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Dispelling the Hollywood Myth that All Men Age Better than Their Female Contemporaries

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Seriously Random Lists | Comments (77)



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Kuffs: Christian Slater vs. Milla Jovovich

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Scream: David Arquette vs. Courtney Cox

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The Rocketeer: Bill Campbell vs. Jennifer Connelly

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Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead: Keith Coogan vs. Christina Applegate

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Home Fries: Luke Wilson vs. Drew Barrymore

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Son in Law: Pauly Shore vs. Carla Gugino

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Cutting Edge: D.B. Sweeney vs. Moira Kelly

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Mosquito Coast: Harrison Ford vs. Helen Mirren

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Trading Places: Dan Aykroyd vs. Jamie Lee Curtis

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Princess Bride: Cary Elwes vs. Robin Wright

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My Girl: Macauley Culkin vs. Anna Chlumsky

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Comments

I don't know what you were trying to prove here, Rowles. Except for Akroyd and Wilson all the males look quite distinguished. All the "ladies" ('cept for Mirren) look surgically enhanced to hell.

Seriously, females need to retire from showbiz after 32.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at April 11, 2011 3:02 PM

Jamie Lee Curtis hasn't been enhanced. Thats the power of doing nothing but eating delicious, stomach culture promoting Activia yogurt. That bitch loves her Activia.

Posted by: elgarcon at April 11, 2011 3:10 PM

This was a difficult post to read/look at. Some of the above folks just look older -- no judgement there. I plan to get older someday, too.

But some of thiese photos are just a testament to hard livin. Gnarly.

Posted by: klingonfree at April 11, 2011 3:13 PM

I think the real problem is that it's ok for men to "let themselves go" because they end up looking "distinguished". These side-by-side photos prove that.

Women have to fight ageing at all costs - and attempts at doing so are encouraged, not ridiculed.

I see only two women on the list who likely do not dye their hair, for example. Few of the men look downright terrible (and some were not handsome to begin with [Pauly Shore]), but would likely look a lot better if they had as much makeup on and as much care taken to their appearance.

Posted by: Nisi at April 11, 2011 3:16 PM

Yeah, seriously, I genuinely like Christian Slater and all, but that pic always looks like he's just had a glimpse THROUGH TIME. And it's...awesome(?) there.

Posted by: zeke the pig at April 11, 2011 3:20 PM

Just for those who were planning on doing a Google image search, it's Anna Chlumsky. DR left the "L" out. maybe he's been catching up on his Noam Chomsky and got confused - happens to a lot of libertarian socialists...

Posted by: morganew at April 11, 2011 3:22 PM

I wonder how these dudes would look if they were also wearing the requisite shovelfuls of make-up that actresses are required to wear for any public appearances/photo shoots/etc.

And I honestly do wonder. I'm not judging the ladies necessarily - especially Helen Mirren, who is awesome and I am not worthy to judge her - but curious how the "now" shots would pan out if BOTH parties were using the same make-up tricks like concealer, foundations, highlighters, etc. Make-up can make a HUGE difference, so if anyone can convince all of these dudes to put some make-up on, for the sake of science, that would be awesome.

Posted by: Nat Kittyface at April 11, 2011 3:23 PM

Any chance of a plastic surgery total comparison?

Posted by: scot at April 11, 2011 3:24 PM

Oh, Dustin, we all know this was an excuse to post that picture of Helen Mirren.

With that said, Milla Jovovich and Jennifer Connelly have changed so little. They're stunning.

Posted by: KP at April 11, 2011 3:26 PM

Can someone make Carla Gugino break up with that retard of a director boyfriend she has?

I would treat her right and actually put her in a good role.

Posted by: maka at April 11, 2011 3:28 PM

Oh my GOD (sobs). Wesley ate ALL the ROUSeseseses.

Posted by: Julie at April 11, 2011 3:28 PM

I don't like living in a world where a cold and unforgiving god allowed that to happen to my sweet Westley.

Posted by: Courtney at April 11, 2011 3:30 PM

Did Harrison Ford catch up on Helen Mirren and then beat her?

Now that's an achievement.

Posted by: haplo at April 11, 2011 3:33 PM

This was just a cheap, transparent attempt to post a bunch of pictures of hot, older(ish) women, Rowles.

THANK YOU.

Posted by: Tracer Bullet at April 11, 2011 3:33 PM

What's wrong with Moira Kelly's eyes? It's like they were cut out of a magazine and pasted on another picture of her.

Posted by: avocadolime at April 11, 2011 3:40 PM

You know who never aged beyond 35? Han Solo, that's who.

Posted by: superasente at April 11, 2011 3:44 PM

I am still awaiting an explanation of what happened to Billy Campbell.

Posted by: hattie at April 11, 2011 3:44 PM

Jesus H Christ on a cracker! It looks like Carey Elwes is slowly eating poor Billy Campbell.

Posted by: Carolina Girl at April 11, 2011 3:48 PM

Oh come on! That pic of Luke Wilson is just an other pic of David Arquette. That could not have happened to my favorite Wilson. RIGHT?

Posted by: MissRos at April 11, 2011 3:50 PM

Oh God. Macauley Culkin just turned out awfully. And Dan Aykroyd... Wow. At least Jamie Lee Curtis is still hot.

Posted by: camytaru at April 11, 2011 3:56 PM

I don't think Jennifer Connelly has had anything done and she looks just as stunning as ever. Wow.

Posted by: elizabeth at April 11, 2011 4:00 PM

I'd certainly like to take Robin Wright back to GREENBOW, ALA-BAMA!

Also, when did David Arquette ever have the upper hand on Courtney Cox? Are we debating her hotness in Ace Ventura vs. Malibu's Most Wanted?

Posted by: D-Day at April 11, 2011 4:09 PM

I would also like to humbly add Val Kilmer and Elisabeth Shue from The Saint.

Posted by: Melody O at April 11, 2011 4:11 PM

d.b. sweeney is still pants meltingly hot. so he's got a few wrinkles? kiss my ass.

Posted by: carolyn at April 11, 2011 4:11 PM

I think it's fair to say that with the exception of Harrison Ford, all the women here are currently enjoying more success than their male counterparts (except Anna Chlumsky? What's she been in lately? Anyway, she's beautiful). So on the male side, it just might be what the aftermath of fame looks like. (And for Anna, maybe that's what the glow of promise looks like. I want it.)

Posted by: Drea at April 11, 2011 4:14 PM

Way to go Helen Mirren and Jamie Lee Curtis for aging gracefully and rocking the hell out of it.

Posted by: Lindsey with an 'e' at April 11, 2011 4:15 PM

I would also like to humbly add Val Kilmer and Elisabeth Shue from The Saint.

Oh my God, yes!!! I was just reminiscing about his lost hotness. Especially in that movie. He was absolutely smoking. Now he's old and super paunchy.

Val, if this is how it's going to go, you need to get really funny. That's what Alec Baldwin did.

Posted by: Kaleena at April 11, 2011 4:18 PM

I WAS JUST GONNA SAY THAT

Posted by: Protoguy at April 11, 2011 4:24 PM

Anna Chlumsky was in the amazing and profanely funny In the Loop. She was really great in it.

Posted by: Julie at April 11, 2011 4:24 PM

Anna Chlumsky was in the amazing and profanely funny In the Loop. She was really great in it.

Posted by: Julie at April 11, 2011 4:24 PM

I liked it so much, I posted twice. Grarg.

Posted by: Julie at April 11, 2011 4:25 PM

Any excuse to post that picture of Gugino is good with me.

Hey Dustin. How about a side-by-side comparison of actors who have been in more than one digitally created Rodriguez flick?

That oughta do it.

Posted by: No Pithy Name at April 11, 2011 4:25 PM

Harrison Ford for sexy grandpa of the year!

Posted by: nosio at April 11, 2011 4:27 PM

Thanks Julie! Thanks Julie! Seriously, I was curious, and too lazy to look it up myself.

Posted by: Drea at April 11, 2011 4:28 PM

First, add a comparison of Marisa Tomei with any of her male contemporaries, and she WINS, I guarantee it. That woman never ages.

Second, that photo of Christian Slater looks like not only the women are dipping into the Botox.

Third, I think DB Sweeney still looks better than Moira Kelly, who was never hot.

Posted by: jimbob at April 11, 2011 4:30 PM

It's not just a Hollywood myth. Lots of men believe that they age better than women their same age. Most of these men are wrong. So very wrong.

But ask them, and they claim men age "like fine wine." More like a half-empty bottle of beer that's been sitting around for a few hours and has several cigarette butts floating in it.

Posted by: Slash at April 11, 2011 4:31 PM

Anna Chlumsky was in the amazing and profanely funny In the Loop. She was really great in it.

Posted by: superasente at April 11, 2011 4:39 PM

All of you...you mean people. Just stop with the Kilmerian character assasination. That man. That man was hotter than Satan's sauna and I think that hotness needs to just smoooosh over anything that came after it. Obliterating all the, all the...unfortunate after stuff.

Leave Val Aloooone!!!

Leave him alooone!

Even his voice was hot.

Posted by: klingonfree at April 11, 2011 4:41 PM

Billy Campbell looks like Arvin Sloane!

Posted by: mb at April 11, 2011 5:11 PM

Slash: . . . they claim men age "like fine wine."

Yeah, you have to keep them locked in a cellar for years until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with.

Posted by: BWeaves at April 11, 2011 5:12 PM

DB Sweeney

Huh huh.

DB's Weeney

Huh huh

Posted by: meh at April 11, 2011 5:26 PM

Helen Mirren is attractive for an old woman, but come on, she is an old woman. I know it's hip these days to pretend older women are sexy, but be serious.

Posted by: Furreal at April 11, 2011 6:03 PM

RE BWeaves:
"Yeah, you have to keep them locked in a cellar for years until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with."

I don't care if men age, mind you. I just have to counter the "men age well, women don't" bullshit, because I've seen plenty of evidence to the contrary. Unless the "men age better than women" contingent believes a giant beer gut, a combover and breath that smells like an ashtray constitutes aging well. I contend that it does not. Neither does "face pulled back into a frozen mask, skin the color of dried orange peel and motionless tits that look like tennis balls that have been vacuum-sealed onto the chest wall."

Posted by: Slash at April 11, 2011 6:04 PM

Nuh-uh! You don't get to pick the worst possible picture of Billy Campbell and call it done.

Posted by: Jerry at April 11, 2011 6:21 PM

Dear Bill Campbell,

Please eat something. Talk to Cary Elwes - he looks like he could recommend a good restaurant or 20.

Sincerely,
MelBivDevoe

Posted by: MelBivDevoe at April 11, 2011 6:21 PM

I believe the Hollywood Myth was of actual Hollywood couples, not costars. Do you really think Dan Akroyd is on par with Jamie Lee Curtis at any age? Or Keith Coogan would be said in the same sentence as Christina Applegate. Sorry folks, there are a few exceptions but the myth remains.

Posted by: Billdog at April 11, 2011 6:24 PM

Helen Mirren is attractive for an old woman, but come on, she is an old woman. I know it's hip these days to pretend older women are sexy, but be serious.

Posted by: Furreal at April 11, 2011 6:03 PM

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Motherfuckin' second.

No pun intended.

Posted by: zeke the pig at April 11, 2011 6:30 PM

Holy shit, what sucked the essence out of Bill Campbell?! He was so gorgeous!

Posted by: Figgy at April 11, 2011 6:35 PM

And to think that Robin Wright survived 20 years of Sean Penn. That would age anyone 40 years.

Posted by: Sean at April 11, 2011 6:38 PM

Sure the Plastic Surgeon advertising the "Jack Nicholson Special" should probably have his license revoked, but I blame Slater for clipping the coupon and making the appointment.

the Women look lovely! Some of the men look "meh".

Posted by: JuiceinLA at April 11, 2011 6:47 PM

While make-up may be a factor, I challenge that perhaps the quality of projects that some of these actresses have been attached to allows them to not become something akin to a squatter (like Pauly Shore).
And someone like Milla Jovavich, being a spokesman for a make-up company, most likely has a team of skin people giving her tips on what to do to extend her facial longevity... (I assume that is the scientific term for it, I'm not a doctor, regardless of how many hours I've spent playing Dr Mario or watching House and reruns of Scrubs) Which I imagine as group of stereotypical nail salon technicians, at least one member of every race, like a rainbow coalition of dermatologists.
"Gurl, what-choo doin' to your skin? I seen you in a zombie movie all in the desert... Don'tcha know that sand and wind be doing bad things to yo skin..." *that clicky toungue sound*
"Si chica..." (At this point I would put a paragraph of spanish in here but I took French in high school, not that I could remember a paragraph worth of French that wasn't bullshit like table, and 19 which I remember sounded a lot like something else)
"Insert some Asian stereotype..."
Milla: "Leeloo Dallas Multipass!"


I just assume she would say that in everyday situations where you don't really know what to say... like I say "sure..."

Posted by: protoformX at April 11, 2011 6:48 PM

Christian Slater has that same look as Nicole Kidman, where it's like the Botox has created an invisible black hole between your eyes and it starts sucking in the inner-most corners of your eyebrows.

Posted by: Lauren at April 11, 2011 6:58 PM

What on earth is wrong with Bill Campbell? Is he ill?

Jamie Lee - phoaaaarrrggghhhhhh

Posted by: Fuckchop at April 11, 2011 7:31 PM

WAIT--it's kinda hard to say someone is aging well when they've been surgically enhanced? (cough, cough, Courtney Cox). That's like saying I aced the SATs, only I had someone else take them for me. Not quite the same thing . . .

Posted by: saphire at April 11, 2011 7:33 PM

Helen Mirren is attractive for an old woman, but come on, she is an old woman. I know it's hip these days to pretend older women are sexy, but be serious.

Who's pretending? I'd bang Hellen Mirren in a hot minute. Same goes for Sigourney Weaver, Jamie Lee Curtis, Susan Sarandon, etc. All over 50. All haaaaawwwwwwwt.

Posted by: Paultera at April 11, 2011 7:36 PM

Furreal:
Please-you KNOW you'd totally tap Helen Mirren's fine, well-aged ass!

Posted by: MadMike at April 11, 2011 7:39 PM

I'd like to point out that Keanu Reeves, Bruce Willis, and Rob Lowe are aging like black people, which is to say "verrah well."

Posted by: stopthemadness aka Angry Black Lady at April 11, 2011 8:13 PM

Are you sure that's not Danny Bonaduce up there with Kelly Bundy?

Posted by: kirbyjay at April 11, 2011 8:54 PM

Listen to the Black Lady, and be awed at our melanin-assisted, crack-fighting power-tude!

...now, if only anyone gave a shit...

Posted by: Jo 'Mama' Besser at April 11, 2011 8:56 PM

That's just a bad picture of Billy Campbell (he DOES look like Arvin Sloan!). He's in that new AMC show about the murder investigation and looks pretty fabulous.

Posted by: emmasaunt at April 11, 2011 9:46 PM

I'm sorry. I got to that pic of Jamie Lee Curtis from Trading Places and my brain actually short-circuited. Could she BE HOTTER? Damn.

Posted by: Snuggiepants at April 11, 2011 11:29 PM

Jamie Lee Curtis has amazing breasts. I would still be very (sexually) nervous around ol' Helen as well. . . speaking of boobies. . . She's a stunner.

Posted by: adam at April 11, 2011 11:52 PM

That photo of Macaulay Culkin does his current form no justice. I saw him a couple of weeks ago with Kieran and he's short, skinny, and very, very greasy. I really wish that my generation of Hollywood would get it through their heads that people really do care that you look like you could taste how they smell (hog fat, Crisco, and car fresheners rubbed all over their bodies).

Posted by: duckandcover at April 12, 2011 7:08 AM

Dustin, don't be so naive. The vast majority of the women you list have a. tons of makeup on and b. either plastic surgery or at the very least Botox usage. They ALL do it - it is merely a matter of how much. Take that away and I think you'll find Cox looks just about the same age as Arquette. She was prettier ot begin with, so it's not even a fair fight.

As to real life, 100% agree that on average women preserve themselves better than men do as they age. But, again, we get to use makeup, dye our hair, dress strategically, etc. and men don't. Exception? My husband, who looks younger than I do (though we're contemporaries) and it's HIGHLY irritating.

Posted by: samantha t at April 12, 2011 7:41 AM

that was awesome

Posted by: maxpurr9 at April 12, 2011 10:12 AM

Let's do those comparisons again only this time let's remove all the make up from everyone.

Posted by: John W at April 12, 2011 10:21 AM

But, again, we get to use makeup, dye our hair, dress strategically, etc. and men don't.

Once again, we're forgetting about the executive transvestite demographic.

Posted by: branded at April 12, 2011 10:57 AM

Re: Val Kilmer's sad descent into ickydom....over the weekend, whilst cleaning the bedroom (yeah, that's what I said!) I got sucked (!) into watching "Real Genius" for the trillionth time. Oh, Val was so pretty then, before he ate Willow AND Elora Danan AND High Alwin.

Uh, sorry to the Helen Mirren haters, but she makes my Mrs. parts tingle, and I'm on the other team.

Posted by: dammitjanet at April 12, 2011 11:21 AM

Quitcher complaining that the women are wearing makeup and the men are not. BULLSHIT!

Most of the men in these photos ARE wearing makeup. In the AFTER shots they are on red carpets or are being filmed (with the possible exception of Dan Ackroyd, who looks like he got papped outside an allnight Dunkin Donuts). I say these are fair comparisons, especially since some of the men have also had plastic surgery.

Posted by: BWeaves at April 12, 2011 11:22 AM

I second Paultera's defense of the sexy older women, especially the ones he mentioned. Let's also throw in Jane Seymour while we're at it?

Posted by: RobP at April 12, 2011 11:44 AM

HUGELY disagree with Macauley Caulkin. I have a thing for him; I really wish I could explain it. I like that he's dirty.
I feel kind of sheepish now.
As for Anna Chlumsky, she was in an episode of Covert Affairs last season, and she looked terrible. Can we post one of those pictures instead next to one of Mac in Kings?

Posted by: courtney at April 12, 2011 11:58 AM

You know what? I could do a list the other way if I had to. Beginning with these:

Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis in Top Gun

Keanu Reeves and Cameron Diaz in Feeling Minnesota

Dennis Quaid and Lindsay Lohan in The Parent Trap

There's not enough makeup or plastic surgery in the world to right these particular wrongs.

Posted by: Melody O at April 12, 2011 12:53 PM

Dan Akroyd looks like someone someone started punching a clay sculture of Dan Akroyd.

Posted by: PissBoy at April 12, 2011 2:13 PM

DB Sweeney still looks pretty damn hawt. Plus Moira is a beetch.

Posted by: spaceagepaige at April 12, 2011 6:17 PM

seriously what the fuck happened to dan akroyd? It looks like his Madam Tssuards wax replica was left too close to an oven.

Posted by: Ben at April 12, 2011 9:44 PM

Pat Sajak and Vanna White

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