[Sub-Driver]

And all Lib's.....maybe they should consider switching party's?

[BOBTHENAILER]

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.

[Khurkris]

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)

[Cicero]

Well, rather than make an angry propaganda film, the typical reaction of liberal feminists, there would seem to be two more practical solutions:

a) Learn to do character acting, like the great actresses of the past.

b) Put up their own money and make films with older women in them. If they are right in thinking there is a market for such films, well and good. Most of these people have been paid millions for their work in the movies, and could well afford to get together and start their own business if they are so confident it would work.

[Az Joe]

Riiiight, these women spend 20-25 years getting roles because they were born with hot looks and nothing else. Now that the free ride is over their bitching.

Typical.

[Tangerine Time Machine]

"The man walks in and looks right at my tits and I saw in his face that there was no way I was going to get the part. And yet in the real world there is no way I would give this guy the time of day."

Good golly, I guess it works both ways!

"Men grow cold as girls grow old, and we all lose our charms in the end..."

It's a shame that ageism is so prominent in an industry that had ribbons for every other "ism" in the book, but it's the lay of the land. The reason folks older than 40 don't go to many movies is that few pictures written by people their age are being made.

[Eva]

Send them all a copy of Dr. Laura's book, The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands, maybe they will change their outlook. It's not all about them.

[Az Joe]

Why don't these loud mouth, whining bitches create their own film company and make a film everyday with older women in them? See what the market place wants to look at.

[Senator Pardek]

This is hilarious. Have they ever heard of the Free Market?

I'm short, pale and ugly. Whom do I sue to get a plum multi-million dollar Hollywood role?

[CzarNicky]

Liberal women are outraged again. Who'd of thunk it?

[whd23]

Whoopi Goldberg?

Here's a clue Whoopi: You didn't look good at 20, so I doubt your age has got much to do with your lack of acting jobs.

[expatguy]

Are there a lot of movie roles for middle-aged overweight bald guys?

[Ronin]

The people running the studios are not stupid. There are few roles for women over 40 for the same reason there are few (if any) good science fiction movies being made.

There is not enough of an audience to justify the expense of making a movie for them.

I personally would love to see a good science fiction movie -- one that would be technically correct based on physics as we currently understand them -- but it won't happen anytime soon, because without the zippy-do-zowie, eye-candy, flashy-go-boom-in-space special effects, the movies would be too boringly intellectual for the majority of the people buying movie tickets.

The same thing is happening with these ladies. They may technically be better actresses than the younger stars, but if their audience appeal is nil, no one is going to pay to see them act.

It's all dollars and cents. If a market exists, someone will fill it. If it doesn't, whining about it is not going to create it.

[expatguy]

I have noticed for the most part that the so-called beautiful people get all the movie roles. Well what about average looking people?

[Dr. Frank fan]

Poor millionaires. When will the world come to its senses and realize that the movie industry owes them high-profile, profitable roles so that they can prolong their fame and wealth? /sarcasm

Seriously, I'll start taking the age-old "no roles for older women" complaint seriously when the people doing the complaining (usually, wealthy, famous, and attractive if "older" women) show some hint of appreciation for the fact that there are, to an even greater extent, very few roles for (say) fat and/or ugly people.

[pabianice]

Wah! WAHH! Have a seat and let me tell you about "ageism" and the computer industry, you bimbos...

[ThanhPhero]

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

[E. Pluribus Unum]

"Women want to watch other women of their own age sometimes. All these young people are great but let them watch each other. We want to watch us."

If it is so important and so financially viable, Ms. Lane could write a good script with characters like her, drum up some investors or borrow twenty or thirty million dollars and produce her own movie.

That's how Stallone, Schwarzennegger, Gibson, et al became megastars.

But I guess girls aren't supposed to do things for themselves.

Feminism goes only so far.

[Nick Danger]

How to do this without whining

[reed_inthe_wind]

They need to get older and uglier faster and better. Theres plenty of Gertrude roles in Hollyweird.

[philetus]

"Theresa Russell, 46, says: "It was really hard, I didn't get an audition for years and I started running out of money."

How many million dollar mansions did you buy?
How much money did you throw away on lavish parties?