Turn 30 in Hollywood, and your career is all but over. And we’re not just talking actors and actresses. Writers too. “Hollywood once had a notorious blacklist of political radicals; today it has a greylist of ‘oldies’. A producer of the ABC sitcom Spin City is on the record as saying that writers over 29 were deliberately not hired. Some writers complain they cannot find an agent once they pass 50, making it almost impossible to present scripts.”