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Are You Sick Of Ladies On TV Looking Jacked Up?

In a piece for Sunday's L.A. Times, Mary McNamara wrote about all the Botox, face-lifts and cosmetic surgery on TV right now. For instance: Priscilla Presley. "At once puffy and yanked, her face, and its odd relationship to her neck, often takes on the dimensions of a Picasso painting." Or Barbara Walters, whose face is "painfully taut and shiny." Or Carrie Fisher, who made guest appearances on Weeds and 30 Rock: "Her face was so changed you had to hit the rewind button a few times to make sure it was her." McNamara also calls out all of the Desperate Housewives. She admits that criticizing an actress's looks can often seem sexist: "If women look old, we criticize, and if they try to fix it, we criticize more snidely." But the problem, McNamara says, its not that these women have cosmetic procedures — it's that TV critics don't say anything when their ability to act is inhibited. More »

12:00 PM on Tue Apr 15 2008
By Dodai
12,225 views, 175 comments

Latest by missbheave (is not convinced): @angryapple: HA so true. the new shows just aren't as good as the old ones. more »

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Is It Bad That Big-Screen Actresses Use Botox?

"I was watching the hypnotically horrible new Coen brothers movie, No Country For Old Men, and I couldn't shake off the sense there was something different, something thrilling and vivid, about the performances of all the lead actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin. It was only after half an hour of awe that I realized what it was. They can all move their faces." That is Johann Hari in the Independent, and you know what? He's got a point. Hari, who notes that women in Hollywood have long altered their appearances for stardom (including Rita Hayworth and Marilyn Monroe), posits that today's actresses have done themselves — and the movie-going public — a great disservice by freezing their faces with Clostridium botulinum bacteria, also known as Botox. More »

4:40 PM on Thu Feb 7 2008
By Dodai
9,548 views, 126 comments

Latest by susna: @girlinterrupted: @effingminnow: I've read in a couple of places that the idea of facial exercise is to get your face muscles to bulk up a bit so that the overlying skin doesn't look so saggy and wrinkly. Apparently the wasting more »

Women on the Upper East Side of New York are taking classes in facial yoga, reports Reuters. Instructor Annelise Hagen (pictured) says that muscles become weak and flabby and need workouts for circulation and reduced wrinkles. Wait a minute: don't people who "exercsie" their face by laughing get laugh-lines? And crows feet? Don't divas refuse to smile because they can't "afford the wrinkles"? But you know, I'm sure the ladies in Ms. Hagen's class are having fun making faces like "The Lion" and "Satchmo" and "Marilyn." We have a face, too, it's called "Haha! Suckaaaz!" [Reuters]

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