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Katie Couric To Undergo (Another) Facelift
Woman's Wear Daily | Greg Lindsay

Posted on 02/17/2004 5:15:25 PM PST by MindBender26

READY FOR HER CLOSE-UP:

Hemlines, rather than hairlines, are usually the fashion world’s focus, but Katie Couric’s current ’do may be worthy of special scrutiny. The new bangs she’s been sporting on the “Today” show lately aren’t just part of a trend — sources said they’re about to double as camouflage.

America’s Pixie is on the verge of going under the knife for a major brow-lift courtesy of Dr. Craig Foster, the plastic surgeon best known for reconstructing the face of the Central Park jogger, according to sources familiar with the situation.

While such a procedure might seem a bit drastic in the age of drive-through Botoxing, Couric and her TV personality peers have a new reason to be afraid about losing their looks — high-definition television. The super-sharp imagery of HDTV is infamously pitiless about its subjects’ looks. “In the last few months, I’ve had three major TV people come in expressing specific high-definition television concerns,” said plastic surgeon Dr. Cap Lesesne.

“HDTV is a nightmare,” said one beauty editor. “I would be surprised if she wasn’t considering surgery.” The “Today” show isn’t currently broadcast in HDTV, but NBC was an early adopter and it will likely happen sooner rather than later.

A spokeswoman for Foster said, “We do not know anything about it,” and a “Today” spokeswoman declined comment.

Last fall, New York magazine named Foster one of “beauty’s best” doctors in the city, and noted that he had started using the Endotine brow-lift treatment that sources said Couric will likely undergo. Endotine patients have small incisions made in the forehead where tiny hooks are inserted that pull the skin of the brow taut. Six to eight weeks after insertion, the skin resettles at the higher elevation, while the hooks — which are biodegradable —gradually melt away six months later. Initially, the change in appearance can be jarring, and during those six weeks the patient’s skin gradually crawls up her face — something “Today” show obsessives might chart if Couric’s new bangs (a common camouflage technique) weren’t in place.

“In her business, and I know her very well,” said Lesesne, “there’s a life span, and there are hundreds of people behind her who want her job. And this is her image she’s protecting.” —


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To: MindBender26
So what are they going to do about the rest of her face!
21 posted on 02/17/2004 5:31:12 PM PST by LADY J
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To: MindBender26
America’s Pixie

Maybe if all the children of America close their eyes and say "I believe in pixies," Katie will come through.

22 posted on 02/17/2004 5:32:03 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: MindBender26
Divine intervention would be a plastic surgeon who served in the National Guard during Vietnam and mysteriously goes AWOL during the middle of her surgery. One can dream.
23 posted on 02/17/2004 5:32:56 PM PST by TADSLOS (Right Wing Infidel since 1954)
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To: hole_n_one

Bartender, I'll have a martini, but replace the gin with botox....

24 posted on 02/17/2004 5:32:56 PM PST by freebilly
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To: MindBender26
The Today show ratings have been falling. She thinks looking prettier will fix them.

Did you see the cable news ratings on Drudge a couple of days ago? The highest thing on CNN ws Larry King at 0.8 to O'Reily's 2.2, Hannity and Combs, 1.7 and Greta's 1.2 and Sheps 1.0.

Arron Brown was at 0.5. Cnn is falling into a tie with MSNBC. Dennis Miller is at a 0.2 in CNBC.

The miller show is crazy. We have known since 1939 that you can't do humor on TV with out an audience or at least a sound track. Humor requires a group response to be funny.

Jocks on radio use stingers, bumbers and other sound and music to create a group response. I can't believe how little the people running TV channels know about their business.

And Kaplan to MSNBC has to be the dumbest thing I've seen. I guess he plans to split Larry Kings 0.8 into two 0.4s He is the man who made CNN the Clinton news network. He will take MSNBC far left to obivion with CNN trying to out left him.

Roger Ailes had to think he is the luckiest man in the world.

25 posted on 02/17/2004 5:33:04 PM PST by Common Tator (The super bowl gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "Boob Tube")
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To: MindBender26
Can you still be defined as a "Pixie" at 47?
26 posted on 02/17/2004 5:33:40 PM PST by bootyist-monk (5, 4, 3, 2, 1! Thunderbirds are go!)
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To: MindBender26; Peach
Is High Def TV really that "revealing"? Well, even if it is, big deal. Most of these Hollyweird and TV types could use a good dose of looking like more regular folks.

Hooks in the forehead? Geeeze! I'm glad I don't have to contemplate that sort of stuff. Gonna get old and look like it as I do it. Ah naturale ping.

Prairie
27 posted on 02/17/2004 5:34:04 PM PST by prairiebreeze (WMD's in Iraq -- The absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.)
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To: MindBender26
“HDTV is a nightmare,” said one beauty editor.

AS far as I can tell, HDTV has not had any ill effect on Pamela.......


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28 posted on 02/17/2004 5:35:32 PM PST by hole_n_one
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To: MindBender26
Didn't a famous author just die last month during a routine facelift? I believe she was just 53 years old.
29 posted on 02/17/2004 5:36:06 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: prairiebreeze
I JUST read that article and couldn't leave a comment as anything I said about "that woman" would get me banned for life.
30 posted on 02/17/2004 5:36:13 PM PST by Peach (The Clintons have pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: Common Tator
Heh!
31 posted on 02/17/2004 5:36:13 PM PST by prairiebreeze (WMD's in Iraq -- The absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.)
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To: bootyist-monk
At 47? You're more like a gnome -- you know, one of those little statues you see in French gardens and on that awful TV commercial.
32 posted on 02/17/2004 5:36:40 PM PST by ladylib
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To: hole_n_one
Poor Pam looks like Tinkie Winkie with that thing in the background
33 posted on 02/17/2004 5:37:21 PM PST by Hand em their arse
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To: MindBender26
If only this was how it could turn out...

34 posted on 02/17/2004 5:38:01 PM PST by CFC__VRWC (AIDS, abortion, euthanasia - don't liberals just kill ya?)
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To: CFC__VRWC
HOWL!!!
35 posted on 02/17/2004 5:39:31 PM PST by Old Grumpy
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To: hole_n_one
Wow ...I just got a half a gallon of milk from that picture
36 posted on 02/17/2004 5:40:40 PM PST by woofie ( If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried)
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To: hole_n_one
She looks like her piles are bothering her again.
37 posted on 02/17/2004 5:41:11 PM PST by ladylib
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To: MindBender26
Next she will need a personality lift
38 posted on 02/17/2004 5:41:25 PM PST by woofie ( If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried)
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To: MindBender26
... and there are hundreds of people behind her who want her job. And this is her image she’s protecting.

Hey Kattie ... give it up ... you had your shot ... time to move on!
The perky bit is fadding big time ... and the liberal bias aspect has taken front & center ... once more, time to move on Kattie!

39 posted on 02/17/2004 5:47:52 PM PST by BluH2o
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To: MindBender26
She's worried about the outside of her head, when she should be worried about the lack of substance inside her head.
40 posted on 02/17/2004 5:48:07 PM PST by Paul Atreides (Is it really so difficult to post the entire article?)
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