"Carl Reiner:" "Every morning before having breakfast," "I pick up my newspaper, get the obituaries section, and see if I'm listed." "If I'm not, I'll have my breakfast." "Jesus." "Oh." "There was a picture of me alongside Polly Bergen, who had passed away." "I had not, I don't think." "I'm good." "They obviously didn't have a good picture of her alone." "But I wish they hadn't picked a picture that scared the shit out of me." "♪ Out of the tree of life I just picked me a plum ♪" "♪ You came along and everything started to hum ♪" "♪ Still it's a real good bet the best is yet to come ♪" "♪ The best is yet to come and, babe, won't that be fine?" "♪" "♪ You think you've seen the sun ♪" "♪ But you ain't seen it shine ♪" "♪ Wait till the warm-up's underway ♪" "♪ Wait till our lips have met ♪" "♪ Wait till you see that sunshine day ♪" "♪ You ain't seen nothin' yet ♪" "♪ The best is yet to come and, babe, won't that be fine?" "♪" "♪ The best is yet to come come the day you're mine ♪" "♪ Come the day you're mine ♪" "♪ I'm gonna teach you to fly ♪" "♪ We've only tasted the wine ♪" "♪ We're gonna drain the cup dry ♪" "♪ Wait till your charms are right ♪" "♪ For these arms to surround ♪" "♪ You think you've flown before, but you ain't left the ground ♪" "♪ Wait till you're locked in my embrace ♪" "♪ Wait till I draw you near ♪" "♪ Wait till you see that sunshine place ♪" "♪ Ain't nothin' like it here ♪" "♪ The best is yet to come and, babe, won't that be fine?" "♪" "♪ The best is yet to come come the day you're mine ♪" "♪ Out of the tree of life I just picked me a plum. ♪" "Reiner:" "For some reason, that Polly Bergen obituary stayed with me." "Polly passed away at 84, but I'm in my 90s, and I have friends who are in their 90s." "How come we got the extra years?" "And it's not just that they've reached a certain number;" "They're thriving." "I myself am writing every day, just like I've been doing most of my life." "More and more, I hear about people who are 30 years past retirement age and refuse to retire." "What's up with that?" "Was it luck, good genes, modern medicine?" "Or are we doing something right?" "So, I have this nephew George." "He's more than a nephew." "He's also a friend and my manager." "The other day we were talking, and it turns out he's been asking that exact same question..." "Why are so many people living such active lives into their 90s?" "So he says, "Yeah, yeah, I know."" "But I feel I do my thing." "I take walks."" "George Shapiro:" "When it comes to making the most out of life after 90," "I have two personal heroes..." "Carl and Betty Seinfeld." "Betty Seinfeld, a lovely lady." "She was just full of love and laughter and joy." "She didn't make it to a hundred, but she lived her 99 years to the fullest, and she's always in my heart." "Carl was a total inspiration for me after he turned 90 because of his productivity and his commitment to being vital and involved." "♪ I'm Carl Reiner and I'm real O.G. ♪" "♪ I'm rapping on "Latifah" for the world to see ♪" "♪ All other MCs, give me my due ♪" "♪ No one spits out rhymes like this old Jew. ♪" "Holla!" "Shapiro:" "Since he turned 90, he wrote five books." "He's... and he started on his sixth book." "His computer is always busy." "There's never a time when he hasn't got something working in his computer, which I love." "You seem like you're very knowledgeable about the Internet." "You're very good at sending out photographs, and you sort of seem to know the whole culture of the Internet." "A little bit, yes." "You do selfies, which I can't believe." "Well, there's a thing called the selfie, but a wonderful..." "I feel so proud." "When you come up with something original... he was backstage, and I wanted to do a selfie with him." "Then I came up..." "I said, "I want to do something better than the selfie,"" "so I did a selfishie." " A selfishie, yeah." " A selfishie, but I let him be the star of the selfishie." "Conan O'Brien:" "There we are." "Reiner: ♪ My heart is singing brightly ♪" "♪ And it's all because you're here ♪" "♪ When I'm not near the girl I love ♪" "♪ I love the girl I'm near... ♪" "Shapiro:" "So, I suggested that we make a documentary about having fun and enjoying life after 90, and Carl thought that was a fantastic idea." "Shapiro:" "Many people have a lot of misconceptions about what it's like to be 90, and most of those are not positive." "When I'm 90," "I think it's gonna be very hard to walk." "I wouldn't get to do everything I used to be able to do, and it's possible I won't be alive." "Could you give us the secret of your longevity?" "Well, the major thing, the major thing is that I never, ever touch fried food." "I..." "I don't eat it." "I wouldn't look at it, and I don't touch it." "And... and never run for a bus." "There'll always be another." "Even if... even if you're late for work, you know," "I never run for a bus." "I never ran." "I just strolled, jaunty, jolly, walking to the bus stop, you know." "Dan Buettner:" "If you ask the average American what the optimal formula of longevity is, they probably couldn't tell you." "They've probably heard of the South Beach Diet or the Atkins Diet, and you have the USDA Food Pyramid." "There's a lot of confusion around what really helps us live longer, better." "Reiner:" "When you want to learn about something, it helps you to go to an expert." "Believe it or not, this young man is one of America's experts on longevity and living well." "I was curious about what he had learned about staying vital throughout your entire life." "The happiest people in America..." "this is according to Gallup..." "Are interacting face-to-face six to seven hours a day, not on Facebook." "We evolved with these traits." "We succeed as a species, because we know how to collaborate and interact, and that in turn brings us joy, this simple act of sitting down to breakfast with somebody or lunch with somebody or meeting for happy hour." "Most of the things that are really good for us, we like to do." "Mel Brooks:" "I was just out of the Army." "I was just beginning to write "The Show of Shows."" "It was the first year of "The Show of Shows" you were on, but it was the second year of Sid Caesar being on the air." "I remember that." "And we became friends, and he said," ""What are you doing this weekend?"" "And I said, "What I do every weekend..."" "I walk around the streets." "I have a paper cup." "I do a little dance in doorways." ""I put the cup down." "Sometimes I make money."" "He said, "Come to Fire Island."" "I said, "Okay." So, he took me to Fire Island." "He didn't have a real place for me to sleep, but there was a..." "There was, like, a window." " An alcove." " An alcove that jutted out with some cushions, and he said, "You could sleep here." I said, "Oh, great."" "That was instead of sleeping on somebody's porch." "Which might have been mine." "I lived next door." "He took me out there for a weekend, Fire Island, very sweet." "Reiner:" "My kids were about six and four at the time, and I said, "Don't get frightened in the morning when you wake up."" "There's gonna be a man sleeping in that thing."" "Brooks:" "I went to sleep at about 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning, which I normally do." "I was sound asleep at 6:00 in the morning when..." "He's asleep there." "They wake up very early." "Mel Brooks hears, "Is that the man?"" "I said, "That's the man." "That's the man."" ""That's not the man." "That's the man." "He's sleeping." He says, "Let's see."" "And they touch his eye to see if he's sleeping, 'cause he was quivering a little." "And he's looking at them." "He's awake." "He's awake." "And then I said, "I'm the man."" " "I'm the man," he said." " "I'm the man."" "They were sweet kids." "They woke me up." "But it was very kind of Carl." "You know this is 61 years ago" " you're talking about?" " Yeah." "Reiner:" "This isn't a story about looking back." "But on the other hand, by the time you reach 90, you've seen and done a hell of a lot... and you're lucky if you still have friends who remember those times." "One of my oldest friends is an Army buddy..." "Stan Harper." "Reiner:" "He plays the classics..." "Bach, Beethoven, Mozart." "He played with every major orchestra throughout the world." "Just a year ago, he was celebrated by a thousand other harmonica players for being the world's greatest harmonica player." "Harper:" "My favorite things in life?" "Well, number one, it's called breathing." "That's the prime thing." "When I was about 10 years of age, walking out in the street," "I found a harmonica near the curb." "I locked myself in the bathroom with it for five hours." "When I came out, I could play the thing." "I went into show business." "I was, like, 12 years of age when I left home and went out on the road." "I used to lie about my age." "My harmonica band did the movie "One-Third of a Nation"" "with Sylvia Sidney and Leif Erickson." "I was 14 years old." "When the war got going and the Japanese attacked," "I wanted to join the Army." "They started this entertainment unit, a special unit... that had some of the greatest talents that were ever gathered in one place." "There were maybe nine of us who were formerly in show business, music arrangers, musicians, and a comic." "We did shows." "We did the costumes, everything... direction." "And it was just a marvelous group of people." "And that's where I met Carl Reiner." "It's a funny thing about people." "You could meet somebody, and you get a feeling about them." "I had this feeling when I met Carl." "He was a good human being." "What keeps me going are different friends that I've had in my life that I think back." "Carl and I were friends all the way through." "He was such a sweet guy, and he came out one day just walking around with a dog leash with no dog in it." "I laughed like crazy." "Buettner:" "The best science tells us that the capacity of the human body..." "My body, your body..." "Is about 90 years, little bit more for women, but life expectancy in this country is only 78." "So somewhere along the line, we're leaving about 12 good years on the table." "We think the best way to get these missing years is to look at the cultures around the world that are actually experiencing them..." "Places like Sardinia, Icaria, and Okinawa." "The older you get, the more celebrated you are." "When you hit 60, 70, 80, 90, you're not only expected to get up and enjoy your life, you're expected to contribute." "The people around them have said," ""You matter." "We want you to stay engaged."" "If you feel like you're needed, you rise to the occasion." "Having a reason to get up in the morning is important." "About 40% of how happy or not you are is driven by genes, about 15% is driven by circumstances in life, but then about 40% or so is up to you." "If you're dealt a crappy hand when it comes to your outlook in life or your optimism, you can always better your hand by doing a number of things." "And I'm not a big believer in positive psychology, but I am a big believer that you can shape your environment to stack the deck in favor of a better life at any age." "Ida Keeling:" "I don't never consider myself old, never did." "I love a challenge." "If you don't take care of yourself, nobody else will." "You've got to be the boss of your body." "At the age of 67, I started running because I was down in the dumps over the death of my sons." "Shelley Keeling:" "My brothers were enticed by some of the evils that are on the street." "Ida:" "They got into the drug thing." "Shelley:" "You raise your children, but there's always a force out there that is competing with you for your child's attention, for their soul, and my brothers fell victim to those temptations." "One was murdered, and then two years eight months later, the other one was murdered." "Ida:" "My sons was murdered so close together, both of 'em." "That was finished for me, and I was just so depressed at that time." "Shelley:" "My mother was just sinking so fast, and I said to her, "Mom, you had four children,"" "but I have one mother." ""You have to get up, and you have to keep living."" "Ida:" "I just couldn't get myself together until my daughter asked me to go on a mini-run." "I said, "Well, okay," so I went on the mini-run." "Come to find out it was a 5K." "Shelley:" "I told her, "Just run." "Just get in and run."" "She was 67 and she competed, and when she finished the race, she said that she felt like a great burden had been lifted off of her." "When I came back, I felt so different." "I felt sort of I had come out of a shell." "Shelley:" "So thereafter, we raced, like, every week." "Ida:" "Long Island and Brooklyn and Jersey and Georgia." "Shelley:" "At 80 years old, she did the World Athletic Veterans Games that was in Buffalo, New York, and she finished third for the U.S.A." "Ida:" "What I like about running..." "the best exercise out there." "It just moves everything." "When the gun go off, pow..." "Whew... you gone." "In the apartment, I work out on my bike, and I got weights, and I do that every day for at least a half-hour and sometimes a whole hour." "Rather than go to a doctor, I'd rather exercise." "I believe in eat for nutrition, not for taste." "Like too much salt, sugar, a bunch of grease, just everything that tastes good, no good." "And the other thing is do what you need to do, not what you want to do." "Now I'm chasing myself." "There's nobody to compete with." "Announcer:" "We're here at Franklin Field for the 2016 Penn Relays." "Shelley:" "Recently, Mom competed in the largest track meet in the country." "All the media were there..." "ABC, NBC." "Announcer:" "In lane three, here is Ida Keeling, 100 years old." "Shelley:" "When you think about the sorrow." "Mom had to overcome to get here, and now thousands of people were cheering for her." "Announcer:" "The crowd is on their feet." "Shelley:" "And millions more were watching her on the news." "Announcer:" "100 meters at 100 years old." "Shelley:" "It just makes me feel so proud of her." "Ida:" "My goal is to just keep running and to hope always that I'd be some encouragement to others and just feel strong and stay strong." "You've got to have the will." "Where there's a will, there's a way, and if you got the will, you gonna find a way, and that is no lie." "Michael Schlesinger:" "And here he comes now." "Ladies and gentlemen, the true Renaissance man of American comedy, Mr. Carl Reiner." "I am 93 years old, and this may be my last interview." "Rowan?" "Jerry Seinfeld:" "I first met Carl Reiner when I was a little kid at a show in Westbury, Long Island, where Alan King was performing." "My parents took me to the show." "And as we were leaving, I ran off and found the dressing room where Alan King was." "And there was Alan King, and I had the program, and I got his autograph." "And Alan King says, "Do you know who this man is?"" "And it was Carl Reiner." "I says, "Yeah", that's Carl Reiner from 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'"" "And I got his autograph, too." "20 years later, I had become a stand-up comedian, and I was doing this HBO special, and we needed somebody to introduce me." "I've seen the show that we're about to see now, and I know the work that went into it, and I know how brilliant it is, and it would make me sick if you flipped those channels while this show is on," "so I'm going to have to ask you to please give me your remote controls." "I'm gonna have to ask you to confiscate them, please." "May I have your remote controls?" "Seinfeld:" "Carl very graciously offered to do it." "And at that time, I didn't even recall that I had this autograph from 20 years earlier." "Yeah?" "Seinfeld:" "So, I did the pilot for "Seinfeld" in '89." "We shot the pilot on the same stage as "The Dick Van Dyke Show."" "Boy, the Mets blew it tonight, huh?" "Oh!" "What are you doing?" "Kessler, it's a tape!" "Seinfeld:" "Carl came down to wish us luck." "And even then, I hadn't recalled that I had this autograph in my drawer and kept all these years." "Reiner:" "Hello." " Seinfeld:" "Carl?" " Yeah." " It's Jerry." " Oh, Jerry, yes." "How are you?" "So then we jump forward to 2014." "What do you think of it so far?" " It is quite beautiful." " As a car, it's horrible." " Really?" " Yeah." "But it's a nice living room with wheels." "Seinfeld:" "Carl agreed to be on my new little experimental program called "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee,"" "which was my valentine to the life of being a comedian." "I saw Alan King do two hours of the most brilliant stuff on his family, his brothers." "I met you at an Alan King show at the Westbury Music Fair." "That's it!" "That's the time." "I only saw him one time my whole life." " That's..." " I was eight years old." "Seinfeld:" "And that's when it hit me, right in the middle of chatting with him, and I kept that program my whole life." "I still have it, because it was so valuable to me." "Westbury Music Fair 1967 program." "There's Alan King, and then there was another guy in that dressing room, and I got his autograph, too." "Schlesinger:" "Now, you've been busy writing books." "Yes, and it's called, "Why and When 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' Was Born."" "There are great, great pictures in it." "The genesis of "The Dick Van Dyke Show"" "was a show I had written called "Head of the Family."" "Your son dislikes you." "What are you saying?" "How can he dislike me?" "I'm his father." "Some children have been known to hate their fathers." "He's only six years old." "He doesn't know me long enough to hate me." "Reiner:" "One summer, I wrote a pilot, and Peter Lawford picked up the money for the pilot, and he said, "Send a copy of it to Joseph P. Kennedy."" "That's the head of the Kennedy clan." "And I said, "Why would I have to send it to him?"" "He says, "Well, it's Kennedy money."" "He wants to make sure that the ethics and the morals are..."" "I says, "Joseph P. Kennedy"" "is gonna be an arbiter of my ethics?"" "Anyway, "Head of the Family" didn't work." "It was okay." "I shoved it aside, but I had 13 episodes, and it bothered people, my agent especially, that they were gold to be mined." "And he gave the scripts to Sheldon Leonard." "So, he said, "We love these 13 scripts."" "And I said, "Sheldon, I don't want to fail with the same material twice."" "And I... by the way, this is a pretty good impression of him." "He said, "You won't fail."" "We'll get a better actor to play you."" "And he did." "He suggested Dick..." "He suggested Dick Van Dyke, and the rest is... is my history." "Reiner:" "If you want to talk about vitality, a great place to start is Dick Van Dyke." "♪ If I was a bird flying high in the sky... ♪" "Reiner:" "Professionally and personally," "Dick has played maybe the hugest part in my life." "♪ ...such a restless heart ♪" "♪ We could be together ♪" "♪ I mean never apart ♪" "♪ And if I was a beetle crawling at your feet ♪" "♪ If I was a car and I hit you... ♪" "Reiner:" "Whenever I'm asked what's the most memorable thing I ever did, hands down I always say "The Dick Van Dyke Show."" "♪ I mean never good-bye... ♪" "Reiner:" "Dick has never stopped." "He's still acting, dancing, singing." "♪ You hit the road ♪" "♪ It's all my fault... ♪" "Reiner:" "At 90, he is the most agile human being" " I've ever seen in my life." " ♪ Oh, I know... ♪" "You know, the best thing about show business is the memories you have of people you work with who tickle you." "I mean, you go to work and you laugh." " Oh, yeah." " What's better than that?" "Hi there." "Remember me?" "Hi." "Hi, Alan." "Uh, Alan, whatever you were gonna say to Laura," "I would rather you said to me." "Okay, Rob, if that's the way you want it." "Everybody says, "What was it about the show that makes it last?"" "I said, "We told the truth about ourselves", and everybody's similar."" "They have lovely times with their family, tough times with their..." "But if you write about who you are, you're not that different than anybody else." "Of course not." "You may be taller, funnier-looking, handsomer, like you are." "What happened to this guy?" "He got all gray." "Oh, my God." "You got a book coming out." "A publisher asked me to write a book about growing old or how to grow old correctly or something, and I said, "It'll be a thin volume..." "Keep moving."" "You know, that's about it." "But I did finish it, and it's coming out in print." "I put at the beginning how I started exercising." "It was..." "I was in a Broadway show, and I went down one day between shows." "Under the stage, all the dancers had all kind of exercise equipment, so I joined them." "I got back to the dressing room, and I was kind of pumped up, you know." ""Hey, this is all right." So I started doing it." "But my motives changed." "At 30, I exercised to look good." "In my 50s, I exercised to stay fit." "In my 70s, I exercised to stay ambulatory." " Yes." " In my 80s," "I exercised to avoid assisted living." " Who wouldn't?" " And in my 90s, it's just gonna be out of defiance." "People are scared to death of age." "That's one of the purposes of this book, that... don't fear it." "You know, meet it head-on." "But things become harder." "There's no doubt about that." "I have people who say to me, "You look good."" "Nobody, when I was 30, said, "You look good."" "What they mean is, "You don't look dead."" "I love having somewhere to go." "It has never been work to me." "It's play." "What is the biblical admonition?" "When you grow up, you know, set aside the things of childhood." "It doesn't mean imagination and creativity and dreaming." "In my business, imagination is everything." "♪ So you think that you've got trouble?" "♪" "♪ Well, trouble's a bubble ♪" "♪ So tell old Mr. Trouble to get lost... ♪" "Look your age, but don't act it." "You don't have to act serious to be serious, I don't think." "♪ When you find the joy of living is loving and giving ♪" "♪ You'll be there... ♪" "I'm afraid that I never act..." "I don't know what is appropriate behavior for any age, anyway." "♪ A smile is just a frown that's turned upside down ♪" "♪ So smile and that frown'll defrost ♪" "♪ And don't forget to keep your fingers crossed. ♪" "Dick:" "I think you've got to learn to go with the flow." "Thanks for coming." "Hi." "Dick:" "Living in the present is really all you have." "So what do the Buddhists say?" "You need someone to love and something to do to feel of value." "♪ Step in time, step in time ♪" "♪ Never need a reason, never need a rhyme. ♪" "Boy, he's got it down." "I think I'm faking vitality." " He's got vitality." " Yeah." "He drives." "He goes to New York." "He goes back." "He's amazing." "Lear:" "I like living in the moment." "I think there are two words that we don't understand the importance of, little words..." ""over" and "next."" "When something is over, it's over, and then comes next." "If there was a hammock in the middle between over and next, that would be what they mean by living in the moment." "I think the culture stereotypes everything." "Because I'm 93, I'm supposed to behave a certain way." "Morning." "The fact that I can touch my toes shouldn't be so amazing to people if the culture really understood what it is to be older and didn't make such a big fuss about it or fear of it." "Here is a copy of Norman's schedule," "Lynn's schedule." "Lear:" "But in a way, I am the age of whoever I'm talking to." "I'm the peer of whoever I'm talking to." "If I'm talking to a 50-year-old, I'm 50." "When I talk to a 12-year-old, I'm 12." "Yeah, we're going off the same agenda of lists, but it's now on the bottom of page two." "Lear:" "Netflix has ordered 13 episodes of a Latina version of a show I did 30 years ago called "One Day at a Time."" "There are no cons of being 93." "They're all pros." "Just being alive is a glory." "Patricia Morison:" "♪ Brush up your Shakespeare ♪" "♪ Start quoting him now ♪" "♪ Brush up your Shakespeare and the women you will wow ♪" "♪ Just declaim a few lines from "Othella" ♪" "♪ And she'll think you're a hell of a fella ♪" "♪ If your blonde won't respond when you flatter her ♪" "♪ Tell her what Tony told Cleopatterer ♪" "Life is the main gift that we have, and as long as you're here, eat it up." "Hold it." "The world is a fabulous place." "And as long as you meet wonderful people in your life, hold on to them, because they're gifts." "Norman Lear commandeered, or got, a house that had five bedrooms and single-handedly, or maybe double-handedly, is responsible for five couples having the best three weekends in our lives." "Lear:" "I remember a couple of weekends where we got up on Saturday morning in bedclothes." "We had breakfast." "We never got out of the bedclothes." "Reiner:" "We called the club that we had "Yenemvelt."" "My mother used to talk about Yenemvelt, meaning the other world." "In other words, something good was gonna happen to you, but it won't be here." ""We're too poor." "It'll happen in Yenemvelt."" "And we had a song." "Now let's see if we can remember the song." "It's very difficult." " Reiner:" "It's a very difficult..." " The lyric... ♪ O Yenemvelt, O Yenemvelt ♪" "♪ O Yenemvelt, O Yenemvelt ♪" " ♪ O Yenemvelt... ♪" " Here's the tricky part." "♪ O Yenemvelt ♪" "♪ O Yenemvelt, O Yenemvelt ♪" "♪ O Yenemvelt, O Yenemvelt ♪" "♪ There is no velt ♪" "♪ Like Yenemvelt. ♪" "I'm asking you, sir, how song came..." "So, song came about when you really had to communicate, but you were in trouble." "♪ A lion is eating my foot off ♪" "♪ Somebody call a cop... ♪" "♪ A lion is eating my foot off... ♪" "Vitality is the intersection of long life and active life." "It's not only living a long time, but it's living in an engaged way, where you're actually enjoying it and not just showing up." "Number one, you're still physically fit." "Number two, you're still cognitively aware." "Number three, you're living out your passions and living out your values." "Number four, you're contributing." "You're feeling a sense of contribution." "And, five, that you have a feeling of ongoing achievement in your life." "Porchon-Lynch:" "I did yoga for the first time when I was eight." "I saw a group of boys on the beach in India, and they were doing yoga." "And I thought, "That's a wonderful new game,"" "and they let me join in with them." "And I went and told my aunt, and she said, "Oh, my goodness, Tao."" "That's yoga." ""That's not ladylike."" "And I said, "Well, if boys can do it, I can do it."" "When I was a little girl, my uncle was a friend of Mahatma Gandhi." "I marched with Gandhi when I was 12." "I just felt that if I could do something just to help people..." "Open up, and then just bring your hands in front, and then cross them over." "I teach yoga, 'cause I watch people, and they don't breathe properly, and I see people suffering." "And just push up." "I wanted to show them how to breathe correctly." "Inhale, and back to center." "Open the hands." "When I take a breath," "I open the door to my heart." "One day, it was snowing like mad, and the dance students didn't turn up to dance, and mine didn't turn up to do yoga with me, and so they said to me, "Do you dance?"" "I said, "Only a little bit."" "But I do want to go before I die" ""to Argentina to dance the tango."" "So they said, "Why don't you start tonight?"" "So, in the middle of the snowstorm," "I started to dance, and I haven't stopped since." "A lot of people are asking me about getting old, so my answer is this." "Don't sit there thinking about what you can't do." "When you get up in the morning, think this is going to be the best day of your life." "It's the dance of life within you." "Within us is the power to do anything." "I was very limber as a young person." "I could put my feet behind my head." "That was the first act I ever did when I was in the first grade." "And for Christmas, we had to do something." "Somebody sang." "Somebody tap danced." ""What can you do?"" "I could put both my hands..." "Feet behind my head and walk on my hands." "And I went to other classrooms, and I did that for my first performance." "Typically, in America we've divided our adult life up into two sections." "There's our work life, where we're productive, and then one day, boom, we retire." "Reiner:" "Dan Buettner has five essential qualities of vitality, but I'd like to add a sixth... humor." "♪ My wife and I just parted ♪" "♪ I'm back where where I started ♪" "♪ Like a bachelor when I was a kid ♪" "♪ But when I started moving ♪" "♪ My wife said disapproving ♪" "♪ "Stay right here, it's better," so I did..."" "Reiner:" "If you can't laugh, your life can be pretty empty, and the great Fyvush Finkel knows how to get laughs." "Fyvush Finkel:" "Now I'm 92, you know." "Half of my life is gone already." "Okay, what are we having today?" "I'll have a brisket sandwich, a hot brisket sandwich." "Gravy on the side?" "Gravy on the side." " I don't want to be killed." " Okay." "Finkel:" "Food is very important, especially when you're 90." "It gives you the energy that you need." "And in my profession, you gotta have energy." "As soon as I get on that stage," "I have all the energy in the world." "♪ My life's so glamorous... ♪" "When I was 90, I did a play called "Fyvush Finkel Live"" "for three weeks, eight performances a week." "I loved it." "Was sold out, too, you know, and that made it even feel better." " Here we go, my love." " Here, look at this." "You see what's happening here?" "A feast." "So I feel like a king now." " See?" " And my queen" " is my beautiful waitress here." " That's right." "When I was 90, I got very important work." "I did a film for the Coen Brothers." "David Kelley told me he's got two new series coming, that he wants me to appear in one of them." "Other things, all at 90 and up." "All at 90 and up." "A legend, and it's great to meet you." "Finkel:" "Oh, thank you." "May I tell you, young lady, there's nothing more boring than a clean old man." "Finkel:" "I want to do a revue in the theater." "I'm ready." "I mean, it's not a big investment, because it has an orchestra and myself." "90 minutes, I could do that." "♪ And even if love comes through the door ♪" "♪ The kind that goes on forevermore ♪" "♪ Forevermore is shorter than before ♪" "♪ Oh, I'm so glad ♪" "♪ That I'm not young anymore... ♪" "That's half of it." "The other half, you'll have to pay." "Brooks:" "You remind me of the Jews in the mountains." "They went to the Catskills, to the Nevele, to the Reveille, to the Schmevele." "They went to all these places." "And a lot of them died." ""Why did they die?" You ask." " Why did they die?" " Why did they die?" " I'll tell you why they died." " Tell me." "What killed them was they all loved the song called "Dancing in the Dark."" " Everybody did." " Brooks:" "And they loved it, but..." " Fred Astaire." " The Jews didn't know that it was such a really rangy song." "It was very high." "Here's the way Crosby sang it in 1931." "♪ Dancing in the dark ♪" "♪ Till the tune ends ♪" "♪ Waltzing in the dark soon ends ♪" "♪ We can face the music together ♪" "♪ Dancing as we're dancing in the dark. ♪" " That's how high it goes." " Yes." "Jews... ♪ Dancing in the dark... ♪" "Already trouble." "Already." "♪ Till the tune ends ♪" "♪ We're waltzing in the dark ♪" "♪ And it soon ends ♪" "♪ And we can face the music together ♪" "♪ Dancing in... ♪" "Stroke!" "Dead!" "And they would all die on that note." "Many Jews would die." "What you do for this Jew is just added six years to my life." "Oh, bless you." "You can't laugh that hard without... without it adding time." "I mean that from the bottom of my heart." "You mean laughing will keep you alive?" "No, while you're alive, you can laugh." "When you're dead, the laughter is so difficult." " But we don't know that." " So difficult." "When all of us were young, we probably all enjoyed reading fairy tales." "I mean very young." "We read stories about witches and demons and giants and trolls, and it was fun." "You get a little bit older, you can't read fairy tales anymore." "You're too old." "But then along comes superhero comic books, and I think they appeal to the same part of you that fairy tales did." "When I was in the Army, I wrote instructional manuals." "And one day I got a letter from the commander of the finance department, and they were having trouble because morale was very low." "They weren't heroes." "They were doing payroll forms." "Could I write a marching song for them that would lift up their spirits?" "And I wrote a song to the tune of the Air Force song, you know, "Off we go into the wild blue yonder."" "So I wrote for them... ♪ Off we go into our office yonder ♪" "♪ At our desks morning till night ♪" "♪ Far away from any battle's thunder ♪" "♪ We pay off the fellas who fight ♪" "♪ Clerks alert ♪" "♪ Guarding our books from blunder ♪" "♪ Payroll forms clutter the floor ♪" "♪ We write, compute, sit tight to boot ♪" "♪ Nothing will stop the fiscal director!" "♪" "Well, they loved it, and they used to march around the field singing it, and I got this commendation," ""Thank you for putting new spirit in their hearts."" "And so I really won the war single-handedly, practically, 'cause without the payroll people, the soldiers wouldn't be paid, and who knows what would've happened?" "I always tried to be with people who were smarter than I was, not easy to find." "Then you have something to try for." "You want to be as smart as that guy." "I like people who have great personalities, people who are fun to listen to when they talk." ""Hey, wouldn't it be great if we did this?"" ""How about... wouldn't this make a great movie?"" "Some actor said to me," ""Why don't we do a movie of your life?" "I'd love to do a film of your life."" "I said, "Nobody could do my life, 'cause nobody could play me."" ""Errol Flynn is dead."" "I am pretty energetic, but not as much as I used to be." "I used to wake up in the morning," ""Hello, world!" and I was raring to go." "Now I wake up in the morning," ""Oh, Christ, do I have to get up so soon?"" "I don't know if anybody has written a book about what it's like to be old." "Being old is like a whole new adventure." "You can't describe it to young people." "There's no way." "I'm like a cowboy who wants to die with his boots on." "I want to go in front of my computer while I'm typing something." "Reiner:" "The more I looked, the more I discovered vibrant, talented people in their 90s and beyond." "My dear, old friend Betty White is a comic, actor, an author, and an animal rights activist, par excellence." " Do you know why we're here?" " No." "It's our age." "It's not our beauty." "It's not our talent." "We are over 90." "Who's over 90?" "I am." "You're still 64?" "No." "Wait a minute." "I thought I was 60-something." "But you turn that upside down, and it's 90-something." "That's good." "You forgot to turn it upside down." "I forgot to turn it over." "Anyway, the thing is that my nephew George has this idea that people over 90 don't have to retire." "They can do things." "From 90 to 93, I've been more productive than I was when I was younger." "I think I have, too, because it's more fun." "You wrote a book." "Oh, I've written eight books." "Eight books." "But in the last two years?" "Yeah, yeah, yeah." "But it's fun, because you don't have to do it, and if..." "Look, if it doesn't work, I've had my career." "I'm not gonna worry about it." "But when you say you don't have to do it, you really have to do it." " We have to for ourselves." " Yeah, we have to." "I wake up, and if I don't have a computer to go to," "I wouldn't know where to go." "But we're blessed, both of us, with good health." "I think so." "That's the only thing that I care about, I..." "The fact that I can still walk around the block." "As I sing and walk around the block, I said, "That's it."" "If I didn't have that, I would be so sad." "Yeah, because you'd be a burden to people, and I don't want to be a burden to anybody," " except possibly..." " You'll never be a burden." " Robert Redford..." " Because you'll always be a sunny person." "You're sunny lying down, I'm sure." "I mean, in bed, you're quiet." "You smile." "I know you're a sunny person." "Yes, I'm a sunny person lying in bed with a smile." "Oh, no, that's another story." "I'm sorry." "Look how..." "Look how you don't lose your interest in sex, but you lose your power." "You lose your..." "What happened?" "Well, we got along fine, but he wouldn't go downtown, if you know what I mean." "What?" "I mean there are so many good restaurants" " and... and shops down there." " Oh!" "Hi." "Oh, Max." "Listen, Elka." "I don't want to lose you, so if you're still up for it," "I'm willing to try going downtown." "♪ A girl must be like a blossom ♪" "♪ With honey for just one man... ♪" "Morison:" "I was in "The King and I" with Yul Brynner." "♪ Must live like honeybee... ♪" "And somebody asked him what he thought of me, and he said, "I don't know."" "I haven't been to bed with her yet."" " Like this." " I had been rehearsing, and then he showed up during the rehearsal and said, "Good morning." "I'm happy to meet you."" "I'm happy you're in the show," and all this." ""Would you have dinner with me?"" "I said, "I can't." "I'm sorry, Mr. Brynner."" "Then he said, "Would you stop by my dressing room on the way out?"" "And I did." "Knocked on the door." "He said, "Come in." And I go in." "And he was sitting completely nude in front of the mirror." "And I said, "You wished to see me?"" "Looking him right in the eye," "I said, "You wished to see me, Mr. Brynner?"" "He said, "Well, you know I have to stay in my body."" "I said, "I understand."" "He said, "I just wanted to welcome you to the show."" "Who was the person who discovered the females?" "Bernie." "One morning, he got up smiling." "So, he said, "I think there's ladies here."" "So, I said, "What do you mean?" You know." "So, he said, "'Cause in the night," "I was thrilled and delighted, see?"" "So, then he went into such a story that it's hundreds of years later, I still blush." "I love women, but I was always scared to death of..." "I never asked a girl for a date in my life." "If they didn't ask me to go to the prom," "I didn't have a date." "But then I met someone less than half my age... and went head over heels for them, and it was one of the wisest things I ever did." "♪ Won't you play a simple melody ♪" "♪ Like my mother sang to me?" "♪" " ♪ One... ♪" " Dick:" "I started proposing." "I think every day I proposed to her, but she kept saying it'll never work." "You know, "The generational gap's too great," and all that." "♪ Musical demon, set your honey a-dreamin' ♪" "♪ Won't you play me some rag?" "♪" "Arlene:" "The only people that I had a role model for that kind of age difference is, like, Anna Nicole Smith, and look at..." "No one takes that serious." "♪ My copy of a tune that is choppy ♪" "♪ You'll get all my applause... ♪" "Arlene:" "I did a lot of research before I finally said okay." "And they said when you're in love with someone, you don't see the age anymore." "I went, "Come on."" " ♪ Musical demon ♪ - ♪ Won't you play ♪" " ♪ Set your honey a-dreamin' ♪ - ♪ Some simple melody?" "♪" "♪ Won't you play me some rag?" "♪" "♪ Just change that classical nag ♪" " ♪ Like my mama sang to me ♪ - ♪ To some sweet, beautiful drag... ♪" "He said his first marriage was, like, in 194..." " Eight." " I go, "What?"" "I mean, my mom was just born." "I mean, when I think about those kind of things, it blows my mind in that we get along so well." "I slowly would tell my close friends, and everybody was so happy about it." "I went, "Okay."" "And because everything was going so well with my friends, we were just gonna tell my mom." "And so Dick gave me this really nice brooch to kind of butter my mom up." "So, it was Thanksgiving, and I... after dinner," "I said, "Mom, so I'm seeing someone."" "And she... after, like, the fifth guess, she finally said, "Dick?"" "I went, "Yes." "Oh."" "And I went, "Here's this brooch."" "Dick:" "We're friends first." "You know, the honeymoon is soon over." "The notion of romance and that kind of love fades pretty quickly, but when you really care about the other person..." "I'm her best friend, and she's my best friend." "I just feel like we are a new model for a huge age difference." "It can work." "I mean, I don't think just I could get along with just any 90-year-old man this way." "He's just a very special human being, no matter how old he is." "Love is the basis of everything, the key to all enjoyment of living." "Love... people think of love as like, you know, marriage and their family." "You know, that's very hard to find, perfect love, in all these situations with humans, but you can find perfect love in a lot of other places." "Whether you're 9 or 90, do what you love, but do it every day." "Fields:" "The more I play, the happier I am." "Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, 12:00 noon to 3:00," "I work at the Park Room of the Park Lane Hotel." "Look at this view." "It's got these giant windows overlooking Central Park." "This is one of the most beautiful restaurants in New York City." "I played all of the Las Vegas hotels." "I did the Eddie Cantor show," ""The Ed Sullivan Show," "Kate Smith."" "It all happened, really, in 1946, when I started to write songs that became standards, like "Miami Beach Rumba."" "Then I wrote "Managua Nicaragua"... which was on the Hit Parade for 14 weeks, number one." "Frank Sinatra: ♪ Buy a hacienda for a few pesos down... ♪" "Irving:" "Frank Sinatra sang it so beautifully." "I compose music every day." "A man comes in, and I happened to be playing a Latin song." "He looks at me." "He says, "Hey, you play like a Cubano."" "He thought I was Cuban." ""I said," No, no, I'm not Cuban." "I'm a Latin from Manhattan."" "And something came to my mind..." "Music, notes... a creative idea." "And I wrote a song called "A Latin from Manhattan."" "I do things today at my age, at 100, that I was afraid to do 40, 50 years ago." "It was too difficult for me, and now it's a piece of cake." "I don't know why, but my fingers go like lightning and I play better." "I'm unstoppable." "♪ I'm a Latin from Manhattan ♪" "♪ I'm a Latin from Manhattan ♪" "♪ I'm a Latin from Manhattan. ♪" "Same thing." "A lot of people ask me," ""How come you don't have any wrinkles?"" "100 years old, no wrinkles." "Every morning," "I wash my face with ice-cold water." "I could work nine days a week and not be tired." "I go on and on and on because I love what I do." "Most people are interested in living a long and fruitful life that you have." "Fruit is good, too." "You mentioned fruit." "Fruit kept me going for 140 years once when I was on a very strict diet." "Mainly nectarines." "I love that fruit." "It's half a peach, half a plum." "Such a hell of a fruit." "I love it." " What has been..." " Even a rotten one." "A rotten one." "That's how much I love..." "Reiner:" "Someone who has a real passion for his work is Ray Olivere, one of the most celebrated portraitists in the country." "Olivere:" "I spend almost all the time in the studio." "This is my life here." "It's at the easel." "I started art school at the age of 10 in Wilmington." "I became an illustrator for an advertising agency on Madison Avenue." "I was a Mad boy." "And then my wife got me into portrait painting, and that's what I've been doing ever since." "Sometimes you get very excited about an idea." "I remember waking up in the middle of the night and getting a bolt of lightning and getting up out of bed and running to the drawing board and making sketches." "In my filing cabinet, I have many files of just ideas." "What motivates me is the desire to continually create new things." "Just don't lose your curiosity." "That's the big thing..." "Being curious." "Once you lose your curiosity, you might as well lie down and die." "Tony Bennett asked me to give the commencement speech at the high school for the performing arts that he founded in Queens called the Frank Sinatra School for the Performing Arts." "I gave my commencement speech, which was my three principles of life." "One is bust your ass." "Whatever you're doing, bust your ass." "Work as hard as you possibly can." "My second principle is pay attention." "Pay attention to what's around you all the time." "Appreciate what's around you all the time." "And my third principle of life is fall in love." "Fall in love, and love doesn't mean romantic love." "I believe fall in love with your parking space." "And this is something I kind of got from George Burns." ""He would say," This cup of coffee, I think, might be the greatest one I've ever had."" "It's kind of an old-school virtue, I think." "I don't know too many young people that have this." "I know a lot of older people that have it." "I think getting dressed is a creative experience, and I do it my way." "I'm not really interested in being current." "I think if you know who you are and what your style is, you'll always look good." "Can I just tell you?" "I think you're the coolest person ever, and you're an icon and awesome." "That's 'cause I'm a 93-year-old cover girl." "People ask me where I get my vitality, and to tell you the truth, I haven't got a clue." "I drag myself around." "I push myself beyond endurance, but that's how I am." "I guess the man upstairs is helping me." "For me, work is great fun." "I love what I do, and it's much more interesting than sitting around with a bunch of dopey dames." "Apfel:" "Hi." "How are you, darling?" "Man:" "Hello, darling." "How are you tonight?" "Nice to see... you're wet." "Apfel:" "Well, I think it's common sense that vitality comes from your spirit, from your soul." "And if you have friends and you have interests and you do things, you're going to be much more vital than if you just sit around and mope and say," ""Oh, I'm getting old." "I'm getting old."" "I'm very opposed to unnecessary facial reconstruction." "I think it's great if, you know, you're in a fire or you have a nose like Pinocchio." "I mean, if God is good to you and you get some extra years, what the devil do you want to worry about and try to look younger and look freaky?" "You undergo plastic surgery, you could come out looking like a Picasso painting, which is not very pretty." "We live in a society that has made people feel that aging and getting old is a dirty, rotten, evil thing." "Everything is anti-aging." "Everything that's sold to women is anti-aging or make you look younger." "Too many people are worried." "They're so worried about getting old." "I never think about getting old." "I think that's the worst thing to think about." "Living life is different for everybody, and I think people should just take advantage of being alive." "Reiner:" "Almost everyone I talked to about staying vital said how important it was to stay healthy, but good health is a wild card." "Sometimes eating right or staying fit isn't enough." "Is it possible to enjoy vital life even with health problems?" "I went to see the legendary Kirk Douglas to find out." "I can't tell you how thrilled I am to be with you." "See, you're not Kirk Douglas to me." "You're Spartacus." "You're Van Gogh." "And what you did with Spartacus and Dalton Trumbo, to this day, I'm still applauding." "Reiner:" "You did a one-man show in your 90s that was absolutely amazing." "I went to see it here." "When was that?" "How old were you..." "You know, I had a stroke, and I couldn't talk." "Now, what good is an actor who can't talk?" "What does an actor do who can't talk?" "Wait for silent pictures to come back." "Douglas:" "So, I did this show to prove that I could still function." "I didn't have much physical pain, but I had something worse..." "Depression, deep depression." "Now, my wife was a great help." "When I lay in bed feeling sorry for myself, she comes in, "Kirk, get your ass out of bed"" "and start working on your speech therapy."" "I had 65 years with the right woman." "The very last moment of her life, she was 94, and she was lying in bed and hadn't said a word in a day or two." "She hadn't eaten or anything, hadn't moved, just barely breathing." "I'm touching her." "She's not reacting to anything." "She's not hearing or seeing anything." "I said, you know, "Let Mom go out hearing herself sing."" "She's a wonderful jazz singer, and she has seven... six albums." "I put one of the album songs on." "I put "'A'" " You're Adorable."" "I said, "Play it loud so Mom can hear herself"" "as she... as she goes."" "♪ A, you're adorable ♪" "♪ B, you're so beautiful ♪" "♪ C, you're a cutie full of charm ♪" "♪ D, you're a darling ♪" "♪ And E, you're exciting ♪" "♪ And F, you're a feather in my arms ♪" "♪ G, you look good to me... ♪" "And then one of the hospice nurses says," ""She has such a beautiful, sweet voice."" "And Lucas went up to his mother and said," ""Ma, the nurse said you have a beautiful, sweet voice."" "And Estelle went like this." "She said, "Thank you," and passed away." "She heard everything we were doing." "That's the way I want to go." "When my mother died," "I was holding her hand." "Her eyes were closed, and then she opened her eyes and looked at my face, and she says, "Don't be scared."" " "It happens to everyone."" " Oh." "♪ It's fun to wander through ♪" "♪ The alphabet with you ♪" "♪ To tell you what you mean to me. ♪" "When I wake up in the morning, I never feel good." "When I open my eyes in the morning, when I'm lying down in bed, the first thing I feel is a deep depression." "All I think about is what I have to do today, and I don't think I can do it, and I don't feel good about myself, and things are not good." "That's my first thought every morning." "And as soon as I get out of bed, the second I am upright, it's all gone." "I go from feeling bad to feeling great." "The second you get out of bed, even if you're just washing your face, now at least I'm doing something." "And if you're doing something, your life is good." "If you're doing nothing, your life stinks." "Life is action." "There's nothing else to it." "Martin:" "Physically, parachuting is not hard." "All you have to do is make up your mind you're gonna go out the door." "There's nothing to it that way." "Now, all these skydivers you see, they get what's called a rush." "I don't feel a rush." "I feel a little bit of apprehension when I'm standing in the door, but I don't get this adrenaline rush that these people have." "I don't need that." "I didn't do it for that." "I was in the 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment." "I told the guys in the unit, when I get out, what I want to do is buy 50 acres of ground, get a job that I can support my family, and go down and get a hamburger once in a while," "and do whatever I want." "Well, I did that." "My wife and I built our own house." "And when I say we built it," "I don't mean we hired somebody and told them what to do." "We dug the footers." "We mixed all the concrete." "We did the whole damn works." "I still do hard work." "We heat with wood, and I cut and split the wood." "Now, I built this splitter in 1970, and it's been used ever since." "The age part is nothing." "I don't feel any different today than I did when I was 25 years old." "That's about a fifth of what I'll burn for the winter, so I got a lot more to cut yet." "People ask me what contributed to my living a long time, and I said, "Well, here it is..."" "No tobacco, no alcohol, and lots of good sex."" "This is the best part of my life." "I get up in the morning when I want to." "I go to bed when I want to." "To me, vitality means that you can do whatever you want regardless of what the clock says." "I'm completely free." "I don't owe anybody a dime." "Hell, it's a wonderful life." "Anybody can do it if they want." "There's nothing like it." "Dick:" "New experiences are the only thing you can collect in life that end up being worth it." "Yeah, we're with Mr. Dick Van Dyke and company." "Dick:" "Peter Von Lesbian." "Oh, say..." " Dick:" "You like that?" " I'm using that." " Marvin Gaye." " Here's Nat King Cole." " There's Dean Martin." " Dean Martin." "Stevie Wonder." " Dick:" "Together, we got almost everyone." " I know." " How are you?" " Just great." " Good to see you." "Hi." " Arlene:" "Hi." " How are you, Arlene?" " Good." "How are you?" "I watched them build this building, but I've never been inside of it." " You did?" " Yeah." "I remember when they built it." "Terry Wollman:" "Have you been in "A" before, in this room?" " I've never been in this building, ever." " You've never..." "I thought you had redone, like, some recording here." " No." " Oh, this is so cool." " And you haven't been here either?" " No." "I've never recorded a song or music." "This is a totally new experience for me." "Arlene:" "And then at Capitol Records my first time is crazy." "We're using the Frank mic on you." "Frank as in Frank Sinatra." " Oh, really?" " The same mic." " Oh, my God!" " Yeah." "Okay, here we go." "Three..." "♪ Fairy tales can come true ♪" "♪ It can happen to you ♪" "♪ If you're young at heart ♪" "♪ For it's hard, you will find ♪" "♪ To be narrow of mind ♪" "♪ If you're young at heart ♪" "♪ You can go to extremes with impossible schemes ♪" "♪ You can laugh when your dreams ♪" "♪ Fall apart at the seams ♪" "♪ And life gets more exciting with each passing day ♪" "♪ And love is either in your heart ♪" " ♪ Or on its way ♪ - ♪ Or on its way ♪" "♪ Don't you know that it's worth ♪" "♪ Every treasure on Earth ♪" "♪ To be young at heart?" "♪" "♪ For as rich as you are, it's much better by far ♪" " ♪ To be young at heart ♪ - ♪ To be young at heart ♪" "♪ And if you should survive to 105 ♪" "♪ Look at all you derive out of being alive ♪" "♪ And here's the best part ♪" "♪ You'll have a head start ♪" "Both: ♪ If you are among the very young at heart ♪" "Dick: ♪ Don't you know that it's worth ♪" "♪ Every treasure on Earth ♪" " ♪ To be young at heart?" "♪ - ♪ To be young at heart?" "♪" "♪ For as rich as you are, it's much better by far ♪" "♪ To be young at heart ♪" "♪ And if you should survive to 105 ♪" "♪ Look at all you derive out of being alive ♪" "Arlene: ♪ And here is the best part ♪" "Dick: ♪ You'll have a head start ♪" "Both: ♪ If you are among the very young at heart ♪" "♪ If you are among the very young at heart ♪" "♪ If you are among the very young ♪" "♪ If you are among the very young at heart. ♪" "Schlesinger:" "One final question." "At your age, do you worry a lot about peer pressure?" "No." "No, but I do..." "I do think about how am I gonna go." "And every once in a while if I feel a little, you know, not too well," "I'll say, "Is this the end of Rico?" That's from..." "Reiner:" "There's a story that I sometimes like to tell." "It's a good one, gets laughs." "I wake up in the morning, and I check the obituaries." "If I'm not in it, I'll have breakfast." "Reiner:" "But, you know, I have another obituary story." "A woman passed away today at 111." "It was very heartening." "She was at the San Francisco earthquake." "There were only two left, and she was 111." "She was at the quake." "I'm gonna shoot for that." "Schlesinger:" "Carl Reiner, ladies and gentlemen." "Man:" "Whoo!" "Schlesinger:" "Today was my birthday." "This is the best gift I've ever gotten, was being able to talk with you for an hour." "Thank you." "♪ You get the chance of life every day ♪" "♪ To join the dance of life every day ♪" "♪ Don't be afraid ♪" "♪ To open the door ♪" "♪ To do the things you've never done ♪" "♪ Before ♪" "♪ Today says "Hello there" ♪" "♪ It's putting on a show there ♪" "♪ The curtains are just getting parted ♪" "♪ Time to wake up ♪" "♪ You've got a front-row seat ♪" "♪ Things are new there ♪" "♪ Got so much to do there ♪" "♪ You feel like you're just getting started ♪" "♪ What a feeling ♪" "♪ Life could not be sweeter ♪" "♪ Just think of what lies ahead ♪" "♪ The road never taken ♪" "♪ And the books that wanna be read ♪" "♪ All the dreams to finally awaken ♪" "♪ Words of wisdom still to be said ♪" "♪ Write a novel or maybe paint a picture ♪" "♪ Whatever your heart may desire ♪" "♪ No need for someone to teach you how ♪" "♪ Just say "I'm just getting started now"... ♪" "George Burns had planned to do a show to celebrate his hundredth birthday." "He sadly did not quite make it." "Almost." "He was just a few months shy." "So I'm gonna try and fulfill that dream of his and make it to my hundredth, which would be April 29, 2054." "And he was gonna appear at Caesars in Las Vegas, which is where I perform now." "So I requested to hold that date." "♪ Find a rainbow ♪" "♪ Or maybe move a mountain ♪" "♪ Whatever you think makes you happy ♪" "♪ You've got permission to take a bow ♪" "♪ If every day ♪" "♪ You wake up and say ♪" "♪ "I'm just getting started now." ♪" "This is the very first thing" "I ever did on television." "I said there are stars in radio that are so good, beautiful voices, but they will never, ever make it in television." "And when I..." "I'm gonna..." "I'm gonna sing the way he sings, and I'm gonna show you why he will never make it." "Is this is it?" "Yeah, that's the cameraman." "♪ Those faraway places ♪" "♪ With strange-sounding names ♪" "♪ Faraway, faraway home ♪" "♪ Those faraway places ♪" "♪ I've been reading about ♪" "♪ Calling, calling me. ♪" "No more links!" "Stop sending links." "Everyone in the world, stop sending links." "No more links." "We've had too many links." "People sending me links." ""Did you get the link?" "I got the link."" ""Did you open the link?"" ""I haven't had a chance to open the link,"" "'cause I got a lot of links." "You gotta get in the link line." ""I'll get to your link."" "I get to your link." ""Did you open the link?"" ""I tried to open the link." "It didn't open."" ""Okay, I'm gonna resend you the link."" "So then they resend the link, and then you open the link." ""What... did you see it?" "Yeah, I saw it." "It's a fat guy tripping over a cat."" "That's the link." ""I'm gonna send you a link."" "It's me blowing my brains out if this is what life is about at this point." ""No more links!""