# Actors trying to avoid age **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 30, 2011, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826 "2011-07-30T12:30:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/41 "2011-08-02T16:39:15Z")
At 64 Arnold looks pretty darn good. Harrison Ford could use a haircut and some product. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/42 "2011-08-02T16:50:44Z")
> [@PunditLisa](#): > > … > Ringo Starr, on the other hand, has aged much more gracefully… He’s just _cool_, though. That trumps any aging effects. Arnold looks pretty good to me. ---
**Author:** ![Daerlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Daerlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daerlyn)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/43 "2011-08-02T17:21:51Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > [Joan Van Ark](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-499391/Knots-Landing-star-Joan-Van-Arks-shocking-look-reveals-failure-turn-time.html) has destroyed her face with cosmetic surgery. I actually recoiled from the screen. ---
**Author:** ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/44 "2011-08-02T17:45:05Z")
Al Pacino and his giant capped teeth. They frighten me. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/45 "2011-08-02T17:55:17Z")
Mary Tyler Moore has become progressively scarier-looking for some time now. Her mouth and eyes just look _wrong_. [http://www.twisted-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Mary-Tyler-Moore.jpg](http://www.twisted-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Mary-Tyler-Moore.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/46 "2011-08-02T18:45:16Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Mary Tyler Moore has become progressively scarier-looking for some time now. Her mouth and eyes just look _wrong_. > [http://www.twisted-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Mary-Tyler-Moore.jpg](http://www.twisted-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Mary-Tyler-Moore.jpg) How do you know she hasn’t merely been prepping to play “The Joker” in the next Batman reboot? ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/47 "2011-08-02T18:51:46Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > Meg Ryan is tragic. She used to have a fantastic ‘girl next door’ look, now she looks like a circus freak. And she’s not that old, either. Apparently, despite her popular persona as America’s Sweetheart, Meg Ryan is supposedly one of Hollywood’s most arrogant, all-around unpleasant “stars”, and has been largely forgotten by the industry. Her self-imposed facial mutilation can’t have helped her popularity any… ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/48 "2011-08-02T18:54:06Z")
Jesus Christ, Ringo Starr looks like a million bucks. I can’t believe the man is 71. I’d say Newman has some competition. I predict George Clooney will continue to age fantastically. He’s only 50 so we have yet to see for sure. ---
**Author:** ![nivlac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3bc359/32.png) [@nivlac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nivlac)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/49 "2011-08-02T19:17:29Z")
Arnie looks fine IMO. Can’t say the same about other stars with plastic surgeries gone awry such as Joan Rivers, Burt Reynolds, Carrot Top,and Kenny Rogers. Google image those people if you dare. And yes, it’s so sad to see Meg Ryan’s looks heading in the wrong direction. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/50 "2011-08-02T19:27:30Z")
The lesson from this thread: Cheek implants are _never_ a good idea. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/51 "2011-08-02T19:43:49Z")
Dolly Parton was on The Tonight Show last week, she’s had work done. [http://www.askmen.com/women/galleries/singer/dolly-parton/picture-2.html](http://www.askmen.com/women/galleries/singer/dolly-parton/picture-2.html) Note to Nicole Kidman: stop it with the forehead. You look like that lady from Dune. [http://www.zillow.com/blog/files/2011/03/nicole-kidman.jpg](http://www.zillow.com/blog/files/2011/03/nicole-kidman.jpg) [http://www.lovelynicolekidman.com/UserFiles/2008/8/30/nicole\_kidman\_0605.jpg](http://www.lovelynicolekidman.com/UserFiles/2008/8/30/nicole_kidman_0605.jpg) > **[Account Suspended](http://www.yaare.com/cgi-sys/suspendedpage.cgi)** [http://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=10992](http://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=10992) > [@needscoffee](#): > > I don’t know what Harrison Ford’s had done, but he’s had work done that’s altered his face. Photos from the early days of his relationship with Calista Flockhart showed a really jarring difference, like he’d had his face tightened too much or something. Now his face has settled into looking natural for his age (lose the earring, though, please!) but he doesn’t look like the same guy he used to be. Same thing happened to Robert Redford. Pics, or it didn’t happen. [http://www.topnews.in/light/files/harrison.jpg](http://www.topnews.in/light/files/harrison.jpg) Hmmm. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/52 "2011-08-03T06:45:21Z")
> [@sparky\_1](#): > > I can’t tell if it’s the skin or the hair, but the guy looks absolutely terrible. Here is the full size [pic](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1884001280/nm0000216). I’m a year older than he is, and I wish I looked that good. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/53 "2011-08-03T14:14:02Z")
> [@Daerlyn](#): > > I actually recoiled from the screen. I thought it was going to be a “Before” picture on the left and an “After” picture on the right, so I looked at the right picture first. “Oh, that’s not so bad. Let’s look at what she looked like – BWAH BLAH!!!” ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/54 "2011-08-03T17:59:45Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Harrison Ford did look really good in Indiana Jones 4, especially considering the 20 years between sequels. > > [Indy 4](http://www.altfg.com/Stars/i/indiana-jones-and-the-kingdom-of-the-crystal-skull.jpg) oh yeah… the man can eat crackers in my bed ANY time he wants to. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/55 "2011-08-03T20:23:50Z")
Burt Reynolds doesn’t look too bad: [http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2009/09/16/burt\_reynolds\_in\_rehab\_\_1](http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2009/09/16/burt_reynolds_in_rehab__1) [http://www.starpulse.com/Actors/Reynolds,\_Burt/gallery/ADB-028783/](http://www.starpulse.com/Actors/Reynolds,_Burt/gallery/ADB-028783/) Except in this pic [http://celebritymen.info/resimler/burt-reynolds-15.jpg](http://celebritymen.info/resimler/burt-reynolds-15.jpg) Carrot Top, though: > **[Carrot Top Plastic Surgery](http://plasticsurgerybeforeandafter.blogspot.com/2010/06/carrot-top-plastic-surgery.html)** > > Carrot Top Plastic Surgery Scott Thompson  born on february 25, 1965, an American comedian who is better known by his stage name  Carrrot T... ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/56 "2011-08-03T21:37:48Z")
Ole Burt should pick a toupee and stick with it. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/57 "2011-08-03T21:43:48Z")
Burt Reynolds is 75? That’s kind of depressing. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/58 "2011-08-03T21:52:02Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Carrot Top, though: > [Plastic Surgery Before And After: Carrot Top Plastic Surgery](http://plasticsurgerybeforeandafter.blogspot.com/2010/06/carrot-top-plastic-surgery.html) Part of Carrot Top’s odd look is that he seems to be wearing a lot of makeup these days, including eyeliner, mascara, eye shadow and eyebrow makeup. He probably is hitting the botox too, though. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/59 "2011-08-03T21:58:18Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > [Joan Van Ark](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-499391/Knots-Landing-star-Joan-Van-Arks-shocking-look-reveals-failure-turn-time.html) has destroyed her face with cosmetic surgery. Okay, I will set my man card aside for a moment to talk make-up: one of the set guys I used to build stuff with dated a hair/make-up person for a TV series. She was talking about how some make-up powder is designed to have a slight luster. It’s supposed to make you look “radiant” when you’re just walking around under normal lights, but camera flash makes you look shiny like the Tinman in Oz. So sitting on the talk show you look fine, on the red carpet you look like [this](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/04/25/article-1380373-0BA1EC3600000578-528_306x347.jpg). In other words, Joan What’s-her-face’s picture probably looks a lot worse than she does in real life. Yup, she’s had too much plastic surgery, but she needs some nice make-up lady to be a little less generous with the shiny. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to have my toes waxed and polished. :: sticks man card in back pocket, selects velvet pumps from closet and leaves :: ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2011, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/60 "2011-08-04T01:33:33Z")
> [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](#): > > :: sticks man card in back pocket, selects velvet pumps from closet and leaves :: Poser! If you were really in touch with your feminine side, you would have grabbed the matching purse. Re: Plastic surgery. I highly recommend the recent documentary about Joan Rivers. VERY good movie about a true workaholic. Edit: It’s called “Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826.md?page=4)