Jimmy Kimmel commemorates Buzz Aldrin’s eighty fifth birthday by asking people on Hollywood Boulevard to explain who Aldrin is and why he is famous. What follows is a bizarre biography of the great American astronaut. Who knows, perhaps he did sing “Good-bye to My Heart” in drag. If so, ‘she’ has quite a following.
It’s not so surprising when the young, who’ve grown up taking the space program for granted are unaware of Buzz Aldrin. After all, he isn’t a major presence on Twitter, and he’s never been on a reality show – unless you count the live coverage from NASA. It is more surprising when an older couple seem to have no clue, but perhaps it’s not a mystery. Many who lived through the sixties have misplaced a decade or two…But Dancing With the Stars?