Female, forty and furious

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[wardaddy]

Bingo.

[bray]

Maybe these bitter old women shouldn't have aborted their children?? Maybe their clocks have shocked them into reality?? As if they didn't know the rules going in? These feminists flaunted their career before family lives and now we are supposed to feel sorry for them because it all proved empty.

Pray for W and The Women Fooled by Abortion

[metalurgist]

I saw plenty of twenty something babes at the home of sixty something business executives, doctors, lawyers

Thats because money and power are the most powerful aphrodesiacs. Look what it did for Theresa Hines.

[Celtic Conservative]

Teri Garr, 53, who has appeared in more than 50 films, including Tootsie...

There is some serious fudging of Her age going on here. Teri appeared in a episode of star trek in 1968, which according to My math would make her approx. 18 when she did the role. She clearly appears to be in her mid 20's in the episode. At least she tried this time to make it believable. At one time in her career she was quoting an age which would've made her 12 at the filming of that episode!. When called on the discrepancy, she denied having done an episode of star trek.

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[AlbionGirl]

Excellent points, all. And it sounds like Mrs. RobRoy is a lucky lady. Good luck to the both of you, and God Bless you both w/many years yet of good health and prosperity.

Regarding the aging of men and women: When men get older, they look like Sean Connery. When women get older, they look like Sean Connery.

That was funny! Although, lately, Sean looks like 10 miles of bad road.

[Celtic Conservative]

The actors name was Robert Lansing and the name of the episode was Assignment: earth ,episode # 55 last episode of 1968 season.

[Celtic Conservative]

no it's not

[Celtic Conservative]

sedagive!? SEDAGIVE!!!

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[Terry Mross]

BS and the likes no it's the bottom line. They're afraid they'll lose money. On the other hand, SOMETHING'S GOTTA' GIVE is a great movie and it's about an older man who only dates young babes but falls in love with an older woman. It's not the older actresses, it's the scripts. And as long as people won't go see the movies unless they are babes to look at, the older actresses won't work.

[Woahhs]

I can think of no sillier criteria for picking a spouse than "what she looks like."

[RobRoy]

>>That was funny! Although, lately, Sean looks like 10 miles of bad road<<

Yeah, the joke was a lot funnier and a lot more relevant about ten years ago. Time is not very kind to anybody who tries to get by on their looks alone. Everyone needs an "alternate route."

I'll throw this out too. Most people who marry people old enough to be their parent are in for a rude awakening. The fact is that a healthy 55 year old can keep up fairly well with a typical 25 year old. Problem is, the 55 year old is headed for a "no matter what you do, you're gonna be spending a lot of time in a rocking chair" in the fairly near future. What, then, is this persons ~40 year old, healthy spouse gonna do?

It is a very slow health decline (slightly sloping plateau) from your mid-twenties on until you fall off a health "cliff" at some point. If you are on the front end of the plateau and you marry someone close to the back end, you are in for a very hard life when they "relatively soon" fall off the cliff. It will seem like you married your grandparent more than your parent.

[fella]

If these Ladys(?) weren't so self-indulgent with their money maybe, just maybe, they could start their own film companies and make teir ow movies. The way the Clint Eastwood and Mel Gibson have.

[MamaDearest]

Prettiness in my way of thinking is internal as well as external. Some can be super attractive, but have hearts made in hell. Some can be downright ugly but be totally awesome human beings. It's the whole package that really matters. Greed, attitude, superiority complexes, dishonesty, selfishness, lack of charity, and ignorance tend to diminish beauty (in whatever form) a lot. These women would do well to do charitable works and gain recognition for good causes to keep them in the spotlight they seemingly crave (like Audrey Hepburn did).

[Paul C. Jesup]

In a movie with some substance,plot, character development, etc, non fantastic story- then then age and looks matters insofar as they atre appropriate to the story and the characters. Movies like that are pretty much nonexistent these days. If the movie is basically fluff then there is no excuse for nonbeautiful nonyoung actresses because the picture is the whole value of the movie.

Then we should blame the lack of quality in movies overall on the movie studios.

P.S. I am a big Farscape fan and it has actresses over the age of 30 (maybe 40, this show loves taking risks) in the regular cast, and it works without a problem. I cannot wait to see the Farscape 4 part mini-series.

[ThanhPhero]

I don't know about Farscape. It sounds like a TV show. I've not seen one of those in 14 years.

[Jaysun]

Well said, but alas I am the exception. I am over 40..only 4 years from an AARP card which I would burn of course, but I am utterly useless I confess.

In the eyes of my wife, I too am useless. I quickly learned that by blotching the various task delegated to me by the house Nazi, I could get out of them. It only takes a few plates stacked in the cabinet with gobs of food still affixed to them to get off of the "dishes list". The same goes for the the "trash taker outer list", the "hang this picture list", and the "can you run to the store list". Of course, I'm only kidding.......I need to get back to the dishes now.

[marajade]

"Sexism is terrible and all but who wants to go watch a womwn over forty?"

Have you seen Joan Collins? She's seventy something and still great looking...

[dfwgator]

Shh, you're going to spoil our secret.

[teldon30]

you have a point...

[Paul C. Jesup]

I don't know about Farscape. It sounds like a TV show. I've not seen one of those in 14 years.

Farscape, came on Sci-fi Channel, before the channel was dumbed down and now shows almost all BAD B-movies and reality tv shows.

Farscape was created by the Jim Henson Company, as a way to show the world what they can do. But this is NOT muppets in space, this is a very mature adult show. And a very good sci-fi series, maybe the best, in all catigories; action, plots, acting, characterization, linear plots, villains, heros, stage sets, enviroments, special effects, creatures.

The show blends, cgi, puppets, prosteitic make-up to a real quality show.

Any way, to start with, in the premiere, one of the main actresses (in her mid-30's) is a bald, blue alien priestess who is also an excaped convict and it is works for the show.

There are actresses through out that show that return that are in their 30's and 40's, and there is no problem with it.

When Farscape does make it to syndication, you need to watch it from beginning to end (4 part min-series raps up season four, but rumors they may continue it after that). You will not regert it.