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Perhaps that situation will continue indefinitely, until everyone on screen looks like Dr Christmas Jones, and everyone in the European and Canadian and Japanese audiences looks like Ethel Barrymore’s grandmother. Or perhaps Hollywood will rediscover the charms of age, put its hat on, and go to work.

Last paragraph of another brilliant piece. To co-opt a line from a song: "When we ever learn"...

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[LS]

I think of some of the movies I love, and “True Lies” comes to mind. Arnold was no spring chicken, and Jamie Lee Curtis was clearly a woman, and not a girl in that. But I agree that the ridiculously young (and always female) scientists and “world renowned” paleontologists, biologists, weapons experts and so on gets old. The absolute worst was Kelly McGillis as an “instructor” at Top Gun. Uh huh.