I can remember a time when actresses were lamenting that there were no great acting parts for ladies over 40. Three ladies changed that by the sheer power of their acting capabilities. It was impossible NOT to cast them and so script writers got their chances and a silent revolution happened in Hollywood. Meryl, Glenn and you. Nicole, Jodie and Julia wouldn´t be possible if it wasn´t for you.
I fell in love with you in 1982, that means that I have loved you for longer that I haven´t loved you. There was never a moment that I had reason to doubt my fondness and appreciation, never a time when I thought that your perfomance was lacking something. Sure, there were parts in movies that didn´t interest me in the first place, but then, you made them all watchable (except „Prozac Nation“ but we all have to pay our bills.) Last night, when America had the chance to watch the premiere of the movie I most anticipated ever, and that, even „only“ a tv production, got the biggest buzz a tv-movie ever got with, advance premieres in cinemas in New York and LA, I watched one of your few not-so-wonderful-movies and again, it was your perfomance that blew me away. When you´re on the screen, I´m at home. Watching you perform has turned into a familiar part of myself. You were wonderful as a young shining star. You´re breakthrough-role combined glamour with tragedy, it went into the deepest pits of misery and despair and yet you perfomed it with such majesty and grace that this role alone would have sufficed to create your own Hollywood legend. Shame the assholes didn´t give you the Oscar for it and you received the mercy-Oscar for supporting actress instead. Darling, the most wonderful thing is that last night, when everyone would have thought the pinnacle of your carreer had been achieved when you received the other Oscar for female lead in „Blue Sky“ in 1995, everyone was in for a huge surpise. You showed them that an actress your age can still portray a gorgeous glamorous lady and, as in „Frances“, show her in a worse stage of her life with the same truth and sincerity and deliver a true insight into this character´s life which will now forever be melted in your own myth. And one of the most amazing things – in a youth obsessed culture, right now, you create a buzz. At 60. Which brings me back to the beginning – there used to be a time when an actresses carreer was over when she reached forty. And you show them all there´s life and light and darkness and drama beyond 50. I temporarily suspend my boycott and thank God for you. But Darling Jessica, mostly, Glammy says Thank YOU. The world would be poorer without you. You are deep and you are true. You portray cheer and despair and all the subtle emotions and nuances in between with a debth and truthfullness, with sincerity and a splendour that is unequalled. There is no one like you. Your soul is a powerful dragon soaring in the rising sun. I hope you will shine on forever and ever. Happy 60th birthday Miss Jessica Lange! I´m kneeling for ya.

*Ihr müsst nicht immer alles verstehen.