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Article: Veterans fill race with class, sass and pizzazz.(GOLDEN AGE)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- November 19, 2007
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While Hollywood will never cease its endless flirtation with promoting youth, some of its best offerings this awards season showcase the work of veteran actors.
The list is impressive, among them: Julie Christie, 66, earning some of the best reviews of her career in Sarah Polley's "Away From Her"; 82-year-old Hal Holbrook setting aside his Mark Twain duds to play a lonely widower in "Into the Wild"; Andy Griffith, 81, as a wise diner owner in the indie hit "Waitress"; Armin Mueller-Stahl. 77, bringing grandfatherly sweetness and beastly bite to the crime drama "Eastern Promises"; Philip Bosco, also 77, unsentimentally depicting a mentally deteriorating father in ...