Diana Rigg is WAY cool. She is still classy and gorgeous.

I don't know that women are necessarily "thrown" on the trash heap just because they're over 40. Don't a lot of women that age, celebrities included, have children that they might want to stay home with? Movie actors' salaries are certainly conducive to early retirement. I imagine some of them are staying out of the movies by choice.

What about Susan Sarandon... Sigourney Weaver... Meryl Streep... Glenn Close... ? Kathy Bates? Jessica Tandy?