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05/13/2005 Entry: "Time flies for old star wars actors."

Time flies for old star wars actors. This may not be of interest to anyone but me, but its a bit odd to see how badly Billy Dee Williams and other actors from the trilogy have aged. Obviously, they should be older seeing as its been 20 years since those movies were made, but its kind of like a reality check for the rest of us. I don't think the cane he's holding is purely for fashion. Even more odd, Frank Oz doesn't seem to have aged a day. He's almost always been this graying old man to me. Also, Gene Wilder was recently promoting his memiors on the Conan O'Brien show and he seemed very much out of it mentally if not suffering from some disease. Youth is rarely wasted on the young.

See also: Antioxidents really do help with longevity. In this study. With mice. Standard cavaets all around.

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Well, it has been 300 years since those actors appeared in the original movies. Harry Ford certainly looks like he is on the high side of 90. Billy Dee Williams suffers from arthritis.

As for Wilder, he does have some kind of disease that I read about recently but I can't for the life of me remember what it is. Also he went a bit troppo after Gilda Radner passed away. He was always rather eccentric, tho'.

Posted by Chy @ 05/15/2005 01:55 AM CST

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