ARE WE STILL IN THE MOVIES?

When Sally Field's character on "Brothers and Sisters" had a 60th birthday party I celebrated. As did I when Helen Mirren won an Oscar for "The Queen" and when I read that Diane Keaton is coming out with a new film and so is Susan Sarandon.

And this: Jill Clayburgh could end up playing Pat Nixon in the same film that Meryl Streep plays Martha Mitchell. It makes you want to cheer.

These are my contemporaries. As long as they're still getting juicy parts, so will we all.

Meryl Streep told Entertainment Weekly that Hollywood should be grateful to women her age because they're the ones who continue to buy tickets and go to movies.
"They damn well better market to us," said Meryl. "and give us something to watch."
And she told a British reporter that she expects better parts – "roles that do not depict women of my age as either dotty or horrible."

I love it when Meryl talks like that.

On this week's Juicy Tomatoes show (www.juicytomatoes.com) I talked to Diane McCurdy who is a film reviewer and teaches film. We talked about movies that know how to treat a Tomato.
What have you been watching in the movies or on TV lately that let a 50-plus woman be herself, laugh lines and all?.