media and misinformation Mediawise for seniors: Fact vs. Fake BY THE JOURNALISTS NETWORK ON GENERATIONS I n the 2019 film, The Tomorrow Man, John Lithgow plays Ed, a widowed retiree preoccupied with online " prepper " conspiracy groups focused on preparing for the coming apocalypse. The film, with touching and thoughtful performances by Lithgow and Blythe Danner, is set a few years prior to today's fake-news glut. The movie's depiction of late-life love shyly and slyly exposes the challenges of years' long loneliness as it defaults to unhealthy routines and desultory habits. Lithgow's Ed loops through his nihilistic fears and fantasies, while Danner's Ronnie has fallen into a pattern of hoarding. Both initially hit a wall of resistance thwarting their hopes of changing the other's entrenched quirks. " Actors, John Lithgow and Blythe Danner in The Tomorrow Man 27 GRAND Winter 2022 The Tomorrow Man's romantic antidote to later life loneliness and fake news may not inoculate every isolated senior addicted to the freshest online or Fox News outrage. " Continued on next pagehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKzLjjYnWnU https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tomorrow_Man