Tonight Show skit from the 1980’s

Charles Grodin is a actor, comedian, author and former cable talk show host. During
his early film career he played an obstetrician in the 1968 horror film, Rosemary’s
Baby. He gained recognition as a comedy actor when he played the lead role in the
1972 film The Heartbreak Kid. Gordin’s career took a turn in 1992, when he played family man George Newton in the children’s comedy Beethoven, opposite Bonnie
Hunt. The film was a box-office hit, and he reprised the role in the 1993 sequel.

Charles Gordin with Jeannie Berlin from The Heartbreak Kid

Gordin in Rosemary’s Baby

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known
by his pen name Mark Twain, was a author and humorist. He is most noted for
his novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), and its sequel, Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn (1885).

In the early 1980s, Andie MacDowell modeled for Vogue magazine and appeared
in various ad campaigns. A series of billboards in Time Square and national TV commercials for Calvin Klein drew attention to her and led to a 1984 film debut
in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes. She had a small part St.
Elmo’s Fire in 1985. In the 1990s, MacDowell achieved stardom due to the box
office success of the 1993 comedy by Harold Ramis, Groundhog Day, and Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994).

January, 1986 issue

 
Comedian and actor George Burns become the oldest person at 84 to have a
hit on the Billboard Hot 100 when "I Wish I Was 18 Again" peaked at number
forty-nine. When asked if he wished he were 18 again, Burns replied "I wish I
was 80 again."