Teens against women: Hollywood's secret struggle

In his Slate column, Edward Jay Epstein looks at the glass ceiling for Hollywood actresses, who tend to run out of roles to play when they hit, uh, 30 or so. Whose fault is that? Well, it’s those damn kids.

The studios zero in on teens not because they necessarily like them or because they buy buckets of popcorn, but because they are the only demographic group that can be efficiently motivated to leave their homes in large numbers.

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