Apr 26, 2010

About time

Hollywood to actors - No Surgery Please.
In small but significant numbers, filmmakers and casting executives are beginning to re-examine Hollywood’s attitude toward breast implants, Botox, collagen-injected lips and all manner of plastic surgery.

Television executives at Fox Broadcasting, for example, say they have begun recruiting more natural looking actors from Australia and Britain because the amply endowed, freakishly young-looking crowd that shows up for auditions in Los Angeles suffers from too much sameness.

“I think everyone either looks like a drag queen or a stripper,” said Marcia Shulman, who oversees casting for Fox’s scripted shows.

Now if they could just rein in the stylists.

Apr 18, 2010

Joe Klein Discovers a Fancy Word

"Seditious." via Drudgereport.

I know a fancy word too, Joe: "Defamation." And while the standard for "actual malice" is a bit higher for public figures, it is still lower than the burden of proof necessary to carry the felony of sedition.

And what is it with these Kleins anyway? The surname fittingly means "small", by the way.