I’d Like to Look Like a Black-and-White Movie

Humor

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I think my generation was done a disservice by certain epic black-and-white Hollywood movies that were made in the 1940s, in which characters were followed from youth into old age. In every case the aging technique was to soften the features of the young actors and make them appear sort of luminous as they got older. It really was much more flattering than real life; nobody…