Blurbal Perspective

Photo credit: clothesonyou Actress Meg Ryan is known for her work in rom-com's such as "Joe Versus the Volcano," "You've Got Mail," "When Harry Met Sally," and "Sleepless in Seattle." During these movies, she was deemed "America's sweetheart." While it has been some time since she has been in a major blockbuster, people have still found a way to keep her name in their mouths, and not in a good way. On Sunday's Tony Awards Show, Meg Ryan introduced the cast of Broadway play "She Loves Me," a production that inspired her 1998 film "You've Got Mail." Anyways, shortly after presenting the cast, social media stirred up controversy surrounding her appearance . Some even speculated that she had plastic surgery. The tweets from Twitter trolls were incredibly cruel. One woman said that she was fervently moisturizing her neck so it doesn't turn out like Meg Ryan's. One man said that he was ...

In an industry that favors youth over talent, actresses that were born before the Challenger Explosion are now being told that they are too 'over-the-hill' to play young adult characters. Anne Hathaway, who first drifted onto the scene in "The Princess Diaries," is being told by directors that she, at age 32, is "too old " to play young female characters: "I can’t complain about it because I benefitted from it. When I was in my early twenties, parts would be written for women in their fifties and I would get them. And now I’m in my early thirties and I’m like, ‘Why did that 24 year old get that part?’ I was that 24 year old once, I can’t be upset about it, it’s the way things are. All I can do right now is think that thankfully you have built up perhaps a little bit of cachet and can tell stories that interest you and if people go to see them you’ll be allowed to make more." The struggle is real, Annie. My Two Cents: The thing that annoy...