The Brimley/Cocoon Line

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[Ferrets are Cool]

1. ...

"At around this time in his career it became evident that Brimley had something of an unusual gift: looking much older than he actually was. Indeed, the man who played Pop Fisher was merely two years older than Redford's golden-haired slugger Roy Hobbs.

This trait served him even better in 1985 when he starred in his signature role, a grandfather in a retirement community that stumbles across fountain-of-youth extra terrestrials in Ron Howard’s unlikely smash hit Cocoon.

Though its emotional core is about geriatrics facing their final years, Brimley turned only 50 during production. "

[marble falls]

2. Shaved my mustache and got rid of the wire rims at 40 when my co-workers started ...

... calling me "Wilfred Brimley Jr".

Course, at 71, they'd be calling me "Wilfred Brimley Sr" now.

[Midnight Writer]

3. Check out Wilfred in Hard Target. Shooting bad guys with a bow while on a galloping horse.

It is a jarring image.