The Kids Are Alright
I've watched this five times now thanks to my girl who interns at a Brooklyn senior center. She reports of our elders dancing and singing along to "Just A Gigolo"—the David Lee Roth version—and bribing her with salami and shots of whiskey when she walks in on their sneaky senior sexcapades in the stairwells. Best internship ever.
"The oldest and greatest rock band in the world - meet The Zimmers and their amazing cover of The Who's 'My Generation.' Lead singer Alf is 90 - it's quite something when he sings 'I hope I die before I get old.' And he's not the oldest - there are 99 and 100-year-olds in the band! The Zimmers will feature in a BBC TV documentary being aired in May 2007. Documentary-maker Tim Samuels has been all over Britain recruiting isolated and lonely old people - those who can't leave their flats or who are stuck in rubbish care homes. The finale of the show is this group of lonely old people coming together to stick it back to the society that's cast them aside - by forming a rock troupe and trying to storm into the pop charts." [*]
