Watching Arthur Miller’s new short play, Mr Peters’ Connections, the other evening, I was struck by what melancholy nostalgia this vigorous trooper was serving up as he reflected on the losses that started amassing once he reached the second half of life. Less eloquently, in the same week, I had seen Britt Ekland, 57, quoted as saying she was “finished” as an actress and a desirable partner for a man in LA because of her age. Words redolent of Cher’s pithier, “Fifty sucks”, when she notched up her half-century birthday.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/angela-neustatter-is-my-life-over-or-is-the-best-yet-to-come-709536.html