Sandra Bullock: Or is that Betty White? No, whew! that's Sandra Bullock.
A while back, we had some fun (and created some massive confusion) over the fact that Julia Roberts, at 41, put out her first big movie in a while (the middling performer Duplicity) and found herself accused of being "Hollywood ancient" — possibly too old to open a movie anymore.
Well, back it up, old-lady-haters, because Sandra Bullock just had the most successful opening of her entire career as her romantic comedy, The Proposal, roared to a $34 million weekend. She's almost 45 years old! She's even older than Julia Roberts!
That thoroughly thumped the very, very bad Year One, which did all right with about $20 million, but came in fourth behind The Proposal, the long legs of Up and the continuing strength of The Hangover.
One noteworthy fact? The Proposal drew an audience that was 63 percent women and 86 percent (!) 18 and over. What might make that noteworthy? It sometimes seems to be a forgotten reality that it's really okay to make movies that have no appeal to teenage boys. They can still make money. In fact, they might even beat out movies that are most cynically targeted to teenage boys.
Of course, it might just prove, once again, that every movie should have Betty White in it.
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