A Chance Meeting With the Real Colonel Sanders Inspired George Hamilton's Current Version

'You wouldn’t want to trust him with your mother or your girlfriend'

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George Hamilton is sitting by the Royalton Hotel’s rooftop pool wearing a crisp gray suit—it’s much too chilly for swimming—and sipping a pink cocktail. At an age when many actors of his generation have slipped into Hollywood’s pastures, Hamilton, 78, a veteran of over 100 roles, is still going strong and clearly enjoying the attention. And on this Park Avenue rooftop, he happens to be the center of it. As publicists mill about, cabana boys approach with trays of fried chicken sandwiches—a hint of what’s in the offing today.

Hamilton’s latest role is none other than Harland Sanders, better known as Colonel Sanders of KFC fame.

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