Is it my imagination, or are roles for older women getting better?

… slightly better.

(Not counting Merle Streep. She’s her own industry.)

I just saw Julianne Moore and Annette Bening starring as a lesbian couple living in California in The Kids Are All Right. (My defense? I thought it was a documentary on The Who.)

They’re both older than me. Ancient.

Low budget indie Chloe, with Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson, and Amanda Seyfried is the most skillful movie I’ve seen in a long, long time. A remake of the 2004 French film Nathalie, the screenplay was written with Julianne in mind. (Neeson’s wife, Natasha Richardson, died of injuries during a ski lesson during filming, adding a poignancy to his always enigmatic performance.)

Sigourney Weaver is still killing it. Andie MacDowell never stops working.

Glenn Close, Helen Mirren, Diane Keaton. … Who else?

What ever happened to Woody Allen being the love interest of the latest starlet?

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• WOMEN & HOLLYWOOD blog
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