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Push to remove birthdates from IMDb

Hollywood actors want the Internet Movie Database to stop publishing their birthdates.

They’re a pretty vain lot at the best of times, but now Hollywood actors want the Internet Movie Database to stop publishing their birthdates.

Both the Screen Actors Guild and the Writers Guild of America want the data erased, a move that would no doubt be replicated for all the Australian stars filed, were it to take place.

The push would help break down casting preconceptions, but there would still be the issue of Wikipedia left to address. And as the comprehensive IMDb knows, such archival data is actually part of its value.

TIME Magazine notes that the detail of such data allows viewers to know that Glee‘s Cory Monteith (Finn) is 28, “making him akin to the Luke Perry of 2010.”

Ouch.

Source: TIME

27 Responses

  1. Many of the birthdays listed on IMDB are laughably incorrect anyway, so why refuse to let actors delete them? It just doesn’t make any sense.

  2. You get paid $20m+ a year for playing pretend for maybe 3 months out of the 12, tough luck, you’ve got to face the consequences. You chose a career in which everybody looks to you, you receive a crapton of free merchandise, and you don’t want someone to know your birthday, this is 2010, if somebody wants to find my birthday, they will find it, I hope they do, because hell, I don’t know what it is, but point is, you live the highlife there are negatives to it, put up with them.

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