You see them still standing at street corners even after the"Walk" lights have flashed on. They are poor old men and women withno place to go. Younger adults swirl around them, hurrying to jobs,to lunch, to meetings, to shop, to someone waiting for them. Thefrantic pace of modern life comes to a dead stop for too manyunemployed, lonely and discarded oldsters.
"Everyone dies when they are 60, but no one tells them!" laugheda smug young ad exec of 30-something. "Old people don't contributeanything. They just take up space."
Young is hot. Young makes the world go 'round. Old is ugly.Old is disposable, think many of our young. But if you're old andrich, you get the kind of respect Rodney Dangerfield dreams about.Old age without money is a devastating trip the young can't imagineand the middle-aged fear. No one wants to be that man or woman leftstanding at the corner. Gourmet gossip
Going, going, gone! Is the marriage of auctioneer Leslie Hindmanand Joel Glossberg over? Is ex-wife Trudi going to pick up thepieces?
Media mogul Ted Turner and TV personality Ysi Kan, whose"Discovery" show is seen my millions in China, flew off in Ted'sprivate jet to his 20,000-acre Wyoming ranch, looking very much inlove.
Where the girls are. Tuesday's Bid for Bachelorettes atDitka's/City Lights has beauties like ex-Miss Illinois CindiHodgkins, Rod Stewart's former love Sunday Haliano, Mary Dolan, KathyWolters and 20 others on the auction block for dates. Proceeds aidLiteracy Volunteers. Just want to ogle? It's $20 to party and checkout the curves. Bill von Dahm and Jim Rittenberg emcee. Idol chatter
Sultry model Cindy Crawford, shot to stardom by geniusphotographer Victor Skrebneski, has a hot role in "Wild Orchids,"filming in Rio. OKing bills is movie accountant Bonnie Weis,daughter of CPA Ron Weis. Producers hope Cindy's love, actor RichardGere, will sign for a meaty role. . . . Local actor Sam Wanamakerreturns May 20 for the exciting Shakespeare Globe Theatre benefit.He's directing Peter Falk in "Columbo." . . . Saul Bellow and otherliterary lights are expected to shine May 16 when brainy beaut LynnBermont and Simon & Schuster host a party to herald author/bookseller Stuart Brent's Seven Stairs reissue. . . . Polo-playingMichael Butler will be in the Soviet Union in August when his "Hair"opens, if he can ride away from those Oak Brook games.
Actress Anouk Aimee is no longer the inspiration for hunkydesigner Ungaro, so when he flies here May 5 for Marshall Field'sand the School of the Art Institute dinner, he'll be the target ofamorous fashionables. . . . Sen. Ted Kennedy speaks May 19 in thehome of the Jon Pisers for Institute for Clinical Social Work. . . .The Leonard Lavins of Alberto-Culver flew down to Palm Beach withsportsman Bill Wirtz, wife Alice, and Charlotte Doyle to celebratethe 50th anniversary of Ike and Florence Sewell (owners of Su Casaand Pizzerias Uno and Due) at the posh Everglades Club.
Hottest ticket for the charitables is Friday's triple threatbash at Marshall Field's, hosted by Illinois Bell, Borg-Warner andField's to support Victory Gardens, Court and Wisdom Bridge theaters.Second City's Joyce Sloan is chairwoman. Good show!
Johnny Cash, Joanne Woodward, Aretha Franklin and Evel Knievelare afraid to fly, reports Ed Lucaire's new book, Phobophobia. Fearof money is chrematophobia. But who has it? Abnormal desire tospend money is squandermania. We all have that. . . .Mega-millionaire Burns Cabot flew his jet from L.A. to enjoy thatspecial Sunday brunch at the Swiss Grand Hotel. News of the glitterati
Successful benefits that drew enthusiastic support were theCharitaBulls auction at Malnati's with Michael Jordan as the mainattraction, the United Charities gala chaired by Martha Peterson, andthe Raoul Wallenberg awards where William Haljun, Sister JuliaHuiskamp, Rabbi Mordecai Simon, Ruth Werstler and Ryan White werehonored.
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