“When you get to a certain age you are offered only old- bag roles. I have sung all the leading soprano roles there are and I don’t want to end up singing old-bag roles.”
Dame Anne Evans, 61, on her imminent retirement
Steven Berkoff is still angry, and still craving attention at 65. So when is this teenage delinquent going to grow up?
Rachel Cooke, ES magazine
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Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall has complained that she is finding it hard to get a date. Well, dear, it’s what you should expect at 46. As we get older we all begin to have difficulty with dates, names, where we parked . . .
The Sunday Times, sent in by John Blasby, East Sussex
I’m trying to capture a specific moment, in a club or pub, a reflection of Birmingham. I can’t see it appealing to the post-40 generation, who tend to like Monets and watercolours.
The artist Jane Anderson, Birmingham Post, sent in by Joan Bates, Edgbaston
Entry for Jeffrey Simmons, literary agent, in Writer’s Handbook 2003. Interests: fiction from young writers (ie, under 40) with a future.
Sent in by Richard Tapsfield, Tunbridge Wells
Nikki Page, John Redwood’s new friend, and I hit it off in the dusty world of Tory politics: neither of us had blue hair and we were both under 70.
Amanda Platell, formerly William Hague’s spin-doctor
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