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demmiblue

(36,841 posts) Sat Mar 20, 2021, 10:41 AM Mar 2021

The Brimley/Cocoon Line

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The Brimley/Cocoon Line (Original Post) demmiblue Mar 2021 OP

... Ferrets are Cool Mar 2021 #1

Shaved my mustache and got rid of the wire rims at 40 when my co-workers started ... marble falls Mar 2021 #2

Check out Wilfred in Hard Target. Shooting bad guys with a bow while on a galloping horse. Midnight Writer Mar 2021 #3

Ferrets are Cool

(21,106 posts)

1. ...

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Sat Mar 20, 2021, 10:52 AM

Mar 2021

"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

(57,077 posts)

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

Reply to Ferrets are Cool (Reply #1)

Sat Mar 20, 2021, 11:20 AM

Mar 2021

... calling me "Wilfred Brimley Jr".

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

Midnight Writer

(21,745 posts)

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