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What accounts for these pairings, so unlikely in a Hollywood where the opposite is so often ickily the case? (Just ask 65-year-old Harrison Ford, whose past five onscreen romantic partners have been 19, 13, 16, 18, and 27 years younger than him.) Is Kutcher, an active, producing force in Hollywood, exerting influence on the casting in these films or choosing projects specifically to endorse his own cougar-loving lifestyle? Is the cougar phenomenon supposed to empower women who can still land hard-bodied young things, even as theirs become increasingly difficult to maintain? Or is it that the only way America’s youth-obsessed audience can tolerate watching an older actress is to cast her opposite a male ingénue?