by luddite lady on 22 Aug 2009 03:20
Yeah, visions. I noticed the age thing too. At first, I thought I was mistaken about Stewart's age since he's the one who said he was 58. But then he also talks about being seven in 1959 when "Ben Hur Filmed!" came out. (<--That's what I'm going to call the original movie from now on. Do you think it will catch on?)
Maybe Stewart wasn't kidding a few years back when he said he was just a bastard who couldn't count.
To be fair, I sometimes accidentally add a year to my age, too. I think it has to do with being the youngest in the family. When I was a kid, I always wanted to be older to try to somehow catch up in age with my siblings. I was always saying that I was "almost 9" when I was 8 years old, "almost 10" when I had just turned 9, etc. The habit just sort of stuck, even now when it is definitely not to my advantage to add a year.
In Dallas, the only game that really mattered was in the word gamelan.