Instant recognition
THANK YOU to Mary McNamara for writing “Face Up to Life” [April 13] and to the L.A. Times for putting it on the front page of Calendar.
I’ve grown increasingly disgusted by the slow, disturbing march by TV and movie actresses (and actors) and pop stars toward rendering themselves artificial, right before our eyes. What’s wrong with thin lips, a normal nose or wrinkles? It’s like the “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” writ large in plastic surgery. “Look, Marge, another pod person!”
No good roles for normal middle-aged non-ingenues? It seems as though there is no time better than now for women to start writing the scripts, producing, directing and acting in the films that will change that.
Journalists fed up with plastic-looking actors ruining films and TV shows because of their fakeness? Write about it.
Consumers of entertainment sick of all this? Turn off the TV, don’t go to or buy the movies that star pod people.
Why is it so hard to accept that we all age, and we will all die?
Mike Flanagan
Silver Lake
Only good movies
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