Advertisers should court the 50+ crowd, new Nielsen
research shows: Boomers alone buy 38. 5 percent of all
packaged goods, such as toothpaste and detergent.
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Manners Cop of the
World,” yet she can’t stay
mum about ballpark booz-
ers, fragrant fliers, late
arrivers, and CrackBerry
addicts unable to “resist
the textation,” in her oddly
moralizing new tome, Is It
Just Me?…Or Is It Nuts Out
There? “Want to be an ass?”
she writes. “Stay home!”
In One From the Hart,
Stefanie Powers recaps a
career that began in “the
last days of old Hollywood”
(her costar in 1965’s Die!
Die! My Darling!, 63-year-
old Tallulah Bankhead, did
her own stunts) and peaked
with her classic TV series
Hart to Hart. On the set of
The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. in
1966, Powers got the ultimate props when Katharine
Hepburn said, “Spencer
and I watch your program
all the time.”—Allan Fallow
Alfred
Hitchcock’s Psycho
Those of us who still get
nervous in the shower 50
years after Janet Leigh’s
curtain call in Psycho are in
for a treat on the new
anniversary Blu-ray/ DVD
release: an extended theatrical trailer in which Alfred
Hitchcock conducts an impromptu tour of the Psycho
set. It’s an ingenious exercise in macabre humor,
coupled with an eerie,
mounting dread. —B. N.
3 DVD
Brian
Wilson Reimagines
Gershwin
“Rhapsody in Blue”
picks up good vibrations
on Brian Wilson Reimagines
Gershwin, a convergence
of American masters.
The Beach Boy adds
angelic harmonies and
lithe arrangements to
such Gershwin standards
as “It Ain’t Necessarily
So” and “’S Wonderful.”
And Wilson adds lyrics
(with the Gershwin
estate’s blessing) to two
tunes: a heart-melting
ballad (“The Like in
I Love You”) and a rhapsodic rocker (“Nothing
But Love”). —Richard Gehr
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