# celebrities who (naturally) look better as they get older **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 30, 2000, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-naturally-look-better-as-they-get-older/24164 "2000-06-30T15:06:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![oldscratch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@oldscratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldscratch)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2000, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-naturally-look-better-as-they-get-older/24164/21 "2000-06-30T21:29:46Z")
Steve Martin and Bill Muruay. Bill isn’t really attractive, but he looks better. Steve is handsome, much better than when he was younger. ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2000, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-naturally-look-better-as-they-get-older/24164/22 "2000-06-30T22:41:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > > I’m a man, and even I think that “Mr. Bond,” is quite dashing in his latter years. I only hope that I look that good when I get his age. > \*\* Do you look that good now? Just curious. Scotti ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2000, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-naturally-look-better-as-they-get-older/24164/23 "2000-06-30T23:52:48Z")
George Clooney. He looks so much better now than he did then. ---
**Author:** ![kiffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d78d45/32.png) [@kiffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiffa)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2000, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-naturally-look-better-as-they-get-older/24164/24 "2000-06-30T23:59:12Z")
Delroy Lindo - check out that tailored van dyke in Romeo Must Die, the tres chic clothes, big shoulders/slender hips/high butt… I don’t think he has hit 50 yet so does he even qualify for this posting? ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2000, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-naturally-look-better-as-they-get-older/24164/25 "2000-06-30T23:59:27Z")
Jeff Goldblum. ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2000, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-naturally-look-better-as-they-get-older/24164/26 "2000-07-01T00:32:22Z")
Paul Newman, hands down. ---
**Author:** ![Peta\_Tzunami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b487fb/32.png) [@Peta\_Tzunami](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peta_Tzunami)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2000, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-naturally-look-better-as-they-get-older/24164/27 "2000-07-01T03:25:06Z")
I, too, think Sean Connery looks better in his later years than he did in his younger. Also, IMHO, George Harrison looks **much** better now that he’s grown into his features more as does Richard Dreyfus. I also concur that Harrison Ford just keeps getting better and better with age, as does Liam Neeson \ (not that either were slouches in their early ages! 😉 ) And I prefer the mature Travolta to the younger. In a less dashing category of celebrity, I think Danny Bonaducci, while not a “hunk,” is better looking than could have been expected. If I were talking women, I think that the girl who played Punky Brewster turned out much pretty than I expected. ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2000, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-naturally-look-better-as-they-get-older/24164/28 "2000-07-01T03:38:33Z")
Mick Jagger looks a little better now than he did in the '60s… ---
**Author:** ![Road\_Rash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@Road\_Rash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Road_Rash)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2000, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-naturally-look-better-as-they-get-older/24164/29 "2000-07-01T04:35:06Z")
Of course the above celebrities still look awesome. They have the best plastic surgeons money can buy. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2000, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-naturally-look-better-as-they-get-older/24164/30 "2000-07-01T08:34:21Z")
Look, I know no one here (or anywhere, really) gives a darn about my favorite actor, David Patrick Kelly…but this is online, not IRL, so I can’t see you rolling your eyes and tuning me out. So here goes. I’ve always liked his looks, and he seems to always have looked younger than his actual age, but now he’s starting to show his age, and he looks good, in a slightly different way. He has an awesome bone structure, always has, and now that age has taken away a lot of subcutaneous fat, he looks positively vulpine, and I love it! For those of you who’ve read this far, I say again that I know you don’t know or care who he is. But I came home half-drunk, and am becoming more so, and I’m going to say what’s on my mind. Thank you. :::Rilchiam curtseys and backs out of the room::: ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2000, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-naturally-look-better-as-they-get-older/24164/31 "2000-07-01T08:49:14Z")
Britney Spears\* (she’s legal now) ::ducking and running:: \*not sure about the “naturally” part, though ---
**Author:** ![Easy\_Tokyo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71c47a/32.png) [@Easy\_Tokyo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Easy_Tokyo)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2000, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-naturally-look-better-as-they-get-older/24164/32 "2000-07-01T18:36:21Z")
I like the Jessica Fletcher of Murder She Wrote. Friendly, approachable, easy to like. But her old movies she’s such a puckered hag, and playing a “beauty”. Just doesn’t cut it for me. ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2000, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-naturally-look-better-as-they-get-older/24164/33 "2000-07-01T22:54:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Mick Jagger looks a little better now than he did in the '60s… > \*\* Jerry Hall is pretty amazing looking now too. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2000, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-naturally-look-better-as-they-get-older/24164/34 "2000-07-02T00:12:00Z")
Well, Prince Charles looks less like a horse now than he did 20 years ago…And I’m sure William will get more handsomer as he grows into his body. Princess Di also grew more lovely with age. Fergie, too. As for non-royals, Mel Gibson looks handsome in a different way now than when he was younger. I’d have never kicked him out of bed, but now he seems more serene than in his earlier years. Ditto for Pierce Brosnan. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2000, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-naturally-look-better-as-they-get-older/24164/35 "2000-07-02T00:42:22Z")
Oh, lordy…great examples of how to live and let the inner style show through: Harrison Ford: he’s grown into his face; he’s a Bogart in the making. Paul Newman: the exemplar; the stunning “face” who disdained it his looks as a distraction, but is still an head-swivelling knockout–substance and looks. Cary Grant: oh, yes, oh MY, yes! Goldie Hawn: she’s vital and stunning in a way Bo Derek and Farrah Fawcett can’t even dream of. Geena Davis: model’s bones…but class and substance for the distance. Jeff Goldblum: aging finely, like a great red wine. The intelligence and sensitivity are just honed to an edge. Bill Murray: he’s in Spencer Tracey’s mold; the intelligence and masculinity mock froufrou good looks. Pure potent zing. Susan Sarandon: _killer_ looks, when she bothers, but they’re just wrapping on the package. Jack Nicholson: the zing is inside; Warren Beatty is an embalmed embarrassment; Jack is the real item. Sad, tough but just, isn’t it? Madonna, the morphing Material Girl et al can only spin it so far. If the intangible, inner IT, the presence and magic aren’t there, can’t be faked. Veb ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2000, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-naturally-look-better-as-they-get-older/24164/36 "2000-07-02T01:13:35Z")
> [@](#): > > I’m a man, and even I think that “Mr. Bond,” is quite dashing in his latter years. I only hope that I look that good when I get his age. I wish I looked that good right now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-naturally-look-better-as-they-get-older/24164.md?page=1)