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The Politics
of Gray Hair
Is it a trend now to embrace your silver locks?
BY BARBARA BECKLEY
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T
o be or not to be — gray? This is the question
we baby boomers all have to answer.
From the moment we spotted that first silver
strand, we’ve hair-dyed our way into collective
denial of the fact that we’re aging. But if we let the gray
shine through, isn’t it an admission that we’re getting old?
Not necessarily.
For celebrity Jamie Lee Curtis, 50, letting the gray
show was part of a larger issue of being true to herself.
“Maturity should be flaunted and celebrated!” she said in
an e-mail interview. “Hair color is irrelevant. I prefer to
think about it as natural versus unnatural.
“My gray hair is/was a step in my ownership of myself,
my mind, my body, my heart,” the actress and best-selling
children’s book author continued, adding that “I went
gray because I found beauty shops and the methodology
of hiding your gray embarrassing and humiliating.”
And, she added, “I think I am certainly more attractive
this way....”
“We need more Jamie Lee Curtises and Helen Mirrens,”
said Anne Kreamer, a 52-year-old New York author who
quit dyeing her hair after 25 years. Her decision came in
2006 when she looked at a family photo and realized “my
shellacked helmet of hair wasn’t fooling anyone. I just looked
like a middle-aged woman with hair dyed much too harshly,”
Kreamer said in a phone interview.
A search for authenticity
As her gray roots lengthened, the reaction ranged
from friends asking her why “she was letting herself
go” to her 13-year-old daughter begging her not to, so
her schoolmates wouldn’t think she had an old mom.
Kreamer admitted it was a tough year. But she was
motivated by wanting to be free of the “tyranny of hair
color” — and to discover her authentic self.
Kreamer’s transition became the subject of “Going
Gray: What I Learned about Beauty, Sex, Work,
Motherhood, Authenticity and Everything Else that Really
Matters” (Little, Brown & Co., 2007). While she noted
that going gray for men often helps improve their social
status because they seem more distinguished and credible
(think: CNN’s Anderson Cooper and John King and actor
George Clooney), her “amateur social science,” as she
described it, came up with some surprising — and mixed
— responses to gray-haired women.
For one thing, Kreamer was astonished to find she
became more attractive to men. As an experiment,
Kreamer, who is happily married, posted “before” and
“after” photos on an online dating service. She got
hundreds of hits
with gray hair,
and only a few as
a brunette. Image
consultants also
advised her to
keep the gray.
They said it made a
statement. The gray
also made her look
younger, they said.
The lighter natural
color softened and
complemented her
complexion. Even
her daughter now
loves her hair.
But headhunters
she interviewed
said women in
today’s workplace
should never go
gray — unless
they’re applying
for a boardroom
position, where it
would give them
gravitas. Gray-haired
women who were
applying for a job or
promotion at most
companies would be
discriminated against,
they said, rejected as
a “won’t-fit-in.”
Kreamer came to
the conclusion that
women like herself
who are authors or
entrepreneurs or in
professions such as
medicine have the
luxury of going gray if they choose, but women in more
corporate arenas — no matter how creative — might
encounter discrimination if they do.
However, Diana Lewis Jewell, author of “Going Gray,
Looking Great!” (Silverlining Beauty, 2004) and cocreator of Goinggraylookinggreat.com, said those who
dismiss gray-haired people as old are old-school. “The
idea that gray hair is old belongs to our grandmother’s
generation. I saw a 15-year-old the other day with white
streaks in her hair, and she thought it was so cool.”
“If you’re self-confident enough, you can be successful
Role models for going gracefully gray include (clockwise from
above): Jamie Lee Curtis, writer Toni Morrison, journalist Anderson
Cooper and singer Emmylou Harris.
without hiding the gray,” agreed West L.A.
psychotherapist Lynda Levy, 65.
“Meryl Streep’s platinum coif in ‘The Devil Wears
Prada’ may have set the tone. Life mimics art and that
movie gave women permission to be gray,” she said.
Levy colored her hair in her 20s, but once she
began going gray in her 50s, “I’d never touch it!”
she declared. “Being gray is part of who I am, being
natural, not masking that part of me. My gray gave
me a sense of individuality — I don’t have to be like
all the other women with bottle-auburn hair.”
Positive effects
Levy believes going gray had a positive effect on her
career. For a psychotherapist, “gray hair sets a tone of
maturity and maternal response. It lends credibility to my
persona and quality of work.” But her mother, a bottle
blonde into her 90s, did not like Levy’s gray hair.
“Mother was constantly asking me to dye it,” said
Levy. “From a psychology point of view, she didn’t want
me to have gray hair, because it made her seem old.”
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Fitness Through Golf
The game becomes a sport when players turn into athletes
BY DALE LEATHERMAN
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W
illiam Wordsworth once said that golf “is a day
spent in a round of strenuous idleness.”
The poet is not the only one to insinuate that
golf is not an athletic contest, not a “sport” in the truest
sense of the word. Out-of-shape guys riding in golf carts
loaded with coolers of beer haven’t helped the game’s
image. However, in the last decade, Tiger Woods and
Annika Sorenstam have turned the game around, inspiring
a cadre of leaner, fitter players whose skill and athleticism
keep sports fans riveted to their televisions on match days.
With Woods and Sorenstam as stunning proof that fitness
is a key to success, PGA and LPGA pros are working out
as never before, and rank-and-file golfers are following suit.
Senior golfers are, too. Gary Player, 73, has said he owes his
longevity on the Champions Tour to strength-training.
According to President George Bush’s HealthierUS
initiative, 60% of American adults don’t get enough
exercise, and 25% of the population doesn’t exercise at all.
Unless you’re among the minority who exercise regularly,
you’re probably not playing your best golf.
“The body is the most important element in achieving
your golf potential,” said golf fitness expert Mike Pedersen,
whose articles are featured on GolfIllustrated.com. He is
the author of the e-book “The Ultimate Golf Fitness Guide”
and best-selling golf fitness DVDs. “It is imperative the
golfer address his/her physical limitations to enhance swing
technique, power and consistency.”
When 51-year-old Jeff Manley’s golf game started
slipping, he knew the causes — his sedentary lifestyle as
CEO of CresaPartners, a commercial real estate company
in Orange County, and injuries caused by a lifetime of
running, soccer and other sports.
Manley lives in the Dove Canyon community in Rancho
Jeff Manley works out with Stephanie Overbaugh on a machine to
improve his golf swing at Body Balance for Performance.
Santa Margarita and plays golf every Saturday with a group
of 16 guys at the Dove Canyon Country Club. Fed up with
playing poorly, he had an evaluation done by Body Balance
for Performance, a national company with a center in
Irvine, and began training with Stephanie Overbaugh, one
of the center’s golf specialists.
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This meshes with Kreamer’s research, which found four primary
reasons women dye their hair:
■ Women believe dyed hair
makes them look as young as they
feel.
■ Women believe gray hair will
thwart their professional opportunities.
■ Their mothers do not like them
to have gray hair.
■ They believe men find gray hair
unattractive.
The fact that some boomers are
flaunting their gray is even more
intriguing when you realize that “we
were raised on hair color. In a single
generation, we went from 7% of
women using hair color in the 1950s
to 75% of adult women dyeing their
hair today,” Kreamer said.
Is going gray a trend?
“Going gray isn’t a fully realized
trend, but I see more boomer-age
women wanting to be honest in who
they are and how they look,” said
Anne Russell, editor in chief of VIV
Mag, a New York-based digital publication for women 35 and up. At 50,
Russell, who is letting her steel-gray
show, sees the wealth of high-end
women’s “mature” (a.k.a. gray) hair
products as a sign gray is coming into
its own. There are also salon products for men that reduce the amount
of gray, but still provide a salt-andpepper look.
Shown above in her before-and-after photos, author Anne Kreamer
discovered going gray made her more attractive to men.
A trend?
But some — even in beauty-centric
industries — believe going gray is
already fashionable.
“There is a trend in mature women
to have gray,” said Yasmina Rossi, a
gorgeous silver-haired 52-year-old
model for the Ford agency. The Malibu resident foresees an increasing
demand for mature gray-haired models as the economy tightens and the
well-off boomers again become a
sought-after market.
“Going gray is definitely a trend,”
agreed Jon Patrick, celebrity hair
colorist and stylist with B2V Salon in
West Hollywood. At 55, he sports a
rock ‘n’ roll shock of white hair and a
star client list including actress
America Ferrara and former First
Lady Barbara Bush.
“It’s very important not to confuse
the gray of today with your grandmother’s gray,” Patrick said. “Gray
used to be portrayed as a lack of
color — now it’s a statement of color. Graphite, titanium, steel, pewter:
These are all hair colors designed to
make gray hair look great,” he said.
Singer Emmylou Harris, he said,
“looks spectacular with her gray.”
Patrick also stressed that if you go
gray, you must wear it with flair. “Our
eyes are automatically drawn to lighter colors, so gray-haired men and
women have to wear it with confidence because people look first at
their hair. And because gray-haired
Photo courtesy of “Going Gray,” Little, Brown & Co.
‘If you’re
self-confident enough,
you can be successful
without hiding
the gray.’
— psychotherapist
Lynda Levy
Photo by PATRISHA THOMSON
people don’t look like they’re trying
to look younger, they do look younger,” he added.
Going gray is not without controversy, however. Kreamer notes in her
book that the pressure to pretend to
be young is immense in some industries for both sexes. She estimated
half of the male executives in the
entertainment industries over 40
years old whom she knows dye their
hair. TV anchors — male and female
— are under similar pressure. CNN’s
Cooper, who is 41, may want to look
more mature, but many older male
anchors appear to have artificially
colored hair.
Model Rossi repeatedly turns
down a huge contract from a European company because they want her to
dye her hair dark. “My hair began to
turn white when I was 12, and I will
never, never dye it. It’s my ego. It’s
who I am,” the French transplant said.
Others have found that going gray
Instant recognition
Barrie Lynn Krich of Hancock Park,
who is 50-plus, bubbles with pride at
her “virgin white hair.” She began
going gray at 16 and has never colored it. “I wanted to be fully myself. I
didn’t want to masquerade.” She also
admits she’d rather spend her time,
money and energy living life to the
fullest.
“Gray hair has been good for me,”
said the former advertising executive,
who worked her way up “from below
Faye Morse, 56, of Manhattan
Beach started a modeling career
after her hair went platininum.
the mail room” to lead major ad
campaigns for beauty-industry heavyweights including Revlon and Max
Factor. “My gray hair flying never
impacted my ad career,” she said.
Krich also enjoys that her hair
makes her instantly recognizable. “It’s
my trademark.” She’s sure it’s helped
build her 3-year-old business as the
Cheese Impresario (“I’m a passionate
cheese expert and educator,” she
explained) and helped to make her a
memorable TV guest. Her personally
hosted artisan-cheese and winepairing parties led to a friendship with
rapper DJ Paul Beauregard from
Three 6 Mafia. “He’s a true foodie
and so am I,” she said. “My age and
hair make no difference.”
Does the double standard — that
men with gray are distinguished and
women with gray are old — still
apply? Levy believes it does, but added, “Men use the bottle, too.”
Rossi, the model, said “No! Men
are very attracted to silver-haired
women.”
Peters agreed. While recently
walking her dog, a twentysomething
guy asked her out. She declined, and
asked him if her silver hair didn’t tip
him off that she was too old.
“Oh,” he exclaimed, “I thought you
dyed it.”
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“Gray hair turned my life around,”
said Faye Morse, 56, of Manhattan
Beach. Morse turned gray in her 20s
and by 1995 was fed up with touching
up her red hair every week. But she
never thought of letting her hair go
natural until her husband, Sydney
Morse (managing general partner of
the California Mart, who died in
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said, ‘You’ve got such a young face,
why don’t you let it go natural?’ ” she
recalled. “So I finally did.”
Since her new natural platinum hair
made people think she was a model,
Morse entered a More magazine
model contest. “I didn’t win, but
afterward I sent my photos to Ford
Models, and at age 50 they hired me
on the spot.” Now, as a model for
L.A. Models, she’s busy juggling photo
shoots and TV commercials with her
charity work.
Jenny Peters, 53, a Playa del Reybased entertainment journalist, said
her shocking white hair works to her
advantage in the entertainment biz.
The brunette pulled out her first
white hair at 21 and by 1990, at age
39, was fed up with the hassle and
chemicals of dying it.
“It grew in blazing white and had an
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To go gray fashionably, start
by adopting the right attitude,
said Diana Lewis Jewell, author
of “Going Gray, Looking
Great!”
Think about your new hair
as just another fashion accessory or simply as a color “or
many colors really,” she said.
“They can be absolutely gorgeous: pewter, ice, silver, charcoal, pearl.”
Then don’t just let it grow
in, she said. Take steps to look
your best. The first step for
both men and women is to get
the hair looking healthy: “Because gray hair is pigment-free,
it doesn’t reflect light as well
and it can end up looking dull.”
Fortunately, she added,
there are many hair products
that can help. Her book lists
such products as Bumble and
bumble Thickening Spray for
limp hair, Ouidad Botanical
Boost for dull locks and Aveda
Blue Malva Shampoo to neutralize brassiness.
Clothing choices
Jewell said gray-haired men
and women can’t go wrong
wearing black, crisp white or
navy fashions. Colors such as
mageneta, purple and cherry
red will look good on people
with cool skin tones, while
aqua, teal and dusty rose will
work for those with sallow
skin. Silver might also be stunning.
Wearing gray fashions can
“provide a wonderful continuity,” she said, but “some women feel wearing gray just makes
them gray all over. They feel it
doesn’t have enough punch.”
The secret about wearing
gray, Jewell noted, is “to give it
some oomph. It’s really about
playing with texture: matte,
shiny, metallic. You can mix
gray, too, layering several
tones, from ice to charcoal —
Photo courtesy of CNN
Photo from “Going Gray, Looking Great!”
CNN journalist John King,
top, and a model, above,
show how the rightcolored clothes and
contemporary haircuts
make gray hair look great.
just like your hair.”
But whatever you do, ditch
beige and mellow yellows. And
choose white over ivory, ecru
or sand, Jewell said.
Gray-haired people, she
said, “often complain that
their skin looks duller” because without a surrounding
frame of color, there’s vibrancy missing.
To beat the blahs, makeup
artist Laura Geller suggested
hydrating or exfoliating facials
“to get your skin looking fresh
and radiant.” Jewell recommended women use beauty
products with ingredients that
brighten the skin and luminizers to add glow.
Women who go gray should
“revisit [their] makeup palette
to make sure it gives [them]
the brightness” that’s needed,
said makeup artist Bobbi
Brown, creator of the cosmetics line of the same name.
But resist the urge to turn
to bold colors as the solution:
The effect might just look
garish, said Jewell.
For instance, orange lipstick
could “look deadly” with silver
hair. “If you have a warm tawny
or olive complexion and
you’ve always loved orange or
coppery lipstick shades, add
just a drop of pink to them. By
that I mean a rose-coral or a
pinky peach. This way, you will
complement both your cooler
hair color as well as your
underlying skin tone,” she said.
“You want to choose bright,
sheer lip colors in pinks and
peach tones because all the
color is taken away with gray
[so] nothing brown,” advised
makeup artist Trish McEvoy.
“You’ll want more definition
near the eye and I like deep
gray for this; you don’t want to
go too harsh, so stay away
from black. On cheeks, you
definitely need a healthy glow,
so look for blushes in fresh
pink color tones. . . .”
Hairstyle matters
When you go gray, suggested Jewell, you also have to
go modern. Ask your hairstylist for a contemporary cut. Or
boost the gray by adding highlights, low lights or glazing. Or
add streaks of pink or ultraviolet with Color Mark’s Wild
Weekend temporary colors
when you want to look hip.
“I think we can — and
should — have fun with gray
hair,” said Jewell. “People
should stop taking it so seriously. It’s just a color!”
Darlene Gunther is the editor
of Living Well.
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Strategies for maintaining
healthy feet and legs
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ower-extremity impairment is a leading
cause of activity limitation as people age,
according to the U.S. National Center for
Health Statistics.
“Keeping your lower extremities healthy,
including your hips, knees and feet, is essential
to maintaining an active lifestyle,” said Jim
Christina, director of scientific affairs for the
American Podiatric Medical Assn. (APMA).
Laverne Friedmann, 69, of Irvine, is very
active, so she ignored it when her big toe began
to hook over her second toe — until it interfered with her Saturday hikes. That’s when Dr.
Jeffrey R. DeSantis decided an artificial joint
offered the best solution for the osteoarthritis
that crisscrossed her toes.
“My first question was ‘How long will I be
down?’ ” said the Irvine commercial insurance
broker, whose fitness routine includes working
out three days a week with a trainer.
She went back to work Tuesday after a Friday
surgery. That was five years ago. DeSantis, a
Newport Beach podiatrist, performed the
same procedure on Friedmann’s other big toe
two years later. That year, she also had both
knees replaced — at the same time, by an orthopedic surgeon that DeSantis recommended.
All that only set her back three weeks.
“I attribute [the quick recovery] to being so
active,” said Friedmann.
“Foot pain or ankle pain is not normal,” said
DeSantis. “If it’s there after a couple of days,
then go see a podiatrist because your body is
telling you something is wrong.”
He explained that excessive pronation,
where the foot rolls in and down, and other
foot problems can impact knees, hips and the
lower back. “By the age of 50, the average person has walked 75,000 miles,” DeSantis said.
“So, the American Podiatric Medical Assn.
promotes a 75,000-mile checkup to keep people walking healthy.”
Supportive solutions
That may or may not mean you will need
orthotics, he said. Beyond insoles and arch
supports available over the counter, podiatrists
prescribe foot and ankle supports that range
from custom-molded inserts worn inside the
shoe to special ankle braces.
It’s wise to check for pronation or other
treatable issues because shoe inserts and daily
exercises often do wonders. A 2005 survey by
the APMA found that 47% of people between
the ages of 18 and 60 had experienced a foot
ailment, yet 34% did nothing to treat their conditions, instead living with the pain.
“I see people now in their 70s [who may
require surgery, while] I could have easily fixed
[their problem] in their 50s. So many times,
conservative treatment at an earlier age is going
to keep you active,” DeSantis added.
That’s been true for Robin Mittleman, 53, a
Rolling Hills Estates lawyer, whose super-flat
feet as a child required corrective shoes. So
she’s been foot-savvy from a young age.
Tip to avoid lower-limb injuries
S
cott Cheatham, who
holds a doctorate in physical therapy and is president of Torrance-based Bodymechanix Sports Medicine &
Physical Therapy, combines his
training as a board-certified
orthopedic specialist and as a
certified athletic trainer to
help people recover from
injuries and meet their lifestyle
and sports goals.
Cheatham offered these six
tips for injury prevention:
1) Maintain a healthy weight.
The more excess weight we
gain, the harder it is on the
joints.
2) Maintain good strength
and flexibility.
3) Exercise smart. Choose
activities your body can handle. If arthritis makes walking
painful, then try swimming
most days instead.
4) Wear shoes appropriate
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to the activity. Running shoes,
for example, are not designed
for quick turns and pivots. If
you wear running shoes while
playing basketball, Cheatham
warned, you’re asking for knee
trouble.
5) Listen to your body. If an
activity hurts, stop and get
with a doctor or physical therapist who can figure out why.
6) Avoid activities that require kneeling or squatting.
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Dr. Marc Mittleman gives encouragement to wife Robin as she does a towel stretch.
Lucky for her, she met a podiatrist while
reviewing a lease more than 20 years ago. The
man who started as her client became her
husband. And Dr. Marc Mittleman has been
there for her through hammertoe surgery and
treatment of other ailments.
Marian Hersh, 48, also faced foot problems
starting about a decade ago, in her mid-30s,
with recurring bouts of plantar fasciitis. Its
classic symptom, said Dr. Mittleman is “pain at
the first step in the morning, or after sitting a
long time — at a desk or in the car. People get
up and feel that sharp pain in the heel.”
During earlier battles with plantar fasciitis,
Hersh’s pain usually subsided in six months,
with stretching and icing routines eventually
overcoming the heel cord tightness. But, when
her heel flared up again in 2006, she agreed to
Dr. Mittleman’s suggestion of extracorporeal
shock wave therapy (ESWT), which uses ultrasound technology to treat the inflammation.
According to the Torrance-based podiatrist,
the nonsurgical treatment for plantar fasciitis
works well in about 90% of cases. “You kind of
make something worse for a brief time so that it
can get better,” Dr. Mittleman explained. “It
creates a cascade of inflammation that the body
recognizes in a better way and heals it.”
“Overall, I’m pleased with [the results], but I
have I’d have to say even now my foot is only at
75%, not 100%,” said Hersh. “I can walk without
pain in most situations, but I have to be really
careful. I have to tape my foot before I go. I have
to ice it and take ibuprofen when I get back. I
have to do my stretches. Still, I’m ahead of the
game compared to where I was in 2006.”
Beyond pronation problems and plantar
fasciitis, women are more likely to suffer stress
fractures in their feet and ankles, and men are
more likely to rupture their Achilles — injuries
Mittleman described as “wear and tear.”
The trend in physical therapy is to consider
the clients’ entire fitness instead of simply
strengthening the injured joint. That old song
was true: The knee bone is indeed connected
to the hipbone. Those connections, known as a
“kinetic chain,” are what cause knee injuries to
be the most common injury of the lower extremity, said Christopher M. Powers, associate
professor at USC and co-director of the Musculoskeletal Biomechanics Research Lab. Anything that goes wrong above or below the knee
can cause pain and injury right in the middle.
All connected
In fact, Powers’ ongoing research, first published in 2003, links weak hip muscles to problems in the knees and even the spine.
“What we’re finding is that abnormal hip
function is what’s really driving a lot of the mechanics that cause overuse injuries,” said Powers, a physical therapist who holds a PhD in
biokinesiology and works at the Keck School of
Medicine of USC. “The pain is in the knee, but
the underlying cause may be at the hip. It may be
at the foot or ankle.”
There’s a lot of talk in fitness these days about
abdominals and “core strength,” but Powers
explained that the hip muscles and pelvic girdle
muscles “really are the platform on which the
trunk sits,” and they greatly impact the alignment of knees, ankles and feet. So much of his
current work focuses on strengthening hip
muscles through targeted, weight-bearing exercises like lunges and leg presses.
“In lower-extremity health,” he said, “that’s
the big trend right now — muscle stabilization
and injury prevention.”
Roxanne Hawn writes about health and fitness.
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True Blue Believer
Tommy Lasorda is still going to bat for the Dodgers
‘You’re fortunate enough to be
born in the greatest country of
the world, the United States of
America. If you five guys love
each other and do everything
you can to help each other, if
you stick together and pull
together, you can pull a half a
town with you, but if three get
on one end and two on the
other you can pull all day long
and all you’re doing is pulling
against yourselves.’
That’s very prominent in
baseball. And loyalty. On a
team you need loyalty, togetherness and spirit and will. I
learned that from him.
BY DEBRA BEYER
SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTIONS WRITER
W
hether from the pitching mound, the dugout
or the speaker’s podium, Tommy Lasorda has
been standing tall for baseball
for more than 50 years. And
though it’s been more than a
decade since he retired from
his 20-year reign as manager of
the Los Angeles Dodgers,
Lasorda’s allegiance to the
team is well into extra innings.
The Baseball Hall of Fame
manager who led the Dodgers
to two World Series titles
(1981, 1988), two National
League pennants (1977, 1978)
and eight division titles currently serves as special advisor
to the team’s owner Frank
McCourt, a role in which he
scouts and teaches minor
league players, acts as an advisor and an ambassador for the
Dodgers and represents the
team at more than 100 public
appearances a year.
Yes, with 59 years in the
organization under his cleats,
Lasorda’s heart still pumps
Dodger blue.
At 80 years old, Lasorda
continues to attend home
games and spring training
sessions at Dodgertown and
still delivers his signature
fired-up pep talks.
“Baseball is my game and it’s
America’s game — I’m always
there for the Dodgers and to
promote baseball,” said the
former pitcher, who managed
the U.S. Olympic Baseball
Team in 2000, leading it to its
first gold medal victory.
Lasorda revels in sharing
how tenets of grit, hard work
and loyalty helped this boy of
meager means not only realize
his dream of a life in baseball
but to rack up record successes in the field, as well.
“That’s what it’s all about:
motivating people — that’s
what I really enjoy,” he said.
Lasorda also hopes to motivate people with a recently
published book, “I Live For
This!: Baseball’s Last True
Believer” (Houghton Mifflin
Books, 2007), written by Los
Angeles Times sports columnist Bill Plaschke with Lasorda as the contributor. In
chapters titled “I Was Born
For This” and “I Nearly Died
For This,” this candid portrait
delivers stories about his
historic wins, his rocky rise to
success, his infamous tirades
on the mound, his strengths
and his vulnerabilities.
This year marks the 50th
anniversary of the Dodgers,
and so many of the memories
sparked by this celebration are
shared by Lasorda.
Sitting in his office at Dod-
WHY DID YOU DECIDE TO
COME OUT OF RETIREMENT TO MANAGE THE
OLYMPIC BASEBALL TEAM?
PHOTO BY LEO HETZEL
“I’m always there for the Dodgers,” says Tommy Lasorda, who has been with the organization for 59 years.
ger Stadium, he leans back in
his chair, with feet on the desk
and hands folded casually
across his belly, and gazes out
the giant window that overlooks an empty stadium. He’s
energized — it’s almost as if he
can hear the whack of a bat
against ball, the roar of the
crowd.
“This is home . . . and look
at all this — these are my
wonderful memories,” Lasorda said, holding his arms
out wide to the floor-to-ceiling photos that cover the walls
around him. His desk faces a
gallery of star players and
shining moments in baseball.
Another wall is covered
with Lasorda posing with
celebrity friends and American
presidents and photos of him
and his wife, Jo, and his family
over the years.
Lasorda’s path to fame and
success wasn’t a line drive
over the fence. Growing up in
a poor family in Norristown,
Pa., Lasorda honed his game
playing ball in a weedy open
field with his four brothers,
and got his first glove at a
semi-pro game that broke into
a brawl, leaving a glove temptingly available for him to steal.
When Lasorda made the high
school team he had to wear
used cleats that were three
sizes too big. But he played on.
Lasorda says these lean
times steeled him with the grit
and determination it took to
make it. In 1945 he was signed
to the minor leagues as a free
agent pitcher by the Philadelphia Phillies. The next two
years he served in the U.S.
Army and returned to play for
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This shot of Tommy Lasorda as manager was taken
around 1988, when the Dodgers won the World Series.
the Schenectady Blue Jays in
the Canadian-American
League. He pitched a winning
15-inning game and caught the
attention of the Dodgers, who
drafted him in 1949 and sent
him to play for minor league
teams until he made his major
league debut in 1954 with the
Brooklyn Dodgers.
After his playing years ended
in 1960, Lasorda worked as a
Dodgers scout and a rookie
and Triple-A league manager
before landing, in 1976, the
position he wanted most: the
Dodgers manager. He led the
team to record wins and received copious awards himself,
including UPI and AP Manager
of the Year awards in 1977, the
AP Manager of the Year award
in 1981 and the Baseball
America Manager of the Year
award in 1988.
In 1996, Lasorda suffered a
heart attack and retired from
his post in tears and with a
standing ovation from fans
who packed the stadium.
Off the field, Lasorda became known for his Slim-Fast
commercials and his baseballpromoting ads. He’s taken his
name from the field to the
vineyard with Lasorda Wines,
grown in the Tuscany region of
Italy, his father’s homeland.
He backs several charitable
efforts including the Thomas
Lasorda Jr. Field House, a
Yorba Linda youth center and
gymnasium, and the Tommy
Lasorda Jr. Memorial Founda-
tion, both of which he and his
wife established in honor of
their son who passed away in
1991 after a long illness. He
helped found the Tommy
Lasorda Heart Institute at
Centinela Hospital Medical
Center in Los Angeles, where
he was once treated and now
gives patients one-on-one
“get-well” pep talks.
This is a man who freely
expresses his passions for
baseball, for good food and for
his wife of 58 years. “If ever I
could’ve written on a piece of
paper what I wanted for a wife
and handed it to God, I don’t
think he could’ve given me a
better one than the one that I
received,” Lasorda beamed.
The couple has lived in the
same modest family home in
Fullerton for 40-some years
“because our best friends live
across the street.” He enjoys
spending time with his family
— daughter, Laura Goldberg;
her husband and Lasorda’s
agent, Bill Goldberg; and
granddaughter Emily Tess, 11.
From his memory-filled
office overlooking the stadium
that is his home plate, I talked
to Lasorda about the game,
the fame and why he is “baseball’s last true believer.”
WHAT DOES ‘LAST TRUE
BELIEVER’ MEAN TO YOU?
Someone who’s spent the
past 59 years with the organization and to believe that they
were the best and to pass that
[attitude] on to somebody
younger. . . . I travel the world
promoting baseball and how
to succeed in life. I tell people
my advice is like a continental
breakfast — if you want it, it’s
there, if you don’t want it, you
don’t eat it. I believe in baseball
and that my experience can
help people learn what it’s
going take for them to make it
in life.
WHEN DID YOU FIRST
KNOW BASEBALL WAS
YOUR CALLING?
I guess when I was about 8
years old, I decided I wanted
to be a major league player.
They were my heroes — I
looked up to them with admiration and appreciation. And I
reached the major leagues as a
pitcher, though not with a
great deal of success. But I
hoped I’d be successful in
another field and thought
maybe by managing I could do
it. I became successful because
I had great players and the
opportunity to help them
become great players.
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HOW DID YOUR UPBRINGING HELP SHAPE YOUR
APPROACH TO MANAGING
THE TEAM?
My father was a great man.
His philosophies of life were
outstanding and I learned a lot
from him that helped me as a
manager. He taught us [Lasorda and his four brothers],
I wanted that assignment
real bad because I wanted to
bring that gold medal where it
belonged in baseball, in the
United States. Nobody was
ever able to beat the Cubans
in any tournament and I
wanted to play against them
and beat them, and I did. They
were good players, but our
guys just played their hearts
out. I got those players to
believe in themselves, and I
made them understand that
whatever you undertake it’s all
relative. If you think you’re the
best, you’ll work like you’re
the best, and if you work like
you’re the best, then you will
finish thinking you’re the best.
TALK ABOUT WINNING
THE GOLD MEDAL.
That has to go down in
history as the greatest thing
I’ve ever achieved. I didn’t even
know the players: 24 players
and I only knew one guy. Before I went over to Australia, I
kept telling everybody ‘We’re
going to win,’ and my wife said,
‘You don’t even know the
players.’ I said, ‘I don’t need to
know them, I just need to
know they’re alive. . . . ’ Getting them to believe they were
going to win, that was the first
thing, then to make them
understand what it was going
to take to win.
So people had to think I was
crazy when I said it was more
important, bigger than major
league baseball, bigger than my
50 years plus with the Dodgers, bigger than the World
Series. But it’s because you win
the pennant and the Dodger
fans are happy, but San Diego
Padre fans aren’t [and] Cincinnati isn’t happy. But you win
the gold medal, and everyone
in the whole country is happy.
It was great, it was exciting, it
was a big challenge.
WHAT ADVICE DO YOU
HAVE FOR OLDER ADULTS
WHO ARE FACING NEW
CHALLENGES?
Anybody who has a passion
will be very successful at what
they undertake. You can’t say
you’re too old or it’s too late.
WHAT’S YOUR KEY TO
LONGEVITY IN THIS
BUSINESS?
Loyalty. . . . I’m starting my
59th year with the Dodgers
and there isn’t any doubt in my
mind that I’ve been with the
greatest organization in baseball. The thing I try to preach
to people is love what you’re
doing — then it will be great
for you. My job is no different
than anybody else’s job. I
wanted to be the best in that
particular field. I wanted my
organization to be the best.
You have to set your goals in
life and then you go after them
with all the drive and determination that you possess.
WHAT AGE ARE YOU IN
YOUR HEART AND MIND?
I’m about 40. And that’s my
problem. When I do things I
forget that I’m 80 years old
and I shouldn’t be doing a lot
of it! But I want [people] to
know that it’s still there — I
still have the magic.
Debra Beyer is a freelance
writer who lives in Glendale.
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Music to their Ears
Whether playing an instrument
or listening to a symphony,
songs stimulate our souls
BY SHELLEY GABERT
SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTIONS WRITER
W
hether it’s jazz, gospel, country or classical, almost nothing stirs our souls as
much as music. No matter what our age,
whether listening to a symphony or playing an
instrument, music stimulates our emotions and
our brains; numerous research studies show
how it also boosts our mental capacities
throughout our lifetime.
“I can’t imagine my life without music, it has
always been there for me in so many ways,” said
Dorothy Jensen, 76, a retired sixth-grade teacher who works now as an assistant in the health
services department at Santa Monica College.
Even though she’s played piano since she was
a child and gives private lessons to other children, Jensen enrolled in a beginning violin class
last June offered through the College’s Community and Continuing Education program.
“I was a bit scared because I was around all of
these young people in their 20s, but the teacher
[Lydia Veilleux] made me feel at ease and soon I
was no longer intimidated,” she said.
“It’s not as easy to learn as piano because the
keys sound good no matter what you do, but
with the violin it has to be just right or there’s
squeaking all over the place.”
Still, she is determined: “I’ve always wanted
to play violin, so I’m living out a childhood
wish.”
During the Depression, Jensen’s mother used
her inheritance money to buy a piano for her
and her siblings. A small Spinet, it now sits in
Jensen’s home in Culver City that she shares
with Dale Jensen, her husband of 53 years.
Many of their nine children practiced on it and
at least 100 other children have taken lessons
sitting at that piano.
“Children who take piano lessons or learn
other musical instruments seem to go on and
do well in school and continue to achieve
throughout their life,” Jensen said. “Even when
my children got married and had their own
children, they made sure there was a piano in
their homes. So I feel like I did something right.”
Parents and educators who instill a love of
music in children are giving them a gift for life,
Jensen added.
Keeps the brain active
Daniel Levitin, PhD, a professor of psychology and music at McGill University in Montreal
and author of “This Is Your Brain on Music: The
Science of a Human Obsession” (Dutton,
2006), agreed with that assessment.
“Playing a musical instrument activates nearly
every region in our brain,” he said. “It engages
our motor and memory systems and other
cognitive subsystems in our brain, and that
benefits us in all aspects of everyday life.
“As we age,” he added, “our brain prunes the
unused neuroconnections that we’re not using
and they atrophy. So if we continue to stimulate
the brain through mental exercise, like playing a
music instrument, it keeps the brain active.”
There’s no evidence, he cautioned, to suggest
“that it’s better than taking up a crossword
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puzzle or a new language, but people find more
intrinsic enjoyment in playing music so it motivates them to stick with it.”
Part mystery and magic, music also stirs our
emotions while quickly bringing back memories
of people, relationships or rites of passages.
That impact can be powerful.
Jensen recalled a summer she spent taking
care of an Alzheimer’s patient who didn’t recognize her own children or photos of her husband, “but when I sat down and played her
piano, she remembered the words to the songs
and enjoyed singing,” she said.
“It is astonishing to see mute, isolated, confused individuals warm to music, recognize it as
familiar, and start to sing,” writes neurologist
Dr. Oliver Sacks about patients with advanced
dementia in his recent
book “Musicophilia, Tales
of Music and the Brain”
(Alfred A. Knopf, 2007).
“Torpid patients become
alert and aware; agitated
ones grow calmer. That it
may be possible to gain the
attention of such patients
and hold it for minutes at a
time is itself remarkable. . . . Music is no luxury
to them, but a necessity,
and can have a power
beyond anything else to
restore them to themselves, and to others, at
least for a while.”
As a result of that summer experience, Jensen
hopes music will help keep
her and her husband sharp.
Now 80 and retired from Hughes Aircraft
where he was an electrical engineer, her husband took up the harmonica years ago. He now
takes lessons at a senior center and plays in a
band. “Playing music is definitely our insurance
that our minds are working and that we’re
making new brain cells,” Jensen added.
According to Sacks, playing music definitely
alters the structure of the human brain — so
much so that you can’t tell if a person is a writer
or a mathematician by looking at his brain, but
you can tell if he is a musician. Fairly intensive
musical training seems to not only promote the
development of various parts of the brain, but
also help one’s non-musical cognitive abilities.
Roy Ernst, a professor emeritus at the Eastman School of Music, which is part of the University of Rochester in Rochester, N.Y., likens
the mental acuity derived from playing music to
the-use-it-or-lose-it principle, whereby learning
new things creates new networks in the brain
that strengthen the brain’s elasticity.
“In my 40 years of teaching I’ve never found
anyone who couldn’t learn music and benefit
from the intellectual and creative challenges it
offered,” he said.
In his book, neurologist Sacks writes about
the ability of a particular song to “pierce the
hearts” of people whose emotions have frozen
Photos by SUZANNE MAPES
Morton Miller, 81, of Los Angeles, above,
practices with his band. Dorothy Jensen,
76, of Culver City, left, who has played the
piano since childhood, is now studying
the violin at Santa Monica College.
or who are bereaving or suffering from depression. The “deep and mysterious paradox” of
music, he writes, is that while it can make “one
experience pain and grief more intensely, it
brings solace and consolation at the same time.”
The band plays on
Because of his belief that music can improve
the quality of life of mature adults, 12 years ago
Ernst started the New Horizons International
Music Assn. (www.newhorizonsmusic.org) geared
to people over 50. The program aims to provide a non-intimidating environment for people
to play in Dixieland bands, chamber music
groups or larger bands and orchestras.
“Most people thought it was a far-out idea
that anyone at that age could learn to read
music or play a new instrument, but they do and
they’re up to the challenge and they also benefit
from forming new friendships with others who
share their passion for music,” he said.
Today, there are hundreds of New Horizons
bands throughout the U.S., including in Carlsbad, Santa Rosa and Santa Barbara. The Santa
Barbara band has about 90 members and also
sponsors three New Horizons music camps,
where members from all the bands converge
for training and social activities.
“For people who study music in school but
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The Lodge recreation center is highlighted by a hacienda-style clubhouse, an indoor
have given it up for their careers, returning to it
is like finding lost treasure,” said Ernst. “Their
musical skills do come back to them, and they
don’t have to learn everything from scratch.”
That was the experience of Morton Miller,
who has played trumpet in the Santa Monica
Community College Emeritus Band for 24
years. Miller, 81, started in high school and
played for a time in an Air Force Squadron band.
But it wasn’t until he was 42 and working as a
teacher with the Los Angeles Unified School
District that he decided to play again.
“Playing a musical instrument requires a great
deal of concentration and focus and really keeps
me on my toes,” said Miller, who lives in L.A.
The band practices weekly and performs
concerts every year. Miller, who retired in 1983
but continues to work as a professional mentor
to teachers, and his wife, Bonnie, also enjoy
their season tickets to the L.A. Philharmonic,
and Morton even took his trumpet on a cruise
so he could continue his daily practice.
“Some people have a gift, but I’m musically
deprived. I have short fingers and I’m not that
great of a player, so I have to work at it,” he said.
“But I do it because it helps with my breathing
and because I love it. When I’m playing I forget
about everything else and enjoy the moment.”
That’s also the case with Judge Thomas Hollenhorst, 61, a justice in the California Court of
Appeals in Riverside. He learned the scales
while in school but didn’t play again until he was
his 40s. The piano offered him an escape after a
hectic day and, through weekly private lessons,
he’s become more than proficient.
“I’m at the point where I’m a bit dangerous
because I can pick up a piece of music and play
it,” he said. “I know I’m never going to be a
concert pianist, but I feel a great sense of accomplishment.”
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“What I like about Body Balance,” said Manley, “is that it treats the root cause of bad golf
swings — particularly the swings of older folks
like me who have lost some flexibility — rather
than giving me ‘band-aids’ to temporarily fix
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While fitness experts may extol different
training methods for improving your game, they
all agree that strength, endurance, flexibility and
balance must be part of any regimen.
Endurance
“When you become fatigued, you lose coordination, strength and concentration and are
prone to injury,” said Edward Jackowski, author
of “Fit to a Tee” (Sterling Publications, 2007)
and other exercise books and videos. The
founder of the New York-based Exude Inc.
fitness company, Jackowski advocates lots of
repetitions with light weights to build endurance — along with biking, jogging or jumping
rope to increase cardiovascular efficiency. “Golf
counts only if you walk briskly,” he said.
Covering the average golf course on foot is a
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when your buddies want to play a second 18.
Strength
“Most golfers do not have the postural
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the spinal axis — to twist, store energy and
then unload it through the swing,” said Neil
Wolkodoff, a Denver-based sports scientist
who develops training programs for PGA and
LPGA pros as well as for amateurs at his PhysicalGolf lab in Denver. He is also the author of
“Core Powered Golf” (KickPoint Press, 2006).
To help golfers emphasize rotational exercises,
Wolkodoff developed the “FitBALL Power Golf
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“Golf depends on the core muscles for power, optimum position, balance and mechanics,”
he said. “The abdominal and back muscles are
endurance muscles that respond well to short
daily workouts. Staying on the ball during these
exercises forces you to use stabilizer muscles
you don’t normally use. By strengthening those
muscles you’re going to become a better golfer
just by having a better overall posture.”
Flexibility
“Seniors tell me they’re too old to do flexibility training; I tell them they’re too old not to,”
said Roger Fredericks, author of best-selling
golf flexibility DVDs endorsed by Arnold Palmer. He’s also the golf guru at La Costa Resort
and Spa in Carlsbad. “With proper flexibility
and fitness training, nearly all people can not
“Seniors tell me they’re too old to do flexibility training; I tell them they’re too
old not to,” said Roger Fredericks, author of golf flexibility DVDs.
only retard the aging process but actually gain
more flexibility than they had when they were
kids. ‘Proper’ is the key word. Most people
stretch incorrectly and therefore don’t get
meaningful results.”
Wolkodoff advised saving stretches until after
a round of golf. “You’re better off doing some
arm circles and trunk rotations to get blood
flowing,” he said.
mind,” she said. “In golf, as in life, when you’re
not taking deep breaths you’re not using your
body’s full capacity and you’re burning unnecessary energy. When you hold your breath it
creates tension, and one of the reasons for
swing flaws is tension in the muscles. Yoga
teaches awareness of breathing — and awareness of the body — while developing flexibility,
strength, core conditioning and balance.”
Balance
“Golf and yoga have a great deal in common,”
said Katherine Roberts, founder of the “Yoga
for Golfers” program featured on the Golf
Channel and author of the book by the same
name. An avid golfer, Roberts studied swing
mechanics for years before she combined the
two pursuits into a golf-specific yoga program
with a comprehensive mind-body approach.
“Balance, a key component for a fluid, solid
golf swing, is improved by yoga. Every standing
yoga posture requires balance. When golfers
age and their balance starts to go, yoga helps
them regain it.
“An integral part of yoga — and golf — is
breathing, and the quieting and focus of the
Patience
“The best progression is to gain basic fitness,
then translate it into functional movements that
correlate, but don’t mimic, the golf swing,” said
sports specialist Wolkodoff. “If it took 10 years
for your body to get into its current state, don’t
expect one or two sessions to work miracles. It
will take about two months of consistent work
to ‘right the ship.’ ”
“I’m a work in progress,” said Manley of Dove
Canyon. “I’m more flexible, I’m hitting the ball
farther, and I’m more consistent. But just like
any change in the golf swing, it takes time.”
Freelancer Dale Leatherman has specialized in
golf travel writing for 25 years.
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