Did you expect him to look like a fresh-faced farmboy for 40 years? Mark Hamill was born in 1951. It is now 2011. That makes him 60 years old.
I was watching the DVD features for The Sting about a year ago. They had Newman and Redford being interviewed for the twentieth anniversary of the movie. The surprising thing was that the 78-year-old Newman was looking in a lot better shape than the 67-year-old Redford.
Bridgitte Bardot was born in 1934.
Yeah, I think she’s the poster child for “women who age gracefully and well”
(She looks a lot like my mother and is around the same age, I might be biased.)
Agreed. The original post confused me when I clicked the links–comparing a 27-year-old Hamill to a himself at 60? Hell, I think he looks pretty good for 60. I think most neutral observers would come in a few years under 60 were they to guess his age.
He’s aged, but he hasn’t aged badly.
I just keep hearing Yoda…“When another 20 years you reach, look as good you will NOT.”
The ones that look bad are the ones that try to fight the aging process with surgeries, lifts and that hideous Botox crap.
So was Sophia Loren. Sure, she’s had work done . . . but it looks more natural than most.
Maybe it’s partly due recently to seeing Jane Fonda everywhere lately, looking pretty fucking spectacular. The woman has had the best work I’ve ever seen in my life. And talks about it freely, which is pretty cool.
He just did an episode of Psych, and he looked in fantastic shape! Plus he was playing younger and got away with it quite convincingly.
Look… We were all cuter in the 80s, okay?
I would if she asked me.
I hardly recognize Shelly Long these days.
I barely recognized Olivia Newton-John in Score: A Hockey Musical* but I think that ended up being more a make-up/hair/costume choice than her having aged badly; she looks great in other recent appearances. I actually had to look it up to verify that it was her, because she looked so much rougher and older.
*Yes, it’s laughably bad and full of clichés, but I’ve still seen it. Twice… so sue me…I still giggle over the Theo Fleury line: “Theo Fleury singing? What can’t he do, dammit?”
I think a single facelift and occasional peel might be okay for face, but Botox lips don’t make anybody look better. It’s up there with the “beautiful women should weight 89 pounds even when they’re 40 and the mother of 3 children” wisdom that I’ve never understood. I think one reason Christina Hendricks from Mad Men and Sofia Vergara from Modern Family are such “Wowzas!” is because they’re hot women who look they’ve eaten since Labor Day.
Writer/comedian Del Shores tells a bitchy and funny story about Dyan Cannon.
I am aware of this. Heck, my original post even mentioned the fact that the pictures were taken 40 years apart.
I just believe (and most people I’ve talked to have agreed) that Mark Hamill appears to have visibly aged more than one would expect in that 40 year period, and thus “has aged badly”.
As always with this sort of thing, aesthetics are subjective, your mileage may vary, et cetera.
…and, as a character played by the above-mentioned Harrison Ford said, “It’s not the years, it’s the mileage.”
Damn, scolds are annoying.
Even a 77-year-old can look good for her age, or bad for her age. Or do all 77-year-olds look alike to you?
I notixe that the three major Star Wars actors have been mentioned in this thread (Ford, Fisher & Hamill). Coincidence?