2 stories showing you can be hip at ANY age:

--They're housewives, workaholics, PTA members and ... rock stars? Women fighting to shatter the stay-at-home-mom stereotype and rediscover their youthful voice are forming bands, such as Housewives on Prozac in suburban New York, Frump in Dallas and Placenta in Oakland, Calif.

These moms are rocking the house and the cradle, singing about breast-feeding, exhaustion and making kids do their chores.

"I feel like what we do is remind people about their passion and that sense of importance and that sense of vitality," said Joy Rose, a 47-year-old mother of four who founded Housewives on Prozac in 1997. "Life is really short and it's important to live colorfully."

--Here's an article discussing how the presence of sexy and sophisticated ladies in Hollywood has served to send television viewers a message: that actresses of a certain age need not be covered from neck to toe.

Thanks for the tip, Brian.

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