To me, Alec... 
aged much better that... 
Mark--
And Re: Is it just me or does it seem that actors who just aged looked so much better than ones who try to hang onto their youth?
First, you cannot 'thread drift' on any thread I originally post if you talk about the crap I like... 
Like films, TV, sci-fi, old movie stars, new movies stars I like, hot babes and just for general effect, hot babes again!
Now, I have 'post drifted' enough on your dime and to get back to your point, I was always a Burt Reynolds fan, recalling as a 12-year old seeing him in the old original 1959 "Riverboat" TV series with Darren McGavin. I remember seeing him in the 1963 "Twilight Zone: The Bard" episode where his character, Rocky Rhode, was a very funny takeoff on Marlon Brando method acting.
The times when I was out in Hollywood I occasionally got a glimps of him at events, once on set of one of his later Dan August TV Movies and at a red light when he pulled up besides me on Santa Monica Boulevard around the early 1980s time he was making City Heat with Clint Eastwood.
So I have watched him through his other TV series and then into films where he because a movie star and then finally back to TV in 1990-94 "Evening Shade." Always enjoyed his acting even in some of the occasional stinkers he did--
Then one morning after some time had passed (1995? 96? 97?) I happened to see him on "Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee" and the facelift was more than evident.
Gadzooks, I recall cringing in almost physical pain as I looked at Burt!
I still can feel that pain whenever I see anything Burt has done since that morning with Regis and Kathie Lee.
All I can say it is is very, very sad and he must have been very insecure to have that done. That is the little talked about fact that many, if not most celebrities, are terribly insecure and nothing like the characters they portray in films, TV, play or whatnot--
Anyway, all I can add is I am above that type of insecurity except for this old ballcap. Does it make me... 
look fat?