Using tongs, Jim Moran sticks a long, thin piece of wire into the small but very hot fire of the blacksmith’s forge.
When he removes the metal, the tip is white hot.
For once, a film avoids condescension toward seniors
Sunday, May 11, 2008
By Dan DiNicola
One day, and a not-too-very long time ago it was, an assistant news director at a TV station pulled a reporter aside and issued an admonition: “Do not,” he said, “interview or make a habit of putting old people on camera. It’s a new world, baby boomer time and people who watch TV do not want to see stories about gray-haired old fogies with missing teeth....
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