He's pretty good looking for an old dude. When I think of good looking old dudes, he is among the few that come to mind.
...Ummmm who're ya callin' OLD, lol!! Since when did 40 something mean old
wikipedia.org excerpt:
"
Cooper was born on
June 3,
1967 in New York City, the younger son of the writer
Wyatt Emory Cooper and the artist, designer, writer, and heiress
Gloria Vanderbilt, granddaughter of
Cornelius Vanderbilt II of the prominent
Vanderbilt Family of New York. He is of mostly
English,
Irish,
Dutch and
Spanish ancestry.
Cooper's media experience began early. As a baby, he was photographed by
Diane Arbus for
Harper's Bazaar.
[1][2] At the age of three, Cooper was a guest on
The Tonight Show on
September 17,
1970, when he appeared with his mother,
Gloria Vanderbilt.
[3] From age 10 to 13, Cooper modeled with
Ford Models for
Ralph Lauren,
Calvin Klein and
Macy's.
[4]
Cooper's father suffered a series of heart attacks, and died
January 5,
1978 while undergoing open-heart surgery at the age of 50. This is said to have affected the young Cooper "enormously." He has said, in retrospect, "I think Im a lot like my father in several ways," including "that we look a lot alike and that we have a similar sense of humor and a love of storytelling." Cooper considers his father's book
Families to be "sort of a guide on...how he would have wanted me to live my life and the choices he would have wanted me to make. And so I feel very connected to him."
[4]
After graduating from the prestigious Dalton School in New York City at age 17, Cooper went to
southern Africa in a "13-ton British Army truck" during which time he contracted
malaria and required hospitalization in
Kenya. Describing the experience, Cooper wrote "Africa was a place to forget and be forgotten in."
[4][5]
Cooper's older brother,
Carter Vanderbilt Cooper, committed suicide on
July 22,
1988, at age 23, by jumping from the 15th-floor terrace of Vanderbilt's
New York City penthouse apartment. Gloria Vanderbilt later wrote about her son's death in the book
A Mother's Story, in which she expresses her belief that the suicide was caused by a
psychotic episode induced by an
allergy to the anti-
asthma prescription drug Proventil. Carter's suicide is apparently what sparked Anderson to become a journalist."
...oh and YOU BETCHA he's hot. But I too have heard he bats for the other team.