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By Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

Thanks to greater knowledge about the detrimental effects of staying in the sun, the positive effects of exercise and moisturizer, and the ever-increasing popularity of Botox, collagen and face lifts, some of our most attractive pop culture icons are staying impossibly beautiful for unprecedented amounts of time.

As Madonna and Michelle Pfeiffer enjoy the last few months before their 50th birthdays (Pfeiffer’s in April, Madonna’s in August), we took a look at other celebrities who are still smoldering at 50.