Well,
I’ll be blowed: Newscorp CEO Rupert Murdoch, 84, and erstwhile super-model
Jerry Hall, 59, have announced their engagement. Rather quaintly, they placed a
notification in the births, marriages and deaths section of one of Murdoch’s
flagship publications, the London Times.
As
you might imagine, there’s considerable comment flying around the ether about
the romance, and possible incentives for Hall’s involvement with Murdoch. No
one seems to question his motivation. A lot is being made of the age
difference, and Murdoch’s, uh, physical attraction(s).
So
let me just point out a couple of things. Murdoch married his last wife, Wendi
Deng, at age 66, when she was 29; a 37-year delta. So 25 years is a twelve-year
improvement in that regard.
Second,
having spent a couple of decades with Mick Jagger, and bearing four of his
children, it’s not like Hall isn’t used to waking up in the morning and looking
into the face of a corpse. (Not that I’m inquiring in any respect into the
sleeping arrangements of any of these people.)
If
you’ve not spent time in the UK, you might not have seen this commercial that
Hall did for Strongbow Cider. I always thought it pretty amusing, although it
never inspired me to actually, you know, drink the stuff.
But
the thought occurs to me: Woman’s going to need a barrel full of cider to get
through the next few months. Not to mention living with this particular
cadaver.
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