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  • 2003-09-23 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Andy Rooney Write 'In Praise of Older Women'? (en)
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  • Andy Rooney, the curmudgeonly commentator who for many years closed every Sunday broadcast of television's 60 Minutes news magazine with a (typically sardonic) essay about some aspect of everyday life, was — thanks to the Internet — as well known for what he hasn't said as he is for what he really had said: Example: [Collected via e-mail, 2003] The piece quoted above, an essay In Praise of Older Women, is another portion of his hasn't said fame. This item was not penned by Andy Rooney (who passed away at the age of 92 on 4 November 2011); it is an embellished version of a piece created by Frank Kaiser, a columnist whose Suddenly Senior articles are published on his web site and syndicated to a variety of newspapers across the U.S. Baltimore Sun writer Susan Reimer contacted Andy Rooney, who told her: In October 2005, in his weekly 60 Minutes commentary, Andy Rooney said this of the piece: The true author, Frank Kaiser, had this to say about the misattribution: Frank Kaiser's original piece read as follows: Another celebrated encomium to older women was penned by a famous American statesman over 250 years earlier, when Benjamin Franklin wrote the piece known to us as Old Mistresses' Apologue: (en)
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