What Goes Down ... Must Come Up! A Funny Take on Nips and Tucks

Animator Walt Handelsman encourages pride in aging

by: Bill Newcott, from: AARP, August 10, 2012

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"I thought there must be some funny way to show what people look like when they overdo plastic surgery — and we all know people who have!" says two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and animator Walt Handelsman.

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In his song parody/animation of the Blood, Sweat & Tears classic "Spinning Wheel," Handelsman sends up those who go a little overboard in the Botox-and-browlift department, while gently reminding us that we all need to become a bit more comfortable with the effects of aging.

"Youth is really in your attitude," says Handelsman, "not in what you look like."

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