I just watched him yesterday in "Blues Brothers 2000". That's the only second time I've watched that movie (the first was at a dollar matinee), but James Brown was a standout in both. 73 should be considered "advanced middle age".
I spent Christmas eve and the wee hours of Christmas morning fixing my XP system while working on the help desk. That Dell "compact form factor" fits nicely in a pilot's helmet bag. It was an evil mixture of Roxio 9, ATI Catalyst, and Microsoft .NET all fighting for the CPU at the same instant. It must have had something to do with the alignment of the planets.
Merry Christmas to everyone at the Hobbit Hole.