Hollywood for Grownups: Will Smith Crashes Back, Along With Demi Moore, Sarah McLachlan and Matt Dillon, Who All Have New Projects

It’s amazing how suddenly everything old is new again in Hollywood. According to one mega-producer, the 50+ audience is to blame.

Hollywood for Grownups

Hollywood reporter Merle Ginsberg has written about celebrities, film, TV, music and fashion for publications including The New York Times, Hollywood Reporter, Rolling Stone, The Daily Beast, Cosmopolitan and more. Each week she’ll cover celebrity news for AARP’s Hollywood for Grownups column.

Woody Harrelson

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Woody Harrelson Goes Spiritual

Woody Harrelson, 62, doesn’t draw the line between work and pleasure. He turns his extracurricular passions — he and cannabis are old friends — into businesses. Last fall, he joined up with wellness entrepreneur Amy Holmwood on Holistic Spirits Company (HSC), a booze brand made from sustainable contents that protect the environment. When the line expanded from New York to California late last month, the admitted health food freak popped into Holy Water, a West Hollywood “conscious” cocktail bar he co-owns. There, he shared some curated concoctions featuring HSC’s plant-based, additive-free, non-GMO vodka and gin with wine and spirits reporters. Holy Water, by the way, is next door to the Woods, a weed lounge that Harrelson and HBO’s Bill Maher, 68, opened two years ago. Yet none of these avocations seem to be slowing the actor down; to date, Harrelson has 80 films and 18 TV projects under his belt.

Demi Moore

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Reinventing Demi Moore

She was the toast of May’s Cannes Film Fest, but the red carpet doesn’t stop there for the career comeback of Demi Moore, 61. Until Ryan Murphy’s dishy streamer smash Feud: Capote vs. The Swans aired on FX earlier this year, Moore hadn’t had a high-profile role since 2011’s Margin Call. But in addition to starring in the much-lauded edgy The Substance, an upcoming September film about a woman who finds the drug equivalent to a (gory) fountain of youth, Moore will play the wife of a powerful Texas oilman in 54-year-old Taylor Sheridan’s latest series Landman. The series will costar Billy Bob Thornton, 68, and Jon Hamm, 53, and is due on Paramount+ this fall. Then Moore will voice an animated movie while developing a couple’s therapy TV series she will star in called Dirty Diana. Moore’s eldest daughter, Rumer Willis, is calling all the attention on her mom the “Demi-ssance.” She and her two sisters have launched a group chat to hype, specifically, Moore’s fabulous fashion choices. In Cannes and at its glam Cannes amfAR benefit, Moore donned gorgeous couture gowns by Schiaparelli, Armani and Balenciaga, all while accessorizing with her adorable, portable pint-size chihuahua Pilaf. Maer Roshan, coeditor of The Hollywood Reporter, tells me, “Demi Moore is still as beautiful as ever. She will be a full-blown movie star again.”