OLD GEEZERS
It seems that the age of old geezers may be coming back.
Don’t get me wrong. I am one of them myself, but at least I am not in charge of a nation.
Sometimes they have the title emeritus, because although dead for a safe number of years (Ronald Reagan) or centuries (John Evelyn and Robert May), they get to keep their titles.
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Revisiting Ronnie means sliding into a caramel-colored booth at L.A.’s Nate 'n Al's for its Chopped Salad, Tuna Melt or Chicken Pot Pie. With the ghosts of Sid Caesar, John Wayne, Charles Bronson, Monty Hall, Danny Thomas, and Jack Lemmon. And remembering Jack’s best line in the movie “Some Like it Hot.” The one when Tony Curtis asks Jack (in showgirl drag) what makes him think he, a guy, can marry another guy (the old geezer millionaire with the yacht)?
“Security!” screams Jack.
Which is what I get not because the word “geezer” is sandwiched between “geese” and “gefilte fish” in the dictionary. But from reading the cookbooks of the two em…