July 22, 2020 by Jeannie Ralston · Personal Development

A 92-Year-Old Filmmaker’s 5 Secrets to a Long and Fascinating Life

She's been a costume designer and culture journalist, and in her mid-80s, Joan Kron decided to take on filmmaking. Here she talks about how to squeeze more juice out of life.

When I told Joan Kron that I thought of her as a poster child for aging boldly, and the woman a lot of us want to be when we grow up, she said: "That's a terrible responsibility." But then she smiled, because she had to know how her life looks to others.

Her career has been so long and sweeping that it started with designing costumes for Milton Berle and The Howdy Doody Show. Later, she would work with with Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground, and then at the age of 41 she became a writer, eventually publishing culture stories in New York magazine, when is was famously edited by Clay Felker.

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