Would the Chief Play in the Catskills?

‘HE has,” said a television pundit, describing the next Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Roberts, “youth on his side.”

Youth? I thought to myself. The guy is 50 years old. In Hollywood, where I work, being 50 almost qualifies a person for a handicapped parking spot. Out here, 50 means wisdom, grey eminence, and Omega-3 caplets. A 50-year-old man in Hollywood may have many things on his side-money, bright shirts, an expensive car-but youth is never one of them.