Seaton - blog article

SHARING AN INTIMACY WITH ‘THE SARONG GIRL’

On a broiling afternoon in 1985, I walked arm-in arm with former movie star Dorothy Lamour on the grounds of a new “water park” being readied adjacent to the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas.

“I must confess,” I remember saying to her as we strolled past fascinating water falls, pools and rides undergoing final testing, “I was in love with you for many years.” (more…)

SAVE THE TIGER!

When I recently saw an AP item telling of India’s five-year plan to save the tigers, I told family how I once bravely stroked one of the largest of these man-eating jungle cats.

In the ‘70s, I had accepted an invitation to pose with a 700-pound Bengal tiger. Heart in my mouth, I stood on a stage with the sleek creature and its trainer at the San Diego Zoo. The ferocious-looking carnivore was a participant in a specialty act I had hired. At seven feet long and over four times my weight, she had been featured as the “tiger in your tank,” a famed TV commercial at the time. (more…)

I could live to be a hundred.

Not that I particularly want to.

But with an 80th birthday looming, I’ve made it closer to the century mark than a few billion before me.

I don’t tar my lungs, and I have the genes thing going for me.

My mother passed just short of age 89, and my granddad made it to ninety-four.  (He had an Iowa aunt who survived to 110, but the dear didn’t really know how old or who she was her last 15 years.) (more…)