Ashton: Suddenly 30

posted 02.19.04 Scandal rocks age 30: The National Enquirer reports, via IMDb, that That 70s Show and Punk'd star Ashton Kutcher may, in fact, be the older than previously believed. According to hordes of press clippings, actor Christopher Ashton Kutcher was born... continued

For Sexy, 40 beats 30

posted 11.21.03 People Magazine has named its sexiest man alive, and it's 40-year old Johnny Depp. Sadly, the target audience for Book of Ages 30 makes a poor showing in People's Top Ten Sexy Men: the thirtyish guys on the list won't... continued

Important Cycling News

posted 11.14.03 "At age 30, [Joseba] Beloki is considered one of the few men capable of challenging Lance Armstrong at the Tour de France," reports cyclingnews.com. Blog of Ages thinks it's about time. With tour wins at ages 27, 28, 29, 30,... continued

Legal Age for Sexy

posted 11.10.03 Sunday Times update: Jude Law resisted being too sexy before 30. ''It wasn't a conscious choice to not be a movie star,'' he says. ''It's just that I wanted to play as many varied parts as I could before I... continued

Turning 30 in Milwaukee (w/Bonus Cliches!)

posted 11.07.03 Upping the ante, today's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel prints an age 30 story with not one—not two—but three cliche-ridden headlines! (Take that, Sunday Styles!) Of course, because the piece quotes our own JA at some length (N.B. this eternal truth: "We... continued

News Briefs

posted 11.02.03 Ryan Adams is hip and 30, according to The Daily News; Stephen King contributes to the Loganesque "dead at thirty" genre with Wolves of the Calla; 66% of Iranians are under 30 [vs. 42% of Americans, -BOA, p. 9]; turning... continued

Author Photo, No Makeup Necessary

posted 10.27.03 Of course, one of the first things we wondered when we signed our contract for Book of Ages was, When do we sit for our author photo? Well, imagine our consternation when Crown told us that we would have to... continued

Googlillionaires

posted 10.24.03 Larry Page and Sergey Brin are about to break the ThirtyMeter. The Google co-founders, both 30, are pondering an IPO for their extremely profitable research project. Wall Street analysts say the company may fetch a valuation in the neighborhood of... continued

Ah, To Be 30 and Murdoch

posted 10.22.03 When we heard reports last week that James Murdoch was buying 11 Spring St. in Manhattan, we thought, "Boy, that's a big old building for a 30-year-old!" Of course, the rumor turned out to be false. It's James' 32-year-old brother... continued

Geri & Jerry Split

posted 10.22.03 If there's one thing that makes Blog of Ages sad, it's people who have to spend their 30th birthday alone. Take, for instance, Jerry O'Connell, star of such films as Stand by Me and Joe's Apartment. With his 30th looming... continued

We Think Stephen Glass Is 30

posted 10.21.03 I've been flailing away online trying confirm if Stephen Glass, the famed New Republic fabricator, is 30. I can't do it, but I'm going with it anyway on the theory that Glass wouldn't mind a little half-assed fact checking. In... continued

You Old Dogg

posted 10.20.03 Almost lost in all of the day's sales and media hoopla, Snoop Dogg turned 32 today. Snoop on getting old: "I think me and Dre are gonna be like Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon. When we get really old, I'll... continued

Sylvia & Gwyneth

posted 10.17.03 30 on the big screen today: 30-year old Gwyneth Paltrow portrays Sylvia Plath, über-depressive writer who committed suicide at age 30 by putting her head in an oven. (See page 160 of Book of Ages 30 for more information.) Though... continued

Aaron Boone. Has Anyone Ever Been So 30?

posted 10.17.03 Okay, so Thirtymeter's World Series picks were dead wrong. What can we say? Thirtymeter doesn't account for curses. It also doesn't account for 11th-inning home runs from current 30-year-olds, which have a totally skewing effect. The Curse of the Boonebino... continued

David Blaine Update

posted 10.15.03 Everyone's favorite 30-year-old-in-a-box is nearing the end of his London starvation stunt. Despite evidence chronicled in Book of Ages 30 that people above age 30 tend to get more, not less, sane, the ordeal seems to be having the opposite... continued

De La Hoya Will Fight on @ 30

posted 10.12.03 "Unlike many fighters on the doorstep of retirement... there is ample evidence that De La Hoya still has plenty left... It's about his legacy, a legacy there is still plenty of time to shape at age 30." De La Hoya... continued

Schwarzenegger at 30

posted 10.08.03 So what was the next governor of California doing at age 30? Studiously persuing a law degree? Making his first tentative foray into local politics? Selflessly dedicating himself to community service? Nah. Age 30, saw Arnold in the bodybuilding documentary... continued

Go to Paris, Follow the Sparkling Stream

posted 10.03.03 Saul Bellow may have published his first novel by 30, but he wasn't exactly setting the literary world on fire. When his second novel didn't catch either, the dispirited 33-year-old Bellow went to Paris to try again. "Then," explains the... continued