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They're glamorous Oscar winners. The cover of the new AARP: The Magazine features seven high-profile actresses billed as "Hollywood's Hottest." But unlike most cover gals, all are over 40 — and four are 70 or older

They're glamorous Oscar winners. The cover of the new AARP: The Magazine features seven high-profile actresses billed as "Hollywood's Hottest." But unlike most cover gals, all are over 40 — and four are 70 or older.

Editor Nancy Perry Graham says she hopes the March/April issue, which begins arriving in 22 million homes Tuesday, will help boost the image of older women.

She got the idea while looking at the April 2004 Vanity Fair cover on actresses and noticed that most of the women shown were under 40.

"It's so easy to say you can be beautiful at any age, but in our society, you know Hollywood doesn't send that image at all," she says.

So she's trying to send a new image. The spare-no-expense photo shows actresses Cloris Leachman, 78; Joanne Woodward, 74; Rita Moreno, 73; Shirley Jones, 70; Patty Duke, 58; Kathy Bates, 56; and Marcia Gay Harden, 45, in designer gowns and draped with Harry Winston diamonds.

As a culture, we're already shifting our views of aging and beauty, says Nancy Etcoff, psychologist at Harvard Medical School and author of Survival of the Prettiest.

"If you look back in very recent history, someone 35 was already considered old," she says. "And now 35 is where 25 was. And 40 is the new 30."

But it will still be a while before 60 and 70 are considered hot, she says.

The magazine cover will "make people think," she says. But "for things to take hold, they really have to come from multiple sources."

Jones, the stage and movie actress best known for playing TV mom Shirley Partridge in the 1970s sitcom The Partridge Family, is happy to get the ball rolling.