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I'm mad as hell: Moore's age rage

Demi Moore, the 44-year old star, spoke out against ageism in an interview with Red magazine, and admitted that at her age, she was finding good roles extremely hard to come by.

Demi Moore rues the fact that Hollywood is so obsessed with youth, and that there are not many good roles for older women like her. She's also resentful about the fact that if there are roles for older women, they are most often as someone's mother or wife.

"It's been a challenging few years, being the age I am. Almost to the point where I felt like, well, they don't know what to do with me. I am not 20. Not 30," she said.

"There aren't that many good roles for women over 40. A lot of them don't have much substance, other than being someone's mother or wife," she said. Moore, who once spent 220,000 pounds on plastic surgery to get breast implants, collagen injections and liposuction on her hips, thighs and stomach, as well as 5,000 pounds procedure to lift the sagging skin on her knees, insisted that aging actresses needed to stand up for better roles as they have a lot to give.

Ninth time lucky for Liz Taylor?

Hollywood's veteran actress, Elizabeth Taylor, 75, has a new man in her life - the one who introduced her to Hawaii.

Taylor ended all the speculations about her relationship with African-American businessman Jason Winters by admitting to New York gossip columnist Liz Smith that the reports were indeed true.

"Jason Winters is one of the most wonderful men I've ever known and that's why I love him," Contactmusic quoted her as telling.

"He bought us the most beautiful house in Hawaii and we visit it as often as possible," she said.

The eight-times married Taylor told Smith that she plans to return to her new Hawaiian adopted home next week with Winters.

Michael Douglas 'looks like the Unabomber'

Michael Douglas is sounding much saner than the character he plays in his new film King of California, but he says his turn as a manic-depressive absentee father hits a few familiar notes from his own life.

Douglas, who sports a ragged beard for a part that prompted wife Catherine Zeta-Jones to liken him to the Unabomber, has been picky about his roles since his 2000 marriage to Zeta-Jones and subsequent birth of two children.

But he laments the time not spent with his son from a previous marriage, when he was more focused on a career that included roles in such 1980s hits as Wall Street and Fatal Attraction.

"My older son's 28, and I was immersed in my career (when he was growing up), and probably didn't spend nearly as much time as I should have," Douglas, 62, said on the sidelines of the Toronto International Film Festival.

But don't take Douglas's decision to star in King as an attempt to make peace with his past. Rather, Douglas is enjoying a lightened workload these days, and taking jobs that appeal to him and fit with his family schedule.

Agencies

(China Daily 09/19/2007 page18)