Plastic Surgery & Celebrity Strategery in Politics/Culture/Journalism
The digital television revolution will bring a new wave of nausea for us all. Plastic surgery has become such a foundation for appearing on TV and in movies that almost everyone you’ve ever seen in those two mediums is going to look a little more like Frankenstein when you’ve switched over to Digital. For those who have been watching digital for years, or those avid plastic surgery watchers, this will be nothing new.
Recently I caught some of West Side Story on TV. So much of this film stands out, but the faces drove me crazy. The faces of the actors in West Side Story are the models for so many of the faces you see on the big and small screen—it’s ridunculous.
Well, it wasn’t a few minutes in before I saw the faces of the entire male cast of Friends among the supporting cast of the Jets. Joey is a straight copy of an actor in West Side Story- a member of the jets. Schwimmer and Perry are a mixture of another two.
I think Natalie Wood and Rita Moreno’s faces have been the foundations for women’s plastic surgery for a long time. Richard Beymer and Russ Tamblyn’s faces are still in huge circulation today.
Look at Richard Beymer in West Side Story, then look at Adrien Grenier or Jimmy Fallon or Ashton Kutcher’s faces—things click in. Look at Russ Tamblyn in West Side Story, then Danny Masterson from That 70’s show. Look at the leader of the Sharks in West Side Story and then Wilmer Valderama.
Any star you can think of has been cut. The secret to placing who, how and when is looking at the face. Who does the celebrity in front of you look like other than themselves and who they are related to? Each star got cut with either personal or historical models in mind or more popularly, the recent hotties of the age.
Look at the star’s face and start naming the different actors or celebrities they are trying to look like with their plastic surgery. They’ll usually have 4 or 5. If you can name more than 4 or 5 that means multiple cuts. Multiple cuts meaning multiple series of plastic surgery because it is a lot more popular to get the full Lewinsky—if you don’t mind the bad entendre--nose, cheeks, forehead, facelift, mouth, eyes, hairline.
The year or two that the faces appearing on the celebrity in question was the hottest or at their peak of success was when the cut was done. For example, if you are seeing variations of Lindsay Lohan, it has to be past 2003 that the cut was done and probably between 2004-2006. If it has hints of Catherine Zeta Jones, think 1999-2003. When you put four celebrities together you usually can zero in on the time better. Especially if you can remember when that celebrity was in public circulation during the 2 years.
I know this may not seem that political. But it relates more to politics than you think. Look at the TV journalist in front of you on TV or the politician in front of you and start playing the same game. It may be helpful to have a knowledge of famous journalist and politicians faces.
Every President has had plastic surgery since Nixon. I’d say further back but I’m not sure about LBJ—that dude was really frigging ugly.
Regardless, look at the presidential candidates or the “ready for primetime” politicians, they all have had plastic surgery. Doesn’t this alone present a feeling of dishonesty?
I am not trying to make anyone whose had plastic surgery feel uncomfortable. Especially if you had an accident or health problem that made this an unfortunate reality. I am simply fed up with the plastic fake face lying to me on the screen. The lies suck. But even if they were telling me the truth, I wouldn’t believe them. Any politician telling me I have to sacrifice or face facts when they have a plastic face is BS. It's BS anyways but it has even more contempt attached to it.
I have fallen in love with natural ugliness. I am disgusted with the surgical fakery. What kind of sicko does this to their body if they don't have to anyways? Think if you really want someone who has had extensive plastic surgery making any important decisions that affect your life.
I don’t trust someone who got a nose job, forehead job, cheek job, eye job, switched their bottom lip and top lip, and pulled all the flesh on their face back 3 or 4 times to make the type of decisions for the betterment of my long term future.
Just the side effects of multiple surgeries like this--the grogginess, the dependence on pain killers, the time spent recovering, not to mention the real dangerous potential health and mental side effects are enough to occupy and distract a person for a long time. Long enough for them to make critical mistakes.
I want someone who can look at themselves in the mirror and deal with it making important decisions for our government. I don’t want someone who may be more concerned about their upcoming nose job or botox injections or collagen injections making any decisions affecting my life at all, let alone reporting news to me or trying to make me laugh.
Our culture has become dismal. Place the Face and Name the Date to see how dismal it all is.
I am not naïve to some of the realities of working in media and politics. The JFK/Nixon TV debate has been made too much of. The same people who say JFK/Nixon TV debate won JFK the election, then claim JFK stole the election anyway and vice versa. Those are the historical fallacies of our time, they shouldn’t be excuses to force anyone in politics or journalism to get extensive plastic surgery.
Maybe this is just the Dread Pirate Robins from the Princess Bride, where many different people play the same role over time and all you need is the branding and the look and you can have anyone play a star.
How many doubles does the Secret Service produce of the President? How far ahead do they do it? Are there a whole load of unhappy McCain and Palin doubles right now?
What about Saddam Hussein? How many doubles did he have? Was that Saddam who actually got hung? How do we know? We don’t.
Did Bill Clinton really have quadruple bypass surgery or was that the cover for the extensive plastic surgery he got in 2004? Often fake health problems are the cover for plastic surgery for celebrities. That kind of crap is what a PR firm makes its money off of.
How do we know the person speaking to us is really who they are? Because they look or sound like they do mainly. If you are not interacting with this person and just seeing a political speech or a news report, in the age of plastic surgery, how will you know who is who? You won’t.
If there are Presidential doubles, how do we know when the actual President is doing something and the double isn’t. Who decides when the double does stuff? The secret service?
There is a lot more to discuss, but I don’t want to overdo it. More later.
Please play, Place the Face, Name the Date! Enjoy the Cubist deconstruction of a celebrity's face and see the fakeness matrix at work. You may learn something about someone you know or trust. What could go wrong with that? (Irony implied)