Melissa Leo's ad for her Oscar campaign.

Since I’ve turned 50, I’ve noticed more people staring at me.

Alas, these inquisitive onlookers are not men.

I am being checked out by women – specifically, well-maintained women about my age.

I know they’re staring at me because I’m staring at them, too, and my thought process goes something like this: "Hmm. That woman is not young, but she’s attractive. Has she had work done? How did she manage to keep that waist? How old is she? Is she as old as I am? Do I look as old as she does?"

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Britain's Prince William and his fiancee Kate Middleton pose for the media at St. James's Palace in London, Tuesday Nov. 16, 2010, after they announced their engagement. The couple are to wed in 2011. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

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One thing Kate Middleton’s got going for her: She doesn’t have that deer-in-the-headlights look.

Remember Lady Diana Spencer’s first appearances with her husband-to-be Prince Charles, back in 1981?

She looked enamored but terrified. She was 19 and barely knew this old guy, Charles, who was 33.

Without the blinders of romantic notions and royal fairy tales, let’s face it: 33-year-olds wooing teenagers is creepy.

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News Channel 5 anchor Roxanne Stein with her morning co-anchor Jim Favole on November 8, 2010. The pair worked together early in their careers in Chattanooga, Tennessee and teamed back up years later in West Palm Beach when Favole signed with News Channel 5. Staff photo by Brandon Kruse/Palm Beach Post.

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When you wake up all fuzzy at 6 in the morning and flip on your TV, you’ve got to wonder:

How does Roxanne Stein do it?

How does that woman stay so peppy at this beastly hour?

How does she deliver the news in a straightforward and soothing way, then bounce around to traffic and weather and then throw in a jocular jab or two at co-anchor John Favole?

And how does she look so girl-next-door good so early? On high-definition TV!

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Davy Jones and Jessica Pacheco were married Aug. 30.

How does a Monkee propose? Over glazed doughnuts.

Davy Jones got the urge to merge in early August, while he and his beloved, Jessica Pacheco, were at Krispy Kreme in Miami.

He needed no “Hot Now” sign to broadcast his own temperature: After dating Pacheco, 32, for three years, the 63-year-old singer asked her to marry him, right there outside Krispy Kreme — then backed up the offer with a diamond eternity-band ring.

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