Hank Stuever

Dec 6, 2023 | washingtonpost.com | Hank Stuever

CommentSaveThe older he got, the more Norman Lear became the symbol of something he never agreed to be, but nevertheless was, up until his death Tuesday at age 101: the infinitely thoughtful, creatively productive, intelligently outspoken, most-elder citizen of the great American ideal, always open to what’s next, what’s happening, what’s now. “I don’t wake up in the morning to be old,” Lear told me during an October 2017 day I spent with him for a Washington Post profile.

Sep 3, 2023 | msn.com | Amy Argetsinger |Hank Stuever

Your dad knows how to dress on weekends, and for that we can all thank Jimmy Buffett. Faded T-shirt, neck hole slightly stretched, or an open-collar. Shorts almost to the knee, not too baggy but not too slim. Ball cap keeping melanoma off the bald spot, sunglasses at the ready on Croakies around the neck. Footwear? Look, flip-flops are not for all men nor all occasions, and that’s why we have battered boat shoes, squishy old loafers. But crucially: No socks. See — you remember now?

Sep 3, 2023 | washingtonpost.com | Amy Argetsinger |Hank Stuever

The music made Jimmy Buffett famous, but the vibe made him a multimillionaire. And it gave men of a certain age and demographic a fashion template to live by.

Aug 27, 2023 | msn.com | Hank Stuever

This summer, CBS’s seemingly eternal weekday game show “The Price Is Right” left its longtime home at the Los Angeles compound known as Television City, where it shot episodes on a soundstage named for its legendary former host, Bob Barker, and relocated to a large but nondescript warehouse in Glendale, Calif., where episodes of the 52nd season are underway.

Aug 27, 2023 | washingtonpost.com | Hank Stuever

CommentSaveThis summer, CBS’s seemingly eternal weekday game show “The Price Is Right” left its longtime home at the Los Angeles compound known as Television City, where it shot episodes on a soundstage named for its legendary former host, Bob Barker, and relocated to a large but nondescript warehouse in Glendale, Calif., where episodes of the 52nd season are underway.