Backyard Birdhouses

Common backyard birds in North America that will use birdhouses are wrens, chickadees, titmice, and bluebirds; and other types of birds can also be attracted to birdhouses, according to National Wildlife. If you’re a nature-loving 50+, retiree or senior with time on your hands, put up a birdhouse so you can admire your outdoor feathered … Continued

Celebrating Seniors – Tom Skerritt is 83, Part 3

Tom Skerritt, Part 3: Contact to Brothers & Sisters  (1997-2016) (Tom Skerritt 1994 Photo: Alan Light | Flickr Some rights reserved) Directing was what Tom Skerritt had envisioned his career would be back in his early 1960’s days at UCLA, before his acting career took off. One of Skerritt’s first film projects after his television series Picket … Continued

Celebrating Seniors – Tom Skerritt is 83, Part 2

Tom Skerritt, Part 2: The Dead Zone to Picket Fences (1980-1996) Tom Skerritt, Ellen Burstyn and Gordon Pinsent co-starred in the biographical drama Silence of the North (1981); Ellen Burstyn had appeared in an episode of the western TV series Laramie 18 years earlier, in 1963. Skerritt’s Alien co-star Yaphet Kotto appeared with him in … Continued

Celebrating Seniors – Tom Skerritt Is 83, Part 1

Tom Skerritt, Part 1: MASH to Alien (1933-1979) Actor, writer, and director Tom Skerritt was born on August 25, 1933 in Detroit, Michigan. Skerritt told Film Comment that shortly after graduating in 1951 from Mackenzie High School in Detroit at the age of 17, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy for a four year tour. … Continued

Boomer TV Trivia: My Three Sons

Q1. Which regular cast members on the popular baby boomer sitcom My Three Sons appeared in every episode of the series during it’s 12-year run, from 1960-1972? Q2. One of the regular cast members during the first five seasons on My Three Sons was also a regular cast member on I Love Lucy. Who was … Continued

Celebrating Seniors – Barbara Eden Turns 85

I Dream of Jeannie actress and octogenarian senior citizen Barbara Jean Morehead (Barbara Eden) was born during the Great Depression on August 23, 1931 in Tucson, Arizona. (Barbara Eden 1968 I Dream of Jeannnie Photo: NBC Television) After her parents divorced, 3-year-old Barbara and her mother moved to San Francisco. Her mother remarried and Barbara … Continued

Celebrating Seniors – Robert Redford Turns 80, Part 3

Robert Redford, Part 3: Acting in Havana to Producer and Director (1990-2016) Havana (1990) was the seventh and last movie starring Robert Redford that was directed by Sydney Pollack. The movie, about the Cuban Revolution in 1959, starred a now 50+ Robert Redford as a gambler visiting Havana, Cuba. His Havana co-stars included Lena Olin as … Continued

Celebrating Seniors – Robert Redford Turns 80, Part 2

Robert Redford, Part 2: All The President’s Men to Out of Africa (1975-1989) Robert Redford and his friend, director Sydney Pollack (This Property is Condemned, Jeremiah Johnson, The Way We Were) teamed up again for the CIA thriller Three Days of the Condor (1975). Co-stars Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, Max Von Sydow, and John Houseman … Continued

Celebrating Seniors – Diana Muldaur Is 78

Septuagenarian senior citizen, actress, and sometime Airedale Terrier breeder Diana Muldaur was born in Brooklyn, New York on August 19, 1938.  (Diana Muldaur 1974 Born Free Photo: NBC Television) Muldaur told Martha’s Vineyard Magazine that she grew up on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts and New York, and began acting in high school plays. She studied drama at … Continued

Celebrating Seniors – Robert Redford Turns 80 Part 1

Robert Redford, Part 1: Barefoot in the Park to The Sting (1936-1974) (Robert Redford 1960 Tate “Comanche Scalps”) New octogenarian senior citizen, environmentalist, actor, producer, director, businessman and philanthropist Charles Robert Redford Jr. was born on August 18, 1936 in Santa Monica, California. In Robert Redford: The Biography (2011) by Michael Feeney Callan, Redfords recounts … Continued