[WIladyconservative]

Being forty-something, I understand their point of view, but I don't agree with their whining. If they want something to happen, they need TO MAKE IT HAPPEN. Find good stories about middle age and good screenplays about women our age, or write them yourself.

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.

/off rant

[kstewskis]

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.

[cyncooper]

Being forty-something, I understand their point of view, but I don't agree with their whining.

Same here. And one point I did absolutely agree with was the comment that having a 68 year old man paired with a 30 year old woman on screen is not only ludicrous but offensive.

[latina4dubya]

Being forty-something, I understand their point of view, but I don't agree with their whining. If they want something to happen, they need TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.

exactly! where are the Barbra Streisands and Goldie Hawns? how come they aren't making the kinds of movies these women can star in? i hear they are pretty powerful... or even Oprah for that matter...

[utahagen]

I agree 100%. As I posted earlier, Meg Ryan should buy one less condo in Aspen and use the $5 million to finance an independent film. Or she should produce a play in Los Angeles, which would be cheap to do. What these actresses want are big, high-paying parts in major studio movies. Well, big studios make big movies to make big money. If the the fortysomething women pulled in big audiences, the studios would make more movies with them in them. Whining because Paramount doesn't make movies with older women as starts is akin to a major league baseball player's complaining that the Yankees won't hire him now that he's over fifty. These women need to grow up.

[White Eagle]

Good point. If they saved their money while they could get good roles, they should have the cash and connections to finance their own movies featuring women in their 40's and 50's.

When those movies are great commercial successes, then everybody will copy the formula and women won't be able to get roles in movies until they turn 40.