Bateman was 16 when she found fame on Family Ties, playing Mallory, the sister of Michael J. Fox s character. Through her decades in Hollywood, Bateman has seen more of an emphasis on women s looks than the appearance of male stars, like her brother, Jason Bateman. She s hoping to change that by encouraging women to take a step away from the fillers and filters and embrace their natural face. Now a lot of younger woman are looking at older women in the public eye. and they see that they re getting their faces cut up and plastic injected in and toxins and everything so if you re 20, 25 years old, you look at that and you go, Oh, I guess that s what I have to do, Bateman said. Or you see these women who seem frightened about looking older and then you think, Oh, I don t want to put the breaks on, because I don t want to be frightened. I don t want that to be my future.
I think people were looking for a family that they did not have at home.
He added: If you saw some of the fan mail they got from people. kids would say they wish they had a father like me. I think people were looking for a family that they did not have at home : On Thursday, Michael reflected on the program s success more than 30 years after it went off the air, as he sat down for an interview on The Morning Show
Michael also discussed his latest film, Tremors: Shrieker Island, with hosts Kylie Gillies and Larry Emdur.
and then came the republican the reagan revolution. if steve were here today i m confident he d want to use this as a metaphor. on the 1980 sitcom family ties alyse and steven keaton were the former flower children of the 1960s and their next generation their son alex keaton was a fervent republican. which brings me to this. in a column this week the new york times wrote about how the teens of today might grow up to be conservative. young voters right now favor same sex marriage and gun reform and path to citizenship and it was this constituency that helped barack obama win two terms in the white house. but the republican party has blocked his agenda at every turn and the economic recovery hasn t reached all americans. so who will the kids who have been growing up under the obama administration blame for this? they weren t even born yet during the clinton years, and maybe they weren t old enough to remember that economic collapse came in the closing months of the george w. bush a
says were concealing weapons. the violence is now in its fifth straight day. the latest confrontation is said to have come out of the kidnapping and murder last month of three israeli teenagers in the west bank. the u.s. meanwhile is offering to broker a true settlement. we want to get delays from tel aviv for that and we re joined by nbc s martin fletcher. what is the latest? reporter: hi, jonathan. well, there s been a continuing fighting today about 15 rocket attacks from gaza against israeli cities. no damage or injuries reported in israel. there s been around 60 air and sea attacks on gaza today so far. five palestinians have been killed. we just heard. not too sure whether they re civilians or who they are yet. that s just happened. this is all happening now to the beginning of some diplomatic activity to try and stop this, five days of bitter fighting that s ended in the deaths of over a hundred palestinians so far. the egyptian government and the qatar government ha