyn club run by her boyfriend Danny Gene Kellyy), who is shot to stardom when a rich, elderly magazine editor who was once in love with her grandmother (Hayworth in a tongue-in-cheek dual role) offers her the chance to be a cover girl.
"Writer compares Dinkins to Joseph Cotten as the elderly, idealistic newspaper editor Jedidiah Leland in "Citizen Kane".
Someone lucky enough to find themselves writing about pop music for a national paper in, say, the early 90s, would routinely be asked to direct their copy towards a readership notionally comprised of their arts editor's elderly relatives.
"They're talking about everything from their latest career move and how they're managing it, to raising children with disabilities, taking care of elderly parents," said John MacMillan, editor of the Smith Alumnae Quarterly.
Lois Bloom Sandestin, Fla., Dec. 19, 2010 To the Editor: Thinking of elderly patients whom I've known for years, I am nearly certain that informing patients of the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease as early as possible, or telling them of an increased risk of the disease, will be harmful on the whole.
"The BOP [Bureau of Prisons] is not geared to handle the release of any prisoner, much less elderly ones," said Paul Wright, the editor of Prison Legal News and the founder and executive director of the Human Rights Defense Center.
Adele Welty Flushing, Queens, Aug. 17, 2009 To the Editor: I'm an elderly person, have worked professionally in care of the elderly, and have helped and visited several friends and relatives at the end of their lives.
