Unions Condemn Internet Movie Site for Posting Actors’ Ages

October 27 – New York Times
By Michael Cieply

LOS ANGELES—Hollywood’s acting unions aren’t quite arguing for the right to lie about your age. But they seemed to come close on Thursday with a statement condemning the Internet Movie Database—IMDb.com—for routinely posting actors’ ages on its widely used Web site.

The posting of ages has long been a sore point with actors (and lots of others in Hollywood, as those who have reported here know), because, as the argument goes, producers and studios are biased toward the young.

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