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Current Talk '24 I / Re: (**HUGE NEWS** Reply #35) Depp/Burton DARK SHADOWS Is In Production!!
« on: May 26, 2011, 08:32:46 PM »it's funny how perception of age has changed since the original DS run.
michelle pfeiffer is only three years younger than joan bennett was when she took on the role of "matriarch" elizabeth collins stoddard yet while bennett very much looked and played the part as a woman in late middle age pfeiffer is still considered by many to be "young".
I attributed it to all the "50 Is The New 30," "60 Is The New 40," and especially the "60 Is The New 30"(!) articles that are written. Nowadays no one wants to slip into middle age gracefully as people once did. Seemingly everyone wants to hold onto their youth for as long as possible - and thus articles with titles like the ones I've quoted are written. And of course, people who perceive themselves as young are going to see others in their age group as young as well. I'm guessing the woman who wrote that piece can't conceive of any 50-something woman as matriarchal material - she probably thinks a woman has to be at least 70-something before she reaches that stage.
The really interesting thing about that piece is that I've seen it being discussed in several different DS venues - and universally it's being ripped to shreds - and by the very fans of the original series that she felt won't like how the Depp/DS film is being handled...
350 days 8 hours 27 minutes 14 seconds until the day the Depp/Burton DARK SHADOWS is released(ET)!!