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Wow! Adrian Paul Is Aging Well!

posted 5 years ago by R_Kane (15828)
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There are two personal qualities that I’ve valued highly since childhood: leaving a legacy, and aging well. The first (Einstein, da Vinci, Disney, Groucho Marx) is the hardest, but the second is no small potatoes, and Highlander: The Series star, at almost 60 years old (in 2 months, as I write this), looked AMAZING in tonight’s otherwise-disposable Arrow episode. He looks REALLY fit (his sunken, not-quite-emaciated cheeks, a sign of a high level of cardiovascular fitness), his excellent muscle-tone in his face, his posture, his agility . . . most impressive. I’ve always applauded Amell for his serious training, but I wonder what Steve will look like at 60?

We need not accept the ravages of time, and of tempest. I will fight them kicking and screaming, to the end of my days in this life.

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[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

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[–] R_Kane (15828) 5 years ago

I did not know his dancing background. You make me smile because you do; but you didn’t surprise me (cf. Sandahl Bergman). Thank you for that.

When I need a little something, I hit the gym; but you knew that.

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[–] R_Kane (15828) 5 years ago

I think that I just edited out the naughtiest parts, because I wouid never want to offend you, ever, so I will always err on the better part of discretion; because I care about you.

I believe that swimming is the best exercise. Water supports our bodies. Who has the most beautiful, functional bodies in the Olympic Games (the real Games, not the pretend Nordic Games)? The gymnasts and the swimmers. Both of these disciplines use evey muscle in the human body, and not for cosmetics, but for FUNCTION.

Miles van der Rohe: “Form follows function.”

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[–] R_Kane (15828) 5 years ago

The movies you named, I have not seen. The lead actors, Jackman and Candy, I like very much; but I reject out of hand the notion of a Norse (Winter) Olympics, and I say this as a Norseman who is passionately committed to The Olympic Games, founded in Athens in 884 BC, because the Delphic Oracle answered Athens’ question of “How can we bring peace between our city-states?” by replying, “Bring Games between the youth of your city-states every Olympiad [four years], and they will foster peace and understanding.”

There is only one Olympic Games. It is intended for a warm, Mediterranean clime, not for my chilled Norse clime. The Olympic Games are track, field, swimming, diving, power lifting, all fighting sports, gymnastics and nothing else, in the R_Kane view of things, as a spots historian who counts Olympic Gold Medalists and world-record setters as my friends.

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[–] R_Kane (15828) 5 years ago

Yes, I remember that The Wimp stood in front of the what-should-have-been 1980 US Olympic Team and thanked them for their “sacrifice,” and they all smiled for the cameras and thought, “What beeping choice did we have, Wimp?!”
Four years later, the Soviet and Eastern Bloc predictably boycotted the LA Olympics, diminishing what could have been a classic Games, but I don’t think any Soviet runner could have headed Joan Benoit, from
Maine,
USA as she embarrassed the field in taking Gold in the first Women’s Olympic Marathon in history.

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[–] R_Kane (15828) 5 years ago

Isn’t it strange how we agree on everything?
Benoit was in a league of her own. We had the same coach, but she was ‘way above me. At the first water station, she took OFF, while the rest of the field hydrated. She just floored it and vanished off into the haze. They couldn’t even see her after that. Coach’s strategy worked. Joanie broke them. She gave up the water. She got the Gold, and the legend, and the history, and the legacy.

Agree that Louganis was in a league of his own as well.

I also think that he was an excellent addition to the first Gay Olympic Games, adding attention, legitimacy and prestige to the event. Hellas had a strong homosexual heritage among its warriors. The Spartans teamed lovers when they sent them into combat. So did the Korean Hwrang, that nation’s version of the Samurai. Would YOU let someone kill your lover? Okay, point made.

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[–] horrorfan000 (2070) 5 years ago

I was shocked.I expected some wear and tear but he looks the same as he did on Highlander back in the 90's.

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[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

There can be only one!

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[–] R_Kane (15828) 5 years ago

It’s sad that you cannot see the amplifying deleted posts by HarvardBarbie, my best friend on MC and elsewhere. She states that Paul was a ballet dancer, of which she knew (which, of everything she knows, MUCH, as in “could write a book or 3” much. As in, “Off the top of my head, no further research needed.”)

As in, a massive loss to this website, driven off by, in her words, “the anger and vulgarity” of this place of “fun, games and chatting.”

But not this place of maturity, dignity, ideas and thinking.

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[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

That's unfortunate.

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[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Indeed.

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[–] Cognoscente (2463) 3 years ago

Interestingly, the final season of Arrow reminds me of the final season of Highlander in how it became more female-centric in a backdoor pilot type of way.

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