Over the years we've all seen different commercials specifically targeting the elderly. Each of them features some familiar face, past its prime, dripping with trustworthy advice to buy this insurance, invest with us, buy this funeral planning advice, or more recently, give away your home equity with this nifty reverse mortgage.

Ed McMahon, George Burns, Wilford Brimley, Sam Waterston, Bob Barker, Robert Conrad and many other over-the-hillers have been our daytime advisors on all things old.

I'm 45 and wondering who my future hero and adviser will be. Johnny Depp is about my age, so is George Clooney. Will I one day sit and admire their scripted wisdom and feel the urge to make that call... now... before it's too late?

Who among your famous contemporaries do you imagine as your future, trustworthy spokesperson?