tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73426779810090300442024-03-12T23:58:13.339-05:00KnifeStyles of the Rich & Famousdemystifying those medical mysteries in the mediaANNEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10776259602990439422noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342677981009030044.post-55347860485165978082010-09-20T09:05:00.022-05:002010-09-22T06:00:38.844-05:00Scarlett Olive Fans<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_W4HhI_XJTfc/TJkcHs9svAI/AAAAAAAAACw/6RzQHEsSt4c/s1600/scarlettolive.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 64px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_W4HhI_XJTfc/TJkcHs9svAI/AAAAAAAAACw/6RzQHEsSt4c/s200/scarlettolive.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519473736973859842" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_W4HhI_XJTfc/TJkaB2OieLI/AAAAAAAAACY/JtfMhT5479Q/s1600/scarlettolive.png"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><br /></span></span></div>H</span></span>ere are some links and pictures for you followers of<i> </i><a href="http://www.thescarlettolive.blogspot.com/"><i>The Scarlett Olive</i></a><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><i>.</i></span> Ready to explore more Old Hollywood glamour?<br /></b><br /><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_W4HhI_XJTfc/TJkacIXCpVI/AAAAAAAAACo/pVukrmmqosQ/s200/HollywoodSign.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519471888902038866" /><div><a href="http://knifestyles.blogspot.com/2007/07/old-hollywood-styles.html">Click on this link</a> to see the pictures that go with The Scarlett Olive podcast on Hollywood style in the pre-1960s era. Related posts can be found below.</div><div><br /></div><div>Plastic surgery has defined beauty for today's younger woman, particularly breasts. That's why young girls all want bras with the Victoria's Secret implant look. See <span><span><i><a href="http://knifestyles.blogspot.com/2007/05/which-breasts-are-best.html">Which Breasts Are Best?</a></i></span></span> or <a href="http://knifestyles.blogspot.com/2007/12/christmas-cleavage.html"><i>Christmas Cleavage</i></a> or <i><a href="http://knifestyles.blogspot.com/2007/05/dish-with-lori-julia.html">Dish With Lori & Julia</a></i> for an eyeful.</div><div><br /></div><div>And it's changes how we see <i><a href="http://knifestyles.blogspot.com/2009/02/older-women-on-tv.html">Older Women on TV</a></i>. The menopausal women we Boomers knew as children have ceased to exist in Hollywood.</div><div><br /></div><div>Before there was photoshop and surgery, <a href="http://knifestyles.blogspot.com/2007/07/old-hollywood-styles.html"><i>Old Hollywood</i></a> relied a lot more on lighting, makeup, and special effects. Technicolor in the '50s brought about lots of changes in <i><a href="http://knifestyles.blogspot.com/2008_04_01_archive.html">Does She or Doesn't She</a></i> hair color. <i><a href="http://knifestyles.blogspot.com/2007/07/hair-give-me-head-of-hair.html">Hair</a></i> pieces were worn by men and women both. <i><a href="http://knifestyles.blogspot.com/2007/11/toss-those-tweezers.html">Toss those Tweezers!</a></i> Eyebrows went through all sorts of fashion trends, starting with the first talkies. And actors and actresses got old (<i><a href="http://knifestyles.blogspot.com/2008/10/hollywoods-true-nightmare.html">Hollywood's True Nightmare</a></i>).</div><div><br /></div><div>Do <i><a href="http://knifestyles.blogspot.com/2008/02/hollywood-hunks-aging-or-not.html">Hollywood Hunks</a> </i>age<i> </i>the same? Male actors do teeth (<i><a href="http://knifestyles.blogspot.com/2007_08_01_archive.html">Blinded By the White</a></i>) and hair surgery (<i><a href="http://knifestyles.blogspot.com/2007/07/hair-give-me-head-of-hair.html">Give me a Head of Hair</a></i>), but some get <i><a href="http://knifestyles.blogspot.com/2008/10/frightful-facelifts.html">Frightful Facelifts</a></i> right along with the rest of Hollywood (<i><a href="http://knifestyles.blogspot.com/2008/05/picture-is-worth.html">A Picture is Worth....</a></i>).</div><div><br /></div><div>The death of Kanye West's mother (<i><a href="http://knifestyles.blogspot.com/2007/11/fatal-attraction.html">Fatal Attraction</a></i>) is an example of all the stars lining up wrong (see <i><a href="http://knifestyles.blogspot.com/2008/01/fade-to-black.html">Fade to Black</a></i> for the follow-up). Sometimes, though, it's a matter of not following Nancy Reagan's advice and just saying no, no more! Rhinoplasty is the most demanding of all cosmetic procedures and the least forgiving of excess (<i><a href="http://knifestyles.blogspot.com/2008/09/rhinoplasty-regrets.html">Regrettable Rhinoplasties</a></i>). </div><div><br /></div><div>And then there are the patient-physician collaborations resulting in just plain <i><a href="http://knifestyles.blogspot.com/2008/10/freaky-faces.html">Freaky Faces</a>.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><b>Enjoy!</b></i></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 20px; font-size:13px;"><br /></span>ANNEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10776259602990439422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342677981009030044.post-82306970336741887972009-02-26T00:37:00.010-06:002010-09-20T16:02:17.130-05:00It's Been Lovely, Emma Clarke<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SaXMjBeFGHI/AAAAAAAACfc/28TMf9ufkkU/s1600-h/P1010006.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 131px; height: 172px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SaXMjBeFGHI/AAAAAAAACfc/28TMf9ufkkU/s400/P1010006.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306872637988083826" border="0" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">W</span>e're <a href="http://grammar.about.com/b/2007/10/17/50-ways-to-say-youre-fired.htm">off</a>!<br /><br />To London that is, so you'll have to entertain yourselves with the archived postings. And we're off the air. <sigh><br /><br />If you really miss the sound of our lovely elocution, use the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Broadcast Audio</span> feature to the right. It plays all of our past <span style="font-style: italic;">Knifestyles</span> radio broadcasts for your listening pleasure. Just pick the blog post and follow along!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mind the gap.</span></sigh>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342677981009030044.post-55236573708672763852009-02-19T01:00:00.034-06:002010-09-20T16:19:56.640-05:00Older Women on TV<span style="font-size:180%;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZdU-69yPzI/AAAAAAAACbU/VDO2VF3hWM8/s1600-h/wonderbread.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 146px; height: 129px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZdU-69yPzI/AAAAAAAACbU/VDO2VF3hWM8/s400/wonderbread.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302800526209072946" border="0" /></a><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">A</span>hhh, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Television">Golden Age of television</a>. We late Boomers were weaned on the first televised appearances of Leonard Bernstein and Arturo Toscanini, high-culture opera (<i>Amahl and the Night Visitors</i>) and ballet (<i>The Nutcracker</i>)!</div><div><br /></div><div>Mixed in with all that high culture commercial programming was, well, the junk we consumed.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">In the '50s & '60s,</span> we children ate off our TV trays a large helping of home-style comedy and there was always sure to be a menopausal woman in there just to keep it real.<br /><br />This was all <span style="font-style: italic;">before</span> the dawn of rejuvenation surgery. Even<span><span> Joan Rivers</span></span> didn't get her first facelift until the mid-1970s (more about her later).<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pre-dawn, menopausal women on TV came in two two flavors:</span> lonely-loony spinsters or old wives whose beleaguered old husbands put up with them. Both asexual.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZdggnkiI7I/AAAAAAAACb0/_sKFpb4TKnY/s1600-h/Granny-Beverly-Hillbillies.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 97px; height: 120px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZdggnkiI7I/AAAAAAAACb0/_sKFpb4TKnY/s400/Granny-Beverly-Hillbillies.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302813199746343858" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZmEv269OzI/AAAAAAAACd0/ZU6Tv35BpO0/s1600-h/BEVERLY+HILLBILLIES.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 110px; height: 80px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZmEv269OzI/AAAAAAAACd0/ZU6Tv35BpO0/s400/BEVERLY+HILLBILLIES.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303415993936984882" border="0" /></a>Is there a Boomer alive who can't sing the <a href="http://www.televisiontunes.com/">theme song</a> for <span style="font-style: italic;">The Beverly Hillbillies</span>? Probably not. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Irene Ryan</span> at 60-years-old showed us how delightful aging could be.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZmDuFtaizI/AAAAAAAACdM/mRroAcUBxdw/s1600-h/1963.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 98px; height: 120px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZmDuFtaizI/AAAAAAAACdM/mRroAcUBxdw/s400/1963.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303414864035351346" border="0" /></a>Miss Hathaway epitomized the hopeless spinster, thanks to <span style="font-weight: bold;">Nancy Kulp </span>who was a mere 42 at the time. Her physical attractiveness was always disguised with scripted self-humiliation and ugly glasses.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZdP_4DavkI/AAAAAAAACa0/WKJLZzMTYxo/s1600-h/Aunt_Bee58.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 103px; height: 120px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZdP_4DavkI/AAAAAAAACa0/WKJLZzMTYxo/s400/Aunt_Bee58.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302795045049122370" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZmETuJ5ScI/AAAAAAAACdU/8yqhsrRe4W8/s1600-h/andygriffith_show.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 110px; height: 89px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZmETuJ5ScI/AAAAAAAACdU/8yqhsrRe4W8/s400/andygriffith_show.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303415510547384770" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Frances Bavier</span> as Aunt Bea kept Opie and Andy in line with home-cooking and housekeeping on <span style="font-style: italic;">The Andy Griffith Show</span>. She was 58 years old when she took the role as Aunt to <span style="font-weight: bold;">Andy Griffith's</span> 34-year-old sheriff and 6-year-old <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ron Howard</span>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZdUg7uqzPI/AAAAAAAACbE/IRiDvkB9Plc/s1600-h/pearce,alice.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 101px; height: 120px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZdUg7uqzPI/AAAAAAAACbE/IRiDvkB9Plc/s400/pearce,alice.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302800011018030322" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZdUhSZbxiI/AAAAAAAACbM/HhmJN6F61-w/s1600-h/gould,sandra.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 84px; height: 120px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZdUhSZbxiI/AAAAAAAACbM/HhmJN6F61-w/s400/gould,sandra.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302800017102980642" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZmB1FvibXI/AAAAAAAACc8/iY8LrwUgEiQ/s1600-h/Bewitched-television.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 110px; height: 61px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZmB1FvibXI/AAAAAAAACc8/iY8LrwUgEiQ/s400/Bewitched-television.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303412785280085362" border="0" /></a>Childless Gladys Kravitz risked being throttled on a weekly basis, she was such an annoying <span style="font-style: italic;">Bewitched</span> neighbor. However, cancer got her first and chinless <span style="font-weight: bold;">Alice Pearce</span> (age 47) was replaced by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sandra Gould</span> (age 48).<br /><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZdcuwnH9XI/AAAAAAAACbk/U_CCyJMoxzs/s1600-h/lucyethel.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 181px; height: 120px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZdcuwnH9XI/AAAAAAAACbk/U_CCyJMoxzs/s400/lucyethel.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302809044644787570" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZmEwJhKs8I/AAAAAAAACd8/eF7EBGeMOZw/s1600-h/LUCY.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 110px; height: 81px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZmEwJhKs8I/AAAAAAAACd8/eF7EBGeMOZw/s400/LUCY.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303415998929089474" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Vivian Vance</span> collected the rent on <span style="font-style: italic;">I Love Lucy</span>, playing over-the-hill Ethel Mertz when just 42 years old. When <span style="font-weight: bold;">Lucille Ball</span> (40) found middle-age reality conflicting with the storyline, it was rewritten just enough to make baby <span style="font-weight: bold;">Desi Arnaz, Jr.</span> plausible in the second season.</p><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZdcVxodtUI/AAAAAAAACbc/ROzR6E56fvI/s1600-h/Bea_Benaderet.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 91px; height: 120px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZdcVxodtUI/AAAAAAAACbc/ROzR6E56fvI/s400/Bea_Benaderet.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302808615422113090" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZmB1b7cX9I/AAAAAAAACdE/WTfA_9QpKGg/s1600-h/Petticoat_Junction_title_screen.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 110px; height: 80px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZmB1b7cX9I/AAAAAAAACdE/WTfA_9QpKGg/s400/Petticoat_Junction_title_screen.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303412791235600338" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bea Benaderet</span> was 57 when she lost out on playing Granny or Ethel, but starting in 1963 she succeeded in running the Shady Rest Hotel in <span style="font-style: italic;">Petticoat Junction</span>. As Kate Bradley, she mediated the crises of the owners of the three petticoats hanging on the side of the large junction water tank (all of which is so outdated as to mean nothing to someone under 50 today).</p><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZdgQ609zcI/AAAAAAAACbs/482oX6lmRlM/s1600-h/Field,Sylvia.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 87px; height: 120px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZdgQ609zcI/AAAAAAAACbs/482oX6lmRlM/s400/Field,Sylvia.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302812930037632450" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZmEwQq2D4I/AAAAAAAACeE/PEHWzopJxMQ/s1600-h/dennis+the+menace.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 110px; height: 82px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZmEwQq2D4I/AAAAAAAACeE/PEHWzopJxMQ/s400/dennis+the+menace.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303416000848727938" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sylvia Field</span> at 58 portrayed Mrs. Wilson, the kindly grandmother-type next door who always had a smile and a plate of cookies ready for little <span style="font-style: italic;">Dennis the Menace</span>. We all recognized the archetype as the next generation of Beaver's mom.<br /></p><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZi0LWIg-aI/AAAAAAAACb8/UVapSQCH5X8/s1600-h/rosemarie.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 96px; height: 120px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZi0LWIg-aI/AAAAAAAACb8/UVapSQCH5X8/s400/rosemarie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303186668241615266" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZmET89fMfI/AAAAAAAACdk/lkoD0cnF4Ek/s1600-h/DICKVANDYKE.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 122px; height: 77px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZmET89fMfI/AAAAAAAACdk/lkoD0cnF4Ek/s400/DICKVANDYKE.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303415514521874930" border="0" /></a><b>Rose Marie Mazetta</b> and her little black bow provided spinster comedy at age 38 on <span style="font-style: italic;">The Dick Van Dyke Show</span>. The wisecracking comedy writer and designated typist, Sally was always on the lookout for a husband. <b></b></p><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZi4UIruXZI/AAAAAAAACcE/w-TAVJZbK4Q/s1600-h/shirleybooth.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 87px; height: 120px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZi4UIruXZI/AAAAAAAACcE/w-TAVJZbK4Q/s400/shirleybooth.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303191217296530834" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZmET1IhemI/AAAAAAAACds/ojXVQ77hP4w/s1600-h/HAZEL.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 110px; height: 80px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZmET1IhemI/AAAAAAAACds/ojXVQ77hP4w/s400/HAZEL.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303415512420678242" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">Hazel</span> kept Mr. B doing things her way by withholding desert– an interesting application of child rearing pedagogy, given that <span style="font-weight: bold;">Shirley Booth</span> (then 63) played the maid to an ostensibly grown man, corporate lawyer George Baxter.</p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Television will never be the same. </span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZtkEcnhW8I/AAAAAAAACfM/ZinJbU5u0N0/s1600-h/Hawn2009.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 65px; height: 140px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZtkEcnhW8I/AAAAAAAACfM/ZinJbU5u0N0/s400/Hawn2009.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303943013723102146" border="0" /></a>Old ladies on TV? They've all been operated on! Surely this explains why Generation X infotainment journalists don't see it when composing inane online articles titled <a href="http://www.stylelist.com/celebrity-style/hottest-celebrities/sexy-stars-in-their-60s">"Stars in Their 60s Are Sexy!"</a> – yet eight of the nine white women featured have had face work done.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><b>Goldie Hawn's </b>(63) abdominoplasty and facelift scars are visible from Hawaii!<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">At about the same time that tube television sets became obsolete, the true face of menopause began disappearing from our screens.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>Solid-state televisions in the '70s ushered into American living rooms <span style="font-style: italic;">a whole new age,</span> pun intended. Fewer shows starred older women characters and when the parts were cast, none of these women actually looked like our grandmothers. The top two such shows from the mid-80s are illustrative.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZoG1BNuSRI/AAAAAAAACeU/kITxY5zFoP4/s1600-h/Lansbury.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 86px; height: 120px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZoG1BNuSRI/AAAAAAAACeU/kITxY5zFoP4/s400/Lansbury.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303559019111008530" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Angela Lansbury</span> (59) starred as Jessica Fletcher in the <span style="font-style: italic;">Murder She Wrote </span>series from '84-96. It doesn't take much sleuthing to know she had facial surgery in between solving crimes. In this scene, aging becomes a series of clues about what parts of her face have previously had the most surgery.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZjk1iQbd9I/AAAAAAAACcc/TbXigoTfLsM/s1600-h/Golden_Girls.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 169px; height: 153px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZjk1iQbd9I/AAAAAAAACcc/TbXigoTfLsM/s400/Golden_Girls.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303240169608673234" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bea Arthur</span> (63), <span style="font-weight: bold;">Betty White</span> (62), <span style="font-weight: bold;">Rue McClanahan</span> (51) and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Estelle Getty</span> (62) played the <span style="font-style: italic;">Golden Girls</span> with facelifts from '85-92. Strangely enough, Estelle Getty needed the help of goofy glasses and a wig to portray the <span style="font-style: italic;">mother</span> of Bea Arthur's character. Arthur, of course, was older than Getty. Here are 'the Girls'<span> from June 2008 (Getty suffered from dementia for the past two decades and was not seen in public).<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZrqGy5_TlI/AAAAAAAACe0/r7vNb9nun48/s1600-h/ggArthur.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 113px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZrqGy5_TlI/AAAAAAAACe0/r7vNb9nun48/s400/ggArthur.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303808913647291986" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZrqHtmpFLI/AAAAAAAACfE/8l_zxrEbjkY/s1600-h/ggWhite.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 121px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZrqHtmpFLI/AAAAAAAACfE/8l_zxrEbjkY/s400/ggWhite.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303808929403835570" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZrqHSoZBjI/AAAAAAAACe8/nYPwzxxqKAo/s1600-h/ggMcC.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 108px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZrqHSoZBjI/AAAAAAAACe8/nYPwzxxqKAo/s400/ggMcC.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303808922163414578" border="0" /></a><br /><span>The effects of earlier surgical alterations are even more obvious when their faces are animated: check out the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_a5q2CjyA8">YouTube video</a> concerning Estelle Getty's death this past July.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">These are not aging faces found in nature.</span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZmBRchz8BI/AAAAAAAACc0/DfjxlRa67CA/s1600-h/Riversbook.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 96px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZmBRchz8BI/AAAAAAAACc0/DfjxlRa67CA/s400/Riversbook.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303412172921237522" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZn5GAG8iiI/AAAAAAAACeM/Q_qadaseLUc/s1600-h/Rivers3.07.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 101px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZn5GAG8iiI/AAAAAAAACeM/Q_qadaseLUc/s400/Rivers3.07.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303543917709134370" border="0" /></a>According to <span style="font-weight: bold;">Joan Rivers'</span> (75) <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Men-Stupid-They-Like-Boobs/dp/1416599223/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1234891119&sr=1-1">new book</a>, plastic surgery is all about men. Specifically: luring them in with surgically-created beauty and youth so one isn't alone in old age.<br /><br />She practices what she preaches. In her <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDBhPGVXFqY&fmt=18">February 10, 2009 interview</a> on <span style="font-style: italic;">The View</span>, her neck and lips are still stiff with swelling from her latest procedure and Whoopie looks demoralized. Rivers' best work is behind her (at right, March of 2007). Her present look is a stiff caricature of womanhood.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZdIQTV3EiI/AAAAAAAACac/kQ8uZIP6p8k/s1600-h/Rughterford70.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 155px; height: 183px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZdIQTV3EiI/AAAAAAAACac/kQ8uZIP6p8k/s400/Rughterford70.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302786531159118370" border="0" /></a>My personal favorite, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Margaret Rutherford</span> (1982-1972), looks and acts just as I remember my own grandmother. In her early 70s Dame Rutherford starred in four made-for-tv <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Agatha-Christie-Marple-Collection-Murder/dp/B000CRR374">Agatha Christie mysteries</a>, wearing her own clothes and her own husband (<span style="font-weight: bold;">Stringer Davis</span>).<span> I guess she didn't need Joan Rivers' advice.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Join us</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Thursday @ 10am to hear Anne</span> flesh it all out with <a href="http://www.fm1071.com/kevyn/index.shtml">Kevyn Burger</a> on-air. Can't make it? Use this link to find the <a href="http://www.fm1071.com/ondemand/">FM107.1 audio archive</a> of <span style="font-style: italic;">Knifestyles</span> broadcasts by date (second hour). <span style="font-style: italic;">Step one</span>: select the date shown on the blog posting; <span style="font-style: italic;">step two</span>: click on Kevyn Burger; <span style="font-style: italic;">step three</span>: click on second hour. Add your comments below!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342677981009030044.post-85951593462475818872009-02-11T19:57:00.012-06:002009-07-14T09:16:24.902-05:00This Week in the News: Tameka Raymond<span style="font-size:180%;"><br />W</span>hy would the <a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20054424,00.html">new bride</a> of R&B singer Usher Raymond (30) go to Brazil to get liposuction? <span style="font-weight: bold;">Tameka Raymond né Foster</span> (37) <a href="http://tinyurl.com/bmo6xl">is reported</a> to have suffered suffered cardiac and respiratory arrest last Saturday while being anesthetized for the cosmetic surgery. In plain English, she died and then was revived.<br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASA_score">ASA risk grades</a> (physical status scale to predict risk) are used to decide if a patient should have an operation. It will be interesting to know if this could have been predicted <i>à la </i><strong>Kanye West'</strong>s mother, <a href="http://knifestyles.blogspot.com/2007/11/fatal-attraction.html"><strong>Donda West</strong></a>.<h1><span><span></span></span><span></span></h1> Cardiac arrests related to anesthesia have an incidence of roughly 1.1/10,000 in the US, Australia, and France. Half of those patients die. The causes are usually anesthetic overdose, hypovolemia (drop in blood volume), or hypoxemia (dop in blood oxygenation ) due to faulty airway mangement. Human error is almost always involved and avoidable.<br /><br />Some assume Raymond went to Brazil to keep a post-baby tummy tuck and liposuction "mom job" secret/private. The <span style="font-style: italic;">Essence</span> magazine outtake at right is after Usher baby #1 (November 2007) and before baby #2 (December 2008). [Picture removed.]<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZJS0X06YwI/AAAAAAAACaU/g0LQbpUfgiU/s1600-h/Hunt,Gabriel.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 104px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SZJS0X06YwI/AAAAAAAACaU/g0LQbpUfgiU/s400/Hunt,Gabriel.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301390771071116034" border="0" /></a>A neurosurgeon from the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, <a href="http://www.csmc.edu/13739.html">Dr. Gabriel Hunt</a>, was flown in to monitor her treatment at Sírio-Libanês Hospital in Sao Paulo– not a good sign. If <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20090210/en_top_eo/99374">reports of a drug-induced coma</a> are accurate, it's usually to treat <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intracranial_hypertension">intracranial hypertension</a>. One possibility is generalized brain swelling that can occur in ischemic-anoxia states.<br /><br />Of course the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) has <a href="http://www.plasticsurgery.org/Patients_and_Consumers/Patient_Safety/Medical_Tourism.html">campaigned</a> against medical tourism, though not very convincingly.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">H</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">ear Anne</span> flesh it all out with <a href="http://www.fm1071.com/kevyn/index.shtml">Kevyn Burger</a> on-air. Use this link to find the <a href="http://www.fm1071.com/ondemand/">FM107.1 audio archive</a> of <span style="font-style: italic;">Knifestyles</span> broadcast on <span style="font-weight: bold;">02.11.09</span>. <span style="font-style: italic;">Step one</span>: select the date shown on the blog posting; <span style="font-style: italic;">step two</span>: click on Kevyn Burger; <span style="font-style: italic;">step three</span>: click on <span style="font-weight: bold;">first hour</span>.<br /><br />Add your comments below!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342677981009030044.post-37819466299035140922009-02-06T16:07:00.012-06:002009-07-09T14:33:24.432-05:00Octo-Mom Revealed<span style="font-size:180%;"><br />W</span>ell, now we know. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Nadya Suleman</span> (33) is clearly and profoundly disturbed. I think it's safe to say she has a narcissistic personality disorder and the self-indulgent factor rides at the top. The obvious facial plastic surgery fits right in with having all the children just because she wants them.<br /><br />Here's a short closeup of her face during the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2eRn_mQ_b8">interview with <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ann Curry</span> on NBC</a>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SYy3sMq_nwI/AAAAAAAACaE/UusuteBQfKE/s1600-h/Octo-Mom.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 385px; height: 185px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SYy3sMq_nwI/AAAAAAAACaE/UusuteBQfKE/s400/Octo-Mom.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299812831451913986" border="0" /></a><br />Her nose is definitely operated and not very tastefully. It's too small for her ethnic face. Her lips have been augmented (and recently) to rival anything in Hollywood. Which is the next clue: her chosen face and family is supposed to remind you of the celebrity she wishes to emulate– in her own twisted fashion– <span style="font-weight: bold;">Angelina Jolie</span> (33).<br /><br />This woman doesn't (and won't) see the disconnect between what she says about raising these children and the reality of what has been going on since the very first birth.<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">H</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">ear Anne</span> flesh it all out with <a href="http://www.fm1071.com/kevyn/index.shtml">Kevyn Burger</a> on-air. Use this link to find the <a href="http://www.fm1071.com/ondemand/">FM107.1 audio archive</a> of <span style="font-style: italic;">Knifestyles</span> broadcast on <span style="font-weight: bold;">02.11.09</span>. <span style="font-style: italic;">Step one</span>: select the date shown on the blog posting; <span style="font-style: italic;">step two</span>: click on Kevyn Burger; <span style="font-style: italic;">step three</span>: click on <span style="font-weight: bold;">first hour</span>.<br /><br />Add your comments below!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342677981009030044.post-6619179100325883022009-02-05T01:11:00.009-06:002009-07-15T22:08:21.187-05:00Baby Love x 8<span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SYrxBK39YKI/AAAAAAAACZ0/t8jyS42tyKE/s1600-h/oldwomanshoe.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 151px; height: 198px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SYrxBK39YKI/AAAAAAAACZ0/t8jyS42tyKE/s400/oldwomanshoe.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299312913956036770" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:180%;">E</span>ight? <span style="font-style: italic;">Really?</span> Eight babies. In <span style="font-style: italic;">one</span> uterus.<br /><br />What's happening?!<br /><br />We pride ourselves here at <span style="font-style: italic;">Knifestyles</span> on being the "Science Thursday" of the celebrity world, exploring the medical misconceptions showcased in <span style="font-style: italic;">People</span> magazine and the like.<br /><br />But now a young, six-time mother presents the taxpayers of California and Kaiser Permanente with eight premies.<br /><br />Twins are the up-to-the-minute fashion accessory in celebrity circles (<span style="font-weight: bold;">Angelina Jolie, Julia Roberts, Jennifer Lopez, Ricky Martin, Lisa Marie Presley, Geena Davis, Marcia Cross, Nancy Grace, Dennis Quaid, P. Diddy, Melissa Etheridge, Diana Krall, Patrick Dempsey </span>– oops, I've run <a href="http://knifestyles.blogspot.com/2008/03/miracle-babies-perimenopausal-eggs.html">out of room</a>). Has this engendered a public right to likewise 'put in an order' for a multiple pregnancy?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SYpn6_4Y4FI/AAAAAAAACZk/7WRvk4XRKlk/s1600-h/louisebrown.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 90px; height: 111px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SYpn6_4Y4FI/AAAAAAAACZk/7WRvk4XRKlk/s400/louisebrown.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299162174832828498" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SYpn7Af4yqI/AAAAAAAACZs/9idvAIsgQQ8/s1600-h/louisebrown_2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 90px; height: 113px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SYpn7Af4yqI/AAAAAAAACZs/9idvAIsgQQ8/s400/louisebrown_2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299162174998497954" border="0" /></a>Assisted reproductive technology (ART) has come a long way since <a href="http://history1900s.about.com/od/medicaladvancesissues/a/testtubebaby.htm"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Baby Louise</span></a> who just turned 30 (our first test tube baby works at the post office now).<br /><br />The case of <span id="intelliTXT"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Nadya Suleman </span></span>aka Doud <span id="intelliTXT">(33)</span> does not just raise questions, it shouts them. The only thing we know for sure is that someone's not telling the whole truth.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SYpmD8fRUBI/AAAAAAAACZU/PeYgJUpjZHo/s1600-h/IVF.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 117px; height: 141px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SYpmD8fRUBI/AAAAAAAACZU/PeYgJUpjZHo/s400/IVF.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299160129517735954" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">How did she procreate so many, so often?</span><br />High tech <a href="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.faqs.org/health/images/uchr_02_img0150.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.faqs.org/health/Body-by-Design-V2/The-Reproductive-System.html&usg=__gAJO746jPpRg_5mw9fnYJaC_wKk=&h=337&w=426&sz=29&hl=en&start=3&um=1&tbnid=-Ec3gzPMlFJpWM:&tbnh=100&tbnw=126&prev=/images%3Fq%3Din%2Bvitro%2Bfertilization%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1B3GGGL_enUS265US266%26sa%3DN">fertility</a> <span style="font-style: italic;">à la mode </span>requires a lot of expertise and equipment. This was not a do-it-yourself job. It's possible that a one-time pharmaceutical hyperstimulation of the ovaries (<span id="intelliTxt">eg, 10 day course of </span><span id="intelliTxt">injected</span><span id="intelliTxt"> pergonal, hMG, or FSH)</span> may have provided enough to stock the freezer. Donor-dad has only one brief performance to make, usually in the clinic restroom with the magazine of his choice. Once stockpiled, these frozen embryos can be thawed sequentially and stored indefinitely.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SYpYnFReR6I/AAAAAAAACYk/llqWdUXWZd4/s1600-h/human_sperm_image.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 101px; height: 100px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SYpYnFReR6I/AAAAAAAACYk/llqWdUXWZd4/s400/human_sperm_image.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299145340008417186" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Q:</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Doesn't the biological father get a say?</span><br />Well, no, if it's done through a reputable sperm bank. But several of the previous birth certificates list the Y chromosome as belonging to "David Soloman." It's a bit queasy knowing this name translates to <a href="http://thehollytree.blogspot.com/2009/01/who-is-father-of-octuplets.html">"Doud Suleman" in Arabic</a>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SYpbHASJSeI/AAAAAAAACYs/ZAGza5tpr1s/s1600-h/pregnant.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 106px; height: 131px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SYpbHASJSeI/AAAAAAAACYs/ZAGza5tpr1s/s400/pregnant.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299148087448127970" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">How did a single parent of six, attending school and living with her divorced mother, afford repeated IVF pregnancies?</span><br />In California it costs about <a href="http://www.ivfminnesota.com/shared-risk-program.html">$12,500</a> per cycle to attempt IVF, slightly lower in areas where insurance plans cover it. Five successful transfers in six years is staying pretty busy; each pregnancy is 40 weeks in gestation plus another few weeks in pharmaceutical preparation. I'm going to hazard a guess that her egg retrieval and <span style="font-style: italic;">first five</span> transfers were <a href="http://www.kpivf.com/">covered under her insurance</a> and were done by-the-book. She was probably on a first-name basis in the fertility clinic. She may even have sold eggs to help defray the copays.<br /><br />Only this last time was different.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SYpnLC3h2_I/AAAAAAAACZc/RvUznytCPaw/s1600-h/ivf-fertilized.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 87px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SYpnLC3h2_I/AAAAAAAACZc/RvUznytCPaw/s400/ivf-fertilized.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299161351000808434" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Why eight?</span><br />Perhaps her parents' financial underwriting was at an end: <span style="font-style: italic;">"this is your last baby and I mean it!"</span> If she hadn't met her goal, she may have reasoned (okay, too strong a word) she could get her way by using up all her remaining frozen embryos in one fell swoop. But– <a href="http://fertilityfile.com/2009/02/09/octuplets-doctor-may-have-been-lulled-by-past-poor-success/">eight out of eight</a> embryos all take in one transfer? It is <a href="http://fertilityfile.com/2009/01/30/were-the-octuplets-a-result-of-ivf/">statistically improbable</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Why would a doctor go along this?</span><br /><a href="http://fertilityfile.com/2009/01/27/miracle-octuplets/">He</a> or <a href="http://open.salon.com/content.php?cid=96230">she wouldn't</a>. It's <span style="font-style: italic;">unbelievably</span> risky for mother, babies, and physicians. The serious and sometimes lethal <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/01/28/octuplet.risks/index.html">complications</a> of high-order multiples are enough of a medico-legal liability to dissuade any physician from transferring so many embryos, but there are also <a href="http://www.asrm.org/Patients/topics/ivf.html">professional guidelines</a><a href="http://www.asrm.org/Patients/topics/ivf.html">. </a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SYpbV09FSYI/AAAAAAAACY8/UJiX3ww96nI/s1600-h/ASRM.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 80px; height: 99px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SYpbV09FSYI/AAAAAAAACY8/UJiX3ww96nI/s400/ASRM.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299148342105033090" border="0" /></a>The <a href="http://www.asrm.org/whatsnew.html">American Society for Reproductive Medicine</a> (ASRM) and the <a href="http://www.sart.org/WhatIsSART.html">Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology</a> (SART) both call for no more than one or two embryos for a generally healthy woman under 35. Reproductive endocrinology is a small club and its members are aghast. "Anyone who transfers eight embryos should be arrested for malpractice" says bioethicist <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100149892">Dr. Arthur Caplan</a>.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SYpbV704mbI/AAAAAAAACY0/4P9DBLzWfcE/s1600-h/SART.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 101px; height: 73px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SYpbV704mbI/AAAAAAAACY0/4P9DBLzWfcE/s400/SART.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299148343949695410" border="0" /></a><br />All of which leads me to suspect we'll find out that this last IVF was without physician involvement. Perhaps Suleman and a highly-trained technician pal made use of an employer's facility to thaw and transfer the remaining baker's dozen <span style="font-style: italic;">on their own time</span>. I'm taking bets on it.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: But what about the Chukwu octuplets in Texas?</span><br />The only other live-birth octuplets in the US were delivered in 1998, the result poorly monitored fertility drug use, not IVF. The smallest died within a week and the other seven needed about $250,000 of NICU apiece just to get them healthy enough to go home.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SYpcHAdn19I/AAAAAAAACZE/okEzIva5rOc/s1600-h/taintor.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 120px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SYpcHAdn19I/AAAAAAAACZE/okEzIva5rOc/s400/taintor.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299149187007895506" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Who's going to pay for this?</span><br />Kaiser Permanente, the largest not-for-profit managed healthcare plan in the US, will likely pass along their costs to their 8.6 million members. The average price tag for just one cesearean birth is about $25,000 in California; this one took 46 doctors and nurses to deliver. NICU care is in the range of about $2,000/day/baby. The bill will be well over $2M.<br /><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Health/WomensHealth/story?id=6774471&page=1"><br />Dr. Charles Sophy</a>, medical director of Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services, says studies estimate the providing the bare necessities to raise a child to adulthood is $2.5 million. Or roughly $35 million for 14. The cost of services for the babies with on-going health problems and disabilities, the ones short-changed in that crowded uterus, increases that amount exponentially.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SYrzrWhV9AI/AAAAAAAACZ8/waii-73s23M/s1600-h/diaphragm4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 128px; height: 274px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SYrzrWhV9AI/AAAAAAAACZ8/waii-73s23M/s400/diaphragm4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299315837660165122" border="0" /></a>A family living on <span id="default"><span id="CCT_Article">$61,742 and owing creditors </span></span><span id="default"><span id="CCT_Article">$984,426 as of a year ago, is unlikely to be able to meet even a fraction of these crushing expenses.</span></span> The cost will most likely fall to the state of California.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Can any of this possibly be in the best interests of the children?</span><br />A single parent with fourteen children under the age of eight, eight of whom are going to mature simultaneously, is quite outside the laws of human nature. I wish we could rewrite the ending of this <a href="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.dearauntnettie.com/images/diaphragm4.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.dearauntnettie.com/museum/museum-diaphragm.htm&usg=__QI6cfqsX50ASWPmYbPzZqPeUR38=&h=580&w=271&sz=49&hl=en&start=73&um=1&tbnid=cIvpI9av_q-wqM:&tbnh=134&tbnw=63&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dold%2Bwoman%2Bin%2Ba%2Bshoe%26start%3D60%26ndsp%3D20%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1B3GGGL_enUS265US266%26sa%3DN">fairytale</a>.<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Join us</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Thursday @ 10am to hear Anne</span> flesh it all out with <a href="http://www.fm1071.com/kevyn/index.shtml">Kevyn Burger</a> on-air. Can't make it? 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Add your comments below.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342677981009030044.post-54494766935547206722009-01-20T19:06:00.029-06:002010-09-20T15:59:23.804-05:00In the News: Swayze, Jobs, Jett Travolta, First Dog<span style="font-size:180%;"><br />T</span>his week, we go over the medical news: Steve Jobs and Patrick Swayze share hospital beds, Jett Travolta and epilepsy, and the Obama's quest for an allergen-free White House pet.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SXfAKsp5MOI/AAAAAAAACVs/7C9O8OjEOrU/s1600-h/people.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 111px; height: 148px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SXfAKsp5MOI/AAAAAAAACVs/7C9O8OjEOrU/s400/people.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293911177015406818" border="0" /></a>Strange bedfellows, those two. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Patrick Swayze</span> (55) and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Steve Jobs</span> (54) were both laid low last week with complications of pancreatic cancer. Both have remained in the public eye, but with markedly differing attitudes.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SXfAeCEFrvI/AAAAAAAACV0/P4gnIGu5ges/s1600-h/reconstruction-before-enlg.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 110px; height: 136px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SXfAeCEFrvI/AAAAAAAACV0/P4gnIGu5ges/s400/reconstruction-before-enlg.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293911509179936498" border="0" /></a>The pancreas is a large gland that lies horizontally behind the stomach and supplies the body with insulin and digestive enzymes. Ninety-five percent of pancreatic tumors are adenocarcinoma. One of the most aggressive and difficult-to-treat of all cancers, fully 75% of patients die within first year after diagnosis. Famed tenor <span style="font-weight: bold;">Luciano Pavarotti </span>succumbed to it, as did actors <span style="font-weight: bold;">Michael Landon</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Fred Gwynne</span> (<span style="font-style: italic;">aka</span> Herman Munster and Harvard grad), <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jack Benny</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Rex Harrison</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Donna Reed</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Fernando Lamas</span>, and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Joan Crawford</span>. All of Jimmy Carter's three brothers and his father died of it.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SXfp4RAs4RI/AAAAAAAACW8/8Zzp4GjxThc/s1600-h/reconstruction-after-enlg.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 110px; height: 160px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SXfp4RAs4RI/AAAAAAAACW8/8Zzp4GjxThc/s400/reconstruction-after-enlg.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293957039845597458" border="0" /></a>In mid-2004 the legendary head of Apple underwent treatment (most likely a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancreaticoduodenectomy">Whipple procedure</a>) for an islet cell neuroendocrine tumor– a different and very rare pancreatic cancer responsive to treatment. Approximately half recur, often spreading to liver.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SXfA6FbZeVI/AAAAAAAACV8/OX0vhVzHITk/s1600-h/Jobs+2002.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 119px; height: 119px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SXfA6FbZeVI/AAAAAAAACV8/OX0vhVzHITk/s400/Jobs+2002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293911991119346002" border="0" /></a>Defiantly private, Jobs' increasingly cachectic appearance and failure to appear at Macworld trade show led to a sharp drop in Apple shares ($5.5 billion). Always a force to be contended with, on January 5th Jobs testily <a href="http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/01/05sjletter.html">proclaimed it nothing</a> more than a <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SXfA6aylWII/AAAAAAAACWE/gVwp9AkzlCk/s1600-h/Jobs10.2008.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 118px; height: 140px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SXfA6aylWII/AAAAAAAACWE/gVwp9AkzlCk/s400/Jobs10.2008.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293911996853737602" border="0" /></a>"hormonal imbalance" and shares went up. Just a week later nearly $10 billion in shareholders' market value was wiped out when the "more complex" test results came back, requiring a five month medical leave.<br /><br />If Jobs' has had a recurrence of his cancer, <a href="http://tinyurl.com/8a6n3m">shareholder lawsuits</a> will likely result. <span style="font-weight: bold;">A CEO's personal health is a private matter until it affects the operation of a publicly-held company.</span> Misleading statements about such lie within the realm of securities fraud.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SXfMehfMzDI/AAAAAAAACWM/ZIDQzsxzLGE/s1600-h/gal_swayze2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 184px; height: 121px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SXfMehfMzDI/AAAAAAAACWM/ZIDQzsxzLGE/s400/gal_swayze2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293924711754681394" border="0" /></a>Voted <span style="font-style: italic;">People's</span> sexiest man alive in 1991, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Patrick Swayze</span> is terminally ill with Stage IV pancreatic cancer and he knows it. In an extended <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4pPwj1WPAg">interview with <span style="font-weight: bold;">Barbara Walters</span></a> (79) January 7th, <a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1083/is_7_78/ai_n6145255">Joffrey-trained</a> Swayze credited his wife of 33 years, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Lisa</span> (51), with helping him get through "this journey....as elegantly as I have."<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SXfN5TUDs7I/AAAAAAAACWk/DQi5iNMnu6s/s1600-h/Chip.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 88px; height: 121px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SXfN5TUDs7I/AAAAAAAACWk/DQi5iNMnu6s/s400/Chip.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293926271317947314" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">This from a guy who went one-on-one with Chris Farley in </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RajNvJ3bCU">SNL's Chippendale's tryout skit.</a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SXfM9EVAN1I/AAAAAAAACWc/NjE6BY6bkv0/s1600-h/dirtydancing_l.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 169px; height: 127px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SXfM9EVAN1I/AAAAAAAACWc/NjE6BY6bkv0/s400/dirtydancing_l.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293925236503230290" border="0" /></a>Both of the women in the interview have had full facelifts, browlifts, volume added, and probably some eye work. Swayze himself has undergone some endoscopic face work, sometime early in the decade. Check out <span style="font-style: italic;">Keeping Mum</span> (2005, a lovely film)– it's not the same face that made Baby do <span style="font-style: italic;">Dirty Dancing</span> (1987).<br /><br />The untimely death of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jett Travolta</span> (16) on January 3rd has raised questions about how a closely supervised teenager could die of an epileptic seizure.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SXf2HYGv-2I/AAAAAAAACXk/bjG-Vvd9fNo/s1600-h/neurons_about.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 164px; height: 123px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SXf2HYGv-2I/AAAAAAAACXk/bjG-Vvd9fNo/s400/neurons_about.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293970493587585890" border="0" /></a>Seizures are often a side effect of other illnesses (eg, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sen. Ted Kennedy's</span> event at the inaugural luncheon), but not often the cause of death. The 1% of Americans with convulsive seizure disorder have the same life expectancy as others. There is, however, a poorly understood syndrome called <span style="font-style: italic;">sudden unexpected death in epilepsy patients</span>, or <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B00E1D81E3AF93BA25751C0A9659C8B63">Sudep</a>, which occurs in 10 to 15 of 10,000 patients with poorly controlled seizures.<br /><br />Officially speaking for the family, lawyers Michael Ossi and Michael McDermott have added to the confusion by offering <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/01/kawaski-syndrom.html#more">medically nonsensical statement</a>. An exclusive interview was given to TMZ.com, the celebrity gossip site underwritten by Warner Brothers & AOL and known for a mix of salacious content and speedy posting.<br /><br />The 16-year-old suffered from uncontrolled <a href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/epilepsy/background.html">grand mal seizures</a> after being taken off Depakote (valproate semisodium), the most prescribed <a href="http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/epilepsy/DS00342/DSECTION=treatments-and-drugs">anti-epileptic drug</a> worldwide. The Travoltas, after consulting neurosurgeons, stopped administering it because they felt it had lost its effectiveness.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SXfo2pIgxAI/AAAAAAAACW0/xNB37xRducI/s1600-h/L_Ron_Hubbard.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 107px; height: 156px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SXfo2pIgxAI/AAAAAAAACW0/xNB37xRducI/s400/L_Ron_Hubbard.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293955912449442818" border="0" /></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology">Scientology</a> believes in medical intervention for <span style="font-style: italic;">physical</span> illnesses, but does not recognize those involving the mind as such, eg, autism or psychiatric disorder, nor the use of psychotropic drugs. Based on precepts laid down by science fiction writer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_hubbard"><span style="font-weight: bold;">L. Ron Hubbard</span></a> (d. 1986), its adherents view mental illness as psychosomatic and to be treated via its proprietary brand of spiritual healing, not with conventional therapies. Only when a physical (organic) cause for a "mental" disorder is proven, does it move from the field of psychiatry to the field of medicine.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Obamas' dog dilemma?</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SXfuUXAdXiI/AAAAAAAACXE/EwIUZPomUms/s1600-h/portuguese_water_dog.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 115px; height: 100px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SXfuUXAdXiI/AAAAAAAACXE/EwIUZPomUms/s400/portuguese_water_dog.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293961920538041890" border="0" /></a>That an easy one. There is no such thing as a hypoallergenic dog. The major allergen in canines is a protein that dogs excrete in sweat and shed from their skin. There are no skinless dogs!<br /><br />If anything, factors related to individual dogs seem to influence the allergenicity more than breed or gender.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SXfvlf8zXTI/AAAAAAAACXc/zjqrlnnuEmQ/s1600-h/Obamas.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 144px; height: 172px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SXfvlf8zXTI/AAAAAAAACXc/zjqrlnnuEmQ/s400/Obamas.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293963314508029234" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SXfuk8-C3nI/AAAAAAAACXU/Tpt-ZoPHFqQ/s1600-h/Labradoodle1Bocker805.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 125px; height: 91px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SXfuk8-C3nI/AAAAAAAACXU/Tpt-ZoPHFqQ/s400/Labradoodle1Bocker805.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293962205606370930" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">So here's the deal, Malia. </span>You can have a dog on trial. The dog stays out of your bedroom, <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SXfuk8XVkFI/AAAAAAAACXM/lsq-kKLJ01o/s1600-h/labradoodle.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 125px; height: 95px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SXfuk8XVkFI/AAAAAAAACXM/lsq-kKLJ01o/s400/labradoodle.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293962205444018258" border="0" /></a>since you spend a lot of time in there. Wash your hands after you pet it. And make sure those staff keep the White House clean. <span style="font-weight: bold;">But</span> (there always is one, you know), if you have to visit the ER for asthma or you need significantly more medication, the dog has to go.<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Tune in @ 10am to Anne</span> flesh it all out with <a href="http://www.fm1071.com/kevyn/index.shtml">Kevyn Burger</a> on-air. Can't make it? Use this link to find the <a href="http://www.fm1071.com/ondemand/">FM107.1 audio archive</a> of <span style="font-style: italic;">Knifestyles</span> broadcasts by date (second hour). <span style="font-style: italic;">Step one</span>: select the date shown on the blog posting; <span style="font-style: italic;">step two</span>: click on Kevyn Burger; <span style="font-style: italic;">step three</span>: click on second hour. Enjoy!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342677981009030044.post-60316286784421622072008-12-11T06:50:00.006-06:002009-07-09T14:36:03.319-05:00Does This Make Me Look Operated?<span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/ST8MnBdDXTI/AAAAAAAACOE/6cT8tmzzrpE/s1600-h/people.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 115px; height: 153px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/ST8MnBdDXTI/AAAAAAAACOE/6cT8tmzzrpE/s400/people.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277951152846232882" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:180%;">W</span>hat <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/ST3nX-3lSyI/AAAAAAAACNE/BmWG_LUnTQk/s1600-h/coxmc.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 115px; height: 154px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/ST3nX-3lSyI/AAAAAAAACNE/BmWG_LUnTQk/s400/coxmc.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277628737547225890" border="0" /></a>do <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sharon Osbourne</span> (56), <span style="font-weight: bold;">Vanessa Williams </span>(45), <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jennie Garth</span> (36), <span style="font-weight: bold;">Daisy Fuentes</span> (42), <span style="font-weight: bold;">Brooke Shields</span> (43), <span style="font-weight: bold;">Simon Crowell</span> (49), <span style="font-weight: bold;">David Hasselhof</span> (56), <span style="font-weight: bold;">Linda Evangelista</span> (43), <span style="font-weight: bold;">Janice Dickinson</span> (53), <span style="font-weight: bold;">Lisa Rinna</span> (45), <span style="font-weight: bold;">Lori Loughlin</span> (44), and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Courtney Cox</span> (44) all have in common?<br /><br />Fewer wrinkles!<br /><br />It's not a coincidence that there has been a slew of Botox "confessions" from Hollywood celebrities in the last few months. It coincides with Allergan's (the manufacturer of Botox® Cosmetic <span style="font-style: italic;">aka</span> Botulinum Toxin Type A) marketing push launched in 2007 and formatted as a hybrid public service/infomercial/giveaway featuring well-known personalities.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/ST8Ng-0mSXI/AAAAAAAACOM/_csE6MnCb-g/s1600-h/Madsen.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 80px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/ST8Ng-0mSXI/AAAAAAAACOM/_csE6MnCb-g/s400/Madsen.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277952148572096882" border="0" /></a>Olympians <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mark Spitz</span> (58) and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Nadia Comaneci</span> (47) both gave lecture tours on “<a href="http://www.ypbevents.com/default.aspx">Your Personal Best</a>” this fall. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Virginia Madsen</span> (44) hawked Botox with her mother in "<a href="http://www.botoxcosmetic.com/FOE_throughFilm/landing.html">Freedom of Expression</a>."<br /><br />By her own admission, Madsen got the job by a slip of the tongue in an interview shortly after the surprise success of her Oscar-nominated film role in Sideways (2004).<br /><br />But it is really just stating the obvious: <span style="font-weight: bold;">Aging Hollywood faces have help from knives and needles.</span><br /><br />Short of the kind of admissions currently being featured in <a href="http://www.airsla.org/broadcasts/people_magazinerss.xml">magazines</a>, how do you know who's telling the whole truth?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/ST8OVsX_vjI/AAAAAAAACOc/qz-rFd7Kemw/s1600-h/Gray%27s+pinna.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 71px; height: 112px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/ST8OVsX_vjI/AAAAAAAACOc/qz-rFd7Kemw/s400/Gray%27s+pinna.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277953054153358898" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">It's all in the ears.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/ST8PBHRw9II/AAAAAAAACOk/HJ14FmxPcxk/s1600-h/incision.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 118px; height: 97px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/ST8PBHRw9II/AAAAAAAACOk/HJ14FmxPcxk/s400/incision.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277953800109356162" border="0" /></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhytidectomy">Rhytidectomies</a> do the heavy lifting and offer the most clues. In a traditional facelift, an incision is made in front of the ear extending up into the hairline and down around the bottom of the ear and then up behind it, usually ending in the hairline. (For an excellent pictorial tutorial of the actual surgery, <a href="http://www.facialsurgery.com/ClkoffTPgt_02xbh.html">go here</a>.)<br /><br />Shall we play <span style="font-style: italic;">I Spy</span>? <span style="font-weight: bold;">I spy with my little eye....operated auricles.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUAMYJwud0I/AAAAAAAACOs/wYb1_1pEbIA/s1600-h/Rourke.EAR3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 89px; height: 115px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUAMYJwud0I/AAAAAAAACOs/wYb1_1pEbIA/s400/Rourke.EAR3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278232372354905922" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/ST3rGCNKfoI/AAAAAAAACNU/sQ5vXEHhZn4/s1600-h/Rourke.EARpixie.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 85px; height: 115px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/ST3rGCNKfoI/AAAAAAAACNU/sQ5vXEHhZn4/s400/Rourke.EARpixie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277632827251916418" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/ST3rGR9N0pI/AAAAAAAACNc/SpZDP3Us_G4/s1600-h/Rourke.EAR2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 30px; height: 35px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/ST3rGR9N0pI/AAAAAAAACNc/SpZDP3Us_G4/s400/Rourke.EAR2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277632831479992978" border="0" /></a>A <span style="font-weight: bold;">pixied earlobe</span> is the distorted result when the reattached lobule is pulled down and forward onto the cheek. A fine example is <span style="font-weight: bold;">Micky Rourke's</span> (56) left ear; both are shown. A competent facial plastic surgeon will preserve the shape of the lobe you with which you were born. Otherwise, a big earring is the answer.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUAMakVrmlI/AAAAAAAACPM/FGZpaRXB7Ds/s1600-h/Gest,DavidEAR.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 109px; height: 115px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUAMakVrmlI/AAAAAAAACPM/FGZpaRXB7Ds/s400/Gest,DavidEAR.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278232413848967762" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUAMZN3CdsI/AAAAAAAACO8/K3KKKB7oamE/s1600-h/davidgest.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 51px; height: 36px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUAMZN3CdsI/AAAAAAAACO8/K3KKKB7oamE/s400/davidgest.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278232390634993346" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Poor scar placement</span> and poor incision planning can be covered up with hairstyling– less so if you are <span style="font-weight: bold;">David Gest</span> (55). Over time, <span style="font-weight: bold;">John Cleese's</span> (69) aging facelift has relaxed into something appearing fairly natural, but his misplaced post-auricular scar in probably still very visible. (Check out the big kiss scene in <span style="font-style: italic;">Fierce Creatures</span>, 1997).<br /><br /><span class="postbody">The pre- and post-auricular skin of the ear is specialized: it is thin and nonhair-bearing. In some (especially men) the</span><span class="postbody"> facial skin does not match identically with the ear skin</span>. Removing this patch of pliable, hairless skin can have unnatural results....<span style="font-style: italic;">like shaving your ear</span>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUBGS5Zuh4I/AAAAAAAACTU/3jl79i-1oJ8/s1600-h/LorenEAR.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 87px; height: 115px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUBGS5Zuh4I/AAAAAAAACTU/3jl79i-1oJ8/s400/LorenEAR.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278296053738538882" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUBL4VaYvhI/AAAAAAAACTs/adzP3gbkfwE/s1600-h/Loren,Sophia1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 35px; height: 59px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUBL4VaYvhI/AAAAAAAACTs/adzP3gbkfwE/s400/Loren,Sophia1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278302194470796818" border="0" /></a>Perhaps more subtle is <span style="font-weight: bold;">temporal hair loss</span> or the sacrifice of the tuft of hair at the upper junction of the ear and face. As with <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sophia Loren's</span> (74) right ear, it can give a man or woman the appearance of wearing a wig.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUA5V6lo6cI/AAAAAAAACSE/ZYuQv4iHbu0/s1600-h/Rivers2006EAR.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 35px; height: 42px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUA5V6lo6cI/AAAAAAAACSE/ZYuQv4iHbu0/s400/Rivers2006EAR.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278281811945384386" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUA5Vxy9zcI/AAAAAAAACSM/AfH_dwhbGP4/s1600-h/Rivers2006EAR2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 83px; height: 115px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUA5Vxy9zcI/AAAAAAAACSM/AfH_dwhbGP4/s400/Rivers2006EAR2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278281809585360322" border="0" /></a>The incision can go behind the tragus, that little cartilaginous bump in front of the ear hole, or in front of it. Female stars like <span style="font-weight: bold;">Joan Rivers</span> (75) usually opted for behind, in order to camouflage the scar. Poorly handled, the natural definition/indentation in that area is lost, <span class="postbody"><span style="font-weight: bold;">blunting of the facial-ear junction</span>.<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUA9yNiPK2I/AAAAAAAACSs/dIxedm1PfkM/s1600-h/madonna.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 35px; height: 43px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUA9yNiPK2I/AAAAAAAACSs/dIxedm1PfkM/s400/madonna.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278286696114236258" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUA6OpZBDLI/AAAAAAAACSc/w_Ikc20E6Yc/s1600-h/madonnaEAR.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 89px; height: 134px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUA6OpZBDLI/AAAAAAAACSc/w_Ikc20E6Yc/s400/madonnaEAR.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278282786581580978" border="0" /></a><span class="postbody">Sometimes the tragus itself is distorted and pulled forward by the tension of the lift and/or the thickness of the redraped skin (this settles out over time as it has for <span style="font-weight: bold;">Madonna</span></span>, 50<span class="postbody">).<br /></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">And whose</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> operated ears do <span style="font-style: italic;">I Spy</span> here?</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUArjTBev8I/AAAAAAAACQE/qwR_n_zbaxU/s1600-h/Cannon,Dyan+EAR2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 79px; height: 100px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUArjTBev8I/AAAAAAAACQE/qwR_n_zbaxU/s400/Cannon,Dyan+EAR2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278266648680120258" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUAvbWg180I/AAAAAAAACQ0/0aggUmU1Rug/s1600-h/RedgraveEAR.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 70px; height: 100px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUAvbWg180I/AAAAAAAACQ0/0aggUmU1Rug/s400/RedgraveEAR.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278270910224528194" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUA2UPQwpdI/AAAAAAAACRc/ZpYHeMYCcKg/s1600-h/ReynoldsEAR.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 84px; height: 100px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUA2UPQwpdI/AAAAAAAACRc/ZpYHeMYCcKg/s400/ReynoldsEAR.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278278484600333778" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUA3wNb4K5I/AAAAAAAACR8/Kjq__PR8xRI/s1600-h/DunawayEAR.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 71px; height: 100px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUA3wNb4K5I/AAAAAAAACR8/Kjq__PR8xRI/s400/DunawayEAR.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278280064658058130" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUBMN_w4x1I/AAAAAAAACT8/Vho4p3FeP4s/s1600-h/Kellerman,SallyEAR.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 80px; height: 100px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUBMN_w4x1I/AAAAAAAACT8/Vho4p3FeP4s/s400/Kellerman,SallyEAR.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278302566616713042" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUA_DoOEmTI/AAAAAAAACS0/r0pUNL5fLJ8/s1600-h/LorenEAR2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 81px; height: 100px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUA_DoOEmTI/AAAAAAAACS0/r0pUNL5fLJ8/s400/LorenEAR2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278288094846818610" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUBNM3cx1II/AAAAAAAACUM/GAF7Wvn-qKM/s1600-h/DeneuveEAR.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 84px; height: 100px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUBNM3cx1II/AAAAAAAACUM/GAF7Wvn-qKM/s400/DeneuveEAR.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278303646716646530" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUBOXQyjx5I/AAAAAAAACUc/WjRX8z0J3io/s1600-h/HelenposeEAR.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 77px; height: 100px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUBOXQyjx5I/AAAAAAAACUc/WjRX8z0J3io/s400/HelenposeEAR.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278304924829206418" border="0" /></a><br /><br />After a traditional facelift, some of these stars may appear wonderful in photos, but as soon as they try to move their faces they look a bit <span style="font-style: italic;">Frankenface</span>. The old-school operated look is something smooth and taut, but not young. The <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1041811/Madonna-named-ultimate-face--finally-admit-surgery.html?ITO=1490">new look</a> is all about volume, not subtraction. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Volume is the very essence of facial youth and next-generation surgery is all about adding it.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">New Feature FM107.1 on Demand - audio archive</span><br />http://www.fm1071.com/ondemand/<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Did you miss hearing Anne</span> flesh it all out with <a href="http://www.fm1071.com/kevyn/index.shtml">Kevyn Burger</a> on-air? Use this link to find the <a href="http://www.fm1071.com/ondemand/">FM107.1 audio archive</a> of <span style="font-style: italic;">Knifestyles</span> broadcasts by date (second hour). Step one: select the date shown on the blog posting; step two: click on Kevyn Burger; step three: click on second hour. Enjoy!<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I Spy</span> answers:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUBB_gRQsxI/AAAAAAAACTE/Fg6XtZiUS2I/s1600-h/Cannon,Dyan+EAR.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 80px; height: 100px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUBB_gRQsxI/AAAAAAAACTE/Fg6XtZiUS2I/s400/Cannon,Dyan+EAR.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278291322528117522" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUA2DYAavNI/AAAAAAAACRM/D3tPV2z8AoI/s1600-h/Redgrave.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 84px; height: 100px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUA2DYAavNI/AAAAAAAACRM/D3tPV2z8AoI/s400/Redgrave.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278278194889931986" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUA2TgtvDoI/AAAAAAAACRU/lzW498fpunw/s1600-h/Reynolds.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 78px; height: 100px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUA2TgtvDoI/AAAAAAAACRU/lzW498fpunw/s400/Reynolds.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278278472105397890" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUA2Vq9tOEI/AAAAAAAACRk/LQcrvQcYEiA/s1600-h/Dunaway,Faye.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 77px; height: 100px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUA2Vq9tOEI/AAAAAAAACRk/LQcrvQcYEiA/s400/Dunaway,Faye.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278278509216479298" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUBMNuLiKLI/AAAAAAAACT0/v69Z_hL8r9o/s1600-h/Kellerman,Sally.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 77px; height: 100px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUBMNuLiKLI/AAAAAAAACT0/v69Z_hL8r9o/s400/Kellerman,Sally.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278302561896638642" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUBCdC8dWeI/AAAAAAAACTM/FXa4ikIKM1Q/s1600-h/Loren.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 73px; height: 100px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUBCdC8dWeI/AAAAAAAACTM/FXa4ikIKM1Q/s400/Loren.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278291830052313570" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUBNMqE_9iI/AAAAAAAACUE/qnGAaJNbLOk/s1600-h/Deneuve.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 80px; height: 100px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUBNMqE_9iI/AAAAAAAACUE/qnGAaJNbLOk/s400/Deneuve.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278303643127248418" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUBOXYaGtwI/AAAAAAAACUU/cyZIK7nUUPk/s1600-h/Helenpose.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 83px; height: 100px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SUBOXYaGtwI/AAAAAAAACUU/cyZIK7nUUPk/s400/Helenpose.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278304926874121986" border="0" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342677981009030044.post-44264687733615238832008-11-20T06:10:00.004-06:002009-01-20T12:29:37.971-06:00Coming Up Next!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SSdPtjRuloI/AAAAAAAABps/A4N43kw_hfQ/s1600-h/pumpkin+botox.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 381px; height: 129px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SSdPtjRuloI/AAAAAAAABps/A4N43kw_hfQ/s400/pumpkin+botox.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271269532842759810" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:180%;">W</span>e're having a short holiday respite, but will be back on air Thursday, December 11th. We plan to explore something very festive. In the meantime, you can access past broadcasts by using this link to find the <a href="http://www.fm1071.com/ondemand/">FM107.1 audio archive</a> of <span style="font-style: italic;">Knifestyles</span> broadcasts by date (second hour).<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hear Anne</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> flesh it all out </span><span>with </span><a href="http://www.fm1071.com/kevyn/index.shtml">Kevyn Burger</a><span>.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span> Step <span style="font-weight: bold;">one</span>: select the date shown on the blog posting. Step <span style="font-weight: bold;">two</span>: click on Kevyn Burger. Step <span style="font-weight: bold;">three</span>: click on second hour. Enjoy!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342677981009030044.post-87042181102949881972008-11-13T05:21:00.007-06:002009-07-15T22:05:40.719-05:00Bond Girls! Then and Now<span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SRxE1uj5WQI/AAAAAAAABpM/b-g2bN-sctw/s1600-h/2008-olga_kurylenko-everett.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 114px; height: 170px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SRxE1uj5WQI/AAAAAAAABpM/b-g2bN-sctw/s400/2008-olga_kurylenko-everett.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268161353938983170" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:180%;" >"C</span><span style="font-style: italic;">areful with this one, Mr. Bond. She won't go to bed with you unless you give her something she really wants.</span><span style="font-style: italic;">"</span><br /><br />And he doesn't. They are not in love, there is no sex, and only a short kiss. That's the buzz on the upcoming 007 flick, <span style="font-style: italic;">Quantum of Solace,</span> due out November 14th.<br /><br />For the first time, the perennial playboy (<span style="font-weight: bold;">Daniel Craig</span>) doesn't bag the <a href="http://www.jamesbondmm.co.uk/bond-girls">Bond Girl</a>. Unknown Ukrainian model-turned-actress <span style="font-weight: bold;">Olga Kurylenko</span> plays a hard-as-nails <span style="font-style: italic;">chica Latina</span> agent from Bolivia (confusing, no?) with her own private vendetta. (Even St. Petersburg seems confused: the <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2008/10/31/russia_communists_say_ukraine_bond_girl_a_traitor/?s_campaign=8315">Communist Party says</a> Kurylenko has betrayed her roots.)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SRvFLlDEMnI/AAAAAAAABo0/C06nqx8NazU/s1600-h/Andress,breast65.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 125px; height: 160px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SRvFLlDEMnI/AAAAAAAABo0/C06nqx8NazU/s400/Andress,breast65.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268020991854129778" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SRt2Ri0KKiI/AAAAAAAABl0/O4YqWugotGs/s1600-h/Kurylenko.Hitman.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 125px; height: 160px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SRt2Ri0KKiI/AAAAAAAABl0/O4YqWugotGs/s400/Kurylenko.Hitman.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267934232915356194" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">The modern Bond Grrrls are more forceful,</span> stronger women who no longer giggle in their bikinis. But they still ooze sex, the kind that gets you into trouble. And the accents are still fake, the breasts still real.<br /><br />Which got us to wondering....in what ways has the Bond Girl evolved?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">In the '60s Bond was about</span> swinging in the Cold War, a spy who combated the evil forces while making love to lots of beautiful women. It was the kind of film your parents wouldn't let you see.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SRuJIT6TGvI/AAAAAAAABms/UuR0tA_xM6g/s1600-h/Andress06.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 96px; height: 125px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SRuJIT6TGvI/AAAAAAAABms/UuR0tA_xM6g/s400/Andress06.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267954965016681202" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SRuJH04PL6I/AAAAAAAABmk/In5KXjWZrnw/s1600-h/Andress62.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 99px; height: 125px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SRuJH04PL6I/AAAAAAAABmk/In5KXjWZrnw/s400/Andress62.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267954956686536610" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ursula Andress</span> (72) first walked out of the ocean and into male America's fantasies as Honey Ryder in <span style="font-style: italic;">Dr. No</span> (1962). She's had a facelift sometime in the past and only in the last few years has begun to lose her looks. Fluent in four languages, her accented english was dubbed over.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SRuCBjhiw8I/AAAAAAAABmc/XAOIjXFMVJ8/s1600-h/HonorBlackman07.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 111px; height: 123px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SRuCBjhiw8I/AAAAAAAABmc/XAOIjXFMVJ8/s400/HonorBlackman07.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267947152367338434" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SRuCBEjlQbI/AAAAAAAABmU/iBEkM3cJj_c/s1600-h/Blackman,Honor.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 107px; height: 125px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SRuCBEjlQbI/AAAAAAAABmU/iBEkM3cJj_c/s400/Blackman,Honor.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267947144054391218" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Honor Blackman</span> (81) played Pussy Galore in <span style="font-style: italic;">Goldfinger</span> (1964), probably the first to flex her brains and brawn on screen. Shown here in faux brusing to publicize a <a href="http://tinyurl.com/5v5quz">British campaign</a> working to end domestic violence against women.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SRuRYVHerbI/AAAAAAAABnM/pN3HIFokDic/s1600-h/Rigg08.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 100px; height: 125px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SRuRYVHerbI/AAAAAAAABnM/pN3HIFokDic/s400/Rigg08.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267964036311330226" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SRuQ3RRjGuI/AAAAAAAABm0/Q2tb3Ac86vk/s1600-h/rigg.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 100px; height: 125px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SRuQ3RRjGuI/AAAAAAAABm0/Q2tb3Ac86vk/s400/rigg.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267963468344138466" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Diana Rigg</span> (70) played Italian Tracy diVicenzo, <span style="font-style: italic;">On Her Majesty's Secret Service</span> (1969), an British actress cast as a lovelorn Mafia heiress. To date she's the only Bond Girl to score a wedding ring. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SRuQ4PQZnMI/AAAAAAAABnE/gvQgYddN4oQ/s1600-h/dr016.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 102px; height: 44px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SRuQ4PQZnMI/AAAAAAAABnE/gvQgYddN4oQ/s400/dr016.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267963484982320322" border="0" /></a>She <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/07/06/sv_dianarigg.xml">confesses</a> to a blepharoplasty at 44 and 20 cigarettes a day. Smoking is not a Bond Girl's best friend.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SRvJ4-ubNOI/AAAAAAAABo8/9z9SDG0QzJg/s1600-h/britt-ekland08.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 110px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SRvJ4-ubNOI/AAAAAAAABo8/9z9SDG0QzJg/s400/britt-ekland08.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268026169887503586" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SRvJ42iEPSI/AAAAAAAABpE/NzrYiqL2YPA/s1600-h/btbritt106.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 116px; height: 120px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SRvJ42iEPSI/AAAAAAAABpE/NzrYiqL2YPA/s400/btbritt106.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268026167688183074" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">In the '70s</span> the Bond franchise brought several women to the big screen and then took them off again.<br /><br />Brit <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jane Seymour</span> (57 ) appeared in <span style="font-style: italic;">Live and Let Die</span> and Swede <span style="font-weight: bold;">Britt Ekland</span> (66) in <span style="font-style: italic;">The Man With the Golden Gun</span>. Neither performance was memorable – but that's quite the facelift (and browlift, and lip filler).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SRuazQtH7kI/AAAAAAAABnc/mzAK6ROs8UM/s1600-h/stjohn2005.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 107px; height: 125px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SRuazQtH7kI/AAAAAAAABnc/mzAK6ROs8UM/s400/stjohn2005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267974394588163650" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SRuazOuTNCI/AAAAAAAABnU/UsYtYlxzi6c/s1600-h/StJohn.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 97px; height: 125px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SRuazOuTNCI/AAAAAAAABnU/UsYtYlxzi6c/s400/StJohn.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267974394056225826" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jill St. John's</span> (68) IQ of 162 was definitely higher than that of her character Tiffany Case in <span style="font-style: italic;">Diamonds Are Forever</span> (1971), a voluptuous lady running around a burning oil rig in a technicolor bikini. St. John had a rhinoplasty at age 16, at the urging of her mother, but she didn't stop there; this is not the face of a sexagenarian.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SRuie2StjMI/AAAAAAAABnk/NyZzPfnyykY/s1600-h/Bach+05.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 97px; height: 125px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SRuie2StjMI/AAAAAAAABnk/NyZzPfnyykY/s400/Bach+05.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267982839993699522" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SRuifLBONiI/AAAAAAAABns/GWgU6GCh6Fg/s1600-h/barbara+bach+-+the+spy1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 122px; height: 125px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SRuifLBONiI/AAAAAAAABns/GWgU6GCh6Fg/s400/barbara+bach+-+the+spy1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267982845557487138" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Barbara Bach</span> (62) was Anya Amasova in <span style="font-style: italic;">The Spy Who Loved Me</span> (1977), an American actress playing a Russian KGB agent, the Bond Girl incarnation of women's liberation as 007's first modern co-worker. Ringo has gifted her some lovely surgical work.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The '80s were pretty dry.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SRt-DOVzp7I/AAAAAAAABmE/7J_3ezI3SwI/s1600-h/bouquet08.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 101px; height: 125px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SRt-DOVzp7I/AAAAAAAABmE/7J_3ezI3SwI/s400/bouquet08.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267942782994196402" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SRujaiAMlDI/AAAAAAAABn0/lQkCKGeWlro/s1600-h/Bouquet,C.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 100px; height: 125px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SRujaiAMlDI/AAAAAAAABn0/lQkCKGeWlro/s400/Bouquet,C.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267983865339483186" border="0" /></a>Most memorable was the French actress <span style="font-weight: bold;">Carole Bouquet</span> (50) playing Melina Havelock, a half British-half Greek in <span style="font-style: italic;">For Your Eyes Only</span> (1981). The face of Chanel, she went on to captivate Gérard Depardieu, have her phone bugged by François Mitterand, and (allegedly) enjoy an affair with President Sarkozy.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">In came the '90s. </span>It just wasn't going to be a good decade, either, for Bond Girls.<br /><div id="largeimagetext"> <p class="smallmargin"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SRu15l_ALdI/AAAAAAAABoE/0OHH11Jj72U/s1600-h/hatcher2008.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 103px; height: 125px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SRu15l_ALdI/AAAAAAAABoE/0OHH11Jj72U/s400/hatcher2008.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268004190193462738" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SRu7a1kaIjI/AAAAAAAABoU/qH-rQOoaeHI/s1600-h/BG_Robinson.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 95px; height: 125px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SRu7a1kaIjI/AAAAAAAABoU/qH-rQOoaeHI/s400/BG_Robinson.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268010258870706738" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Teri Hatcher</span> (44 ), remember her? She played Paris Carver in <span style="font-style: italic;">Tomorrow Never Dies</span> (1997). Okay, you don't remember it, only <span style="font-style: italic;">Desperate Housewives</span>. Her real breakout role was uncredited in <span style="font-style: italic;">Star Trek: Next Generation</span> in 1988. Some ongoing use of Botox (which she denies) seems indicated in this recent candid photo. Her periocular (crowsfeet) and glabellar (between the eyebrows) areas appear frozen.<br /></p><div id="largeimagetext"> <p class="smallmargin"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SRvDHg-a8pI/AAAAAAAABoc/e8J1t9vtUHw/s1600-h/Berry,Halle.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 91px; height: 169px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SRvDHg-a8pI/AAAAAAAABoc/e8J1t9vtUHw/s400/Berry,Halle.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268018723018175122" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SRvDH6D_sRI/AAAAAAAABok/JbkUUAeg9BI/s1600-h/ursula+andress+bond+girl.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 95px; height: 170px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SRvDH6D_sRI/AAAAAAAABok/JbkUUAeg9BI/s400/ursula+andress+bond+girl.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268018729752441106" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Turn of the century?</span><br /></p><p class="smallmargin">But never say die – or in this case, <span style="font-style: italic;">Die Another Day </span>(2002). <span style="font-weight: bold;">Halle Berry</span> (42) playing Giacinta 'Jinx' Johnson rises out of the sea, resurrecting the Bond franchise for the next century.</p></div></div><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Did you miss hearing Anne</span> flesh it all out today with <a href="http://www.fm1071.com/kevyn/index.shtml">Kevyn Burger</a> on-air? Use this link to find the <a href="http://www.fm1071.com/ondemand/">FM107.1 audio archive</a> of <span style="font-style: italic;">Knifestyles</span> broadcasts by date (second hour). Step one: select the date shown on the blog posting; step two: click on Kevyn Burger; step three: click on second hour. Enjoy!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342677981009030044.post-54521961745217947612008-10-31T15:29:00.006-05:002009-07-09T14:36:43.920-05:00By Popular Request: Palin<span style="font-size:180%;"><br />O</span>kay, okay, okay. Just for you and just for Halloween. Here, by your request, are my favorite photoshopped Palin photos. <span style="font-style: italic;">Enjoy</span>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQtrMjIf0cI/AAAAAAAABlM/Hh5h91YgFRw/s1600-h/Alaska.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 272px; height: 217px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQtrMjIf0cI/AAAAAAAABlM/Hh5h91YgFRw/s400/Alaska.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263418452846039490" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQtrNe6WTBI/AAAAAAAABlk/luwahKFl2lc/s1600-h/Sarah-Palin-Vogue.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 179px; height: 246px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQtrNe6WTBI/AAAAAAAABlk/luwahKFl2lc/s400/Sarah-Palin-Vogue.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263418468892822546" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQtrM3SUbWI/AAAAAAAABlc/t7_XJlCKQck/s1600-h/palin-kidsm.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 217px; height: 247px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQtrM3SUbWI/AAAAAAAABlc/t7_XJlCKQck/s400/palin-kidsm.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263418458255945058" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQtrMi5dM7I/AAAAAAAABlU/-hSfND0Nhxk/s1600-h/Juneau.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 246px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQtrMi5dM7I/AAAAAAAABlU/-hSfND0Nhxk/s400/Juneau.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263418452782953394" border="0" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342677981009030044.post-17525577619328357022008-10-30T05:47:00.015-05:002009-07-15T22:06:27.937-05:00Hollywood's True Nightmare (Aging)<span style="font-size:180%;"><br />W</span>hat photoshop taketh away, it can also giveth. Today we'd like to bring our friends in Hollywood closer to God.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Every bit as much as cosmetic surgery, Photoshop® and digital technology have forever </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.hemmy.net/2007/05/25/celebrities-before-and-after-photoshop/">altered</a> the meaning of the close-up and the celebrity photograph.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkBAujOrII/AAAAAAAABgE/9QZcT95paE8/s1600-h/beforeafterphotoshop12.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 131px; height: 161px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkBAujOrII/AAAAAAAABgE/9QZcT95paE8/s400/beforeafterphotoshop12.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262738751566556290" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkBAQpMWdI/AAAAAAAABf8/DcMGOkC3zI4/s1600-h/beforeafterphotoshop11.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 135px; height: 161px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkBAQpMWdI/AAAAAAAABf8/DcMGOkC3zI4/s400/beforeafterphotoshop11.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262738743538506194" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQk4sOLNmEI/AAAAAAAABkc/UlU6TJ0Dz7s/s1600-h/Mark%2BVieria.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 87px; height: 127px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQk4sOLNmEI/AAAAAAAABkc/UlU6TJ0Dz7s/s400/Mark%2BVieria.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262799971929659458" border="0" /></a>Even in the golden era of Hollywood, studios manipulated every publicity photo via meticulous styling, lighting, and retouching in the darkroom of artists like the photographer <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hurrells-Hollywood-Portraits-Mark-Vieira/dp/0810934345">George Hurrell</a>. Today's top pixel pushers are stars in their own right. The world's most sought-after professional photo retoucher, Pascal Dangin, was profiled in <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/12/080512fa_fact_collins"><span style="font-style: italic;">The New Yorker</span></a>.<br /><br />But, as the Good Book says:<br /><blockquote><span>....Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD. </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Job 1:21<br /></span><br /></blockquote>It just so happens that these self-same digital wizards, the ones who <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_manipulation">reimage</a> our celebrity universe into something beautiful and good and unblemished, <span style="font-weight: bold;">in the darkness of their tiny home offices they sometimes use their power for – </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">evil</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkGKaZFpJI/AAAAAAAABgM/YGZb31HJfBM/s1600-h/Mr+Bean:Chucky.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 100px; height: 155px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkGKaZFpJI/AAAAAAAABgM/YGZb31HJfBM/s400/Mr+Bean:Chucky.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262744415512142994" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkGKsCwKMI/AAAAAAAABgU/kPY5n8QwvA4/s1600-h/Hopkins,+Anthony.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 94px; height: 155px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkGKsCwKMI/AAAAAAAABgU/kPY5n8QwvA4/s400/Hopkins,+Anthony.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262744420250298562" border="0" /></a>Just for Halloween, <span style="font-weight: bold;">we're going to peek into an alternative reality through the miracle of Adobe® Photoshop® CS4 software</span>. About 500,000 photoshop artists like to <a href="http://www.worth1000.com/">electronically hang out</a> together and misuse their free time to mess with us. Here are some of the results of their creative play - click on any image for a closer look.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkHvy4Pn6I/AAAAAAAABgk/tjuNeoMVIIQ/s1600-h/O%27%27Donnell,Rosie.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 112px; height: 130px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkHvy4Pn6I/AAAAAAAABgk/tjuNeoMVIIQ/s400/O%27%27Donnell,Rosie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262746157252059042" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkHvhJsUGI/AAAAAAAABgc/g1bf0nqk2pE/s1600-h/Royal+Mistake.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 135px; height: 130px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkHvhJsUGI/AAAAAAAABgc/g1bf0nqk2pE/s400/Royal+Mistake.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262746152493404258" border="0" /></a>In the hands of these dedicated digital jockeys, several prominent actors get to reprise roles made famous by other Hollywood colleagues, as above. Some of the artists, though, go for more realism with their celebrity heroes.<br /><br />Others just want to have fun (or not) with the stars.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkJCrGV6VI/AAAAAAAABgs/qnXq_RbRGHY/s1600-h/silence+of+the+clown.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 81px; height: 120px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkJCrGV6VI/AAAAAAAABgs/qnXq_RbRGHY/s400/silence+of+the+clown.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262747581092850002" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkJaqHwTSI/AAAAAAAABg0/d802llaPyGc/s1600-h/Crystal.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 86px; height: 120px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkJaqHwTSI/AAAAAAAABg0/d802llaPyGc/s400/Crystal.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262747993147198754" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkLx58VG5I/AAAAAAAABg8/JQzQytxdzBA/s1600-h/Nimoy,Leonard.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 82px; height: 120px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkLx58VG5I/AAAAAAAABg8/JQzQytxdzBA/s400/Nimoy,Leonard.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262750591554493330" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkLyVZ2RsI/AAAAAAAABhE/XKVUiD4tQio/s1600-h/Daemon,Matt.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 80px; height: 120px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkLyVZ2RsI/AAAAAAAABhE/XKVUiD4tQio/s400/Daemon,Matt.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262750598926059202" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Then there are those Mike-the-Mechanic types that just want the world to know that <span style="font-weight: bold;">these famous faces are just plain folks like you and me! </span>It's enough to melt McCain's heart. <a href="http://www.planethiltron.com/">Mega-stars from the Midwest</a> include some of our favorites - who knew??<br /><br />Just for fun we're going to have <span style="font-style: italic;">you</span> name their heartland occupations:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkT6S49saI/AAAAAAAABh8/UWT4mKixT6I/s1600-h/Aniston.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 80px; height: 90px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkT6S49saI/AAAAAAAABh8/UWT4mKixT6I/s400/Aniston.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262759531783238050" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jennifer Aniston</span> _______________ .<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkN1ox2DtI/AAAAAAAABhU/-0tv4itBGUQ/s1600-h/Stone.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 96px; height: 90px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkN1ox2DtI/AAAAAAAABhU/-0tv4itBGUQ/s400/Stone.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262752854689844946" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sharon Stone</span> _______________ .<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkOC0GoedI/AAAAAAAABhs/GotBN0x3hpI/s1600-h/Simpson.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 76px; height: 90px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkOC0GoedI/AAAAAAAABhs/GotBN0x3hpI/s400/Simpson.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262753081068124626" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ashley</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Simpson</span> _______________ .<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkN12lvpdI/AAAAAAAABhc/wymhCQSaK2k/s1600-h/Reid.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 90px; height: 90px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkN12lvpdI/AAAAAAAABhc/wymhCQSaK2k/s400/Reid.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262752858397189586" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Tara Reid</span> _______________ .<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkN2MqthzI/AAAAAAAABhk/DMqqvHBbIb8/s1600-h/Spears.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 84px; height: 90px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkN2MqthzI/AAAAAAAABhk/DMqqvHBbIb8/s400/Spears.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262752864323602226" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Britney Spears</span> _______________ .<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />But what truly terrorizes Tinseltown, the Nightmare on Hollywood Boulevard, the boogey man that stalks the stars<span style="font-style: italic;">.... is </span><span style="font-style: italic;">aging</span>. Bwwwwaaaaaa-ha!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">What will our leading lovelies look like as time moves on, but </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">without plastic surgery?</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>Here are some of the very best of the projections by the same masters of the mouse, using age progression techniques that are realistic.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkXii5WcjI/AAAAAAAABiM/S-2fDGI7k2o/s1600-h/Simpson,Jessica.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 86px; height: 100px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkXii5WcjI/AAAAAAAABiM/S-2fDGI7k2o/s400/Simpson,Jessica.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262763521809478194" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkXiloMDsI/AAAAAAAABiE/-2EwTqRwEGA/s1600-h/Simpson,OLD.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 172px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkXiloMDsI/AAAAAAAABiE/-2EwTqRwEGA/s400/Simpson,OLD.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262763522542800578" border="0" /></a><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.worth1000.com/stories/stats.asp?display=photoshop&uid=40004">Jessica</a><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.worth1000.com/stories/stats.asp?display=photoshop&uid=40004"> </a><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.worth1000.com/stories/stats.asp?display=photoshop&uid=40004">Simpson's</a> image shows the characteristic change in skin elasticity in the décolletage and upper arm triceps. Her breast tissue is less firm. The skin on her hands, forearms, shoulders and face display the pigment clumping that comes with over exposure to the sun. The facial wrinkling is exactly as nature intended. The vertical bands of the platysmal muscle in the neck become more prominent and the subcutaneous fat thins on the back of her hands.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.worth1000.com/stories/stats.asp?display=photoshop&uid=206037"><br /><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 79px; height: 100px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkfVuK-b6I/AAAAAAAABik/UKk9ecfYAgg/s400/Crow.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262772097590914978" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.worth1000.com/stories/stats.asp?display=photoshop&uid=206037"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 182px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkfV7aWSjI/AAAAAAAABis/XdzpLUAWk5Q/s400/Crow,SherylOLD.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262772101145053746" border="0" /></a><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.worth1000.com/stories/stats.asp?display=photoshop&uid=206037">Sheryl Crow's</a> image shows early peri-menopausal aging: the loss of the epicanthal fold (the skin of the upper eyelid) that evolves as the brow drops; the deepening of "smile" wrinkles; and loss of hair pigment.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkn9jT4OFI/AAAAAAAABj8/YyI2P16ix08/s1600-h/love168.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 88px; height: 100px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkn9jT4OFI/AAAAAAAABj8/YyI2P16ix08/s400/love168.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262781577963255890" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkn9jbVd-I/AAAAAAAABj0/Pby0NspQKu8/s1600-h/Love+Hewitt,Jennifer.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 148px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkn9jbVd-I/AAAAAAAABj0/Pby0NspQKu8/s400/Love+Hewitt,Jennifer.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262781577994532834" border="0" /></a><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.worth1000.com/stories/stats.asp?display=photoshop&uid=40004">Jennifer Love Hewitt</a> is going to make someone a very nice grandma. As the facial tissues head south to form crepey jowls it completely changes the shape of her face. This kind of skin relaxation usually comes from excessive sun exposure to thin skin. Note the widening part that comes from thinning hair.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkijhiWYlI/AAAAAAAABi8/yJl8jOXLnb4/s1600-h/lohan.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 94px; height: 100px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkijhiWYlI/AAAAAAAABi8/yJl8jOXLnb4/s400/lohan.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262775633252344402" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkijn3EYMI/AAAAAAAABi0/84qnGBf5E4Y/s1600-h/Lohan,Lindsay.old.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 184px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkijn3EYMI/AAAAAAAABi0/84qnGBf5E4Y/s400/Lohan,Lindsay.old.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262775634949857474" border="0" /></a><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.worth1000.com/stories/stats.asp?display=photoshop&uid=40004">Lindsay</a><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.worth1000.com/stories/stats.asp?display=photoshop&uid=40004"> Lohan</a> is going this way, if she cleans up her act. It's accurate for a post menopausal age except perhaps for the eyelids...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkn-BiIsFI/AAAAAAAABkM/vVPGF_8rGvQ/s1600-h/Dunst.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkn-BiIsFI/AAAAAAAABkM/vVPGF_8rGvQ/s400/Dunst.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262781586076119122" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkn9lW-_QI/AAAAAAAABkE/GpImkXBGhMg/s1600-h/Dunst,Kirsten.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 133px; height: 201px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkn9lW-_QI/AAAAAAAABkE/GpImkXBGhMg/s400/Dunst,Kirsten.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262781578513153282" border="0" /></a>Don't let this innocent smile fool you into thinking <a href="http://www.worth1000.com/stories/stats.asp?display=photoshop&uid=40004"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Kirsten Dunst</span></a> is just about warm hugs in her dotage. She's still got a lot going on.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkldATQo7I/AAAAAAAABjc/XFLgYcc51V8/s1600-h/Hilton,ParisOLD.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 111px; height: 160px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkldATQo7I/AAAAAAAABjc/XFLgYcc51V8/s400/Hilton,ParisOLD.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262778819786351538" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkvF1YIUkI/AAAAAAAABkU/-j7EqP_jtV0/s1600-h/Steffani,+Gwen.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 113px; height: 226px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkvF1YIUkI/AAAAAAAABkU/-j7EqP_jtV0/s400/Steffani,+Gwen.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262789416833274434" border="0" /></a>Party girl <a href="http://www.worth1000.com/stories/stats.asp?display=photoshop&uid=40004"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Paris Hilton</span></a> is sure to be wearing pink at a ripe old age and having lots of fun.<br /><br />And <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.worth1000.com/stories/stats.asp?display=photoshop&uid=40004">Gwen Steffani?</a> Party-hearty, that girl is never going to quit!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkldnhijNI/AAAAAAAABjk/OGAdfW5VCQM/s1600-h/Kidman,N.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 104px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SQkldnhijNI/AAAAAAAABjk/OGAdfW5VCQM/s400/Kidman,N.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262778830315228370" border="0" /></a>Sadly, the same probably can't be said for <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.worth1000.com/stories/stats.asp?display=photoshop&uid=58280">Nicole Kidman</a>.<br /><br />Want to try it yourself? <a href="http://www.richgentlemenhide.com/articles/photoshop-tutorial-fountain-of-youth/">Here's a tutorial</a>.<br /><br />Happy Halloween everyone!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />New Feature FM107.1 on Demand - audio archive</span><br />http://www.fm1071.com/ondemand/<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Did you miss hearing Anne</span> flesh it all out today with <a href="http://www.fm1071.com/kevyn/index.shtml">Kevyn Burger</a> on-air? Use this link to find the <a href="http://www.fm1071.com/ondemand/">FM107.1 audio archive</a> of <span style="font-style: italic;">Knifestyles</span> broadcasts by date (second hour). Step one: select the date shown on the blog posting; step two: click on Kevyn Burger; step three: click on second hour. Enjoy!<br /></div><div id="quote" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 26px 0px 63px; font-family: verdana,tahoma,arial,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 96);"></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342677981009030044.post-6133325268876520502008-10-16T07:24:00.013-05:002009-07-09T14:39:31.067-05:00Freaky Faces (Bad Cosmetic Surgery)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SPTSPruO-cI/AAAAAAAABdE/DajU3bPiwSI/s1600-h/Jackson08.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 124px; height: 164px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SPTSPruO-cI/AAAAAAAABdE/DajU3bPiwSI/s400/Jackson08.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257057831924726210" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:180%;"><br />I</span>n the mood for some fun-size candy? In Hollywood it's Halloween year-round. Let's go trick-or-treating with some of our favorite stars from the <span style="font-style: italic;">KnifeStyles'</span> archives! (To find out more about how you can get any of these looks at home, just click on his/her/its name under Labels.)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SPTTAfQ1PSI/AAAAAAAABdM/00Xv0K-Z29s/s1600-h/Jackson,+latoya5.08.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 106px; height: 172px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SPTTAfQ1PSI/AAAAAAAABdM/00Xv0K-Z29s/s400/Jackson,+latoya5.08.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257058670393769250" border="0" /></a>Leading the party is birthday boy <span style="font-weight: bold;">Michael Jackson</span>. He celebrated his 50th this year with a new and improved wig. And bringing the party balloons and matching face is big sister <span style="font-weight: bold;">LaToya</span> (52).<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">How</span> did they come up with this look?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SPT9Lz7CfrI/AAAAAAAABeE/_yc4x7f2Jz8/s1600-h/potatohead.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 99px; height: 99px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SPT9Lz7CfrI/AAAAAAAABeE/_yc4x7f2Jz8/s400/potatohead.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257105044406435506" border="0" /></a>I'll tell you how: they ripped it off! In 1952 Hasbro came out with <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Mr. Potato Head</span>. The original package included plastic eyes, nose, mouth, ears along with a styrofoam head for kids to practice making wacky expressions. Featured in the first TV toy commercial ever, it earned $4 million in sales in just the first few months.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The competition in Hollywood has been fierce ever since.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SPTFjfBCFCI/AAAAAAAABcs/5ET0Wk425Eo/s1600-h/rourke.2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 95px; height: 120px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SPTFjfBCFCI/AAAAAAAABcs/5ET0Wk425Eo/s400/rourke.2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257043878460134434" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SPTDvC_51xI/AAAAAAAABcM/60UJBaGyyH4/s1600-h/JokerJack2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 100px; height: 120px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SPTDvC_51xI/AAAAAAAABcM/60UJBaGyyH4/s400/JokerJack2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257041878074382098" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SPVaIFtodlI/AAAAAAAABeM/NO1cdOTVjoQ/s1600-h/Versace,donatellajpg.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 101px; height: 120px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SPVaIFtodlI/AAAAAAAABeM/NO1cdOTVjoQ/s400/Versace,donatellajpg.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257207235043948114" border="0" /></a>The <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Scary Clown</span> face took off with the <span style="font-style: italic;">Batman</span> film series. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mickey Rourke</span> (52) can't smile anymore without conjuring up images of a demonic Joker. Not to be outdone, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Donatella Versace</span> (55) is going as Mrs. Joker.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SPTBlSZO28I/AAAAAAAABbs/finEMuDrcZg/s1600-h/Busey.2.08.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 95px; height: 130px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SPTBlSZO28I/AAAAAAAABbs/finEMuDrcZg/s400/Busey.2.08.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257039511385201602" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SPTTyYU1ojI/AAAAAAAABdU/wiis2KAvbT4/s1600-h/dunaway.02.07.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 115px; height: 130px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SPTTyYU1ojI/AAAAAAAABdU/wiis2KAvbT4/s400/dunaway.02.07.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257059527524983346" border="0" /></a>Then there are those older kids who go in for the classic fairy tale genre: the <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Big Bad Wolf</span> my-teeth-will-eat-you-up. Both <span style="font-weight: bold;">Faye Dunaway</span> (67) and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Gary Busey</span> (64) have aggressive, man made choppers perfect for the part.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SPTCeSK1mfI/AAAAAAAABb0/ZCwgssRv6JE/s1600-h/Dickinson,Janice.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 119px; height: 157px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SPTCeSK1mfI/AAAAAAAABb0/ZCwgssRv6JE/s400/Dickinson,Janice.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257040490577369586" border="0" /></a>Also light and playful are <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Clown Lips</span>, often paired with great big rubber breasts that go beep-beep. Just showing up as the first supermodel would so '80s. Or so <span style="font-weight: bold;">Janice Dickinson</span> (53) thinks.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SPTibnYs59I/AAAAAAAABdc/5O13XLv0s7g/s1600-h/stallone,+sylvester.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 103px; height: 127px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SPTibnYs59I/AAAAAAAABdc/5O13XLv0s7g/s400/stallone,+sylvester.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257075629105145810" border="0" /></a>On the more on the risqué side of the room is <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">Man-as-Phallus</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sylvester Stallone</span> (60). This look can be obtained by combining surgery with lots of injected testosterone and hGH. Not sure how much candy you'll get with this one....<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SPTDvMLoD0I/AAAAAAAABb8/uTjM7jA6R9A/s1600-h/madonna.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 100px; height: 124px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SPTDvMLoD0I/AAAAAAAABb8/uTjM7jA6R9A/s400/madonna.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257041880539467586" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SPVzav_SHgI/AAAAAAAABe8/4iuJzUGYGmg/s1600-h/lil+kim.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 97px; height: 123px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SPVzav_SHgI/AAAAAAAABe8/4iuJzUGYGmg/s400/lil+kim.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257235043420610050" border="0" /></a>Not to be outdone, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Madonna's</span> (52) new face shares a lot in common another x-rated marionette: <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">Madame</span>. Too tight, too thin, all cheeks and chin! <span style="font-weight: bold;">Lil' Kim</span> (31) tried the same same idea, but she's got a few years to go before she can really pull it off.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SPVixQ9NAzI/AAAAAAAABeU/_2UzT4Fnb04/s1600-h/Principal,+V.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 100px; height: 128px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SPVixQ9NAzI/AAAAAAAABeU/_2UzT4Fnb04/s400/Principal,+V.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257216738529706802" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Victoria Principal</span> (62) just wants to be thought of as hip and techno-savvy, so she's going as an emoticon, the <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">Happy Face</span>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SPV2Vg44OjI/AAAAAAAABfU/IECSXIINutQ/s1600-h/RA-1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 96px; height: 125px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SPV2Vg44OjI/AAAAAAAABfU/IECSXIINutQ/s400/RA-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257238252002753074" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SPV2Vd5Lk9I/AAAAAAAABfM/mjHU7n7eMd4/s1600-h/Griffith,+M.2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 100px; height: 125px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SPV2Vd5Lk9I/AAAAAAAABfM/mjHU7n7eMd4/s400/Griffith,+M.2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257238251198714834" border="0" /></a>Imitation can be a source of flattery – or not. We could ask <span style="font-weight: bold;">Rowan Atkinson</span> if his <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Mr. Bean Brows</span> are proprietary and whether <span style="font-weight: bold;">Melanie Griffith</span> (51) has paid.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SPVqEoFApGI/AAAAAAAABec/J-yidHROUoE/s1600-h/Presley.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 98px; height: 120px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SPVqEoFApGI/AAAAAAAABec/J-yidHROUoE/s400/Presley.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257224767735374946" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SPVrSAVUidI/AAAAAAAABek/Q2mrC0TuPtA/s1600-h/Newmar,Julie.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 135px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SPVrSAVUidI/AAAAAAAABek/Q2mrC0TuPtA/s400/Newmar,Julie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257226097096165842" border="0" /></a>Of course, the easy cop-out is just to put on a mask. Are you listening, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ms. Presley</span> (63)? It's much more fun when you put some effort into it. Take, for instance, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Julie Newmar</span> (75): a deft hand with the make-up can really liven up your <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">Death Mask</span>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SPV1mW8gEBI/AAAAAAAABfE/nvchkqDtCg4/s1600-h/Tyson,+Mike.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 100px; height: 104px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SPV1mW8gEBI/AAAAAAAABfE/nvchkqDtCg4/s400/Tyson,+Mike.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257237441879740434" border="0" /></a>Then there's the crowd that believes that trick-or-treating should be a creative expression of one's worth. Why trick out your ride when you can <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Pimp Your Face</span>? <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mike Tyson</span> (42) is outspoken on the topic.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SPTDvV1qSVI/AAAAAAAABcU/namqVuieJTo/s1600-h/Joker460.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 117px; height: 70px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SPTDvV1qSVI/AAAAAAAABcU/namqVuieJTo/s400/Joker460.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257041883131693394" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SPTJi2z8xYI/AAAAAAAABc8/UqOPauVrVYU/s1600-h/winehouse05.08.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 137px; height: 143px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SPTJi2z8xYI/AAAAAAAABc8/UqOPauVrVYU/s400/winehouse05.08.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257048265714353538" border="0" /></a>Or just forget about plastic surgery and <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Just Do Drugs </span>for a <span style="font-style: italic;">really</span> scary look.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">PS:</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SPeVZLBH5vI/AAAAAAAABfs/GFUbwkHTNTg/s1600-h/waxlips.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 81px; height: 95px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SPeVZLBH5vI/AAAAAAAABfs/GFUbwkHTNTg/s400/waxlips.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257835349665113842" border="0" /></a>Oh, those <span style="font-style: italic;">fun</span> FM 107.1 listeners, one of whom submitted this photo to give Donatella a run for her <a href="http://oldtimecandy.com/wax-lips.htm">wax lips.</a> Who says 40 can't be fabulous?<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">New Feature FM107.1 on Demand - audio archive</span><br />http://www.fm1071.com/ondemand/<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Did you miss hearing Anne</span> flesh it all out with <a href="http://www.fm1071.com/kevyn/index.shtml">Kevyn Burger</a> on-air? Use this link to find the <a href="http://www.fm1071.com/ondemand/">FM107.1 audio archive</a> of <span style="font-style: italic;">Knifestyles</span> broadcasts by date (second hour). Step one: select the date shown on the blog posting; step two: click on Kevyn Burger; step three: click on second hour. Enjoy!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342677981009030044.post-82172676014772073512008-10-13T14:31:00.003-05:002008-10-19T10:23:17.832-05:00FREE Botox<span style="font-size:180%;"><br />N</span>o, I'm not kidding, either:<br /><br /><blockquote>At the October 14, 2008 Freedom of Expression event in Minneapolis, Allergan promises that <span style="font-weight: bold;">attendees will receive a voucher for a complimentary Botox treatment at the Botox provider of their choice.</span> Actress Virginia Madsen is hosting the event in partnership with the League of Women Voters, which will be held at the Pantages Theater downtown.<br /><br />Ms. Madsen has hosted similar events and appeared on behalf of Allergan in many other cities this year. Allergan promises to provide an evening of <span style="font-style: italic;">"education, self expression, film and refreshments as we discuss the importance of choice and conviction in our lives."</span><br /></blockquote><br />It's happening THIS Tuesday Oct. 14th from 4-6 PM @ Pantages Theatre in downtown Minneapolis.<br /><br />You must RSVP first if you wish to attend: 212-462-8702 (it's a v/m). Now don't say I never did anything for you.<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">New Feature FM107.1 on Demand - audio archive</span><br />http://www.fm1071.com/ondemand/<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Did you miss hearing Anne</span> flesh it all out with <a href="http://www.fm1071.com/kevyn/index.shtml">Kevyn Burger</a> on-air? Use this link to find the <a href="http://www.fm1071.com/ondemand/">FM107.1 audio archive</a> of <span style="font-style: italic;">Knifestyles</span> broadcasts by date (second hour). Step one: select the date shown on the blog posting; step two: click on Kevyn Burger; step three: click on second hour. Enjoy!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342677981009030044.post-85621410655734073612008-10-02T07:52:00.013-05:002009-07-15T22:09:03.479-05:00Frightful Facelifts<span style="font-size:180%;"><br />A</span>nd now as promised, an early Halloween special! Let's start with the frankly frightful – results that make children cry and dogs bark.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SOQkLUZp0vI/AAAAAAAABYs/c4DPBO2jaN0/s1600-h/Wildenstein2008.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 112px; height: 143px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SOQkLUZp0vI/AAAAAAAABYs/c4DPBO2jaN0/s400/Wildenstein2008.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252362842294309618" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SOQkLLgCUsI/AAAAAAAABYk/5gBBmdyatI0/s1600-h/wildenstein,Jocelyn.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 125px; height: 144px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SOQkLLgCUsI/AAAAAAAABYk/5gBBmdyatI0/s400/wildenstein,Jocelyn.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252362839905161922" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jocelyn Wildenstein</span> (62) is pretty scary with shocking surgically-enhanced features (reportedly inspired by a love of exotic wild cats). The ex-wife of a billionaire art dealer, she has undergone about seven surgical sessions including not only a facelift, but drastic eye reconstruction surgery and custom SUV-sized implants to her lips, cheeks, chin, and brow as well. Here she is in her latest incarnation.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Who else might we see trick-or-treating?</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SOQ5_BR7c2I/AAAAAAAABZk/CGq1BNVifDY/s1600-h/Rivers,Joan+5.2007.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 173px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SOQ5_BR7c2I/AAAAAAAABZk/CGq1BNVifDY/s400/Rivers,Joan+5.2007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252386820259017570" border="0" /></a>You can count on <span style="font-weight: bold;">Joan Rivers</span> (75) to show up. Her face has been around the block several times. Her last facelift is perhaps the most deforming; check out her <span style="font-style: italic;">Loose Women</span> appearance on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOpquHD4HJQ">YouTube</a>. The cheek and lip implants have left her face stiff and her speech a bit slurred.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SORBaEBnymI/AAAAAAAABaE/8-BE2B1vPjk/s1600-h/madame2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 100px; height: 132px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SORBaEBnymI/AAAAAAAABaE/8-BE2B1vPjk/s400/madame2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252394981433789026" border="0" /></a>She's got company. Several aging stars have opted for the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Madame</span> puppet look: too tight, too thin, all cheeks and chin. <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SOSyQA2VGqI/AAAAAAAABa8/8HmJv3abAtg/s1600-h/Parton.4.05.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 105px; height: 137px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SOSyQA2VGqI/AAAAAAAABa8/8HmJv3abAtg/s400/Parton.4.05.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252519053596367522" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Dolly Parton</span><span> (62) sleeps in her makeup when staying metropolitan high-rise hotels – just in case of emergency evacuation. Her wig is at the ready on the lamp shade.<br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SOSyPgXvYII/AAAAAAAABa0/_bqgoXyRrdI/s1600-h/faye+dunaway.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 105px; height: 131px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SOSyPgXvYII/AAAAAAAABa0/_bqgoXyRrdI/s400/faye+dunaway.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252519044878131330" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Faye Dunaway</span> (67), once among the most beautiful in Hollywood, also has an affinity with Madame after a recent touch-up to her cheeks.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SOSykXg1uaI/AAAAAAAABbE/EdM3OFN1Ojg/s1600-h/Stallone.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 109px; height: 109px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SOSykXg1uaI/AAAAAAAABbE/EdM3OFN1Ojg/s400/Stallone.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252519403277629858" border="0" /></a>There are those celebrity women whose decorative efforts merely accentuate the horrific. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jackie Stallone</span> (71) needn't say "boo!" Her makeup does it for her.<br /><br />Thinking about a Halloween video? Forget <span style="font-style: italic;">Nightmare on Elm Street</span>. Rent <span style="font-style: italic;">The Boynton Beach Club</span> and be ready to swear off geriatric sex after viewing <span style="font-weight: bold;">Loretta Swit</span> (70) and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Dyan Cannon</span> (71) animate their masks.<br /><br />But women don't have the worst of it. Off-camera, <a href="http://www.todaysface.com/Inconspicuous-Facelift-Incisions.html">tell-tale facelift results</a> can't be camouflaged as readily with hair and makeup if you're a guy.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">But men – they're just <span style="font-style: italic;">so</span> uni</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SOQrpF__HhI/AAAAAAAABZM/FMgoFKfAn6E/s1600-h/Douglas.4.05.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 103px; height: 133px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SOQrpF__HhI/AAAAAAAABZM/FMgoFKfAn6E/s400/Douglas.4.05.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252371050406026770" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">nhibited!</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SOQrpFz-iWI/AAAAAAAABZU/74YTnAk7dng/s1600-h/douglas.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 101px; height: 133px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SOQrpFz-iWI/AAAAAAAABZU/74YTnAk7dng/s400/douglas.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252371050355657058" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SOSzgq8-SAI/AAAAAAAABbc/N7dMJrMO6Ko/s1600-h/facelift-incisionsDON"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 105px; height: 106px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SOSzgq8-SAI/AAAAAAAABbc/N7dMJrMO6Ko/s400/facelift-incisionsDON" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252520439288055810" border="0" /></a>Pre-auricular incisions like <span style="font-weight: bold;">Michael Douglas's</span> (63) are placed in front of the tragus to avoid repositioning beard inside and behind the ears.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SOQonEJobrI/AAAAAAAABY0/oiQT3vIG2zk/s1600-h/Gest,David.02.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 113px; height: 134px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SOQonEJobrI/AAAAAAAABY0/oiQT3vIG2zk/s400/Gest,David.02.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252367717014990514" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SOSzghC_xrI/AAAAAAAABbU/CyihgIstQR8/s1600-h/facelift-incisions+DO.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 105px; height: 108px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SOSzghC_xrI/AAAAAAAABbU/CyihgIstQR8/s400/facelift-incisions+DO.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252520436628965042" border="0" /></a>It's very tricky to preserve the characteristically male pre-auricular bare skin and sideburn; obliterate both and you get <span style="font-weight: bold;">David Gest's</span> (55) look. He's shaving right into his ears! His tragus is pulled foward by placing the incision behind it and the scar resurfaces in what's left of his sideburn.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SOQonUAoqCI/AAAAAAAABZE/MUlRr9N7pcU/s1600-h/Reynolds,+Burt.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 104px; height: 133px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SOQonUAoqCI/AAAAAAAABZE/MUlRr9N7pcU/s400/Reynolds,+Burt.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252367721272223778" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SOSzgbdO4vI/AAAAAAAABbM/P_dAbOAjDsU/s1600-h/vectors.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 166px; height: 112px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SOSzgbdO4vI/AAAAAAAABbM/P_dAbOAjDsU/s400/vectors.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252520435128394482" border="0" /></a>But my favorite male mask belongs to <span style="font-weight: bold;">Burt Reynolds</span> (72). Even his toupee can't hide his pixied earlobes and the pulled, unnatural vectors.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SORV9oQUGUI/AAAAAAAABac/3Wv4zhJ5YUc/s1600-h/Rourke,Mickey2007.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 112px; height: 138px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SORV9oQUGUI/AAAAAAAABac/3Wv4zhJ5YUc/s400/Rourke,Mickey2007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252417582687066434" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SORZcMzYjAI/AAAAAAAABak/D7AVtkHjGOo/s1600-h/thompson.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 108px; height: 139px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SORZcMzYjAI/AAAAAAAABak/D7AVtkHjGOo/s400/thompson.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252421406428793858" border="0" /></a>Another popular male choice is to dress up as an alien. How else do you explain <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mickey Rourke's</span> (56) chosen look? Or his fellow extraterrestrial, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Scott Thompson</span> (43), aka Carrot Top?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SOS2G86riPI/AAAAAAAABbk/BHi3h9fnUXw/s1600-h/stallone,j.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 102px; height: 133px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SOS2G86riPI/AAAAAAAABbk/BHi3h9fnUXw/s400/stallone,j.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252523295968561394" border="0" /></a>The Brits love <a href="http://www.stlvicarsandtarts.com/#/whatyoumissed/4528642943">Tarts and Vicars</a> fancy dress parties and changing sex is a popular theme on this side of the pond as well! I think we'll be sticking with just the costume part of it for our own Halloween this year....<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">New Feature FM107.1 on Demand - audio archive</span><br />http://www.fm1071.com/ondemand/<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Did you miss hearing Anne</span> flesh it all out with <a href="http://www.fm1071.com/kevyn/index.shtml">Kevyn Burger</a> on-air? Use this link to find the <a href="http://www.fm1071.com/ondemand/">FM107.1 audio archive</a> of <span style="font-style: italic;">Knifestyles</span> broadcasts by date (second hour). Step one: select the date shown on the blog posting; step two: click on Kevyn Burger; step three: click on second hour. Enjoy!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342677981009030044.post-34237417986035396772008-09-18T09:07:00.012-05:002010-09-20T15:15:35.754-05:00Regrettable Rhinoplasties<span style="font-size:180%;"><br />D</span>oes seem as if young Hollywood starlets all share a common gene pool? The ubiquity of the narrow bridge, defined tip, straight dorsum– something distinctly American and that you won't find on screen in foreign films– isn't due to the great melting pot, it's the surgeon's knife.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Like diamonds, rhinoplasties are forever.</span> Once you've purchased it, you'll be wearing it for the rest of your life.<br /><br />The nose doesn't grow back or stretch with time. The very best of the rhinoplastic surgeons (and there are fewer of them than you think) can improve on a bad result, but revision surgery will never restore your original nose to your face.<br /><br />As they say in the business: "you want to hit a home run the first time you're up to bat."<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">So what makes for a poor result?</span><br /><br />First, an anatomical primer. Surgeons identify the supporting structure under the nasal skin by its anatomical parts:<br /><span id="myAbstract_lblAbstract"><span class="font11"><span class="font11" mbp="http://apache.org" idx="http://www.w3.org" msxml="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"> </span></span></span><blockquote><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNG5QHTlD0I/AAAAAAAABXA/bFV9gmFHrDM/s1600-h/noseanatomy.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 182px; height: 118px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNG5QHTlD0I/AAAAAAAABXA/bFV9gmFHrDM/s400/noseanatomy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247178727353552706" border="0" /></a><span id="myAbstract_lblAbstract"><span class="font11"><span class="font11" mbp="http://apache.org" idx="http://www.w3.org" msxml="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"><span style="font-style: italic;">From the apex or nasal tip, the columella projects inferoposteriorly toward the center of the superior lip, adjacent on either side to the nares. Encompassing the border of the nares are the alae of the nose superiorly and laterally, and the floor of the nose inferiorly. At the posterior aspect of the base of the nose is the piriform aperture, bordered superiorly and laterally by the frontal processes of the maxilla and the nasal bones. The inferior portion of the cartilaginous nose, otherwise considered the base of the nose, includes the lobule, which consists of the lower lateral cartilages, the tip, the alae, and the columella. In the midline, the posterior aspect of the medial crura of the lower lateral cartilages articulates with the caudal membranous septum. Anteriorly, the medial crura are enclosed within the columella. The lateral crura of the lower lateral cartilages project superiorly to overlap the inferior aspect of the upper lateral cartilages in the midline. Laterally, these crura loosely attach to the piriform aperture....</span></span></span></span></blockquote>And now to illustrate. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Double-click on any of these images to get a close-up.</span> Take a good look.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNGMJtAO2gI/AAAAAAAABTo/qBNtSDNjlD8/s1600-h/Jackson,early.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 100px; height: 100px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNGMJtAO2gI/AAAAAAAABTo/qBNtSDNjlD8/s400/Jackson,early.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247129139190618626" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNGMJoLf_ZI/AAAAAAAABTw/b1wAgLa4WLg/s1600-h/jackson.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 86px; height: 100px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNGMJoLf_ZI/AAAAAAAABTw/b1wAgLa4WLg/s400/jackson.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247129137895701906" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">The nose falls apart over time</span>, ie, the underlying architecture of the nose is so compromised that the look (and function) can't be maintained. Repeated surgeries become necessary. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Michael Jackson</span> (50) is the poster child for what is termed a 'crucified nose.'<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNHE183g1fI/AAAAAAAABXo/F8dstsX9tkU/s1600-h/latoya.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 100px; height: 115px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNHE183g1fI/AAAAAAAABXo/F8dstsX9tkU/s400/latoya.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247191472014415346" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNHFd4cC6xI/AAAAAAAABX4/gEDX8kBdEVc/s1600-h/Flockhart,+Calista.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 100px; height: 114px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNHFd4cC6xI/AAAAAAAABX4/gEDX8kBdEVc/s400/Flockhart,+Calista.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247192158020234002" border="0" /></a>Alternately, the surgical result may stay put but it's a look that <span style="font-weight: bold;">doesn't appear in nature</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">ala</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">LaToya Jackson</span> (51). Closely related to this phenonmenon is the 'operated look,' a nose that is plausible but clearly the result of surgery, distracting even to the untrained eye. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Calista Flockhart</span> (43) has just such a rhinoplasty. Her skin is thin and her resected greater alar cartilage on one side almost pokes through the tip, like a knuckle.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNGNkR6OqtI/AAAAAAAABT4/mxW7ocDmHPw/s1600-h/thomas,Marlo69.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 100px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNGNkR6OqtI/AAAAAAAABT4/mxW7ocDmHPw/s400/thomas,Marlo69.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247130695285779154" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNGNkYUM_HI/AAAAAAAABUA/dbsZg_4slAM/s1600-h/Thomas07.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 133px; height: 100px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNGNkYUM_HI/AAAAAAAABUA/dbsZg_4slAM/s400/Thomas07.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247130697005333618" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Scarring and overly aggressive resection of the cartilage</span> causes a 'pinched tip' (thinning of lateral cura) and/or 'notched nostrils' (lateral crus). That girl, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Marlo Thomas</span> (70) has both.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNGQns_BXUI/AAAAAAAABVA/bqDcJgYSRRk/s1600-h/jimjakejoan60s.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 104px; height: 125px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNGQns_BXUI/AAAAAAAABVA/bqDcJgYSRRk/s400/jimjakejoan60s.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247134052628127042" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNGO0E8q7bI/AAAAAAAABUY/R6aTIzE5O50/s1600-h/Rivers.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 105px; height: 125px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNGO0E8q7bI/AAAAAAAABUY/R6aTIzE5O50/s400/Rivers.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247132066195893682" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNGOzsA93UI/AAAAAAAABUI/b8V45fZhVTc/s1600-h/Rivers,Joan.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 116px; height: 125px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNGOzsA93UI/AAAAAAAABUI/b8V45fZhVTc/s400/Rivers,Joan.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247132059503025474" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNGOzxm7l_I/AAAAAAAABUQ/TGl53MYONnA/s1600-h/Rivers,Joan70%3F.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 116px; height: 125px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNGOzxm7l_I/AAAAAAAABUQ/TGl53MYONnA/s400/Rivers,Joan70%3F.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247132061004437490" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNGO0LRgcyI/AAAAAAAABUg/Qc9OJbq3axQ/s1600-h/Rivers01.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 104px; height: 125px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNGO0LRgcyI/AAAAAAAABUg/Qc9OJbq3axQ/s400/Rivers01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247132067893900066" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNGPCadohYI/AAAAAAAABUw/LZAa0C2XAhk/s1600-h/Rivers2.08.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 100px; height: 125px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNGPCadohYI/AAAAAAAABUw/LZAa0C2XAhk/s400/Rivers2.08.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247132312489461122" border="0" /></a><br />Her first cosmetic surgery was way back in 1965. <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://joanrivers.com/blog/">Joan Rivers</a> (73) was actually much prettier than she ever <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-456504/Plastic-surgery-addict-Joan-Rivers-unmasked.html">thought she was</a> and her initial surgeries made her only slightly less so. But her nose has been, for some time now, the classic example of <span style="font-weight: bold;">too much, too often.</span> The net result is a 'putty nose,' one which looks as if it was fashioned out of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silly_putty">silly putty</a> and stuck on her face.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNGXwQrtrOI/AAAAAAAABVg/lOwY3yjviRk/s1600-h/lilkim2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 82px; height: 100px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNGXwQrtrOI/AAAAAAAABVg/lOwY3yjviRk/s400/lilkim2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247141896231169250" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNGXbwBiluI/AAAAAAAABVI/1ODho-5jVPY/s1600-h/lil-kim0208.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 101px; height: 100px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNGXbwBiluI/AAAAAAAABVI/1ODho-5jVPY/s400/lil-kim0208.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247141543866963682" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Now you see it, now you don't.</span> Onlay grafts to build up the dorsum are always tricky. Alloplastic grafts (eg, silicone, gortex) tend to become infected and extrude; allografts (eg, cadaver donor tissue) reabsorb over time. Only autogenous ones (eg, the patient's own septal/ear cartilage, rib, iliac bone) tend to last. Just ask <span style="font-weight: bold;">Lil' Kimberly Jones</span> (33).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNGbzIalKsI/AAAAAAAABV4/ZBCCibY2daM/s1600-h/ryan83.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 84px; height: 100px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNGbzIalKsI/AAAAAAAABV4/ZBCCibY2daM/s400/ryan83.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247146343597943490" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNGbzKFx-iI/AAAAAAAABVw/HIjd1AToWKs/s1600-h/ryan01+pollybeak.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 84px; height: 100px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNGbzKFx-iI/AAAAAAAABVw/HIjd1AToWKs/s400/ryan01+pollybeak.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247146344047573538" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNGbyygkxJI/AAAAAAAABVo/XXlY_eYjShc/s1600-h/Ryan08.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 88px; height: 100px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNGbyygkxJI/AAAAAAAABVo/XXlY_eYjShc/s400/Ryan08.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247146337717503122" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Polly want a cracker? </span>No. The pollybeak deformity is a disproportionate fullness in the supratip which evolves postsurgically. It can be cartilagenous or soft tissue in nature and is often the result of a misjudgment on the surgeon's part. Furthermost left is a 1983 preoperative photo of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Meg Ryan</span> (46); the next two date from '01 and '08.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNGfXvsCUNI/AAAAAAAABWI/_ifZzRYA1hQ/s1600-h/Hilton2.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 88px; height: 100px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNGfXvsCUNI/AAAAAAAABWI/_ifZzRYA1hQ/s400/Hilton2.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247150271150313682" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNGfX0stLGI/AAAAAAAABWQ/fcEV1HcJfB4/s1600-h/Hilton3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 90px; height: 100px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNGfX0stLGI/AAAAAAAABWQ/fcEV1HcJfB4/s400/Hilton3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247150272495299682" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNGfW61gSEI/AAAAAAAABWA/UIWTxenfkTo/s1600-h/Hilton,Paris.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 75px; height: 100px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNGfW61gSEI/AAAAAAAABWA/UIWTxenfkTo/s400/Hilton,Paris.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247150256962947138" border="0" /></a>Excessive 'columella show' can cause the operated nose to have the <span style="font-weight: bold;">appearance of a long, drooping tip</span>. And seeing inside someone's nostril can provide fodder for embarrassing rumors about what's up inside there. Here are three postoperative views of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Paris Hilton</span> (27).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNGu_OF_1dI/AAAAAAAABW4/9RT4Ys43QUY/s1600-h/Dempsey87.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 92px; height: 120px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNGu_OF_1dI/AAAAAAAABW4/9RT4Ys43QUY/s400/Dempsey87.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247167442001581522" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNGu-6LLIXI/AAAAAAAABWo/ws3vxvoW2_s/s1600-h/Dempsey,Patrick08+copy.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 90px; height: 120px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNGu-6LLIXI/AAAAAAAABWo/ws3vxvoW2_s/s400/Dempsey,Patrick08+copy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247167436654584178" border="0" /></a>Correction of <span style="font-weight: bold;">the twisted nose poses one of the greatest challenges</span> in septorhinoplasty. "My face is full of imperfections and it is what it is." Easy to say when you're Dr. McDreamy and have landed gigs as the face of both Versace and Avon campaigns this year. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Patrick Dempsey's</span> (41) rhinoplasty took place sometime around 1991-1994. Symmetry is defined by an imaginary line drawn equidistance between the medial canthus (inner corners of the eye) through the middle space of the two front teeth/cupid's bow.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNGky9w5hVI/AAAAAAAABWg/NC8PYOQ9br0/s1600-h/Grey,Jennifer87.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 82px; height: 100px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNGky9w5hVI/AAAAAAAABWg/NC8PYOQ9br0/s400/Grey,Jennifer87.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247156236343412050" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNGkys-YxDI/AAAAAAAABWY/n5IBa9t7t9Y/s1600-h/Grey2007.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 84px; height: 100px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SNGkys-YxDI/AAAAAAAABWY/n5IBa9t7t9Y/s400/Grey2007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247156231836582962" border="0" /></a>Perhaps the most incongruous mistake is when a perfectly natural-looking <span style="font-weight: bold;">result simply doesn't suit the wearer</span>. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jennifer Grey's</span> (48) new nose so disoriented her fans that her career faltered. Twenty years postoperatively, it still hasn't recovered.<br /><br />To hear more, tune in to hear Anne discuss it all with <a href="http://www.fm1071.com/kevyn/index.shtml">Kevyn Burger</a> on FM107.1 at 10am Thursday.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342677981009030044.post-18938686992157597242008-09-04T07:20:00.010-05:002009-07-09T14:40:19.174-05:00Political Faces<span style="font-size:180%;"><br />W</span>arren <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/wh29.html">Harding</a> swept to the 1920 Republican nomination largely because an Ohio promoter thought "He looked like a President." He won by an unprecedented landslide, 60% of the popular vote.<br /><p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Are we still voting by appearances? </span>Anything worth chattering about?<br /></p><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SL7da8T-BMI/AAAAAAAABQY/IxCmRfBrwqY/s1600-h/Obama,Michelle.teenager.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 109px; height: 131px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SL7da8T-BMI/AAAAAAAABQY/IxCmRfBrwqY/s400/Obama,Michelle.teenager.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241870471242056898" border="0" /></a>On the Democratic presidential ticket the first Black First Lady in-waiting, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Michelle Obama</span> (44) has guts and glamour, indisputable professional credentials, and is incredibly smart. There's an unflattering high school photo in her past and she chemically straightens her hair. And they put her in flats so her 5'11" frame doesn't tower over <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/us/politics/25wife.html">Jill Biden</a> (57). But that's about it.<br /></p><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SL9UiF8zzFI/AAAAAAAABTQ/ENMT3z8LhWc/s1600-h/jill_biden_350.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 138px; height: 162px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SL9UiF8zzFI/AAAAAAAABTQ/ENMT3z8LhWc/s400/jill_biden_350.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5242001435972062290" border="0" /></a>Dr. Biden, also a very handsome woman, appears to be aging without any knifestyling. Her skin is weathered from outdoor running and she dyes her hair. But that's about it. Yawn.<br /></p><p><span style="font-weight: bold;">If they both weren't such fabulous examples of vibrant womanhood, it'd be almost boring.</span><br /></p><p><a style="font-weight: bold;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SL7h4zjrO1I/AAAAAAAABQw/7oLDKwoGmnM/s1600-h/nialloloughlin.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 76px; height: 109px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SL7h4zjrO1I/AAAAAAAABQw/7oLDKwoGmnM/s400/nialloloughlin.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241875382334602066" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Obama</span> (47) himself is remarkable for being within the 35% of <a href="http://www.news-medical.net/?id=2381">adult Americans </a>who are at a healthy weight. His ears stick out and he has a gleaming smile. <a href="http://tinyurl.com/56qzpe">Cartoonists</a> and dentists across the land are celebrating.<br /></p><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SL8w6vNjvKI/AAAAAAAABSQ/ZNeMbBpOpPk/s1600-h/plugs.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 116px; height: 162px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SL8w6vNjvKI/AAAAAAAABSQ/ZNeMbBpOpPk/s400/plugs.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241962276946427042" border="0" /></a>Now <span style="font-weight: bold;">Joe Biden</span> (64) is a different matter.<br /></p><p>Back when the West was won, hair transplants looked like they were accomplished with a pop riveter - the so-called 'doll's hair' look. Until the late 1980s, the best method of hair transplantation involved 'plugs' that each contained 15 to 30 hairs. </p><p></p><p>Sen. Biden's early career foray into arms and hair control has become a little less obvious over time, thanks to revision with updated transplant techniques and greying hair. Nor was he alone: plugged-in along with him were the late senators <span style="font-weight: bold;">William Proxmire</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Strom Thurmond</span>.</p><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SL7xXjQm_qI/AAAAAAAABRI/_Exy1F1zo2A/s1600-h/Biden1972.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 104px; height: 117px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SL7xXjQm_qI/AAAAAAAABRI/_Exy1F1zo2A/s400/Biden1972.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241892403210026658" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SL7xXywhndI/AAAAAAAABRQ/X7kIIN5uoDA/s1600-h/biden+1981.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 95px; height: 117px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SL7xXywhndI/AAAAAAAABRQ/X7kIIN5uoDA/s400/biden+1981.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241892407370423762" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SL9FVbkl26I/AAAAAAAABSg/nFQsmG_dd8s/s1600-h/Biden2001.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 90px; height: 117px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SL9FVbkl26I/AAAAAAAABSg/nFQsmG_dd8s/s400/Biden2001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241984725763349410" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SL9GtvIFCoI/AAAAAAAABSw/V99fXOWGI7Y/s1600-h/Biden+1+29+02.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 94px; height: 118px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SL9GtvIFCoI/AAAAAAAABSw/V99fXOWGI7Y/s400/Biden+1+29+02.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241986242840955522" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SL9POSLwp9I/AAAAAAAABTA/0d3GeuW5BGI/s1600-h/joe-biden6.08.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 96px; height: 118px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SL9POSLwp9I/AAAAAAAABTA/0d3GeuW5BGI/s400/joe-biden6.08.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241995598100473810" border="0" /></a></p><p>The right-leaning blogosphere is roundly condemning the Vice Presidential candidate's "poor judgment" for undergoing "expensive cosmetic surgery" and deems it indicative of a character flaw, akin to dishonesty (which already plagues Biden): "a blatant sign of vanity above substance."<br /></p><p>Would they feel the same way if it came out that Obama's white sparklers were veneers? After all, the ivories are <a href="http://tinyurl.com/6nq5dl">all capped in Hollywood</a>. (And tinsel town has it's share of <a href="http://knifestyles.blogspot.com/2007/07/hair-give-me-head-of-hair.html">balding beaus battling back</a>, too. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Rob Schneider</span><span>,</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ben Affleck</span><span>,</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Matthew McConaughey</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Brendan Fraser</span>, and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Tom Hanks</span> have all been rumored to have had hair transplants.)</p><span style="font-weight: bold;">But now for the Republican half of the ticket. Ladies first.</span><br /><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SL8OJsrLIEI/AAAAAAAABRw/iyAaz7COnNs/s1600-h/McCain,Cindy.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 95px; height: 141px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SL8OJsrLIEI/AAAAAAAABRw/iyAaz7COnNs/s400/McCain,Cindy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241924051056402498" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cindy McCain</span> (54) has had a little thing for stolen prescription opioids, but is more widely criticized for being "plastic." You'll never find a photo of her with crowsfeet or wrinkled brow. But is it deeper than too much bleach and Botox? Her ears show no obvious signs of a traditional cut-and-pull facelift, but her face is tight, the neck is remarkably taut, and her jaw is free of jowling....something you just don't find in nature. Her face work is as carefully done as <span style="font-weight: bold;">Hillary Clinton's</span>. This photo shows those pearls are real.<br /></p><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SL8dsh7AGoI/AAAAAAAABSI/PVjj-EMfxv0/s1600-h/juneaujuno.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 113px; height: 141px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SL8dsh7AGoI/AAAAAAAABSI/PVjj-EMfxv0/s400/juneaujuno.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241941142139837058" border="0" /></a>Pro-life, pro-gun, pro-drilling, abstinence-only creationist, the undeniably beautiful <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sarah Palin</span> (44) has received a lot of attention for producing her fifth child virtually undetected. Scott Sloan appears to have the only <a href="http://tinyurl.com/5q7zp9">footage</a> from February showing the Alaskan governor just 8 weeks before she delivered a 6 lbs, 2 oz baby.<br /></p><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SL8cjLSUaLI/AAAAAAAABSA/Jh3EcIZgz_8/s1600-h/Bristol.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 102px; height: 131px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SL8cjLSUaLI/AAAAAAAABSA/Jh3EcIZgz_8/s400/Bristol.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241939881933170866" border="0" /></a>Here is her daughter attending the RNC this week in St. Paul, at 5 months pregnant. The photo-op was deliberate, as both John McCain and Sarah Palin greeted the couple-to-be at the MSP airport.<br /></p><p>Medically, the timing is curious. Bristol Palin (17) conceived as a 16-year-old junior. Was it in defiance of her parents' prior decision to yank her from her boyfriend's high school midyear and take her home for some eight months? Or was it to finish something she started? There is one menstrual cycle gap between the two pregnancies.<br /></p><p style="font-weight: bold;">The real significance of this for the Elephant and the presidential contest is thoughtfully discussed <a href="http://tinyurl.com/5cxo7e">here</a>. <span style="font-weight: normal;">I predict conservative Christian voters will love this fertile family fable, for the same reasons they voted to sit down and have a beer with recovering alcoholic GWB.</span><br /></p><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SL9TZOTvkHI/AAAAAAAABTI/T4-75cLOGQs/s1600-h/22-Todd-Palin.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 82px; height: 109px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SL9TZOTvkHI/AAAAAAAABTI/T4-75cLOGQs/s400/22-Todd-Palin.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5242000184085287026" border="0" /></a>"First Dude" <span style="font-weight: bold;">Todd Palin</span> is a good 'ol boy with nothing knifestyle-worthy. At most, his elopement with the someday VP candidate coincided with the conception of his first born, Track (can't tell for sure since the Bristol and Track's birthdates have been scrubbed.)<br /></p><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SL8Dn8OI4gI/AAAAAAAABRo/FZYfynKUbR4/s1600-h/McCain.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 151px; height: 142px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SL8Dn8OI4gI/AAAAAAAABRo/FZYfynKUbR4/s400/McCain.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241912475997757954" border="0" /></a><span>Presidential nominee </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">John McCain's</span> (72) war injuries and torture have left him with limited range of motion in his arms. (According to fellow POW cellmate Colonel Bud Day, McCain had 3 fractures in his right arm, a fractured right knee, dislocated left arm, bayoneted left leg– before his captors starved him and hung him by his arms). That and a <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/drew-westen/catching-the-wrong-john-w_b_118064.html">loose zipper</a> seem to be his main contribution to today's subject.<br /></p><p>To hear more, tune in to hear Anne explore it all with <a href="http://www.fm1071.com/kevyn/index.shtml">Kevyn Burger</a> on FM107.1 at 10am Thursday.<br /></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;" ><span style=";font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:85%;" ></span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342677981009030044.post-85253020063482900862008-08-21T07:37:00.007-05:002009-07-09T14:40:37.365-05:00Freaks & the Fair (Sideshow Anomalies)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SKYh5YR1eNI/AAAAAAAABOA/ob5bGkQImkE/s1600-h/08_Masthead_Smallest.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SKYh5YR1eNI/AAAAAAAABOA/ob5bGkQImkE/s400/08_Masthead_Smallest.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5234908886518298834" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:180%;">A</span>s long as there have been circuses, carnivals, and fairs, there have probably been human oddities exhibited for public voyeurism: the <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/fts/tampa_200502A42.html">freak show</a>. It's not at all PC any more, but there it is.<br /><br />As science advanced in the 20th century, the once mysterious anomalies were explained as genetic mutations or diseases, and pity rather than fear or disdain became the norm. But deep <span style="font-weight: bold;">under the socialized response still lurks a morbid curiosity, a disturbing fascination with nature gone awry</span>.<br /><br />The real shift has been in venue: off the Midway and onto the internet.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SKyQkqqke2I/AAAAAAAABQI/cwT5RQskjaM/s1600-h/Jojo.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 195px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SKyQkqqke2I/AAAAAAAABQI/cwT5RQskjaM/s400/Jojo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236719426327575394" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">A distinction is made between "born freaks" and self-made freaks</span>. The latter is the most common today (if you don't believe me, check out the tattooed <a href="http://comejoinin.blogspot.com/2006/06/puff-magic-dragon-xxx-rated-beware.html">Puff the Magic Dragon</a>). In the late 19th century the fascination with abnormalities surged, partly due to the publication of Darwin's theories of evolution in 1859. During it's heyday, the outright fakes were "gaffed freaks" but medical conditions accounted for most of the authentic "oddities."<br /><br />The majority of these human marvels displayed themselves for their own reasons and quite often reaped large financial and personal rewards for doing so. Some performers, those not of legal age or mentally handicapped, were exploited against their will.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">For most, it was a way to make a living.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SKyNByV9ieI/AAAAAAAABP4/2QnspnRc09M/s1600-h/Merrick,Joseph.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 85px; height: 135px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SKyNByV9ieI/AAAAAAAABP4/2QnspnRc09M/s400/Merrick,Joseph.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236715528558316002" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Joseph Merrick</span> is familiar to many because of the the 1980 movie <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elephant_Man_%28film%29">The Elephant Man</a> starring <span style="font-weight: bold;">John Hurt</span>. Merrick had a disease only identified 100 years after his death. It was not elephantiasis or neurofibromatosis, but an extremely rare hereditary disorder: Proteus syndrome, named after the Greek god who could change his shape.<br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SKwYG2iB2XI/AAAAAAAABPA/SvEFpBwwF4c/s1600-h/Jackson.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 85px; height: 118px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SKwYG2iB2XI/AAAAAAAABPA/SvEFpBwwF4c/s400/Jackson.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236586972721568114" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SKyOsDs_-NI/AAAAAAAABQA/R6ZgVswX2zU/s1600-h/albinosisters.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 101px; height: 119px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SKyOsDs_-NI/AAAAAAAABQA/R6ZgVswX2zU/s400/albinosisters.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236717354284480722" border="0" /></a>Some of the conditions were skin-deep: albinos and "piebalds," the latter having the same disease <span style="font-weight: bold;">Michael Jackson</span> suffers from, vitiligo.<br /><br />Excessive hair in the wrong places could earn a gig as the "Bearded Lady" or "Dog Boy." Female beard growth is the result of a hormonal imbalance (usually androgen excess); wolfman hair arises from a rare genetic disorder known as hypertrichosis.<br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SKtE8HtjsRI/AAAAAAAABOQ/1VdcvkOE2qI/s1600-h/AnnaSwan%26WillisCarver.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 92px; height: 120px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SKtE8HtjsRI/AAAAAAAABOQ/1VdcvkOE2qI/s400/AnnaSwan%26WillisCarver.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236354791401304338" border="0" /></a>The pituitary gone amuck resulted in exploitable height differentials (before basketball or <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mike Myers's</span> movies were employment options). Today there's even a <a href="http://heightdifferentials.blogspot.com/">blog</a> devoted to it. But back in the mid-19th century, a woman like <a href="http://www.thehumanmarvels.com/2006/08/anna-swan-giantess-of-nova-scotia.html">Anna Swan</a> had limited career opportunities at 7' 5.5" tall.<span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span></span>At one time "the human skeleton" and "the fat lady" were sideshow draws; today emaciation and morbid obesity are on display for free.<br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SKtGUYVUb5I/AAAAAAAABOw/uFLIdn36m08/s1600-h/Morris,+James.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 103px; height: 151px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SKtGUYVUb5I/AAAAAAAABOw/uFLIdn36m08/s400/Morris,+James.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236356307691532178" border="0" /></a>"The Rubber Man," or if female "The Elastic Lady" were contortionists who had Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, an inherited disorder affecting the production of collagen, a connective tissue found throughout the body. In some it allows the skin to be pulled away from the body as if elastic (skin extensibility), in others joint hypermobility. <span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Congenital anomalies were highly prized.</span><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SKyK9Kf7SyI/AAAAAAAABPw/lDJuZN_8ukk/s1600-h/ChangandEng.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 95px; height: 138px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SKyK9Kf7SyI/AAAAAAAABPw/lDJuZN_8ukk/s400/ChangandEng.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236713250119961378" border="0" /></a>The archetype is perhaps conjoined twins, the most well known being the 19th century "Siamese twin" brothers <span style="font-weight: bold;">Chang and Eng</span>. Today their joined sternum and livers would be surgically separated with ease within the first months of life.<br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SKtE8SsjyRI/AAAAAAAABOo/xcHuqGxC3NA/s1600-h/lobsterboy.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 98px; height: 162px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SKtE8SsjyRI/AAAAAAAABOo/xcHuqGxC3NA/s400/lobsterboy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236354794349906194" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Grady "lobster boy" Stiles</span> was a big draw in this century. His hereditary deformity was ectrodactyly, where the fingers and toes are fused together to form claw-like extremities. The word literally translates as "monstrous fingers."<br /><br />(Our own Minnesotan <span style="font-weight: bold;">Bree Walker</span> was born with ectrodactyly and worked as a TV news anchor as well as roles such as the "Sabina, the Scorpion Lady" in the HBO series <span style="font-style: italic;">Carnivale</span>).<br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SKxjOYvJs1I/AAAAAAAABPI/g9Cg4KmCJbA/s1600-h/RecliningHermaphrodite.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 191px; height: 94px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SKxjOYvJs1I/AAAAAAAABPI/g9Cg4KmCJbA/s400/RecliningHermaphrodite.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236669565534581586" border="0" /></a>Intersex performers, individuals with both male and female secondary sex characteristics, have had their fans since before the time of Christ. At left is a famous 1st-century BC sculpture: "Reclining Hermaphrodite."<br /><h3><b></b> </h3><p><i><b></b></i></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SKtEa9A5CLI/AAAAAAAABOI/AUwjyJulk14/s1600-h/FreaksPoster.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 107px; height: 164px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SKtEa9A5CLI/AAAAAAAABOI/AUwjyJulk14/s400/FreaksPoster.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236354221593921714" border="0" /></a>In 1932, Tod Browning used his experience as a former member of a traveling circus to direct and produce <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freaks"><span style="font-style: italic;">Freaks</span></a>. This horror film about sideshow performers was based on Tod Robbins' short story <span style="font-style: italic;">Spurs</span>. Browning cast real people with deformities rather than using costumes and makeup– unheard of at the time.<br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Today's performers are for the most part "made freaks."</span> Witness the rise in the puppet look first popularized by that hand sock drag queen <a href="http://www.madameandme.com/">Madame</a>. Chin and cheek-submalar implants on skinny women with tight facelifts look like this. Madame should sue!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SKxkTeuqspI/AAAAAAAABPY/BmujeVWTvS8/s1600-h/madame.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 113px; height: 142px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SKxkTeuqspI/AAAAAAAABPY/BmujeVWTvS8/s400/madame.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236670752554136210" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SKxkTQGc3GI/AAAAAAAABPQ/aEfM9AZF634/s1600-h/Madonna1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 143px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SKxkTQGc3GI/AAAAAAAABPQ/aEfM9AZF634/s400/Madonna1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236670748627360866" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SKxkf1F-PsI/AAAAAAAABPo/D_4GHYS_XTA/s1600-h/Rivers,Joan74.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 106px; height: 143px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SKxkf1F-PsI/AAAAAAAABPo/D_4GHYS_XTA/s400/Rivers,Joan74.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236670964715896514" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;" ></span><br /><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=knifestylesbl-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B000L9SBRY&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="width: 120px; height: 240px; display: none;" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=knifestylesbl-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=1555839355&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="width: 120px; height: 240px; display: none;" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342677981009030044.post-74908521189738926032008-08-07T07:57:00.016-05:002010-09-20T16:30:17.736-05:00Best Breast Forward (A-Cup)<span style="font-size:180%;"><div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span></div>W</span>ho's flat and happy? A <span style="font-weight: bold;">sizable portion of the young Hollywood A-list is also an A-cup</span>. Here's just a sampling of those born to be boyish and not about to change it (we think).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SJoBp2MJ7kI/AAAAAAAABMA/0buLBKM5WIc/s1600-h/Paltrow,Gwyneth1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 118px; height: 99px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SJoBp2MJ7kI/AAAAAAAABMA/0buLBKM5WIc/s400/Paltrow,Gwyneth1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231495735577013826" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SJoBqPIBOnI/AAAAAAAABMI/FyUJHYaImqk/s1600-h/Messing,+Debra1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 107px; height: 99px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SJoBqPIBOnI/AAAAAAAABMI/FyUJHYaImqk/s400/Messing,+Debra1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231495742270552690" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SJoBqPHk1uI/AAAAAAAABMY/FSsSCvRZllQ/s1600-h/Portman,Natalie1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 108px; height: 100px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SJoBqPHk1uI/AAAAAAAABMY/FSsSCvRZllQ/s400/Portman,Natalie1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231495742268692194" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SJoBqezgG1I/AAAAAAAABMg/AyNvNwZ8kTY/s1600-h/Moss,Kate1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 112px; height: 100px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SJoBqezgG1I/AAAAAAAABMg/AyNvNwZ8kTY/s400/Moss,Kate1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231495746479463250" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SJoBqCiiOdI/AAAAAAAABMQ/YacOZE4YZM4/s1600-h/Hudson,Kate1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 104px; height: 100px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SJoBqCiiOdI/AAAAAAAABMQ/YacOZE4YZM4/s400/Hudson,Kate1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231495738892106194" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SJpqlfIsYtI/AAAAAAAABN4/fP0ZYxwkZ-g/s1600-h/Blair,Selma1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 106px; height: 100px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SJpqlfIsYtI/AAAAAAAABN4/fP0ZYxwkZ-g/s400/Blair,Selma1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231611109389918930" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">(Go ahead, guess which breasts go with which celebrity; scroll for hints*.)</span><br /><br />A lot of fuss was recently kicked up when <span style="font-weight: bold;">Keira Knightley</span> (23) recently refused to have her mammaries digitally enhanced in publicity stills for her upcoming film "The Duchess."<br /><br />But Knightley plays both sides. For the 2004 film promotion of "King Arthur" she was unaltered as the leather-clad Guinevere – but only in Great Britain. For the U.S. audience the studio supersized her natural A-cup chest to a boomy C-cup (the actual film must have been a twin disappointment.)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SJnyAIPjfqI/AAAAAAAABLY/JEPi_riwIw8/s1600-h/KingArthur.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 260px; height: 191px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SJnyAIPjfqI/AAAAAAAABLY/JEPi_riwIw8/s400/KingArthur.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231478526194187938" border="0" /></a>Knightley has previously spoken out in defense of photoshopping celebrities into an altered state by rationalizing that actresses are in the fiction business – and just as movies are all about fiction, so are posters and magazine pictures. <span style="font-style: italic;">"Films particularly deal with fantasy,"</span> she said.<br /><br />The trend to be thin and bone in Hollywood dictates that <span style="font-weight: bold;">most young starlets will have very little breast tissue</span> – unless they undergo surgical augmentation. No amount of tape will make cleavage out of 32-AA. A tight corset and "bosom makeup" will hint at it, though.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SJn2I0WnedI/AAAAAAAABLw/Ef0c-s2wT9E/s1600-h/Knightley2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 205px; height: 195px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SJn2I0WnedI/AAAAAAAABLw/Ef0c-s2wT9E/s400/Knightley2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231483073520433618" border="0" /></a>There are very practical up-sides to being less well-endowed. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Diane Keaton</span> was able to appear attractively nude at 57 (albeit with a LOT of body makeup) in the 2003 "Something's Gotta Give." At the same age the lovely <span style="font-weight: bold;">Scarlett Johansson's</span> body is going to look like <span style="font-weight: bold;">Kathy Bates</span> in "<a href="http://tinyurl.com/6py7r4">About Schmidt</a>." Only the slight (and childless) age gracefully.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SJn5hacDKBI/AAAAAAAABL4/pepc6H7fqlg/s1600-h/Keaton,Diane.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SJn5hacDKBI/AAAAAAAABL4/pepc6H7fqlg/s400/Keaton,Diane.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231486794595510290" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SJoC47D7vFI/AAAAAAAABMo/Od6UkMefD8k/s1600-h/renee1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 185px; height: 117px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SJoC47D7vFI/AAAAAAAABMo/Od6UkMefD8k/s400/renee1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231497094094371922" border="0" /></a>Of course if one gets pregnant or eats, things get bigger: breast tissue is mostly fat. Ask <span style="font-weight: bold;">Renee Zellweger</span>.<br /><br />But the truth is, flat-chested women are easier to dress than their DD sisters as any designer will confirm. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SJpppER8JHI/AAAAAAAABNw/ja5UHMuzLVw/s1600-h/Anderson,+Pamela.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 127px; height: 179px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SJpppER8JHI/AAAAAAAABNw/ja5UHMuzLVw/s400/Anderson,+Pamela.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231610071388791922" border="0" /></a>There's a reason the catwalk models are rail thin adolescents. A very busty woman will end up looking heavy in anything that isn't skin-tight. Just try putting <span style="font-weight: bold;">Pamela Anderson</span> into a double- breasted jacket or high neckline!<br /><br />There is probably never going to be a celebrity who will trade on a AA size bust the way Dolly Parton and Anderson have built a career on their twin peaks. But there is <span style="font-weight: bold;">definitely room in Hollywood for big talent with small breasts.</span><br /><br />Music from the show:<br /><br /><a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=/1AS6YfPfJU&offerid=146261.576552201&type=10&subid=">My Boobs Are Ok-Lene Alexandra<br /></a><br /><a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=/1AS6YfPfJU&offerid=146261.506025665&type=10&subid=">My Humps-Black Eyed Peas<br /></a><br /><br /><br />*and about those breasts....<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SJpnckj_duI/AAAAAAAABNQ/LUvfZVXR-Hc/s1600-h/Paltrow1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 70px; height: 68px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SJpnckj_duI/AAAAAAAABNQ/LUvfZVXR-Hc/s400/Paltrow1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231607657692886754" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SJpnclDKpzI/AAAAAAAABNA/p_I_itWFtKE/s1600-h/Messing.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 80px; height: 67px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SJpnclDKpzI/AAAAAAAABNA/p_I_itWFtKE/s400/Messing.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231607657823643442" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SJpncjVytnI/AAAAAAAABNI/o14S_2D2Qeg/s1600-h/Portman.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 79px; height: 67px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SJpncjVytnI/AAAAAAAABNI/o14S_2D2Qeg/s400/Portman.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231607657364895346" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SJpncqHDqqI/AAAAAAAABNY/tWgO1TR6jUY/s1600-h/Moss.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 81px; height: 67px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SJpncqHDqqI/AAAAAAAABNY/tWgO1TR6jUY/s400/Moss.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231607659182140066" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SJpncm6h67I/AAAAAAAABM4/y4XhdR8_IsU/s1600-h/Hudson.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 82px; height: 67px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SJpncm6h67I/AAAAAAAABM4/y4XhdR8_IsU/s400/Hudson.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231607658324290482" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SJpo7sqUikI/AAAAAAAABNo/D_c7_Rz-0N0/s1600-h/Blair1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 61px; height: 68px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SJpo7sqUikI/AAAAAAAABNo/D_c7_Rz-0N0/s400/Blair1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231609291954489922" border="0" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342677981009030044.post-86700732888017600872008-07-03T08:32:00.001-05:002009-07-15T22:11:29.043-05:00Read the Archives<span style="font-size:180%;">O</span>n va-ca-tion! Really, until August. Enjoy!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SIczOU4YBoI/AAAAAAAABLQ/AlQoXi2tZ24/s1600-h/vacation.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SIczOU4YBoI/AAAAAAAABLQ/AlQoXi2tZ24/s400/vacation.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5226202213803099778" border="0" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342677981009030044.post-91003079661654099242008-06-24T07:47:00.023-05:002010-09-20T16:31:03.000-05:00Plasticonomics & F. Scott Fitzgerald<span style="font-size:180%;"><div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span></div>T</span>oday we discuss the latest plastic surgery scandal: our credit is maxed!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SGDuK4UNYGI/AAAAAAAABJo/u04bJQkvYYA/s1600-h/women+%26+beauty+tx.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 331px; height: 224px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SGDuK4UNYGI/AAAAAAAABJo/u04bJQkvYYA/s400/women+%26+beauty+tx.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5215430239178285154" border="0" /></a>A NYTimes reporter "using a script, made identical anonymous calls to the offices of 48 prominent plastic surgeons" this month, mystery-shopping all the A-list offices across the US, and found...business is down. The <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/23/style/plastic.php">article</a> dubed it <span style="font-style: italic;">"plasticonomics: the new economic reality of vanity." </span><br /><br />About 90 percent of the doctors' offices offered consultation appointments in three weeks or less; about 94 percent offered surgery dates in June or July. Granted, plastic surgeons exaggerate much in the same way men do in locker rooms (<span style="font-style: italic;">"I'm bigger and I get more"</span>) – but this kind of accessibility means <span style="font-weight: bold;">top flight knife wielders are seeing business drop off pretty dramatically.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SGLGB8c-rpI/AAAAAAAABK4/FpwM-t9cPCs/s1600-h/fitzgeraldf.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 109px; height: 135px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SGLGB8c-rpI/AAAAAAAABK4/FpwM-t9cPCs/s400/fitzgeraldf.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5215949055158300306" border="0" /></a>F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote that the very rich <span style="font-style: italic;">"are different from you and me."</span>* The Grey Lady thinks F. Scott got it wrong. The <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/11/18/bloomberg/bxecon.php?page=1">article</a> cites a recent downturn in sales by retailers like Coach, Polo Ralph Lauren, and Tiffany's – but that's not <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SGMIUerivJI/AAAAAAAABLI/YE3v5YQgCxc/s1600-h/cindy_mccain.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 113px; height: 136px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SGMIUerivJI/AAAAAAAABLI/YE3v5YQgCxc/s400/cindy_mccain.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216021941351267474" border="0" /></a>where the very rich plunk down their <a href="http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.thetruthaboutcreditcards.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/american_express_black.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.thetruthaboutcreditcards.com/the-black-american-express-credit-card/&h=280&w=400&sz=42&hl=en&start=3&tbnid=Evk-V3wlH_NOeM:&tbnh=87&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhighest%2Bamerican%2Bexpress%2Bcard%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1B3GGGL_enUS265US266">Centurion Card</a>; that's where the middle class shoppers ape the rich. It's the disposable income of the upper and middle-class that is disappearing. There's not much belt-tightening going on at Hermès, <a href="http://tinyurl.com/3s4pbl">Chanel Haute Couture</a>, and Van Cleef & Arpels.<br /><br />If you're struggling to make the house payment the same week you've filled the gas tank, then yes, you're going to think twice about plunking down $7,000 for a browlift. You might opt for $500 worth of botox instead. As the economy has headed down, the number of <span style="font-style: italic;">non-surgical</span> procedures has risen. But the number of cosmetic surgeries performed has never recovered to pre-9/11 levels. Data from the last six months of economic turn-down isn't yet available.<br /><br />And that's why we love Hollywood. <span style="font-weight: bold;">They are rich and they are different from you and me.</span><br /><br />Two movies opened this week at the box office: <a href="http://www.lovegurumovie.com/">"The Love Guru</a>" and <a href="http://getsmartmovie.warnerbros.com/">"Get Smart</a>."<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SGK031aQYKI/AAAAAAAABJ4/tqWSgVbFoz0/s1600-h/Hathaway,+Anne.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 169px; height: 118px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SGK031aQYKI/AAAAAAAABJ4/tqWSgVbFoz0/s400/Hathaway,+Anne.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5215930189771464866" border="0" /></a>"Get Smart" has as it's premise that our aging Agent 99 has undergone extreme plastic surgery to reinvent herself as a 20-something (<span style="font-style: italic;">"and prettier, too"</span>), all in the name of espionage. Casting <span style="font-weight: bold;">Anne Hathaway</span> (26) isn't much of a stretch. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Steve Carell</span> (45) is meant to be her peer.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">I wonder why anyone in the screenwriters' guild thought that was fiction?</span><br /><br />Well, perhaps they just couldn't find any 45 year-old actress who'd undergone surgery to look 20 years younger to play the part.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SGK0Ik2UNDI/AAAAAAAABJw/tSzjP5eiB9M/s1600-h/getsmart.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 124px; height: 131px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SGK0Ik2UNDI/AAAAAAAABJw/tSzjP5eiB9M/s400/getsmart.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5215929377871901746" border="0" /></a>The 1960s originals were not an option. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Don Adams</span> (82) died in 2005 just four years short of his agent number. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Barbara Feldon</span> (76) is still kicking.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SGK6HoN0aRI/AAAAAAAABKA/viebbu-elwM/s1600-h/Adams,Don2004.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 94px; height: 127px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SGK6HoN0aRI/AAAAAAAABKA/viebbu-elwM/s400/Adams,Don2004.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5215935958665685266" border="0" /></a>While Adams clearly had some unpleasant visits to the dermatologist in his later years, Feldon appears to have stayed out of the sun. Prior to promoting her 2002 "Living Alone and Loving It" she spent her book advance on a facelift and browlift with nice results. The teeth are a little much. She's continued to have work done but is beginning to look less like herself these days.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SGK68Tt03PI/AAAAAAAABKY/x7zmsamuLpM/s1600-h/Feldon.1:2003.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 91px; height: 120px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SGK68Tt03PI/AAAAAAAABKY/x7zmsamuLpM/s400/Feldon.1:2003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5215936863695854834" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SGK68PtoezI/AAAAAAAABKQ/rUmuCJbk7fw/s1600-h/11.2003.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 84px; height: 120px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SGK68PtoezI/AAAAAAAABKQ/rUmuCJbk7fw/s400/11.2003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5215936862621301554" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SGK68PuJ2KI/AAAAAAAABKI/PCUYNaIvcyQ/s1600-h/10.2006.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 98px; height: 121px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SGK68PuJ2KI/AAAAAAAABKI/PCUYNaIvcyQ/s400/10.2006.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5215936862623488162" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SGK-MWlJM6I/AAAAAAAABKo/wZ2Deu5deLA/s1600-h/6.2008.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 96px; height: 123px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SGK-MWlJM6I/AAAAAAAABKo/wZ2Deu5deLA/s400/6.2008.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5215940437877535650" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SGLAOwtSOvI/AAAAAAAABKw/8Qwk6cfQ6co/s1600-h/LeCoq2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 124px; height: 159px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SGLAOwtSOvI/AAAAAAAABKw/8Qwk6cfQ6co/s400/LeCoq2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5215942678273997554" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SGL9gdMgxyI/AAAAAAAABLA/AEt2lUjRerc/s1600-h/Alba,+Jessica2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 81px; height: 205px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SGL9gdMgxyI/AAAAAAAABLA/AEt2lUjRerc/s400/Alba,+Jessica2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216010052483204898" border="0" /></a>And the competition on screen number two? So far, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mike Meyer's</span> rubber nose in "The Love Guru" is not making him any richer at the box office.<br /><br />The rumor about <span style="font-style: italic;">Le Coq</span> smuggling a schnauzer in his speedo? Not true– that's just careful positioning of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Justin Timberlake's</span> junk in a too small box. And co-star <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jessica Alba</span> (27) has not spent her vanity dollars on a pair of flotation devices, either. Come to think of it, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Romany Malco</span> may not look much like a hockey player, but what a swimmer's body!<br /><br />Okay, I digress.<br /><br />Back to economically-challenged you and me. <span style="font-weight: bold;">What's a middle class girl to do?</span> Pay off your credit cards! No, wait, I understand. To make your vanity dollars stretch the farthest consider the following economies:<br /><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Don't buy OTC anti-aging products</span>– shop the high-strength brands available only through physicians' offices and ask about satisfaction guarantees.</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Try Botox before surgery</span>– in the right hands a modest investment will give you a chemical browlift and open up your eyes for 4-6 months.</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Buy packaged services</span>, like lipodissolve for spot reduction or laser treatments for veins– you know exactly what you are spending and the results are great.</li></ul><br /><br />*from<span style="font-weight: bold;"> The Rich Boy</span>, published 1926: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft, where we are hard, cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand."</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342677981009030044.post-67730358854112490352008-05-22T08:33:00.001-05:002009-07-15T22:14:05.696-05:00Yeeow-ouch<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SDTO2nFm4mI/AAAAAAAABJI/D9o_ZbakR4I/s1600-h/discomfort.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 222px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SDTO2nFm4mI/AAAAAAAABJI/D9o_ZbakR4I/s400/discomfort.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5203010907120525922" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">S</span>ad to say, even the best of us can be laid low by....sciatica. And me, too. Not the least bit glamorous, but there it is. Next broadcast and posting in June! Send your topic requests in now and take my mind off this horrible nerve pain.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342677981009030044.post-91352648730433344382008-05-15T13:24:00.005-05:002010-09-20T16:31:44.218-05:00Tanorexic Teens in the Booth<div><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">M</span>ust we repeat ourselves? It seems we must. The <a href="http://www.theita.com/">Indoor Tanning Association</a> (ITA), industry mouthpiece for the tanning bed merchants, has launched the oxymoronic <span style="font-style: italic;">"heathy tan."</span><br /><br />The ITA exists for the purpose of <span style="font-style: italic;">"promoting responsible sun care and sun burn prevention"</span> in the same way Altria (aka Phillip Morris) promotes public health in third-world countries. It <span style="font-style: italic;">"represents thousands of indoor tanning manufacturers, distributors, facility owners and members from other support industries"</span> employing <span style="font-style: italic;">"more than 160,000 people and...more than $5 billion annually..." </span><br /><br />If you go by the ITA <a href="http://www.theita.com/news/news.cfm?FeedID=2">press release page</a>, the <span style="font-style: italic;">"sunshine vitamin"</span> D is a cure-all for cancer and scientists are just one short step away from endorsing indoor tanning beds as a drug delivery device. The campaign is aimed at those <span style="font-weight: bold;">least likely </span>to be deficient in vitamin D: young, caucasian female teenagers.<br /><br />This week's <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/136310">Newsweek</a> provides an article summarizing the ITA's fallacious assertions. The average amount of sun required by said caucasian teenagers is 5 minutes 3x week of unprotected midday (10am - 4pm) sun exposure. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SCyPXeyESzI/AAAAAAAABJA/sgdtlNdt8-g/s1600-h/burkas.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SCyPXeyESzI/AAAAAAAABJA/sgdtlNdt8-g/s400/burkas.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5200689303268903730" border="0" /></a>Just think about <span style="font-style: italic;">trying</span> to avoid that amount of sunlight. <a href="http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/node/5273">Researchers</a> have found the highest incident of vitamin D deficiency in otherwise health women of the Middle East: those covered head-t0-fingertip in burkas. I'm not kidding.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342677981009030044.post-43974663118606561832008-05-08T06:38:00.011-05:002010-09-20T16:32:13.505-05:00A Picture is Worth... (Before & Afters)<span style="font-size:180%;"><br />... A</span> thousand disclaimers to the contrary. <span class="bodynews">After all, a celebrity is more likely to admit to having herpes than cosmetic surgery. A recent <a href="http://tinyurl.com/3nkqhn">NYTimes</a> article featuring an <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23359042/from/ET/">MSNBC</a> article featuring the opinions of a celebrity blogging surgeon (how's that for sourcing?) purported to <span style="font-style: italic;">reveal all</span> in pictures.<br /><br />The running commentary of the star-studded slide show was meant to expose the not-so-pretty results of rejuvenation surgery. To really have an eye for the faces you need to be both predisposed to gossip and have had a lot of time holding the knife, so to speak. <span style="font-weight: bold;">A general plastic surgeon who is young, relatively inexperienced (in surgeon years), and not terribly savvy about facial plastics is going to miss quite a lot.</span><br /><br />Let's have a little look-see.<br /><br />Here are some of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">then-and-now photos</span> and quotes from the <a href="http://tinyurl.com/56kuh2">MSNBC pictorial,</a> along with some tips from <span style="font-style: italic;">moi</span>. Just double click on any photo or link for a closer look.<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SCJPspzvMOI/AAAAAAAABG4/pK075vS4m7M/s1600-h/Kidman,+Nicole.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 172px; height: 125px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SCJPspzvMOI/AAAAAAAABG4/pK075vS4m7M/s400/Kidman,+Nicole.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197804548494668002" border="0" /></a><span class="bodynews"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Nicole Kidman</span> (40) is not showing "classic botox brow" here in this side-by-side; what it does show is a lot of grey and hair extensions. <a href="http://knifestyles.blogspot.com/2007/07/botox.html">This</a> is what botox brow looks like. Kidman is currently off the juice due to her pregnancy and has the <a href="http://knifestyles.blogspot.com/2008/02/roses-are-red-violets-are-violet.html">brow movement</a> to prove it. (PS: red lipstick was <span style="font-style: italic;">not</span> a good look in 1997.)<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SCJUJJzvMSI/AAAAAAAABHY/VYn0WLTPj-M/s1600-h/Rogers,+Kenny.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 176px; height: 126px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SCJUJJzvMSI/AAAAAAAABHY/VYn0WLTPj-M/s400/Rogers,+Kenny.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197809436167450914" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SCJUIpzvMQI/AAAAAAAABHI/duc6NU7E_64/s1600-h/rogers,kenny3.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 88px; height: 124px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SCJUIpzvMQI/AAAAAAAABHI/duc6NU7E_64/s400/rogers,kenny3.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197809427577516290" border="0" /></a><span class="bodynews">It's more than just "possible" </span><span class="bodynews"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Kenny Rogers</span> (69) has had a necklift; there's plenty of evidence of his facelift(s) as well in the side-by-side photos. </span><span class="bodynews">Compare the two necklines from 1985 (far left) and 2007 (middle). That turkey gobbler didn't go away on its own! Note as well the post-facelift choice of a goatee; most likely the surgeon hid the facelift scar behind the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragus_%28ear%29">tragus</a> and the natural beard line is now in there as well. </span><span class="bodynews">Just a little image googling shows Rogers had a previous blepharoplasty and facelift prior to this; h</span><span class="bodynews">is 9/2006 ear (near left) shows obvious signs of a lift, but the neck skin is much more lax than what he's sporting in 2007.</span><br /><span class="bodynews"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SCJoyZzvMXI/AAAAAAAABIA/RdcAQlEa0N4/s1600-h/auricula.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 122px; height: 193px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SCJoyZzvMXI/AAAAAAAABIA/RdcAQlEa0N4/s400/auricula.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197832135069610354" border="0" /></a><span class="bodynews"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The ear can potentially give you a lot of information about anyone's facelift.</span> Just as in tailoring, the seam has got to go somewhere. In men <a href="http://www.todaysface.com/Inconspicuous-Facelift-Incisions.html">the facelift incision</a> is most often placed in the preauricular position, in women it's looped around behind the tragus. Care must be taken to avoid loss of temporal hair/s</span>ideburn elevation, tragus elimination, earlobe dislocation/distortion, and visible scars in front of the ear– all too common mistakes.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SCJdSpzvMUI/AAAAAAAABHo/etIIZH6qlgA/s1600-h/Sarandon,+Susan+5.2008.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 91px; height: 115px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SCJdSpzvMUI/AAAAAAAABHo/etIIZH6qlgA/s400/Sarandon,+Susan+5.2008.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197819494980858178" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SCJdSJzvMTI/AAAAAAAABHg/xvb2KYTfrV0/s1600-h/Sarandon,+susan1.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 160px; height: 115px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SCJdSJzvMTI/AAAAAAAABHg/xvb2KYTfrV0/s400/Sarandon,+susan1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197819486390923570" border="0" /></a>Who's next?<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Susan Sarandon</span> (61) looks like she's "aging gracefully" in MSNBC's side-by-side, but sometimes you just need the right picture. Once again, google is your friend. There's plenty of evidence under her chin of a facelift in this 5/2008 candid (far right). Now look again at the MSNBC photos: her crowsfeet swing upward with the onset of aging...or a temporal lift.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SCJfTpzvMWI/AAAAAAAABH4/TfGFlxTbEdI/s1600-h/Madonna.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 181px; height: 130px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SCJfTpzvMWI/AAAAAAAABH4/TfGFlxTbEdI/s400/Madonna.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197821711183982946" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SCJfTJzvMVI/AAAAAAAABHw/GWeqiDxJh1I/s1600-h/madonna2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 89px; height: 130px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SCJfTJzvMVI/AAAAAAAABHw/GWeqiDxJh1I/s400/madonna2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197821702594048338" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Madonna</span> (49)? <span style="font-style: italic;">Excuse</span> me?!? Is the Pope Catholic? Yes, she's had a facelift. Yes, yes, yes, yes.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SCJpN5zvMYI/AAAAAAAABII/SqquzSCCAog/s1600-h/Stallone,+Rocky.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 108px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SCJpN5zvMYI/AAAAAAAABII/SqquzSCCAog/s400/Stallone,+Rocky.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197832607516012930" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sylvester Stallone</span> (61) does not look "more and more like his mother." He looks like an engorged p _ _ _ _. I can't say it, even in print. He has the classic signs of testosterone replacement in addition to <a href="http://knifestyles.blogspot.com/2007/03/vickie-lynn-needle.html">his hGH use</a>.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SCJ155zvMcI/AAAAAAAABIo/LcUqWZimSRE/s1600-h/Stallone2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 91px; height: 125px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SCJ155zvMcI/AAAAAAAABIo/LcUqWZimSRE/s400/Stallone2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197846557569790402" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SCJ2M5zvMeI/AAAAAAAABI4/m35XRx1HyL8/s1600-h/Stallone1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 98px; height: 109px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SCJ2M5zvMeI/AAAAAAAABI4/m35XRx1HyL8/s400/Stallone1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197846883987304930" border="0" /></a>That raw meat look comes from over-doing the hormone supplements. Not only has he had an upper blepharoplasty, he's had lips, <a href="http://knifestyles.blogspot.com/2008/02/hollywood-hunks-aging-or-not.html">browlift(s), and full facelift</a>. Check out the incision scars; there's no "maybe" about it.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SCJra5zvMbI/AAAAAAAABIg/JQbSV1LSICs/s1600-h/Presley,+Prescilla.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 223px; height: 159px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SCJra5zvMbI/AAAAAAAABIg/JQbSV1LSICs/s400/Presley,+Prescilla.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197835029877567922" border="0" /></a>And the NYTimes covergirl, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Priscilla Presley</span> (62)? That's a 40 year gap between images, but her nasolabial folds disappeared and her pucker got poutier. But what's the most obvious thing that jumps out at you? <span style="font-style: italic;">Her facelift!</span> Check out those ears, no before photo needed! This is not merely "Botox injections, Restylane injections, chemical peels and laser treatments...fat grafting...long-acting filler like Radiesse." <span style="font-weight: bold;">It's a facelift, boys and girls. Now, class dismissed.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342677981009030044.post-62150119168320333452008-04-24T06:17:00.007-05:002009-07-15T22:13:17.558-05:00Does She or Doesn't She? (Hair Coloring)<span style="font-size:180%;"><br />W</span>ell, I think we know. They <span style="font-style: italic;">ALL</span> do. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Seventy-five percent of adult American women color their hair.</span> We brush it, blow it, cut it, curl it, shampoo it, treat it, perm it, straighten it...but most of all we dye it.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SA_7SgZ-nWI/AAAAAAAABGE/z7OxsRbzYMg/s1600-h/does+she.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 141px; height: 141px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SA_7SgZ-nWI/AAAAAAAABGE/z7OxsRbzYMg/s400/does+she.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192645190736584034" border="0" /></a>Hair worship has been a part of Hollywood since film began. Technicolor became more affordable in the '50s and when Clairol simultaneously introduced the first one-step lightener and tint, dye jobs became a hit with just plain folks. <span style="font-style: italic;">"Does She or Doesn't She?"</span> ads convinced fashion-conscious homemakers for the first time that it was alright to color their hair.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SA_8EAZ-nXI/AAAAAAAABGM/xLK1qO_diMU/s1600-h/maureen-ohara1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SA_8EAZ-nXI/AAAAAAAABGM/xLK1qO_diMU/s400/maureen-ohara1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192646041140108658" border="0" /></a>Very few of those technicolor queens wore their real color on screen. The most famous of the natural redheads were <span style="font-weight: bold;">Katharine Hepburn</span>, the first freckle-faced, red-haired actress to become a major star, and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Maureen O'Hara</span> (87). (<span style="font-weight: bold;">Lucille Ball</span> self-described her natural color as "mousy brown." <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ann-Margret</span> (66) came into the world a brunette, ditto <span style="font-weight: bold;">Rita Hayworth</span>.) The first redhead was actually a <a href="http://tinyurl.com/l7am7">genetic error</a> originating 20,000 to 40,000 years ago. Red hair appears in people with two copies of a recessive gene on chromosome 16, causing a mutated MC1R protein. It's the rarest natural hair color in humans.<br /><br />Today's stars regularly go from light to dark and back again. It's nearly impossible to name one film actress who has maintained her natural hair color. Or even to name her natural hair color.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SA_8SwZ-nYI/AAAAAAAABGU/MB-9iWd1Qow/s1600-h/gereclooney_468x318.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 202px; height: 137px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SA_8SwZ-nYI/AAAAAAAABGU/MB-9iWd1Qow/s400/gereclooney_468x318.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192646294543179138" border="0" /></a>Male actors like <span style="font-weight: bold;">Brad Pitt</span> (44) change hair color frequently, but always ostensibly for a role. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Richard Gere</span> (58) and <span style="font-weight: bold;">George Clooney</span> (46) opt for greying naturally.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SBACAwZ-ncI/AAAAAAAABGw/YTLPy6eFd24/s1600-h/nkidman3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 84px; height: 112px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SBACAwZ-ncI/AAAAAAAABGw/YTLPy6eFd24/s400/nkidman3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192652582375300546" border="0" /></a>Let's pick on <span style="font-weight: bold;">Nicole Kidman</span> (40). Naturally ginger, she went really deep red with her <span style="font-style: italic;">Moulin Rouge</span> hair, then auburn, then the blond Bewitched stage, and now strawberry blond (usually). Kidman's gone grey, hence the chemical blonde-ing of her natural red. Look at the temple area where the grey takes the hair dye poorly. Being overly thin is a disadvantage: the hair falls out and gets dull (pregnancy hormones will temporarily help). She almost always appears on-screen and at galas with hair helpers in place (look for the bangs that often disguise the lace-front wig hairline).<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SA_5oQZ-nTI/AAAAAAAABFs/opWkOJ8nxQw/s1600-h/moulinrouge2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 82px; height: 103px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SA_5oQZ-nTI/AAAAAAAABFs/opWkOJ8nxQw/s400/moulinrouge2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192643365375483186" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SA_40gZ-nPI/AAAAAAAABFM/AGd2IfP2lLo/s1600-h/Kidman,4.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 94px; height: 102px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SA_40gZ-nPI/AAAAAAAABFM/AGd2IfP2lLo/s400/Kidman,4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192642476317252850" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SA_6SQZ-nUI/AAAAAAAABF0/FANHKLylpAA/s1600-h/Kidman,5.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 85px; height: 101px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SA_6SQZ-nUI/AAAAAAAABF0/FANHKLylpAA/s400/Kidman,5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192644086929988930" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SA_6SgZ-nVI/AAAAAAAABF8/IB2MO4g-h-A/s1600-h/Kidman,6.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 89px; height: 103px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SA_6SgZ-nVI/AAAAAAAABF8/IB2MO4g-h-A/s400/Kidman,6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192644091224956242" border="0" /></a><br /><br />And remember when "Highlights" used to be a magazine for kids? The <span style="font-style: italic;">NYTimes</span> recently meant something entirely different in <span style="font-style: italic;">A Girl's Life, With Highlights</span>. Lest you think the <a href="http://tinyurl.com/3lmqcs">article</a> celebrated intellectual or emotional empowerment in some way, let's be clear: it was enumerating hair. That's right, highlights as in hair. For the pre-teen crowd. Today's on-screen "tween" role models like Hanna Montana or Miley Cyrus aren't the least bit girlish about their hair (or scripted sexual histrionics).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SA_84gZ-nZI/AAAAAAAABGc/8exIMCVNhR0/s1600-h/AshleeHair.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 289px; height: 101px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EWTs85lrfn0/SA_84gZ-nZI/AAAAAAAABGc/8exIMCVNhR0/s400/AshleeHair.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192646943083240850" border="0" /></a>Young celebrities change their hair color as often as their shoes.<br /><br /><br />Most of my generation grew up with pink or blue-haired grandmothers. Our own mothers dabbled in color, but took to their grey with menopause. Less than 60 years ago only 7 percent of American women dyed to hide their gray. <span style="font-weight: bold;">But for a middle aged woman today? Grey? Almost anachronistic!</span><br /><br />What do we think when we see a man in a salon chair, his hair up in foils? Narcissistic? Gay? Or the aging Lothario covering his grey, ala The Donald? Why does it strike our eye as so odd (and desperate) for an aging man, but normal for a middle-aged woman? <span style="font-weight: bold;">Men can go grey and be cool. But when was the last time you saw a sexy grey-haired woman in a movie?</span><br /><br />Now, if you'll excuse me I'm off to get my hair colored.<br /><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=knifestylesbl-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=0316166618&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="width: 120px; height: 240px; display: none;" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0