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Newsweek
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Newsweek
Patriots Make Major Tom Brady Announcement
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. When talking about the New England Patriots, Tom Brady's name is one of the first things that comes to mind. Even though he didn't play his final three years with the franchise, Brady will always be remembered as a member of the AFC East franchise. To most NFL fans, Brady is still the "GOAT" when it comes to quarterbacks. Patrick Mahomes has started receiving some hype for that title, but he has a ways to go. Even though his leaving the Patriots was a tough pill to swallow for the fans and upset many of them, the team is making a huge move to honor the legendary signal caller. Tom Brady attends Los Angeles Premiere Screening Of Paramount Pictures' "80 For Brady" at Regency Village Theatre on January 31, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. Tom Brady attends Los Angeles Premiere Screening Of Paramount Pictures' "80 For Brady" at Regency Village Theatre on January 31, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. Photo byAs shared by New England on social media, the status the Patriots are putting up in his honor will be unveiled on Aug. 8. Read more: Mike Vrabel Hints at Potential Patriots Trade Talks "A legacy etched in bronze forever," the post read. "@TomBrady's statue will be unveiled on 8/8 prior to Patriots vs. Commanders." A legacy etched in bronze forever.@TomBrady's statue will be unveiled on 8/8 prior to Patriots vs. Commanders. — New England Patriots (@Patriots) June 12, 2025 During his time with New England, Brady led the team to six Super Bowl wins. He put up massive numbers year in and year out as well. In his 20 seasons with the Patriots, Brady played in 335 total games. He completed 63.8 percent of his pass attempts for 74,571 yards, 541 touchdowns, and 179 interceptions. After he left New England, he produced big numbers with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as well. Brady played another three years with the Buccaneers, completing 66.7 percent of his passes for 14,643 yards, 108 touchdowns, and 33 interceptions. Seeing him be immortalized with a statue by the Patriots will be a special occasion. He will always be the player who created the dynasty in New England. Read more: Patriots Star Fires Brutal Shot at Jerod Mayo Along with the statue being unveiled, the team will be playing a preseason game against the Washington Commanders. With live football back and Brady being honored, Patriots fans will be having a great day. Along with his Super Bowl wins, Brady found a lot more success throughout his career as well. He led New England to nine AFC Championship wins and also won 17 division titles. Brady also won three NFL MVP awards. Putting together that kind of career wasn't bad at all for a quarterback who was drafted No. 199 overall in the sixth round of the 2000 NFL Draft. The NFL is never going to forget Brady and the career he had. For more New England Patriots and NFL news, head over to Newsweek Sports.
Daily Maverick
04-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Maverick
It's boom(er) time — 70 is the new 50, so get up and get on with life
Have you noticed how many movies, TV series, YouTube clips and adverts now portray old people as the protagonists and not just the doddering grandpa or hobbling, grey-haired granny? There was a time, until very recently, where the silver-haired brigade appeared exclusively in adverts for medicines to treat age-related ailments, food – as in 'as good as grandma's homemade bobotie' – or financial ads with salutary tales of the need to invest early or the joys of reaping a lifetime of prudent investment. Then there were ads for retirement communities and dietary supplements to prevent constipation, boost bone health or manage arthritis. Grandparents were mostly featured interacting with grandchildren or extended family, or else the old were condescendingly depicted in negative roles that used ageism as humour. That's changed. It's official: seventy is the new fifty, so it follows that people with more trips around the sun are being shown in a different light. If you have any presence on social media, you can't have missed the trailers for a plethora of movies with older people in the cast. There's the upcoming movie The Thursday Murder Club. The book, written by Richard Osman and set in a peaceful retirement village, went viral, quickly catapulting it into the stratosphere. The movie stars Helen Mirren (79), Jonathan Pryce (77), Ben Kingsley (81) and Pierce Brosnan (71) as a group of oldies who become unlikely friends and meet weekly to solve murders. Then there's 80 For Brady in which a bunch of even older old broads – Jane Fonda (87), Rita Moreno (93), Lily Tomlin (85) and Sally Field (78) – go on a life-changing trip to see their football hero, Tom Brady, play in the Superbowl. And mostly the old people are no longer, as a rule, portrayed in stereotypical roles. No purple-rinse brigade here. The young old women wear Lulu Lemon yoga gear for their downward dog mornings; they have sex and fall in love and suffer like teenagers when it all goes wrong. And the new old men? They behave like old old men: chasing much younger women when they're not on the golf course talking about cryptocurrency. (Talk about stereotyping. Sorry.) But it must be said that this new breed of old men has also been heard talking about feelings. Sometimes – like Anthony Hopkins (87) did in The Father – they even cry. This cohort takes up the cudgels as they fight causes. The TV series Matlock sees Cathy Bates (76) play a lawyer getting justice for her dead, opioid-addicted daughter. That television and film studios are pouring money into productions aimed at the not-so-young is no surprise. It's profitable. A lot of money has been thrown into researching this area, not least by the highly respected global financial agency, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which has produced a report that boldly announced, '70 is the new 50'. Apparently, today's baby boomers have the cognitive ability to work well past retirement age. And, curiously, someone aged 70 today has the same cognitive function as the average 53-year-old in 2000. That's a recent 25 years ago – the year my mother died, and I turned 42. Memory, orientation and basic maths were tested in one million people aged 50 and older from 41 countries. The IMF called it the 'rise of the silver economy': a world where people are living longer and breeding less, allowing older people to continue working, or fill positions in a job market threatened by a labour shortage. Me and my fellow oldies, they found, are healthier than our counterparts of old. Among other things, like being cognitively superior to our parents at our age, our grip and lung function are better. My dear old mom, who spent a large portion of her Catholic life on her knees, would have pooh-poohed the findings; she could still genuflect, get down to the ground with one knee and lift herself up without aid until she died at 76. What would have shocked her is the behaviour of new old people. Mom had a long list of taboo subjects, the most prominent of them being sex, any bodily functions, blasphemy and the price of things. A running joke with my siblings was that we'd been born through immaculate conception. The growing elderly population even looks younger, and I'm not talking about the red carpet at the Oscars, but shoppers in South African supermarkets and theatregoers. That, no doubt, can be attributed to good nutrition, more frequent exercise and easy access to ever-improving beauty treatments. As a young colleague recently observed: there's no such thing as ugly, only poor. Women, and increasingly men, who can afford it (and those who make it a priority even if they can't), are nipped and tucked into youthful versions of themselves. Under-chin waddle – more commonly known as turkey neck or saggy jowls – and nasolabial and marionette folds, those deeply ageing lines that run from the sides of the nose, past the mouth to the bottom of the chin, are pulled back and pinned to create defined jawlines. Droopy eyelids are snipped to remove excess skin and widen eyes. Foreheads are Botoxed into immovable obedience. And don't get me started on teeth and the prohibitive cost of fixing and whitening them. Even back then when I was growing up, my lovely mom – deeply lined at 60 – often pulled loose skin up with both hands saying wistfully, 'if only'. But a facelift in Ladysmith in the 1980s was seriously not going to happen. There has been a giant shift in the 'getting old' zeitgeist: a change in our cultural perception of ageing. Old people are not let off the hook if they can't stand on one leg. Chair yoga, aqua aerobics and walking are recommendations from eye-rolling friends. It's okay to complain about a bad night's sleep or a bad hip. It's not to allow it to slow you down, or to stop you from joining a U3A (University of the Third Age) gallery walkabout. And so, old people are walking the Camino and climbing mountains, going back to university, taking art classes, learning Mandarin, joining a choir, volunteering at shelters, doing the rigorous courses needed to become counsellors at LifeLine… It puts pressure on those of us who just want to be, to have a cup of tea and a lie-down in the mid-afternoon, to not feel guilty if we turn on daytime TV. It seems that until surgery or a hip/knee/shoulder replacement restricts mobility, we are expected to get up and on with it. Age is no longer an excuse. It's no use complaining. Having been entirely self-reliant (I've lived on my own for two-thirds of my life), I would dearly love to abrogate responsibility for some of the drudgery that I am tasked with – bill paying, getting the car serviced, sorting a plumbing problem, organising my social life (every single outing, holiday, event, dinner). It's exhausting. But that 'seventy is the new fifty' voice is a constant refrain in my head. Get on with it! DM This story first appeared in our weekly Daily Maverick 168 newspaper, which is available countrywide for R35.
Yahoo
06-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Jane Fonda saved grandson from a bear
Jane Fonda saved her grandson from a bear. The 87-year-old actress was living "out in the wild" in New Mexico and looking after her daughter Vanessa Vadim's son Malcolm, now 25, when she found the creature looming over him in his crib so took swift action to scare the animal away. The story emerged when Jane appeared on Netflix's podcast 'Skip Intro' with her son Troy O'Donovan Garity and the 51-year-old actor was asked to share something people didn't know about his famous mom. Troy - whose dad is Jane's late ex-husband Tom Hayden - told host Krista Smith: 'She pushed a bear out of her bedroom... 'She heard something so she left the bedroom in the middle of the night to go see what the sound was. And when she came back in, the screen door was dismantled and there was a bear in the bedroom, sniffing over the crib.' The host then asked the 'Grace and Frankie' star how she reacted, and Jane quickly held up her hands and shouted: "Roar!" Troy jokingly apologised to the "sound man" on the podcast for his mom's loudness and the '80 For Brady' actress explained the timing was lucky. She said: "I had just learned what to do if you're close to a bear. 'And that was it [a scream]. And get very big; I opened my bathrobe.' While Jane successfully scared away the bear, the creature "urinated on the rug" before it left. She added: 'And then [it] walked back to the door and sat down and I did, I pushed it out, yeah." The 'Barbarella' actress recently admitted she doesn't like shopping. She told the New York Times newspaper: "I basically don't go shopping. "Occasionally I will order something online if I'm on a trip and going into forests and need quick-drying pants and shirts - that kind of thing. But I don't like to shop. I feel uncomfortable." Jane previously bemoaned the rise of "consumerism" during an appearance on 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show'. The veteran movie star - who is also well-known for her environmental activism - admitted to feeling frustrated by the attitude of some shoppers. She said: "I vowed a couple of years ago I would never buy any new clothes again. "We spend too much money, we buy too many things, and then we get rid of them. We try to develop our identity by shopping, right? We gotta stop that. Stop all this consumerism."
