If women in Hollywood want to still be above-the-title stars after a certain age they need to use their money to become producers and make the movies they’d like the see made. The biggest example of how well this works is the amazingly beautiful AND talented Sandra Bullock. Can you remember ANY of the other actresses that became popular around the same time Bullock got “Speed?” Julia Ormond, Mira Sorvino, and a few others and NONE of them are $12 million stars the way that Bullock is today. Why? Because she was smart about the roles she took and she learned to make her own movies while she was still the hot young thing. She produced “Miss Congenialty” with her own money and insured that she could always cast herself if other producers wanted the next hot thing. She rarely to never gives a bad performance and she’s one of those women who has only gotten hotter with age. These harpies are all just jealous that they didn’t outsmart the system the way Bullock did.
I just saw the Proposal last week. OK, light comedy (I knew what I was getting). Bullock was great and Betty White, who I believe is in her late 80’s, was too. They were the clear stars of the picture. I couldn’t get over, however, how good Mary Steenburgen looked. You knew the character was about sixty, you believed she was in that age group. I want to look like that when I am sixty. (And I want to look like Betty White when I am 85).