They are graybeards now, figuratively and literally, the aging lions of an accomplished generation.
PAGE A9 GOODBYE TO A SOUL FOOD LEGEND The aging lions of the civil rights movement who hobbled into the funeral of James V. Paschal, right, the co-founder of a legendary soul food cafe in Atlanta, mentioned the cooking only briefly.
And it's true that the building boom, particularly among the aging lions of the regional movement, is partly about creating whiz-bang "destination" theaters that will attract national talent.
Some may counter that Beatty is notoriously tough to read, and also cite the inconvenient fact that this aging lion is still very much alive.
"The weather has changed," Albert Burnside, an aging lion of the First Amendment bar played by Alan Alda, says in the film.
"In the hands of a grizzled governor with one milky eye and the manners of an aging lion, uncouth and rapacious and devoted to President Karzai, it was the base from which Karzai had launched his campaign to pry the hidebound southern Pashtuns away from the Taliban.
Antony's fertility is accentuated by having both Cleopatra and his wife, Octavia Lisa Velten Smithh), appear pregnant in some scenes, perhaps to suggest that though he is an aging lion by the standards of the day, he is still a vital one.
With Gordon Pinsent, the veteran Canadian actor, who has a capacious gut, a fine beard, and the burnished aspect of an aging lion, as Grant, Fiona's longtime husband; Michael Murphy as the stricken man whom Fiona falls in love with at an assisted-living facility; and Olympia Dukakis as the practical old broad who gives Grant a way to remain loyal yet survive as a man.
