Bombarded with adverts promising a longer, healthier life, BBC News Los Angeles correspondent Peter Bowes goes in search of eternal youth.

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With its sunny beaches, vast system of freshwater springs and enticingly storied history, it is no wonder the myth of eternal youth lives on in the Sunshine State.

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" And, he asked rhetorically, "is the youth and pleasure offered by the devil very far from the eternal youth and virility that we crave from modern medicine and health science?

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Among the retrospective's titles are: "Satanic Rhapsody, " 1917: Borelli stars as an aging aristocrat who makes a deal with the devil: In exchange for eternal youth, she promises to never fall in love again.

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Instead of curling photographs and yellowing newspapers, we are possessed of a shiny and permanent now, one we flit-click about and so delude ourselves as to our own eternal youth - until, that is, we look down at the wrinkled and liver-spotted hands that rest on the keyboard.

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If they agreed I prefer to think their acquiescence was more a testimony to the eternal youth of the male libido than aches and pains that needed addressing the fake health-care workers would escort them home, and while one of them ministered to their needs the other would burglarize the apartment.

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The three-hundred-year-old Dog of Ageless Wonder, which Tibetan monks treat as holy, is kidnapped by agents of an American pharmaceutical company, where a craven scientist (Robert Downey, Jr.) is seeking the serum of eternal youth, but a teen-age animal-rights activist, Carly (Zena Grey), springs the dog from the lab and brings it home to her family.

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