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HAPPY FATHER’S DAY A Salute to Our Fathers and the Guys Taken Too Soon

Tampa Bay Edition Published monthly by Lifestyles After 50 Volume 30, Issue 6

Publisher Ed Graves Ed.Graves@lifestylesafter50.com Editor Terri Bryce Reeves Terri.Reeves@lifestylesafter50.com Website Coordinator Allie Shaw Allie.Shaw@lifestylesafter50.com Distribution Nancy Spencer Nancy.Spencer@lifestylesafter50.com Questions/Customer Service 813-653-1988 • 1-888-670-0040 Press Releases Editor@lifestylesafter50.com Advertising Sales Patricia Hincher: 813-580-1879 Patricia.Hincher@lifestylesafter50.com

Flight Officer Robert W. Heyn of Toledo, Ohio

y first summer job was working as a soda jerk at my parents’ pharmacy, Orchard Drugs, in Toledo, Ohio. I was 14 and that summer, the fountain actually lost money.

Apparently, I was way too generous with the syrup, ice cream, nuts and other toppings. Ah, but it kept me out of trouble, my parents reasoned, and I made good tips.

I also made many friends, including one delightful woman who came in occasionally. She never told me her name or that she knew my folks, but after I went back to school in the fall, she called my mother to tell her what great manners I had, such as when I said, “It’s my pleasure.”

As I would learn, she was the mother of a young serviceman, Flight Officer Robert Warren Heyn, who was killed in World War II. He was a member of a bomber group stationed in England; the plane he was navigating, the Flying Fortress, was shot down in combat over France. My mother, to whom he was engaged, had a nightmare premonition of his burning plane tumbling from the sky a couple of nights before it happened.

World War II was the deadliest military conflict in our history.

It is estimated that between 70- and 85-million people perished– about 3% of the world’s population in 1940.

I don’t know if Bob was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Heyn, but I have wondered if the woman who befriended me that summer may have regarded me as the granddaughter that

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war stole away—and that fate would later return, if only for a brief period of time.

I would have liked to have known her better.

War may be a necessary evil on this planet, but the fact remains that it is a thief that not only takes away our children, but our children’s children as well. It robs us of our future family members and, along with that, our awaiting dreams, memories, reunions and celebrations. The survivors are left missing not only their loved ones but yearning for the ones who will never be.

On this Father’s Day, we honor our fathers, celebrate fatherhood and pay tribute to those men whose lives were taken too early in service to their nation. Many were never given the opportunity to become fathers, but they are remembered nevertheless.

We hope you enjoy our June edition featuring one of our favorite fathers and family men, Hugh Jackman. See you in July.

Terri Bryce Reeves

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‘HUGH JACKMAN:

The Man. The Music. The Show.’

By RANDAL C. HILL

Photo Credit: Ben Watts

H

ugh Jackman has kicked off his 22-stop world concert tour, and with one big, shiny, two-anda-half-hour show planned in Tampa on July 5, we thought this would be the perfect opportunity to pull back the curtain and take a closer look at one of today’s greatest showmen, his music, and his upcoming songand-dance revue.

The saucy Aussie, an Academy Award-nominee and Golden Globe-, Grammy- and Tony Award-winning headliner, will be performing hits from The Greatest Showman, Les Misérables, Broadway and film replete with a dance troupe and a live orchestra. Ladies, expect a flirty wink and a tight-pants wiggle now and then from the fun-loving guy. *** Hugh Michael Jackman was born on October 12, 1968, in Sydney, New South Wales. His English parents had migrated to Australia a year before Hugh’s birth. Jackman attended the all-boy Knox Grammar

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School in Sydney, where he excelled at rugby, Jackman’s star rose higher—much higher—when, cricket and high-jumping, and swam on the in 2000, he became Wolverine in the Marvel Comicsschool team. based X-Men films. From 2000 to 2017, he appeared Initially planning to become a chef, Jackman in nine of the hugely successful superhero movies. found himself bitten by the show-biz bug And after the blockbusters Les Misérables and The early on when he starred in a production, Greatest Showman, we hear The Greatest Showman 2 at age 16, of My Fair Lady. After high is in the works with a possible Christmas 2020 release. school graduation, Jackman entered Sydney’s *** University of Technology and earned a B. A. To relax when he’s home, Jackman meditates, degree in communications. During his senior practices yoga and noodles around on guitar, piano year, he took a drama course to fill in some and violin. (Is there anything this man can’t do— required credits; in doing so, he won the other than hold a job at a convenience store?) His lead in a production of Vaclav Havel’s dark philanthropic projects include Microcredit, which comedy The Memorandum. extends small loans to prospective entrepreneurs in By the close of that production, Jack- impoverished countries, and he advises the Global man knew that he had Poverty Project. In 2011, to make some imporhe launched the Laughing tant career decisions.

Man Coffee Company As he told Bravo’s Inin which all profits go to side the Actor’s Studio, educational programs, “It wasn’t until I was community development 22 that I ever thought and social entrepreneurs about my hobby bearound the world. ing something I could Of utmost importance make a living out of. to Hugh Jackman is his I’d always had an infamily, especially his terest in theater, but wife. “We’re really honest the idea at my school with each other; we talk Hugh Jackman and his wife was that drama and about everything,” he Deborra-Lee Furness music were to round said to British interviewer out the man; it wasn’t what one did for a liv- Scott Baumgartner in etonlone.com. “I think [in] ing. I got over that. I found the courage to relationships, you’ve got to be yourself, even the bits stand up and say, ‘I want to do it.’” you don’t love.”

But first would come a (very) brief foray November 30 is Furness’s birthday, and Jackman into the workday world. Jackman clerked at a local always tries to set aside that day each year to cook convenience store for six weeks before his manager her favorite ricotta pancakes and take her and their sacked him for spending too much time chatting with adopted children, Oscar and Ava, out for a day of the customers. surprises.

Jackman went on to attend the Western Australian No telling what he’ll have in store this year, but Academy of Performing Arts in Perth. On the night in last year Jackman posted this message on Instagram: 1994 that he earned his diploma, Jackman was offered “Happy Birthday to my smart, sassy, sexy bride. I love his first major role on a 10-part TV drama series called you with my entire heart.”

Correlli. That’s where he met—and began courting— film and TV actress Deborra-Lee Furness, 13 years IF YOU GO: his senior. They soon fell in love. After Furness Hugh Jackman: accepted his wedding proposal, Jackman designed The Man. The Music. The Show. an engagement ring that bore the Sanskrit inscription WHEN: “Om paramar mainamar”—“We dedicate our union to July 5, 7 p.m. a higher source.” They married in 1996 at a church in a WHERE: suburb of Melbourne.

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‘The Last Black Man in San Francisco’ June Film

By RANDAL C. HILL

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our years ago, two best friends— Jimmie Fails and Joe Talbot— released a demo trailer with a softedged, romantic feel for their future movie called The Last Black Man in San Francisco. The trailer quickly went viral and led to the financial help needed to bring the pair’s docu-fiction flick to fruition.

Based in part on Fails’s life in the bay area, The Last Black Man in San Francisco mirrors the city’s currentday realities: lack of affordable housing, an influx of well-paid techno-geeks, displacement of people of color and gentrification.

In the story, the young AfricanAmerican Fails refuses to give up a longheld dream of returning to his childhood home. The problem he faces is that the area has been gentrified, and the twostory Victorian built by his grandfather, now worth $4 million, is owned by a wealthy white couple.

Back in the 1940s, his grandfather moved into the city’s Fillmore District and shared the neighborhood with Japanese-American families. When the latter were shipped off to internment camps during World War II, the remaining black residents took special pride in the ghetto area, dubbing it “the Harlem of the West” and crowning the grandfather as the “first black man in San Francisco.”

Eventually, the Fails’s family unit fell apart, the house was sold and people moved elsewhere.

When not skateboarding aimlessly around town, Fails fantasizes about one day owning the home of his youth. He has been living in cramped quarters

with his quiet and brooding best friend unrealistic utopia can’t possibly last, but Montgomery Allen (Jonathan Majors) we’re left hoping that somehow it will.

The Last Black Man in San Francisco and Mont’s burned-out, invalid father, Papa Allen (Danny Glover). Fails works is a powerful testimony to the power as a part-time hospice nurse, while Allen of friendship and the elusiveness of toils as a fishmonger. stability. The diverse cast also includes While the owners are away, the Jello Biafra and Thora Birch.

The movie is scheduled to release this two buddies sneak onto the hallowed property and do touch-up painting and month – check your local listings. tend the garden, with Fails always wondering what life would have been like if nothing had changed.

One day, the house becomes vacant.

Bringing along Allen, Fails boldly becomes a squatter in the mansion, fills the rooms with his aunt’s old stored furniture and has the gas company account switched to his name.

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une is Bustin’ Out All Over is not only a Rodgers and Hammerstein song from the 1945 musical Carousel, it was also the name of a illustrative feature in one of the Playboy magazines my Dad thought he had carefully hidden from my curious and prying preteen eyes. It featured a semi-clad lass named June Wilkinson, whose measurements I still remember to this day: 43-22-36.

Imagine if you will that June was cast in the role of Beaver Cleaver’s mom on Leave It to Beaver? The ‘June Cleavage’ jokes would be overflowing (pun intended). Sorry, I digress.

My point is: Why can I evoke trivia such as June’s measurements when half the time I can’t recall important or encouraging scriptures? Or birthdays? Or the numbers for my favorite cable TV channels?

Is it because back in the day, Playboy left more to the imagination (sexier, I think), thereby leaving me to ponder the shape of those numbers for hours on end?

If you’re like me, you also recollect the intimate details from those old TV commercials such as that delightfully ambiguous phrase: “Wonder Bread helps to build strong bodies 8 ways” (and later – “12 ways”). What exactly were the 12 ways in which sliced white bread could build strong bodies and did that have anything to do with the advent of the Truth in Advertising watchdog agency?

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While a woman can’t reveal the upper half of her anatomy without censure or possible arrest, a man can. And I’m not at all advocating for equal treatment when it comes to disrobing. But I do have a question where men are concerned: Just because you can, does it mean that you should?

Obviously, there are certain environments where it’s perfectly acceptable to let it all hang out such as the beach or one’s backyard — but stripping on a public street? Let’s please rethink that option, even if you’re too young for Social Security.

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A quick narcotics test revealed that Burkhalter’s solution tested positive for THC, the ingredient in marijuana that gives its users a high. The 69-year-old, who had never received as much as a speeding ticket in her life, was held in a cell in the Orange County Sheriff’s Office for 12 hours before being released on $2,000 bail.

The charges were later dropped, but Burkhalter’s long-anticipated family vacation plans lay in ruins.

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from studies done on rats, mice or in test tubes; little research has been done involving humans. Only drugs declared safe and effective by the FDA are allowed to make statements that certain products prevent or treat diseases or medical conditions.

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The current laws are ambiguous. Last year, President Trump signed the 2018 Farm Bill, which legalized hemp. As of this printing, it is legal on the federal level but technically illegal in Florida.

A Florida bill to remove it from the lists of controlled substances, and allow licensed growers to farm it, is expected to go into effect July 1.

Cannabidiol (CBD) oil, a non-intoxicating product that comes from hemp, is being touted as a cure-all for everything from arthritis to depression.

But is it safe? and legal? vomiting, treat acne, and aid sufferers of epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, schizophrenia, diabetes and Parkinson’s disease. It may also benefit heart health by lowering blood pressure and, somewhat ironically, modify circuits in the brain related to drug addiction.

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There’s little or no regulation when it comes to how CBD oil manufacturers create their products or how they label them, and this rankles Marcel Bonn-Miller, a psychology professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

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hen The Florida Orchestra revs up in the fall, its Masterworks series will be powered by Ludwig van Beethoven, the greatest composer in classical music. Seem like an exaggeration? Not really.

“Beethoven is the greatest composer because he took all that life threw at him and turned it into inspirational art that still unites humanity today,” says Music Director Michael Francis, who is programming all of Beethoven’s symphonies and major concertos over two seasons in honor of the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth. “We’ll use Beethoven as a framework to explore deeper issues of his life and music, such as perseverance, hope and heroism. Then we’ll ask: Who are the Beethovens of today? Who are Michael Francis the people reflecting our society through music?”

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