<p>Looking good at 50+
The Plain Dealer today referred its Cleveland readers to this Entertainment Weekly article [Mary</a> McDonnell | GILFy Pleasures: 33 Hotties Over Age 50 | Photos | EW.com](<a href=“http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20202055,00.html]Mary”>http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20202055,00.html)</p>
<p>Can’t decide if this is fun to look at or depressing to look at. Look at Iman. Still as gorgeous as ever. (Of course, most of us don’t look anywhere near that great at 25!)</p>
<p>I’d like to see unretouched pictures of ordinary people who are over age 50 and haven’t had plastic surgery.</p>
<p>Given the extent of retouching in celebrity’s portraits, I don’t believe what I saw in the link. I also think that some of the people in the link don’t look very good.</p>
<p>the men don’t look like they have had plastic surgery.
I would be $$ that every one of those women has had ‘stuff’ done.</p>
<p>wrinkles and grey (or no) hair okay on men, but not women???</p>
<p>I don’t think Lange has had plastic surgery, both she and her long time partner have spoken of their adversion to it, but I suppose magazines don’t feel that actors who aren’t airbrushed will sell as well.</p>
<p>Remember when Jamie Lee Curtis raised a ruckus with her unairbrushed body in I think MORE magazine?
( She has admitted to having plastic surgery- )</p>
<p>I don’t think there is anything wrong with trying to look good- especially if you are doing it for yourself.
I also think that we are healthier and more aware of what we do and how it impacts how we feel and how we look.</p>
<p>Ive also seen Susan Sarandon in a recent movie & if she has had plastic surgery she needs a do over.
I think there is alot you can do with makeup and lighting for that piece- but you can only hold your head like that for so long! ;)</p>
<p>Jeez, just like the HS reunion - the women look pretty good and the guys look old.</p>
<p>Irrespective of surgery and retouching, I don’t think anyone would dispute that those pictures were taken by professional photographers with expert makeup and lighting.</p>
<p>They’re the real magicians of the “agelessness” we see, not the plastic surgeons. We’d all look a heck of a lot better with Hollywood makeup and lighting!</p>
<p>I’d rather look like Meryl Streep or Helen Mirren any day of the week, than like one of the actresses who seem to have had so much surgery that they basically look like wax dolls.</p>
<p>Only Raquel Welch and Beverly D’Angelo look freaky, the other women all look beautiful and mature and NOT sliced up. Touch ups or not, they were gorgeous in their 20’s and remai so in their 50’s and beyond. Let’s not be bitter…</p>
<p>After reading these comments, I was pleasantly surprised by how many of the women *did *show wrinkles, and were beautiful with them. I think many of both the men and the women look pretty good.</p>
<p>Being exactly one month short of turning 50, I am finding the subject more than of passing interest.</p>
<p>I’d like to see a few celebrity (or any) women, who not only were willing to show wrinkles, but to let their natural hair color show, too.</p>
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<p>Plus we’d all look a lot better when we age if we had been gorgeous movie stars in the first place. Just as a reasonably well maintained, classic 1967 Jaguar XK-E is going to be a lot more attractive car than a much newer Yugo.</p>
<p>Me? Back when I was young I was kinda skinny and nerdy-looking. Closer to the Yugo than the Jag. Now that I’m older I’m still slim and with only a little graying around the temples, but I still look kinda nerdy too. A nerd with crow’s feet.</p>
<p>There are some actresses who I think almost look better with age – or certainly AS good – Michelle Pfeiffer, Jane Seymour, Jodie Foster to name a few. It doesn’t hurt that they were stunning to begin with, but still, they look amazing. I always thought Princess Diana seemed that way too – she looked more and more attractive as she matured.</p>
<p>Also, linking with the Indian Jones thread, there was an article in the paper a few days ago about Karen Allen. And it said that at age 56 she has kept herself in shape but she claims she’s had no plastic surgery and no botox - which is one reason why prior to Steven Speilberg talking her into this new movie she had retired to the countryside back east and started a knitted goods manufacturing business. She refused to do a TV series, but she could no longer play The Girl roles. No good roles were coming her way so she had moved on to other things.</p>
<p>I suspect Sophia Loren & Raquel Welch have had the most work done. The other women look good, but not “done”, and can afford to take really good care of themselves. Iman is the recipient of the genetics Academy Award. She is incredibly beautiful.</p>
<p>The men look old, but it looks GREAT on <em>some</em> of them.</p>
<p>We just got a 47" HD flat screen TV a couple of weeks ago, and it is amazing the difference you can see in faces. The Hollywood makeup artists are (so I’ve read) are having to retool their trick bag to take into account the detail HD shows. They even have seminars and classes on how to do makeup for the future, when it won’t be as easy to hide those flaws.</p>
<p>Good genes. These are people who looked great at 25 and they looked great at 35… etc. They have the money to do the maintenance work–teeth are incredibly important if you want to look healthy and reasonably young–and the professional photographer and makeup artist make a difference too. Look carefully at the posing and the lighting. </p>
<p>I want to see their passport photos or their driver’s licence photos.</p>
<p>^And the mug shots are always flattering, too.</p>
<p>Good genes are important, for sure, but sunscreen has alot to do with how a face ages. Sunglasses, too.</p>
<p>Good eyebrows can take 10 years off your face. Definitely worth the time and money.</p>
<p>I agree with Northstarmom-show me the unretouched photos. I recently saw some sort of show about this, what the makeup artists can achieve, what actual retouching can do. Granted, the women are/were beautiful, but with a lot of $$, a personal trainer, some facial surgery and a bit of liposuction, y’all could be clicking on my picture as #35. ;)</p>
<p>Well, I’ll be fifty in less than two years, and yet I get told I look like a movie star almost every day. </p>
<p>Granted, it’s my kindergartener who tells me this, but hey - it works for me. :D</p>
<p>Note that the women almost all have incredibly high cheekbones.</p>
<p>Denzel Washington and Dennis Quaid…I’d take either of them over any of the young guys.</p>
<p>(BTW, where was Sharon Stone?)</p>
<p>I’m glad Cher and Dolly Parton weren’t on the list…they look like Halloween masks of themselves!</p>