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April 2, 2009
The "40 is the new 20" thing (again); ticket giveaways; Louise; and more...
Women who aren't kids rock. But you knew that didn't you, because you're a tomato. But ah the fickle media seems to be "rediscovering" us like it's "new" news. More Magazine, The Today Show and other media venues have been all over the "40 is the new 20" thing in recent days citing 40+ poster gals like Demi Moore, Halle Berry, and Julia Roberts . As a bone they throw in Meryl Streep, and how fab Helen Mirren looks in a bikini. And sometimes the media stories include "cougar" coverage too. After all, aren't all 40 somethings who look like 20 somethings also cougars?
Well The Three Tomatoes want to salute the rest of us. The real over 40, over 50, over 60 tomatoes who aren't over anything actually. We may not all have bodies like a Hollywood star (not many of us have time for 4 hour work outs a day), or husbands and boyfriends the ages of our kids, but what we do have is so much more valuable. We have substance that only comes from having lived a few years, and experienced life's ups and downs. We appreciate every day, celebrating who we are, and never giving up on our dreams. That's what makes us rock with or without the rocking body. Oh and we can make a wicked dry martini and we know our barolo's from our petite sirahs too. So Happy Thursday and we'll tell you about a couple of women who not only rock but will make you laugh too. But first, we've got a chance for you to win theater tickets.
Win Theater Tickets
Invite your friends to subscribe to The Three Tomatoes and you could win 2 tickets to a top Broadway or off-Broadway Show and your friends could too. From now through May 7, 2009 (8) tomatoes and (2) new tomato subscribers will each win 2 sets of tickets to one of the following shows: 39 Steps, Irena's Vow, Blood Type: Ragu, ROOMS a rock romance, and the Marvelous Wonderettes. It's simple to enter. Get all the details.
The 17 year script that became a web sensation
 In the 1980s Anne Flournoy thought she was on her way to a film making career. Her first film, a 16mm short, Louise Smells a Rat, was invited to the New York Film Festival and mentioned positively in the press. Buoyed by that success, she scrapped together $77,000 and made a feature film, How to be Louise, and was invited to the Berlin Film Festival and Sundance. And then waited for distributors. And waited, and waited.
Along the way she married, raised kids, made pillows and sold 2 online, but never stopped working on her "Louise" script which would be irresistible to distributors. Unfortunately, it turned out to be utterly resistible to producers so the distributor question never came up.
17 years and thousands of drafts later, she realized Louise wasn't a feature film, but needed to be a series of shorts, her first love. Armed with a video camera, she decided she could darn well do this herself. And so, the Louise Log was born online. This very entertaining series of webisodes chronicles the life of a neurotic New York woman who has a high-maintenance husband, an addiction to caffeine, never enough money and an over-active inner voice. The first episode premiered on You Tube about 18 months ago and has become a top rated web series with a loyal following. And now tomatoes, you will find episodes right here at 3T.TV, starting with this week's episode called "The Worker." And remember, sometimes we just have to rethink the dream, not give up. About those other over 40 actresses
 We introduced you to Debbie Zipp awhile back. For those of you who were fans of Murder She Wrote, Debbie played Donna. She's been on lots of other shows and done zillions of commercials too. But somewhere in the mid-1990s, Debbie and several of her actress friends who were then in their 40ties, suddenly found they were getting fewer and fewer jobs because Hollywood considered them over the hill. And Julia Roberts and Halle Berry aside, youth is still prized in Hollywood today and just about everywhere else too. So Debbie and her friends formed In The Trenches Productions.com an online entertainment network for women over 40, featuring films written, produced, and created by women over 40. Proving yet again, that dreams don't stop just because we age. But the whistles might. When the whistles stopDebbie who is our guest blogger this week writes, "I used to hate walking down a street and getting whistles from the men around me. And don't get me wrong, there were never hundreds, but I got my share. BUT...and again I hate to admit it but...when the whistles started disappearing and finally stopped altogether, I missed them. I missed them...I really, really missed them." Read more of " Your inner whistler". So here's to real tomatoes everywhere. Whistles and a martini toast to one and all.
'til next week,
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