What to Read, Watch, and Listen to this Weekend...
An Oldster Magazine Friday Link Roundup.
I tend to read, watch, and listen to a lot of Oldster-adjacent content. Every other Friday I’ll pass some of it along to you in a link roundup like this one.
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Hacks star Jean Smart on Broadway this summer? Playing “a writer whose words are her greatest gift, her biggest secret, and her only way out”? Must get tickets to Call Me Izzy...
Jeff Bridges is Digging It - at The New Yorker, Amanda Petrusich interviews 75-year-old actor/musician Jeff Bridges about his new record, Slow Magic, 1977-1978—featuring songs he recorded in his 20s—and more. Listen to the record here:
I’d like to see The Uninvited, a poignant comedy in theaters this week, featuring 94-year-old actress Lois Smith as an older woman with dementia crashing a party at a Hollywood house she mistakes for her own. Also starring Elizabeth Reaser, Walton Goggins, Pedro Pascal, and others.
Big thanks to The Harnisch Foundation, which has awarded Oldster a grant to support two new, ambitious upcoming projects, one launching this summer, the other this fall. 🙏 Stay tuned…
Bill Murray Says He’s Not the Man He Used to Be - In The New York Times Magazine, David Marchese interviews the 74-year-old actor, starring now in The Friend.
Why Cameras Are Popping Up in Eldercare Facilities - Paula Span in The New York Times.
Speaking of elder care facilities, did you see last Friday’s Open Thread, a collaboration with
’s ? So many great comments! Thanks to everyone who weighed in with their experiences, and excellent resources. 🙏The Woman Who Quit Her Job to Take Care of her Dad - as told to Charlotte Cowles at NYMag/The Cut.
- in The New Yorker.
What the New York Times Got Wrong About Gen X -
goes off on that article I featured in the last link roundup.- ’s review of Daniel Falatko's The Wayback Machine in enticed me to order what appears to be a very Gen X NYC novel.
Meet “Grandfluencer” Diane Shiffer, and others like her. - CBS Sunday Morning.
How to Wish You Were 66 Instead of 35 - On The Atlantic podcast, Natalie Brennan and Yasmin Tayag on the advantages of life after menopause. (Something I have also said…)
“Rather than identifying as old, young or middle-aged, be an ‘old person in training’ instead…” -
at Ideas.Ted.Com.
Well, this ought to keep all of us from doomscrolling for a while. Thanks as always for reading, for commenting thoughtfully, and for all your support! I literally couldn’t do this without you. 🙏 💝
-Sari
These round-ups are the one of the best parts of my Fridays! And that's thrilling news about the grant. Congrats—so well-deserved!
This roundup was like a therapy session. I’ve been wresting deeply with the changes in my appearance as I age (I’m 48) and my feelings of invisibility. I want so badly to not care, to embrace where I am, to not feel so self-conscious about my face or my cellulite or my stomach…but it kind of feels like adolescence in a way, where my hormones (or something equally slippery) are leaving me with little control over my own feelings. This roundup - especially, the Atlantic interview - gave me a sense of perspective and hope. Thank you, Sari. The resources and experience you share are meaningful. You are helping women navigate seasons of life feeling less alone and more equipped. ❤️