In the 15 years Berenson spent in prison, her peers have moved from early adulthood into middle age. “The world has changed,” she told me in August. “Internet, giant malls.” Technologically, she’s catching up, and […]

"Gently, after a four-year absence, the Farrelly brothers return to a comedy field they once dominated with sticky-sweet gross-outs like 1998’s There’s Something About Mary. And wouldn’t you know it? They’ve become elder statesmen: Hall […]

“Perhaps even more encouraging, an increasing number of middle-aged consumers are shopping online—a sign that Canadian ecommerce is becoming mainstream.” From a report (subscription-only) recently published my deparment at work. As a peer reviewer I […]

It’s not only my imagination that what’s deemed middle-aged has shifted younger recently. Faye Dunaway’s hard-ass, ratings-obsessed character on Network refers to Max (played by a William Holden at 58), the coworker she’s having an […]

"There Are No More Big Secrets at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater gives the Arguing Middle-Aged Yuppies genre a creepy twist." I gather that the yuppies in question are actors Dagmara Dominczyk (34), Gibson Frazier (39), […]

"The Pill may seem to promise eternal youth, but doctors have only middling odds of recapturing fertility when a woman has crossed into early middle age. There’s an easy answer to this conundrum, even though […]

"He looked at the amount of drinking these women had done at midlife, or about age 58 on average. Women who reported having one to two drinks most days of the week had a 28% […]

Steve Martin's & John Candy’s ages when they filmed Planes, Trains & Automobiles.  “That 1987 comedy was a watershed for Hughes, who expanded his teencentric palette into middle-aged anxiety.”

"Heavy smoking during middle age greatly increases your risk of Alzheimer's disease."

"Corin Tucker calls her debut album 'more of a middle-aged mom record.' Oh, that many middle-aged moms could rock like this." [LA Weekly]