# Actors trying to avoid age

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826>\
**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:** 6\
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**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/101 "2011-10-25T17:56:07Z")

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> [@Sampiro](#):
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> Not an actor, but… Barry Manilow. He was on a Piers Morgan ep recently and he [looks like ET](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_bQ0SqifjNcg/S58FWuKkFII/AAAAAAAASow/dBxEVKLIOpg/s400/barry-manilow-plastic-surgery-2.jpg).

Not ET. [Odo.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/00/Odo.jpg)

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**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/102 "2011-10-25T20:44:19Z")

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> [@Simplicio](#):
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> Screech from Saved by the Bell looks better then he did when he was on TV.

Seriously. The man looks perfectly fine. He looks a couple years older than the 34 that he actually is, but not much, and he doesn’t look worse for it, just more mature and less dorky. The man grew into his awkward face, and this is aging badly?

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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/103 "2011-10-25T21:06:10Z")

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[Bette Midler on the Today Show this morning](http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44961949). She’s 65 and obviously had work done, but it looks like she and her plastic surgeon knew when to stop.

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**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/104 "2011-10-26T00:18:53Z")

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> [@dropzone](#):
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> But he’s [Adam Baldwin] had work and is no stranger to Lady Clairol.

Cite for the work done? Lady Clairol comes from being in front of a camera. It’s a necessity.

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**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/105 "2011-10-26T00:40:01Z")

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> [@PunditLisa](#):
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> Ringo Starr, on the other hand, has aged much more gracefully.

Yep.

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**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/106 "2011-10-26T01:33:34Z")

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> [@nivlac](#):
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> No, Manilow is really that bad.

I recently saw a video of him singing on TV, and his appearance is even more bizarre in live action. He looked like one of those 70’s Disneyland animatronics.

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