Younger Man

Q: I'm 59, a college graduate and at an age where it seems impossible to find men. I am active but find the men my age look only at the younger women. I want someone physically and mentally active, and the ones who fit the bill just don't see women my age. I'd have to go up 10 years to find an eligible man, and almost 70 is very different from 59 in most cases. Have any suggestions?A: Fasten your safety belt; it's going to be a bumpy ride when I suggest you start seriously looking at younger men. Yes, I know the arguments against: wrinkles, mother complex, looking older and aging faster than he does.

ASHBURN, Va. -- The NFL season is into its eighth week, and the Manning brother with more touchdowns and fewer interceptions is not Peyton. Eli Manning has thrown more touchdown passes (12 to 11) and fewer interceptions (four to five) than his older brother, but when they connect for their twice-a-week phone conversations, Eli Manning said he doesn't offer much counsel to the league's two-time reigning Most Valuable Player. "I haven't given him any advice," Manning said. "I think he knows everything already, and he understands that it's a team game.

* ''Dreams'' Eight short stories from the mind of Japanese writer-director Akira Kurosawa.* ''I Come in Peace'' Dolph Lundgren is a Houston cop who pursues an intergalactic drug seller. A thriller with laughs.* ''Pacific Heights'' Melanie Griffith and Matthew Modine are a couple who rent an apartment to a psychopath, played by Michael Keaton.* ''White Palace'' Susan Sarandon plays an older woman who falls in love with a younger man, played by James Spader.

ISO: Sex and the City fans. Stop sipping that cosmopolitan. Put down the tartini. On Jan. 4, the last half of the last season of Sex and The City begins and we'd like to mark the occasion. Please send us your fondest -- or least fond -- memories of the show. Describe your favorite moment. Your favorite pair of shoes. Which was the most outrageous plot? Do you watch the show with your girlfriends? Boyfriends? Straight friends? Gay friends? Parents? Have you had your very own Sex and the City-inspired experience?

An argument between a father and son accelerated into a shooting Friday, sending the younger man to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, state police reported.Troopers said Darryl N. Hodges, 32, became involved in an argument with his father, Normand H. Hodges, 61, shortly before noon. The younger man had gone to his father's home in the1800 block of Tank Road, Finksburg, to pick up belongings he had left when he moved to Baltimore recently.Investigators said the elder Mr. Hodges accused his son of taking things that did not belong to him. One shot was fired from a .32-caliber handgun and the bullet lodged in the younger man's right shoulder.

A Finksburg man pleaded guilty yesterday to shooting his son during a domestic dispute in March, and a Carroll Circuit judge sentenced him to 18 months in the Carroll County Detention Center.Normand H. Hodges of the 1800 block of Tank Road pleaded guilty to one count of reckless endangerment, a misdemeanor, in exchange for the sentence and the dropping of five other charges, including attempted first-degree murder.Circuit Judge Raymond E. Beck Sr. sentenced Mr. Hodges to five years, then suspended all but 18 months.

A Carroll District judge set bond yesterday for a 61-year-old Finksburg man charged with shooting his son during a domestic dispute Friday.Normand H. Hodges of the 1800 block of Tank Road remained in the Carroll County Detention Center last night on $20,000 bond.He had been held without bond since his arrest Friday afternoon.State police said Darryl N. Hodges, 32, of Baltimore allegedly became involved in an argument with his father shortly before noon.The younger man had gone to his father's home to pick up belongings he had left when he moved recently.

A Finksburg man accused of kidnapping and assaulting his father during three incidents since the first of the year remained in the Carroll County Detention Center yesterday on $200,000 bond.Kevin M. Cunningham, 21, of the 3200 block of Old Westminster Road was arrested Sunday and also is charged with assault with intent to murder, extortion of $5,000, false imprisonment, assault and theft charges, according to District Court documents.State police said Todd William O'Keefe told them the incidents began Jan. 4 when he received a telephone call from the suspect requesting help moving a newly purchased sofa to the younger man's house.

Stop sipping that cosmopolitan. Put down the tartini. On Jan. 4, the last half of the last season of Sex and The City begins, and we'd like to mark the occasion. Please send us your fondest - or least fond - memory of the show. Describe your favorite moment. Your favorite pair of shoes. Which was the most outrageous plot? Do you watch the show with your girlfriends? Boyfriends? Straight friends? Gay friends? Parents? Have you had your very own Sex and the City-inspired experience? Gotten together with a - gasp!

ISO: Sex and the City fans. Stop sipping that cosmopolitan. Put down the tartini. On Jan. 4, the last half of the last season of Sex and The City begins and we'd like to mark the occasion. Please send us your fondest -- or least fond -- memories of the show. Describe your favorite moment. Your favorite pair of shoes. Which was the most outrageous plot? Do you watch the show with your girlfriends? Boyfriends? Straight friends? Gay friends? Parents? Have you had your very own Sex and the City-inspired experience?

Stop sipping that cosmopolitan. Put down the tartini. On Jan. 4, the last half of the last season of Sex and The City begins, and we'd like to mark the occasion. Please send us your fondest - or least fond - memory of the show. Describe your favorite moment. Your favorite pair of shoes. Which was the most outrageous plot? Do you watch the show with your girlfriends? Boyfriends? Straight friends? Gay friends? Parents? Have you had your very own Sex and the City-inspired experience? Gotten together with a - gasp!

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - The intersecting lives of John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo collided again last week. As the older man's trial in last year's sniper attacks was winding down, the younger man's began in a courtroom just 15 miles away. In ways large and small, one very much was a presence at the other. There were logistical issues. As jurors hearing the case of Muhammad began deliberations Friday morning, they took with them more than 400 pieces of evidence to examine. That put the Malvo trial, where prosecutors will rely on many of the same items in building their case, on hold until at least tomorrow.

Think Annie Hall without the wistfulness, and with Woody Allen playing not the main character but the main character's muse, and you have Anything Else, in which the Woodman tries adapting his theories about compatibility, companionship and angst for a new generation of filmgoers. In fact, so determined is Allen to expand beyond his shrinking core audience that his participation in the film, not to mention his authorship of it, is being calculatedly downplayed. The film is being marketed as a Jason Biggs-Christina Ricci movie, with Allen's name being featured nowhere prominently, his character not even being mentioned in the movie's press notes and stills of him from the movie rare, indeed (in fact, no clips featuring his character were made available to TV's Ebert & Roeper)

NEW YORK - Andy Roddick, 20, shook his racket and squawked at the umpire. He cursed himself and finally threw his racket. All of it before the end of the second set. None of it made any difference to Pete Sampras, age 31, who was in the midst of playing an overwhelming match in the U.S. Open men's quarterfinals last night. When the man and the man- child came into Arthur Ashe Stadium, the place rocked to "Glory Days." Did Sampras hear it? Certainly he must believe these are those days.

CARACAS, Venezuela -- It was a Thursday night on a packed downtown subway a few weeks ago, and a middle-age man broke into a painful groan, as if an anvil had been dropped on his big toe. He was short and stocky, dressed in a gray T-shirt and blue jeans. And he was angry. Real angry. The man sitting across from him, who looked a tad younger and was wearing a work uniform, had just made a case against voting for Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president in the midst of a re-election campaign.

"Enduring Love," by Ian McEwan. Doubleday. 245 pages. $23.95.Take Stephen King, cut his throat - humanely - drain him of blood and gore; then remove that chisel he uses to write with and replace it with the most elegant fountain pen you can find: that may give you an idea of Ian McEwan.Like King, this British author taps into the deep desires and psychoses roiling beneath the surface currents of everyday life, but unlike America's master of horror, McEwan is, well, an artist, and the evils his characters face are never so blunt as slavering dogs or diabolical cars.

James Green, 71, turned the tables early yesterday on a much younger man who thought he had come across an easy mark.As a masked gunman brandished what appeared to be a 9mm pistol, Mr. Green used his own handgun to wound the attacker in the back.Mr. Green was packing a real gun. The other man was armed with a toy.The incident occurred just after midnight yesterday as Mr. Green returned to his residence in the Oakfield House apartments in the 3900 block of Liberty Heights Ave.A man identified as Darnell Holmes, 24, of the 3900 block of Norfolk Ave., was taken to University of Maryland Medical Center, where he was reported in good condition, police said.