It's funny how you can think of yourself as growing older, but it's a shock when you hear how someone else has aged.
Case in point: David Brenner. He was on Howard Stern's radio show yesterday. Brenner admitted he lied about his age for years. Today is his birthday, and he's 73 years old. 73! Really!
I was stunned. After giving it some thought, it made sense. I remember watching him on the Mike Douglas Show and a thousand other places in the seventies. I read, and enjoyed, Brenner's first book, "Soft Pretzels with Mustard." Brenner didn't get in to the comedy game until his mid/late 20's. He was a very successful producer of serious news documentaries, and he worked as director of documentaries for Westinghouse Broadcasting. Youngsters may not know that Westinghouse had an extremely successful chain of television stations for a long time. The Westinghouse stations eventually became part of the CBS chain.
The bottom line is that when you start feeling older, look at the person next to you. They're going through the same thing.
