WHATEVER HAPPENED TO AGING GRACEFULLY? — by Steve Nadis
Last night I saw a preview of the the new movie, In the Land of Women, which stars a virtually unrecognizable Meg Ryan. Once America’s darling, Ryan has since become the topic of much discussion about cosmetic surgery gone awry. An obviously pretty woman, I don’t know who she looks like anymore. She doesn’t look like anyone, or maybe she looks like too many people–like a bunch of actresses plastered onto the same face. It’s very sad to see.
In this movie, Ryan plays the mother of an adult woman–or almost-adult woman–so why can’t she look like a mother, rather than a sister? And as I said before, whatever happened to aging gracefully? Or if not gracefully, at least with some modicum of dignity and respect for nature’s inevitable ways.
Posted by in 14:49:37
Aging gracefully is like a joke in Hollywood. I’m particularly sorry to hear that one of my favorite movie people, Meg Ryan, didn’t choose the path less taken. The one with no plastic surgery. Pity.
Very few in that world seem to be able to resist, FW, sad to say. Bloggers, however, are under far less pressure…