1,000 Unforgettable Senior Moments: Of Which We Could Remember Only 254

1,000 Unforgettable Senior Moments: Of Which We Could Remember Only 254

by Tom Friedman
1,000 Unforgettable Senior Moments: Of Which We Could Remember Only 254

1,000 Unforgettable Senior Moments: Of Which We Could Remember Only 254

by Tom Friedman

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Overview

The president who left the nuclear launch codes in a suit at the dry cleaners. The novelist who put the orange juice outside and the kitten in the refrigerator. The Russian general who left home in full military dress . . . minus his pants. The famous sex goddess who blew the same line through 52 takes. And the rock star who no longer remembers 1975. Filled with classic lapses, gaffes, and mental bloopers, 1,000 Unforgettable Senior Moments is a fabulous and witty gift for anyone of a certain age. And now it is updated, revised with more than 20 percent new stories, and repackaged in two color, making it an even more vibrant, visually appealing, fresh, and compellingly readable book.

Anyone who’s ever had a mental lapse will empathize with relative spring chicken Nicki Minaj, who, while accepting a BET Viewers’ Choice Award, forgot why she was receiving the statuette (on live national television, no less). Or the team of astrophysicists who believed they had discovered proof of alien life—only to discover the signals were coming from the lunchroom microwave. Here’s a best man forgetting to show up at the wedding, a musician leaving his priceless cello in a cab, the bank robber who wrote a holdup note on a paycheck stub that had his name and address printed on it, and the Fox studio chief who, when pressed by his leading lady to remember her name, offered “. . . Cleopatra?”

 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780761193678
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Publication date: 05/16/2017
Edition description: Second Edition, Revised
Pages: 192
Sales rank: 387,432
Product dimensions: 4.20(w) x 6.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Tom Friedman is a writer, editor, and executive producer who worked for public television's preeminent producing station, WGBH Boston, for nearly 25 years. In 1996, he won a Peabody Award for the science documentary series Odyssey of Life. He is also the author of two books about business: Life and Death on the Corporate Battlefield, with Paul Solman, and Up the Ladder.

Read an Excerpt

ALTHOUGH NOT AS GREAT AS IT COULD HAVE BEEN

When Richard Nixon arrived in Paris for the funeral of French President Georges Pompidou in April 1974, his mind must have been elsewhere. At the airport he declared, “This is a great day for France!”

AND PLEASE GIVE MY REGARDS TO HIS LOVELY WIFE

Sir Thomas Beecham (1879–1961), the founder of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, once ran into a distinguished-looking woman in the lobby of a hotel. Although he could not remember her name, he thought he knew her. When he engaged her in conversation, he vaguely recollected that she had a brother. Hoping for any clue to her identity, he asked her how her brother was and whether he was still working at the same job. “Oh, he’s very well,” said Princess Mary about George VI, “and still king.”

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