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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!These days, it's my mother I see when I look in the mirror. It's not that we resemble each other so much, although we do share some features. It's the telltale lines in my face. Little lines around my mouth, around my nose, around my chin. Just like hers, when she was my age. Back in those days (decades ago), there wasn't anything much you could do about that, except smile them away, which is what my mother did. She had an infectious smile, so genuine and unbeguiling. Nevertheless, it used to make me sad to see her face aging before me. She was always so young, so full of life, so gay (a word ...
As Melinda suggests, the talented Meryl Streep does seem to scoop up most of the parts for mid-career female actors in Hollywood lately, while Diane Keaton, the original Annie Hall, seems to get the rest. Though these "over 40" dowagers are perfectly fine role models for women in the American mid-life demographic, I personally aspire to the Helen Mirren mold of seniority -- maybe because I'd love to speak with a plummy British accent. Incidentally, for those unfamiliar with the code, "over 40" euphemistically describes women who are actually "over 50." (I know this because I have ...
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