A Picture is Worth A Thousand Words...

...and clearly tens of thousands of dollars in maintenance according to the photos below. I can't say I blame any actress who succumbs to the seducing effects of the scalpel in order to drink from the fountain of youth. If I had that much money rolling around, I'd be donating plenty to my Botox fund instead of purchasing the less than ideal alternative of heavy-duty tinted makeup at the local Walmart. Obviously my version of the "Make-A-Wish Foundation" doesn't work nearly as well as donating to some plastic surgeon's summer home, but until someone hands me a script to star in, it will have to do. 

Did you know women age the same as dogs, seven per year, in the cut-throat field of entertainment? It's true! By the time they reach the age of fifty, starlets are considered either dead or ready for some prime-time mystery show on television, obviously purgatory either way. I've selected a few images with dates to prove my point and demonstrate that even superstar women have their issues with age (click on any photo to get a closer view).

I'm disappointed that the L'Oreal company didn't embrace the fact that wrinkles do exist on Diane Keaton's face, nor that Diane was OK with making us all feel bad we didn't age like her, though clearly even she doesn't live up to her altered photo. Well, la-de-da. La de da. If only older actresses could be like Sally Field. Her image in the latest "Spider-man" movie and "Lincoln" shows Sally to be almost defiant in her willingness to look her age. There's something courageous and in-your-face about her appearance that speaks much truer and louder than any airbrushed photo. It says, "It takes guts to look older and only women with true strength of character can pull it off".  I like Sally Field. I really like her.

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