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Newspaper Article
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2006
Overview
THERE IS an old story, familiar to most newspaper writers, dealing with a reporter who had been sent to cover the national speedboat racing championship and to obtain an interview with the man then regarded as the king of speedboat racing -- Gar Wood. I grew up with him -- from his rubber-legged scarecrow in \"The Wizard of Oz\" to his mind-numbing one-man show for a Bay Area fundraiser many years later -- and as I watched that Tonight Show performance, maybe there was, somewhere inside me, the feeling that if [Ray Bolger] was still going strong at 73, there was hope for me and my tired body. IT ALSO struck me that anyone not familiar with Bolger who saw him gyrating all over the stage that night would never have guessed he was 73 years old, and this got me thinking that perhaps we're not as good at guessing celebrities' ages as we might think we are -- even though we've grown up with them and feel that we have a pretty good time-yardstick for our estimates.
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Bay Area News Group
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