Bartender, I'll have a martini, but replace the gin with botox....
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.” —
Maybe if all the children of America close their eyes and say "I believe in pixies," Katie will come through.
Bartender, I'll have a martini, but replace the gin with botox....
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.
AS far as I can tell, HDTV has not had any ill effect on Pamela.......
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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!
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