Sex and the Single GrandMa
A new line of greeting cards by actress Betty Perry presents a new view of old age, where sex, life and fun are not the monopoly of a 'youth culture,' the recent invention of the 20th century.
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) May 15, 2005 -- As much as myths would have people
believe that life and sex end at 65, a larger section of our population know
that "while every new generation believes they invented sex, a generation that
knew about it had to precede them." (Vanna Bonta, American poet)
So when
Betty Perry, an actress who’s played the Queen Mum for Pepsi and a heartland
grandma for York Peppermint Patties, was inspired to launch a new line of
greeting cards, fun, humor and sex were not off limits. Nor are they off-color,
on the contrary, it’s life in living color. In a swirl of colorful pageantry
photographed by Grammy-nominee songwriter Jan Buckingham, the Betty Perry
Collection shouts a new view of old age.
“That’s the biggest one I’ve
ever seen, and what balls! You know how to decorate a tree!” one holiday card
exclaims.
Betty Perry, who looks every bit the sweet apple-pie baking
grandma, and drives a hot red racecar, is here to say, “There are no wrinkles on
my soul.”
In all fairness, life, hip and cool are not the monopoly of a
small age group, particularly when the concepts were created for marketing
purposes. Anyone feeling ‘old’ should consider that youth culture is a recent
invention of the 20th Century. In 1947, the Encyclopedia Britannica identified
'teenager' as a new word that was coined in 1944.
If greeting cards can
tell the story with Happy Birthday, Congratulations and Thank You, a human
universality becomes apparent that transcends the flimsy barriers between
decades.
The Betty Perry Collection will premiere for new buyers at the
59th National Stationery Show in New York’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
May 15-18. It is the premier market for stationery resources in the United
States.
The annual trade show for the gift and stationery industry held
in New York City every May is presenting approximately 1,400 exhibitors this
year. The Show draws 14,000 domestic and international retailers representing
department, chain and specialty stores, boutiques, stationery, card and gift
shops, bookstores, bridal shops, party stores, hospital gift shops, museum
stores, gallery/craft retailers, home furnishings stores, specialty office
retailers, floral and garden centers, mass merchandisers.
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