Time Marches On For Stars

You have to admire Movieline for not declawing itself. In the November issue, there’s an unbelievably catty and gloriously adolescent article called “The March of Time” about the aging of celebrity faces. Writer Michael Atkinson spares absolutely no one. Jessica Lange may be in a pickle, Atkinson points out: “As she’s aged, her eyes have turned into sinkholes and her lips look exhausted from having to stretch over those rather fearsome teeth all the time. The problem is, any major corrections on Lange’s cheeky, big-boned puss will instantly make her an honorary Gabor sister.” Ouch! While Robert De Niro gets off easy - “he looks like a deli worker” - James Caan takes the hardest hit. “Caan’s face is not the face of a movie star - it’s the face of death. Look on it in fear, but be comforted: It’s not your face.”

The future of wrinkle watching holds one big treat: Michelle Pfeiffer. “Watching Pfeiffer wilt and sag will surely be the Super Bowl of aging spectacles.”

In the November Interview, Jodie Foster interviews Holly Hunter, the star of her eagerly awaited movie “Home for the Holidays.” Hard to believe such compelling actresses can be so boring together! Far more interesting is Anjelica Huston’s small gem of an interview with monastic singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen.