On Sun, 2 Aug 2020, Patrick Murray wrote:
What blows my mind is, he was a year older than I'm now when he played Ben
Luckett in Cocoon in 1985
Take Care,
There's been this entire meme based on that. A couple of entries:
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/the-wilford-brimley-meme-that-helps-measure-tom-cruises-agelessness
https://theblemish.com/2019/12/paul-rudd-is-officially-as-old-as-wilford-brimley-was-in-cocoon/
(amazingly there's no wikipedia entry for the Brimley/Cocoon line)
(makes you feel older than the Beloit College Mindset
List https://www.marist.edu/mindset-list)
In another decade I expect an entry of the form
"your students have never sat in a classroom...."
