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当各种时尚杂志都争相挑选年轻美貌的女明星作为封面女郎时，“美国退休人士协会”(AARP)出版的最新一期《AARP》杂志则另辟蹊径——刊登在封面上的7位女士也是魅力四射的明星。她们都曾是奥斯卡奖的获得者，然而不同的是，她们都不再是妙龄女郎，而是年过40的女性，其中4位的年龄甚至超过了70岁。
They're glamorous Oscar winners. The cover of the new AARP: The Magazine features seven high-profile actresses billed as "Hollywood's Hottest." But unlike most cover gals, all are over 40 — and four are 70 or older.
当各种时尚杂志都争相挑选年轻美貌的女明星作为封面女郎时，“美国退休人士协会”(AARP)出版的最新一期《AARP》杂志则另辟蹊径——刊登在封面上的7位女士也是魅力四射的明星。她们都曾是奥斯卡奖的获得者，然而不同的是，她们都不再是妙龄女郎，而是年过40的女性，其中4位的年龄甚至超过了70岁。
据《今日美国》杂志网络版1月19日报道，这7名被《AARP》杂志称为“好莱坞最热门女星”的女演员分别是：78岁的克劳斯·利特曼、74岁的乔安妮·伍德沃德、73岁的丽塔·莫雷诺、70岁的雪莉·琼斯、58岁的帕蒂·杜克、56岁的凯茜·贝茨以及45岁的玛西娅·盖伊·哈登。所有这些封面女郎都穿着设计师量身定做的礼服，佩戴着“钻石之王”哈利·温斯顿店内的钻石首饰。
该杂志编辑南希·佩里·格雷厄姆表示，她希望当1月20日发行的新一期《AARP》被送到2200万读者手中时，老年妇女在人们心中的形象能够得到提升。
南希透露，她之所以决定邀请这几位好莱坞老一辈明星担任封面女郎，是受到了2004年4月份出版的时尚杂志《名利场》的启发。她注意到，几乎所有封面女郎的年龄都小于40岁。南希说：“人们经常说任何年龄的人都可以是美丽的；然而，事实却卻并非如此。你知道，好莱坞的游戏规则可并没有向人们传达这一信息。”于是，南希决定为年龄较大的妇女树立全新的形象，便有了这期杂志封面的诞生。
哈佛大学医学院的心理学家南希·埃特科夫表示，作为一种文化，人们已经逐渐改变了对“衰老”与“美丽”之间关關系的看法。她说：“即使是在近代，35岁的女性就被认为已经是年老的人了。然而，现在的35岁就相当于曾经的25岁；40岁则相当于30岁。”不过，南希同时表示，要让六、七十岁成为人们心目中的“黄金年龄”仍然尚需时日。
曾是著名舞台剧演员和电影演员的琼斯，在20世纪70年代因出演电视剧《帕特里奇一家》中的妈妈雪莉·帕特里奇一角而家喻户晓。琼斯从未做过整容手术，今后也不打算去整容。
负责为这些“封面女郎”拍照的摄影师菲罗兹称，最后出来的照片并不会将模特面部的皱纹去掉，这也是杂志想要传达的一个重要信息。琼斯说：“在这這组照片中，我们没有刻意掩盖年纪。今天，50岁或者更大的年龄仍被认为还很年轻。我希望自己能够按自己所设想的那般老去——眼角的鱼尾纹、皱纹、面部皮肤的陷落——这些就是我所设想的方式，这是衰老过程中不可或缺的一部分。”
同时，琼斯也没有因为自己不再是好莱坞的一线女星而沮丧。她最近仍活跃在百老汇的舞台上。琼斯希望所有女性朋友都能够夠看到这些照片，并受到鼓舞。（任燕）
They're glamorous Oscar winners. The cover of the new AARP: The Magazine features seven high-profile actresses billed as "Hollywood's Hottest." But unlike most cover gals, all are over 40 — and four are 70 or older.
Editor Nancy Perry Graham says she hopes the March/April issue, which begins arriving in 22 million homes Tuesday, will help boost the image of older women.
She got the idea while looking at the April 2004 Vanity Fair cover on actresses and noticed that most of the women shown were under 40.
"It's so easy to say you can be beautiful at any age, but in our society, you know Hollywood doesn't send that image at all," she says.
So she's trying to send a new image. The spare-no-expense photo shows actresses Cloris Leachman, 78; Joanne Woodward, 74; Rita Moreno, 73; Shirley Jones, 70; Patty Duke, 58; Kathy Bates, 56; and Marcia Gay Harden, 45, in designer gowns and draped with Harry Winston diamonds.
As a culture, we're already shifting our views of aging and beauty, says Nancy Etcoff, psychologist at Harvard Medical School and author of Survival of the Prettiest.
"If you look back in very recent history, someone 35 was already considered old," she says. "And now 35 is where 25 was. And 40 is the new 30."
But it will still be a while before 60 and 70 are considered hot, she says.
The magazine cover will "make people think," she says. But "for things to take hold, they really have to come from multiple sources."
Jones, the stage and movie actress best known for playing TV mom Shirley Partridge in the 1970s sitcom The Partridge Family, is happy to get the ball rolling.
