The vast majority of the Great Ones are gone, or severely debilitated, but it was nice to see the sparkling old dude, despite his old age, has recently become a youtube star.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2kXIlqM2NUHe certainly looks younger than his eight decades of life.
By the way, for those to whom this is all Greek, the sparkling old dude is "Stinky the Clown" on Skins's island--he was "Husb2Sparkly" during his long-ago glory years, the peak of his fame. "Sparkly" was, or is, his much-younger trophy wife, his second wife.
I've always been mystified about something, though.
The sparkling old dude is an authentic culinary star and expert who parleyed his experience and appreciation into some big bucks in the institutional food service field. He cooked chow on a U.S. Navy mine-sweeper off the coast of South Carolina back in 1965-1967.
I'm mystified because of most of the professional cooks I know, were trained in the U.S. Navy. Somehow, one finds it difficult to equate "fine food" with "U.S. Navy."
I mean, these guys weren't down there in the hot steamy mess conjuring up canapes and
hors d'oerves and
faison sous cloche and
foie gras for the shipboard crew; if old movies are to be believed, they spent all their time stirring up some glop or gorp in a gigantic pot over a natural gas burner.