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Susan Sarandon is certainly known for more than being a political activist, this Oscar winning actress has expressed her opinions on just about everything.

Half the women in the country would give anything to have her stunning good looks. She’s considered one of Hollywood’s sexiest actresses.

In the past, she said the secret to being a sexy older woman was limiting carbs and lots of sex.

“Well, it’s certainly not lots of carbs and limiting sex.”

Susan’s insight amazes everyone.

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We don’t need Hollywood to tell us that older women are sexy, but I found this cute article I thought you’d enjoy

Hollywood makes it official: Older women are sexy

By Bonnie Erbe

May I have the envelope, please? Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the verdict is in and Hollywood has decided: Older women are officially declared sexy. At least that’s the media’s response to two major releases this holiday season. The media have ruled it so (and they always know, don’t they?) due to the success of “Something’s Gotta Give,” starring Diane Keaton, rejuvenating her career after a decade or two of semi-retirement, and “Calendar Girls,” starring Helen Mirren and Julie Walters - British actresses of a certain age.

In the former, Keaton plays a fabulously successful playwright in her 50s who dumps Keanu Reeves, a hunk of a younger lover, for Jack Nicholson, who plays a terminally single, senescent playboy. In the latter, a sweet group of polite British 40-to-60-something ladies pose nude (or almost) as a fund-raising stunt to drum up money for one of their cancer-stricken spouses.

For the longest time, stretch marks and wrinkles were beyond passe. They were verboten, terminators, as it were for women’s acting careers. Now (we can hope at least) they’re in vogue.

It’s about time the reel Hollywood caught up with the real Hollywood. In their private lives, older actresses are pairing up with younger male stars at unheard-of rates. Look at a sampling of Hollywood’s hottest couples: Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher- she is 16 years his senior. Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake - he is 9 years younger than she. Then there’s 44-year-old Madonna with her director-spouse Guy Ritchie, 10 years her junior. There’s Julianne Moore, who trumps her mate, Bart Freundlich, by nine years.

Long gone is the time (1967 was the year) when “Mrs. Robinson” was new to the Hollywood lexicon and the idea of older woman with her “spring rooster” was shocking, jaw-dropping, and bizarre. Even into the early ’70s, the movie-going public was still incredulous when Burt Reynolds, then a major sex symbol (but God knows why) had a four-year romance with singer Dinah Shore, who was 20 years older.

But is this progress, or is it Botox? Are younger men just more accepting of white hair, yellowed teeth, wrinkles, and sagging skin? Or have Botox, hair dye, tooth bleach, and plastic surgery merely transformed 60-year-old women into 45-year-old look-alikes?

Novelist and columnist Amy Sohn makes a fabulous point on her Web site. “Women in my mother’s generation are supposed to be happy that there are more and more roles for middle-aged actresses, but there’s not much to applaud for when the actresses look like mutated freaks. When my parents see a movie and my dad admits a crush on the 52-year-old, nipped-and-tucked, female star, my mom’s not going to feel flattered. She’s going to feel majorly dissed - because until she pays the 20 grand to get the work done herself, she’ll never be able to compare.”

The question is valid: If middle-age and older actresses merely cut and paste themselves into looking younger, are they really leading us into a new era, or just reinvigorating ancient stereotypes?

While we are not yet riding the crest of a tsunami, the data tell us we’re moving forward. The Screen Actors Guild collects data on diversity in filmmaking. In 2001, the guild reports actresses landed 38 percent of all movie roles and actresses over the age of 40 landed 24 percent of all film roles. That, while women overall accounted for 51 percent of the U.S. population, and women over the age of 40 represent 22.6 percent of the population. In 1992, actresses secured 29 percent of total roles and women over the age of 40 landed a mere 9 percent.

Actress Rosanna Arquette released a documentary earlier this year called, “Searching for Deborah Winger” in which she interviewed 25 leading (or formerly leading) actresses including Jane Fonda, Whoopi Goldberg, Sharon Stone, and Vanessa Redgrave. They talked about the consequences of aging and trying to stay alive professionally in an industry that so worships youth. Said Whoopi Goldberg, “I’m being stalked by my butt. It’s gotten bigger since I hit 45 and there’s nothing I can do about it.”

Ah, Whoopi! Lead us to truth, once again.

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I found this great article on one of my favorite sexy older women, Susan Sarandon.

FROM BAD TO VERSE

“I could forgive a sexual slip-up but not if my man wrote poetry for his lover” says screen siren Susan Sarandon who considers a sexual betrayal not the worst thing that can happen to a relationship

By Siobhan Synnot

WOMEN would kill - or at least hire a plastic surgeon - to look like Susan Sarandon. But when asked for the secret of her enduring glamour, the actress rolls her eyes.

“It’s a mindset,” she said. “I had kids late, so that really helped me to stay younger longer in my head.

“You know, there are not that many people in Hollywood over 40 who haven’t had something done to their faces, so people in my age range are shrinking. Maybe that’s why I work a lot.”

In an industry that’s noted for its ageism, somehow Susan makes entering her sixties look like plain sailing.

“Certainly I didn’t find being 50 a problem. Turning 80, that’s going to be interesting,” she smiled.

In the past, she said the secret to being a sexy older woman was limiting carbs and lots of sex. When she is reminded of this, she laughs out loud.

“Well, it’s certainly not lots of carbs and limiting sex.”

But she added: “Really, I feel it’s the way you think, not the way you work out that is the deciding factor.

“I think people who say yes to life have something attractive about them, no matter what shape or age.”

Certainly Susan appears to have said yes to life, but also yes to good personal grooming. Her glossy, tousled reddish-brown hair and virtually non-existent make-up give the impression of an effortless elegance. Read the rest of this entry »

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