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Meg Grant

Here’s a chance for you to be part of our conversation with the keynote speaker at AARP’s Life@50+ National Event in Miami. Robin Roberts, the 54-year-old coanchor of ABC’s Good Morning America, is the most trusted person on television, according to recent surveys. She has openly shared both the…
Movie fans were drowning in choice at AARP's Life@50+ event in Boston last week.
The first hint that the just-released documentary film Pretty Old is something special is its title. It's not Really Old. Or simply Old. It's Pretty Old, as in, yeah, kinda, sorta old, but so what? And also, the conscious pairing of the two adjectives - pretty, as in beautiful, and old, as in wise.
The 51-year-old actress and granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway admits that she has spent most of her life terrified that the mental illness, addiction and suicidal tendencies suffered by so many of her family members-among others, her famous grandfather and sister Margaux both committed…
Dayton O. Hyde describes the 13,000 acres of land in South Dakota that is home to his Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary, along with the wild horses that live there, as "a national treasure." Hyde himself, an 88-year-old cowboy conservationist, is as precious a national treasure, a hero fighting to…
Elton John, whose first solo studio album in seven years comes out today, told University of Southern California students treated to a free concert of his last week, "You have to keep trying and improving. Coasting is dangerous. I can't just play 'Bennie and the Jets' over and over again."
Finally, a film that shines a light on a supporting cast-and, man, can they sing! Twenty Feet From Stardom tells the stories of several backup vocalists for the greatest rock and pop acts of our time. Legends like Bruce Springsteen, Mick Jagger, Sting, Madonna and Stevie Wonder appear in this…
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