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Senior Beefcake

Aired June 18, 2002 - 12:53   ET

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KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Move over, "Golden Girls." You might call some sexy senior men the silver foxes of West Palm Beach Florida now. These grandfathers and great grandfathers are starring in a beefcake calendar.

Eyewitness News 25's Lisa Hayward got a sneak peek at these senior centerfolds.

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LISA HAYWARD, WPBF REPORTER: You look great.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Don't I?

HAYWARD: Yes.

(voice-over): They are the senior centerfolds of South Florida: 29 silver-haired men, all of them 80 years old and up, and still turning heads.

LEE JOSSELSON, THE CARLISLE PALM BEACH: They're handsome. They're gorgeous. And they're young. And they're vibrant. And they're full of vim and vigor and sex and everything. They got it all. But we're not getting any of it.

HAYWARD: But they will get an eyeful of these men, who live at the Carlisle retirement community in Lantana. They star in a senior beefcake calendar that just came out.

RAYMOND FOX, CALENDAR MODEL: It looks pretty good. They should have had about seven more shots of me.

(LAUGHTER)

LEE RAPPAPORT: Oh, my look at you. You're fat on there. You look fat.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thank you very much. You would pick on that. I lost 30 pounds and she says I'm fat on there.

HAYWARD: The men can be seen posing by the piano, standing in front of their favorite sports car, and pumping iron. Organizers hope this "Men of the Carlisle" calendar is as big of a hit as it was last year. RAPPAPORT: Well, last year, it was exciting. And they ended up on the front page of "The New York Times." And we got telephone calls from all over the country from people we hadn't seen for 30 years.

HAYWARD: And just like celebrities, each of these senior stars signed his autograph on the group picture. That included a special four-legged friends

PAULA RENARD, THE CARLISLE PALM BEACH: I think it's a very good idea. And it keeps everybody busy and happy.

HAYWARD: Lisa Hayward, WPBF Eyewitness News 25.

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PHILLIPS: I've got to tell you, it has made us all of here very happy also.

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