Candice Bergen just did a walk -on , on "SNL". I didn't recognize her. She's become a chubby, little old lady

Raquel Welch, from same era, has held up amazingly. She claims it's due to yoga practice, for the past 40 years

I like Candice. She's had a lot of health issues: a serious stroke in 2006, and she fell and broke her pelvis a couple of years ago.

I think she's struggled with her weight all her life and finally said, fuck it, a few years ago. I first noticed in the SEX AND THE CITY movie that she had gained a good deal.

At 66, OP, I think she's holding up better than some.

I noticed her starting to decline looks-wise during "Boston Legal" and in that crap film "Bride Wars" (yes, I watched it, so shoot me!), and it just made me sad. But it happens. I didn't know she was only 66. That puts her in the Meryl-Glenn-Jessica-Sally-Sigourney age range, but I always thought she was closer to Jane Fonda's age group.

I still love her.

It's pathetic when already pathetic people act this way.

You're old, looked fucked up and it's time to go up to the attic and retire.

I agree with R2. I like Candice and I think she has aged well. She looks good considering she has had some serious health issues.

I thought she looked great.

Medication weight gain

Blondes generally don't age well.

She looks fine. Still can't act, though.

Yes, and Chevy Chase, Alec Baldwin and Dan Ackroyd looked fantastic! Seriously wtf? I'm beginning to think that the key to aging gracefully is to be old and unattractive looking in your 30s and staying thin. See Steve Martin and Martin Short.

Time turns WASP ladies into little partridges, according to Armistead Maupin.

...little furry-jawed partridges...

From your list R11, it seems the key to aging gracefully is being male. When men get wrinkles it adds character, when women get them it makes them look worn. It's a ridiculous notion but that's seems to be the thinking behind it.

R5 eats the feces of 102 year old ladies at the old folks home.

[quote]Raquel Welch, from same era, has held up amazingly. She claims it's due to yoga practice, for the past 40 years

A resilient Bolivian bloodline also helps.

Something about Steve Martin looked off. Candace looked fine. As if Dan, Tom, and Alec haven't put on weight.

Steve Martin's obvious facelift aside, I thought they are all aging nicely and seeing them made me smile.

BREAKING NEWS FOR DATALOUNGERS!

People age. It happens to EVERYBODY. Even you. All this "Dan Ackroyd looked terrible..." "Candy Bergen looks old..." is just tiresome statements of the obvious. People get old. Why you think that's negative and a just cause to criticise them is YOUR PROBLEM.

The OP is being unkind, she looks just fine.

Oh. Come. On. Miles!

The HD screen was not kind to any of the people in that sketch. Every single little wrinkle screamed for attention. Even Timberlake's 5 o'clock shadow was notably visible.

That said, there are plenty of 66+ year old former beauties who look/looked much better than Bergen does.

Raquel, Jane, Dolly (pre last creepy surgery), Jackie O, Jacqueline B., Cicely, and the list goes on and on. Yes, they've all had cosmetic surgery, but so has Candy.

Unfortunately it's all about staying thin. Heavy is only forgiving when you are young, curvy, and have a sexy allure/attitude to complement(everything from Beth Ditto to Beyonce fits this mold).

You know, we all can't be brainy like *Fern* here...

J'adore R23!

Too late, r16!

I troll websites looking for Bolivian treachery and I have exposed you!

ICBMs underway!

[quote]Raquel Welch, from same era, has held up amazingly. She claims it's due to yoga practice, for the past 40 years

Check her out without the Botox, the make-up, the wig and especially the rubber bands that are taped to her face and pulled which she spent a whole chapter on in her beauty book and get back to us.

And I'm not even judging her. I know at that age it takes a village, but Candace Bergen looks great. She's almost seventy and is a natural beauty, as is her Mother. She is isn't pulled and tucked, she has weight and lines, as all people her age do. Look at Faye Dunaway or Joan Rivers, who actually thinks she looks good. She doesn't even look human. It's accepted because we are used to her looks but she's looked terrible for years.

Candice ain't all "natural" r26, and you're a fool for believing that.

Paul Simon is a midget. Knew he was short, but he was elfin.

Candice Bergen "She is isn't pulled and tucked"

Best laugh I'll have all day!

Isn't Candice a lesbo?

She gave an interview the other day

"Quotas for women are WRONG" Especially in politics.

“I always bristle when I hear, ‘We need more women in politics,’ I just do,” said Candice Bergen.

“I believe that we need more integrous, [sic] strong, capable, people and many of those are women,” she stated.

The notion that all women should all support each other is unrealistic, and competition is a good thing, said Ms. Bergen.

“I think it’s good to have healthy competition. Men compete against each other—it doesn’t mean that they stab each other in the back— but they have different ideas,” she said.

She also took issue with the theory that a critical mass of women in politics—the United Nations puts that figure at 30 per cent—will result in more so-called women’s issues coming to the fore.

She said the theory pigeonholes women by their gender and disregards the fact that women are have individual opinions.

Ms. Bergen also said she believes that feminism is no longer needed.

“We can never forget what the women’s movement did, but I think young women today aren’t thinking that they are downtrodden. I don’t think women today are thinking that they are at a disadvantage,” she said.

It's natural for people to age. In a few months, Valerie Harper will no longer age. That's what's sad compared to a few extra pounds on Candice Bergen.

R30, that's a long standing rumor. She's at least bi.

[quote]Candice ain't all "natural" [R26], and you're a fool for believing that.

Listen Dickhead, Candace Bergen might have had some nips and tucks but she looks exactly like Candace Bergen. She is a world class beauty. Do think Faye Dunaway or Joan Rivers reassemble any where near themselves?

Then there's Sophia Loren, who looks like this at age 78:

'Reassemble', R34? So Joan Rivers is now a Transformer?

Susan Sarandon and Susan Sullivan

Lose weight and shave off your beard. That's the key to looking young(er). Having a full head of hair doesn't hurt, either.

You can kind of tell by her hair and her teeth that she does not give a rats ass about the Hollywood/NYC "socialite" craze for eternal youth. Her teeth are not a mouthful of chicklets, her hair sometime in need of her hairdresser- and yes she has gained a few pounds. In other words, she is aging like 99% of people age and it does not keep her from going out in public- because she perhaps does not think spending a quarter of her time at specialists is worth the effort.

Sophia Loren does look spectacular. Certainly she has had work done- but then her mother was a beauty into her 80s.

[quote]So Joan Rivers is now a Transformer?

Yes, she transforms into a Hummer. Cher transforms into a Jeep Cherokee.

Dickhead at R34, that's not what you originally said. Candice had a full facelift before Boston Legal. Regardless of what a world-class beauty she is or was, she's had a LOT more than nips & tucks. And you said MAY have had them. Jesus, I can't believe how delusional you are, dickhead!

As long as we're on the subject of people who now look like shit, can we discuss Paul Simon?

The secret for both men and women is that at fifty one should put on at least ten pounds of muscle mass. Start your workout routine in your forties to do so.

Skinny doesn't cut it in old age. It looks arthritic, weak, sexless, and cranky. Posture is vital in your older years. Work on that too in your forties.

The face shouldn't mean as much when one ages--this is the HUGE mistake people make. With good posture and healthy muscle mass, one stays youthful no matter the wrinkles. And no one is checking out your face anyway--you are being judged on your ass--the biggest indicator of age and vitality over forty.

I agree, skinny doesn't work when you're older.

Too bad. I had her as top choice for the lead David Lynch's new Lifetime film, "The Ronnie Chasen Story".

We'd rather discuss you, Art

[quote]Sophia Loren does look spectacular.

She doesn't look spectacular. She looks plastic. Sophia Loren is the poster child for plastic surgery.

They've all had plastic surgery. How god they look depends on the surgeon and on personal taste. If you want to look like a lion or a pulled fish, there are surgeons who will do that for you.

Most people in the entertainment industry go to plastic surgeons who do a great job of leaving people look natural. Only a few delusional people go for the fish lips, insane cheek implants and fiveheads.

Hey, she's still breathing!

My husband Mr. Steele had a golfing companion with a mongoloid child. He put bright paint in his hair, inserted safety pins in his face and jumped up and down relentlessly, for hours. In those days, society sent the little mongoloid children away to facilities in the desert.

I've always thought if they were to ever do a re-cast of the Golden Girls, she'd be the only actress I can think of to play a convincing Dorothy.

Faith Ford, what happened to her career?

I think she great looks her age for!

[quote] As long as we're on the subject of people who now look like shit, can we discuss Paul Simon?

He looks like a munchkin.

Jaclyn Smith looks great for Eleanor of nearly 70,so does Cher. And Valerie Harper looks beautiful for 73,dispite her diagnosis,God bless her.

Paul Simon still can't read a simple line for shit either.

I didn't think Candice looked bad at all. I thought Dan Ackroyd looked seriously overweight.

I just got back from a funeral in my hometown. My high school friends (circa 1975) look shockingly older. However, without exception, they were all a lot nicer and much more interesting than they were when younger and better-looking.

"She's become a chubby, little old lady"

She's 66, is she supposed to look like a 20 year old cheerleader?

Susan Sarandon is the best-looking 66-year-old in the biz.

Face, body, everything.

She wins.

Dan Ackroyd is insanely wealthy from the Ghostbusters games.

All of the guys not only looked old; they came off as old and ill, except for Alec Baldwin.

In olden times, I'm sure Buck Henry hosted at least 5 times. I know George Carlin hosted the first episode, but I thought I remembered him coming back to host the first show of each season. Elliot Gould hosted a lot. Billy Crystal was the host for an entire season. I thought Robert Klein hosted a lot, but he only hosted twice. I wonder how many times David Steinberg hosted? I don't think Cheech and Chong ever hosted.

It seems that Lorne Michaels wanted to forget about the hosts of the early years and focus in on the cast members of those years.

By all accounts, she's nice, serious, funny, and smart. She looks as if she has other things on her mind than trying to preserve her youth. When you've been as beautiful as she was in her twenties and thirties, why in your sixties would you want to look like a second-rate facsimile of your younger self? She has a happy marriage (her second happy marriage), a great relationship with her daughter, lots of friends, and work whenever she wants it. Practically everybody who knows her likes her. Knock Wood, her autobiography, is one of the most cleareyed and entertaining books I've read about growing up in Hollywood. In that nasty book about Marlo Thomas, the butler said that Bergen was the only one of Marlo's feminist friends who treated him and the rest of the staff with kindness and respect. She sounds (and looks) okay to me.

"Honey, there comes a time when you've got to face the fact that you're an old broad. I've had a hell of a good time, so my face looks, well, lived-in. You won't find me standing in front of a mirror, weeping."

r5 is 40 years old who thinks Justin Bieber is some kind of awesome.

Dammit, [r60], Sarandon looks hot. There's no man her age who looks this good.

I think Diane Sawyer looks outstanding for 67.

NO ONE on that stage looked worse than Paul Simon! (Well, maybe Dan Ackroyd.)

I thought Bergen looked fine considering what she's been thru heathwise. Love the Ava Gardner quote!

Candance was a chubby old lady in Boston Legal. Still a wonderful actress. She also played Cuddy's mom on House.

Meanwhile, I look exactly the same as I did 70 years ago.

Damn, Susan Sarandon looks good. I'm sure she has had a procedure or two, but it's subtle. She still looks like herself.

[quote]skinny doesn't work when you're older

There's a difference between staying thin and being skinny.

As we approach seniority, the former works (especially with women), the latter doesn't. For women, the challenge comes during the menopause years, when many women tend to develop the tubby silhouette around the waist. After years of targeting the hips (the more typical female point of weight gain), they are faced with this new - typically male - syndrome of waist augmentation.

Men are faced with a lifetime of habits - all social due to their alpha circumstances - which catch up with them. Suddenly, woofing down a burger at lunchtime has bigger consequences than it did when they were 28. And exercising or high activity alone will not cut it.

Building muscle is fine for both sexes, but there's no question it will decay rapidly past 60, and your best hope is good posture and having clothes look good on you (i.e. thin - NOT SKINNY)

Susan Sarandon looks great. My theory is that she started young enough to have minor procedures through the years rather than waiting too long and requiring radical and obvious major facelifts. The result is that she looks natural. She's smart enough not to try to look like she's 30.

Another older woman whom I think looks wonderful is Sigourney Weaver. I wouldn't be surprised to find out she and SS use the same surgeon or that he's Brazilian.

They were both blessed with good bone structure and that always helps. Neither of them has stayed scrawny-skinny, the worst thing an older woman can do.

I think Sophia Loren looks awful. This is not a good look.

Well the good news is that her daughter no longer has to feel quite so inferior in the looks department.

Seriously, it must suck to be average looking (or less) and grow up with a beautiful mother. Wouldn't wish that on anyone.

Well, Alexa Ray Joel, too bad your mother procreated with a man who looks like an unusually ugly toad. What on earth was she thinking?

I love what Candice Bergen had to say about her looks in this ABC interview. It seems like such a grown-up approach to aging:

[quote]"The reality is that I don't look like I used to look," she said. "I just don't care enough, and in a way it's saved me."

[quote]Billy Crystal was the host for an entire season.

SNL never had a host the entire season. Billy Crystal was part of the ensemble.

Billy Crystal was one of the cast members. He was just the most memorable that year.

Both sexes tend to develop what I think of as old cat body. Your abdominal muscles lose tone and your guts get pendulous. It has nothing to do with weight. What would be deplorable on a perfectly healthy twenty-year-old is natural for a seventy-year-old who would likely have health issues that would interfere with them doing crunches or getting tummy tucks.

Candice Bergen--with whom I went to college, by the way--has always been smart and happy and extremely attractive. Back at Penn, in the one year she attended, she was Campus Queen, which doesn't happen unless you're the prettiest girl on site. She is well known to be easy to work with and her role on Boston Legal found her at her height in creating a character unlike any other character on TV. (Admittedly, the writers helped, though they were obviously making the part on Bergen.) And the rest of you enraged queens can fuck yourselves.

[quote]In olden times, I'm sure Buck Henry hosted at least 5 times.

for a while he was a permanent host, he hosted at least a dozen times.

Agree r74. She's one of those people where I can't say I think much of her acting (5 Emmys for shouting her lines? Really?), but I've always just really liked her - her persona, her personality, whatever. She has always seemed more grounded than most with a cool, refreshing attitude towards life and the business in general.

The opposite of many celebrities whose acting I may love but just seem completely insufferable.

I love Candice, but honestly, my mother is 66 and she looks a lot better. Mother also has health issues. When I saw Candice, after gettng over my initial shock, I thought that she might have a health issue.

That weight doesn't look like the kind of weight you put on from over indulgence and neglect.It looks like the bloat you acquire from a side effect of medication taken over a long period of time.

She looks like someone who takes cortisone injections. It made me immediately consider whether she has some kind of debilitating arthritic condition. Or Osteoarthritis.

[quote]your guts get pendulous

Which becomes painfully obvious when you sit down - everything plops down with you and no amount of sucking it in can cure it.

I am 52, fairly trim, blessed with proportionate broad shoulders, and a nice chest. I've worked out most of my adult life (starting at age 15). Also, having danced for most of my youth, I have firm muscular legs. But the minute I sit down, my gut bloats up and I look like a cat sitting down to lick itself. Even if I sit up straight, the compression makes my much looser abdominal skin expand disproportionately. I've practiced new sitting techniques in front of the mirror and it seems hopeless (if anyone has any tips I welcome them).

Then I noticed, during a class reunion at the beach, that most people my age are suffering the same blow-up syndrome, regardless of body type. We just have to get over our vanity, suck it in (figuratively), and get on with our lives and the realities of aging. Looser skin does not have to be loser skin.

[quote] Looser skin does not have to be loser skin.

You should put this on a poster. Maybe with a chubby cat hanging onto a branch?

Let me guess: You're not getting older, you're getting better.

Middle aged spread is caused by the loss of collagen, among other things. Collagen doesn't just keep your face nice and tight, it also helps keep skin taught throughout the body and helps keep your internal organs from slumping. I'm not making this up, a plastic surgeon told me.

And then there's gravity. The longer you are on earth, the more gravity pulls at you. Eventually, gravity wins.

Thanks, r83! I'm not sure, but I hope so. That's for others to decide.

Bergen says she doesn't believe in quotas for women, and their is no more need for feminism.

Makes complete sense r84. I would have never thought you were making that up.

[quote]and their is no more need for feminism.

Apparently they're is steel a knead for English grammer coarses

lol, R88.

Ms. Bergen also said she believes that feminism is no longer needed.

“We can never forget what the women’s movement did, but I think young women today aren’t thinking that they are downtrodden. I don’t think women today are thinking that they are at a disadvantage,” she said.

The extra weight is because of cortisone. Her bloated face gives it away.

R84, I agree about the collagen. That's why I've been taking a collagen supplement since I turned 40. I'm 56 now and I still look pretty good. Nothing sags, no lines, but I watch my diet, take vitamins, and exercise, too.

You have to watch out for carb face. Get rid of bad carbs, red meat, processed foods and distilled alcohol. Drink lots of water and get some good sleep.

I have to laugh when I see ads for face creams that "stimulate the production of collagen." Maybe they do, but I don't believe it. YOu have to take either pills or powder internally just like with other supplements. Smearing cream on and hoping for the best is ridiculous.

R90, that's like people that claim there's no need for affirmative action because there's no more racism.

Well, she's a senior citizen now...and there's no reason she still has 100% of her mind left.

Candice Berge also said the notion that all women should all support each other is unrealistic, and competition is a good thing, said Ms. Bergen.

“I think it’s good to have healthy competition. Men compete against each other—it doesn’t mean that they stab each other in the back— but they have different ideas,” she said.

She also took issue with the theory that a critical mass of women in politics—the United Nations puts that figure at 30 per cent—will result in more so-called women’s issues coming to the fore.

She said the theory pigeonholes women by their gender and disregards the fact that women are have individual opinions.

R90 is a troll, R93. The Candice Bergen that made that comment isn't the actress. Candice Bergen is a Canadian politician that belongs to the Conservative Party.

She sounds like a limousine liberal.

When did Candice Bergen run for public office?

[quote]When did Candice Bergen run for public office?

In 2008.

R98 that is Candice Hoeppner

The Canadian Conservative Candice Bergen was Stephen Harper's campaign manager.

But it says her name is Candice Hoeppner

[quote]But it says her name is Candice Hoeppner

Elected under the name Candice Hoeppner, Ms. Bergen announced on September 17, 2012 that she would resume her birth name of Bergen

Why is she using the actresses name Candice Bergen? Maybe she should sue for stealing her name.

Read the linked article. It says her name is Candice Bergen.

If she is stealing her name and using it under false pretenses, then the real Candice Bergen should take legal action.

It is akin to identity theft.

She's not a celebrity and she's not stealing anyone's identity. It's possible her parents liked Candice Bergen's name and that why they chose that name for their daughter.

Think how many people live on the North American continent. Is it that surprising two of them have the same name?

Wow. Candace bergen hasn't resorted to plastic revision. Can actually play roles that reflect her age. No American actors could ever do Downtown Abbey because they're all altered. No amount of yoga Can perk up 60 year old boobs. what has happened to Americans who value today's Jane Fonda and forget what she looked like 10 years ago - she had her whole body suctioned. Looks good but it's not real. Let's stop living in a Kardashian fantasy and get some real reality. Remember The emperor's New Clothes, celebrate the wisdom that is aging and look past the exterior someone has. To play a mom or grandma. Or are we really that shallow.

Cold are the hands of time that creep along relentlessly, destroying slowly but without pity that which yesterday was young. Alone our memories resist this disintegration and grow more lovely with the passing years. Heh! That's hard to say with false teeth!

[R100] As I've been told many times on DL, no one cares about Canada!

YOU REALLY SHOULD TRY TO BE NICER. SHE HAS HAD A SERIOUS STROKE AND FELL AND BROKE HER PELVIS. SHE IS A BEAUTIFUL LADY AND IT TOOK A LOT OF COURAGE FOR HER TO GO ON STAGE.

Raquel Welch looks like a wax figure in Madame Tussauds.

How do we know that Candace is even an American? I haven't seen her birth certificate, have you?

I'm the Candy that still looks sweet!

That's how Penny Marshall likes her to be kept.

American actresses, are all scary looking, as if they are wearing plastic masks on their faces. Children shouldn't have to look at them. They look like they were all caught in a fire and their surgeons just did what they could.

She does look older then 66 and it's probably due to health issues. People age, why does it have to be such a big deal to you. She was gorgeous most of her life, at this point, I doubt if she really cares.

There's nothing wrong with that, r115!

'Murphy Brown'...one of the all-time great shows. Love Candice. She's great.

[quote]Time turns WASP ladies into little partridges, according to Armistead Maupin.

It turned him into a fat little dumpling.

It was fascinating to see how time had treated many of the cast members. Some looked great for their age and others looked like crap.

And WTF is Paul McCartney thinking?

But for those of us over 40, just looking at Facebook pictures of your high school classmates, you can see a wide range. I am 43 and some of my classmates look like senior citizens and some could pass for 30.

Money helps too. My husband grew up in a wealthy NYC suburb and the women from his class mostly all look great. Too young for real work, but they don't work and exercise all day. Probably lots of Botox too.

Candy Bergen as glamorous dyke "Lakey" in "The Group"...lest we forget that it will happen to ALL of us,no matter how pristine, sooner than later.

Women whose careers are based on nepotism, much like Candice's, never have much use for feminism. Why would she? Daddy opened doors for her and she didn't really have to struggle very much because of her father's connections and wealth.

If she didn't have something going for her, r122, she wouldn't have worked all those years.

R123: I agree, I didn't say that she wasn't talented (although, let's face it, she's a very mediocre, hammy actress) but she's had it very easy and didn't have to deal with a lot of the bullshit other actresses who didn't come from a wealthy background and/or connections had to deal with. Hence, little sympathy to the difficulties non-privileged women face. Her career is legacy-based no ifs and buts about it.

R122, Candice Bergen is a feminist and was once a political activist.

At what point in the show was she on?

R126 she was the first woman host and hosted a couple more times in the original era. Then she hosted a couple more times in the Carvey era. Member of the 5 timers club (and for a while, the only woman who was, which is kind of sad).

And she definitely had her share of work done before her health problems set in. But hopefully she's doing ok.

She's had a shitload of surgery. The evidence...

[quote]She does look older then 66

That's because she's almost 69. This thread is from 2013.

And as others have mentioned, she had a stroke and a major health issue with a broken pelvis. She looks great, considering all that.

Considering that this thread began in 2013, it's ok to say she looked older than 66 this week, because she is.

I was glad to see her Sunday night, and I'll bet she was a great, funny old broad backstage and at the after party.

What must be said is that all of her plastic surgery has successfully left her still looking like Candice Bergen at 69.

Also, I can't imagine Edgar Bergen, though a wildly popular ventriloquitst and radio star in the 1930s, could have had much influence on the beginning of his daughter's film career in the late 1960s, except to provide her with funds to keep her from having to take jobs she didn't want.

She was an extraordinary beauty, and much like her contemporaries Ali McGraw and Katherine Ross, her lack of talent never got in her way. Late 1960 films were all about young character actor leading men in the thrall of vacuous pretty girls.

You try walking around with a hand up your ass all the time!

I think she looks great. She a very old school California. Love her.

I can't imagine why a beauty like Candice's mother would marry that old fat fug Edgar Bergen.

Candice is a fine example of how to grow older gracefully wrinkles and all. I doubt if she's had a lot of work done but she still looks amazing.

One question, why does CB always seems to wear pants even at formal events?

Jesus, R135, she's a shitload of work done.

I wish the show would have given her more than just a line in someone else's introduction. She was a big part of the early years (the first woman in the 5-times club!) and deserved more air time.

After a certain age, you can't hide the Jew. She looks, mercilessly like her father.

"Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while."

Candice Bergen

She was so charming in the 1970s SNL episodes. She was is great. Internet is making people stupid about looks. You'll be older, too...

She is 68

R139 her father's Jewish? That's the first I heard.

She had that kind of Bob Hope nose that got kind of witchy looking by the time she got on Murphy Brown (a show I hated, btw). And she had major neck issues by then.

She was obviously very pretty in her day but I never thought she was QUITE the great beauty everyone made her out to be. Cybill Shepherd was prettier.

But she was always a good SNL host and always seemed like a pretty cool, level headed person overall. I wish she had hosted more in the later years - there really weren't many good women hosts, let's be honest.

It's a Swedish last name. Not Jewish.

R139, Cybill Shepard has a big fat nose.

She was lovely in The Sand Pebbles

We are funny about that here - but it never really makes much sense.

Someone will post a picture of somebody at 22 and then a current picture of them at 65 and say - "Look how they've lost their looks!"

When we all know, for most of us, we wouldn't do so great in the comparison ourselves.

What was the occasion for her 2013 SNL cameo that prompted this thread?

R139 so what if she looks Jewish? Nothing wrong with that. He father was an ok man. Also so what if she's had a little work done. Fillers and that stuff are not major surgery. She still looks natural I think.

Her dad was actually quite handsome as seen in the above post.

Candice Bergen is not Jewish. Edgar Bergen was some kind of Scandinavian descent. Both her parents must have been very good-looking when young (her mother was gorgeous). Candice has had health problems and has decided to stop trying. It ain't easy to enjoy life and stay thin after a certain age. She was an extremely beautiful young woman. Not everybody wants to spend the time and the money that Jane Fonda does. There are more important things in life.

R147, so,wome hosted for the 5th time in '13 (maybe Justin?) and was invited to join the five-timers club, where people like Tome Hanks, John Goodman, Paul Simon, and Candice were hanging out.

It was kind of funny, if I remember correctly. Was Ateve Martin there?

Wow, I messed that post up.

Someone hosted in '13 for the 5th time. The Five Timer club included people like Goodman, Hanks, Simon and Bergen. Maybe Steve Martin.

It was funny.

I hate posting from mobile, and apologize for the typos.

I know I'm late to the party on this thread, but Candice Bergen and Brooke Shields are, to me, very similar. Both were extremely beautiful in their youth... both still look very good, but not the level they were back then. They were considered among the most beautiful women in the world. Aside from their beauty, they have a realistic, intelligent, and refreshing attitude about aging. They seem very nice and grounded. I'm sure, they are happier than the youth obsessed, pulled tight, puffy faced contemporaries... so desperate to hold on.. with dear life. I have respect..

*for dear life*

R153 yeah I agree. I have noticed that alot of these Manhattan /la socialite types are the most tightly wound, miserable people to be around. She seems happy, so good for her.

The ventriloquist dummy aged the best.

R150 I realize that this thread is ancient, but I cannot believe that someone thought Candice Bergen was Jewish.

In her hey day she was the epitome of the icy WASPish shiksa. The least Jewish looking woman of all time.

R157 It is because obsessive Anti-Jewish freaks are looking for, and thinking Jews are hiding around every corner. The only thing "Jewish" about her is the [italic] sound [/italic] of her father's surname and combination of given names. Edgar, Edmund, , and a J. midle initial are very popular amongst European Jewish men. It is quite common in my own family... going back generations. Anti-Semitic trolls on DL are always trying to suss us out!

She's aging naturally, like any non-neurotic, intelligent person. You want to see ugly? Look at [R139]'s post.... Damn.

In Candice last book she devoted an entire chapter to the fact she is fat, and she doesn't care

R158 Oh my! I had never noticed before, but 2 of my male friends in their 50s have the middle name Jay. And I am certain they are of German Jewish stock. Both are psychiatrists. I did not know going with a J middle name was significant, but it makes sense.

She has spunk.

We HATE spunk!

I completely agree, R9!

She long ago looks like Rosemarie from The Dick Van Dyck Show

"You're, uh - you're not very bright, are you, Fern?"