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  • Reese Witherspoon weighs up her options as a past-it softball player.

    This week's new films 2011

  • (BBC2 will be dishing up more foodie comedy in Whites, in which Alan Davies plays a past-it chef at a country hotel.)

    Autumn treats: comedy highlights 2010

  • “What would someone like you want with a past-it old woman like me?”

    The Home for Broken Hearts Rowan Coleman 2010

  • That central, existential terror of bereavement and maturity is further accentuated by a phantasmagoric roll call of bizarre characters, from hilarious circus acrobat Mr. Bobinsky creator Jennifer Saunders and her comedic partner Dawn French. play two past-it theater queens whose taxidermy of their dead (and nearly dead) Scottish terriers provide

    Wired Top Stories 2009

  • Extreme diet shots of former Spice Girls, past-it models and ageing actresses are a ubiquitous feature of society pages, certainly in the Grub Street rags at any rate.

    Severe weight loss is only noticeable on men 2009

  • I've long held the view that the Lib Dems could be the centre party and the Cons on the right and we could fugedabout the past-it socialist party.

    NHS debate - Daniel Hannan has not been clear enough Mark Reckons 2009

  • Extreme diet shots of former Spice Girls, past-it models and ageing actresses are a ubiquitous feature of society pages, certainly in the Grub Street rags at any rate.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

  • Extreme diet shots of former Spice Girls, past-it models and ageing actresses are a ubiquitous feature of society pages, certainly in the Grub Street rags at any rate.

    Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2009

  • Insignificant matters like washed-up football jackoffs and past-it senior citizens don't register on the radar.

    Scott Thill: Memo to Everyone. Get. Over. OJ. Right. Now. 2008

  • And, as we speak, that gormless-looking, vaguely past-it American blonde dimwit happens to be Britney Spears, with her shiny hair and lovely big desperate-looking eyes.

    Christina Aguilera Has An Oddly-Named Baby Boy 2008

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