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Posted on 01/18/2004 5:53:14 PM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver
waaaahhhhh
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posted on
01/18/2004 6:08:56 PM PST
by
tutstar
( <{{---><)
To: WIladyconservative
This perpetual whining with hands out for entitlement parts just irks me no end. It gives the really strong, smart, middle aged woman a bad name I agree. Why don't some of them write their own screenplays with parts of women in their 40+'s and pursue it from there?
Doesn't make these middle aged women sound very "stong or smart" with their insistent whining.
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posted on
01/18/2004 6:09:38 PM PST
by
kstewskis
(38 more days until Lent and "The Passion" is released...and no I am NOT giving up Mel for Lent!)
To: Ben Chad
I can say it (shadenfrauden) but I don't remember what it means. Dang I hate when that happens!
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posted on
01/18/2004 6:11:33 PM PST
by
Ditter
To: AngrySpud
I am absolutely nauseated when I see over-the-hill actors like Jack Nicholson and Harrison Ford paired with 25-year-old actresses. "Reality check on aisle four!"
more like clean up on aisle four from the nausea....
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posted on
01/18/2004 6:12:30 PM PST
by
kstewskis
(38 more days until Lent and "The Passion" is released...and no I am NOT giving up Mel for Lent!)
To: cyborg
botox and male baby foreskinsBotox I fully understand. What are male baby foreskins used for?
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posted on
01/18/2004 6:13:58 PM PST
by
FormerACLUmember
(Man rises to greatness if greatness is expected of him)
To: Sub-Driver
I admit it, I'm a male sexist pig, there are movies I watch just because there's a sexy female in it. I have a list of several actresses that are NOT on my watch list:
Rosie O'Dnell
Kathy Bates
Babs
Of Course, there's Farah Fawcett well over 40 that really sold Playboy.
Yea I'm a male pig, I admit, I love looking at beautiful women.
To: Sub-Driver
Kate Hepburn, Angela Landsbury, Patricia Neal, Faye Dunaway, Jessica Tandy, . . . . .
Yeah, no good roles for actresses over 40.
sarcasm off
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posted on
01/18/2004 6:14:54 PM PST
by
TexasNative2000
(This space left blank intentionally.)
To: Sub-Driver
Please we have enough RINOs!
Shouldnt they have saved the cash when they were making the big bucks?
Dont all those professional athletes who make the same insane incomes have to do the same, because the money tree dries up quickly when they age?
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posted on
01/18/2004 6:16:45 PM PST
by
sarasmom
(If I get a fake blue card, does that mean I wont have to pay for health and auto insurance?)
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To: AngrySpud
I gotta agree with the complainants on one point. I am absolutely nauseated when I see over-the-hill actors like Jack Nicholson and Harrison Ford paired with 25-year-old actresses. Why? Nicolson and Ford dont deal with 40 year old women in their real lives, so why should they do so on film? How many things look good at 40 except for currency, precious metals minerals and liquor?
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posted on
01/18/2004 6:18:47 PM PST
by
Pukin Dog
(Sans Reproache)
To: Sub-Driver
Maybe it has something to do with talent...I know times have changed, but Bette Davis, Kathrine Hepburn and Joan Crawford etc didn't seem to have trouble finding work.....let me qualify that by saying that I am referring to their roles when they were in their 40's and 50's...not when they turned to B films in ther 60's and 70's....LOL
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posted on
01/18/2004 6:18:50 PM PST
by
mystery-ak
(YooHoo, Mr. Rumsfeld....I need a word with you.)
To: Sub-Driver
Maybe these "has-beens" are angry because now they're ugly "has-beens." Hollyweird is about looks only, these have all lost theirs and Whoopie never had any to begin with!
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posted on
01/18/2004 6:19:48 PM PST
by
Lucky2
(Before I die, I want Bill and Hillary tried for treason and jailed (executed) for their crimess.)
To: Sub-Driver; Lancey Howard; billorites; Mr. Jeeves
In any other profession, she says, "your work would get better the older you got". Holly Hunter, 45,Yeah Holly, like football, baseball. boxing, basketball, modeling, any friggin' women's sports you care to choose and I could go on.
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posted on
01/18/2004 6:22:09 PM PST
by
BOBTHENAILER
(One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do, but we're gonna getcha)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
You're right. My position is a bit more extreme: I won't pay eight bucks to see any of them. The last movie I went to was Private Ryan...before that, I can't remember which one it was. May have been Silverado or Wind and the Lion.
Heck with 'em. They don't have a clue as to what makes a great movie.
Semper Fi,
To: sarasmom
easy answer, they are not grown up's....unlike US Freeper's...
To: Sub-Driver
Basically what they are saying is all too true. However...this same discrimination also applies to men in Hollywood. Perhaps to a lesser degree, but its there.
And honesty, some of these actresses have only their looks to thanks for working in the film industry. IMHO, Daryl Hannah peaked in SPLASH.
"The new Penthouse is in! The new Penthouse is in! They published my letter - A LESBIAN NO MORE." (John Candy plug)
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posted on
01/18/2004 6:24:24 PM PST
by
Khurkris
(Ranger On...)
To: AngrySpud
'Reality check on aisle four!'
Reality? What reality? Hollywood deals in everything BUT reality. That's why practically everyone you see acting in any movie, male or female, has had most parts of their anatomy altered in some fashion. And the only reason you do see the over-the-hill actors paired with the twenty-something starlets is people like Harvey Weinstein are only projecting their fantasies; as for the actresses who are complaining, they've got plenty of room over at Lifetime Television and Oxygen.
-Regards, T.
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posted on
01/18/2004 6:25:36 PM PST
by
T Lady
(Who Let the 'RATS Out?!!)
To: Lancey Howard
They didn't complain when they once got roles only because they were young babes. You nailed it straight away.
To: FormerACLUmember
Trendy hollyweird types are using anti ageing creams containing a small amount of infant foreskin... everytime I hear this the doctor never gives a reason why. La Prairie sells a face cream that costs $150. It contains caviar. My ex is a cosmetics chemist thinks it's all overpriced vainglorious crapola LOL
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posted on
01/18/2004 6:26:13 PM PST
by
cyborg
(feed marmite to the prisoners and they'll never go there again)
To: exit82
Also, no way is Teri Garr 53. She was dancing in Elvis movies in the mid sixties. Nice try, Teri.Teri Garr would have been 16 in 1966, perfect age for dancing in an Elvis movie.
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