The retirees: ceramics at noon, poker at 3--and a screening with Tom-Hanks at 8. At this retirement home. Hollywood is more than just a memory. (A-List).

W, February, 2003 by Bagley, Christopher

It's not yet 4:30 p.m., and the sun is still blazing high above the San Fernando Valley, but at the Motion Picture & Television Fund retirement home in Woodland Hills, California, a crush of wheelchairs and walkers is already clogging the entrance to the restaurant. Dinner is almost ready About 60 residents--some in sparkling evening gowns, some in velour sweat suits, most in sensible shoes--are eagerly making their way past the check-in line and along the buffet tables that line the dining room. "Coming through," chirps one beret-clad woman as she speeds across the lobby in her electric wheelchair, veering around one of the evening's celebrity guests, Kirk Douglas, and narrowly averting a collision with another, Janet Leigh.

At the center of the room, in a...

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