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High-definition TV exposes Hollywood's ugly truths
Canada.com ^ | 5/30/03 | Aaron Sands

Posted on 05/30/2003 11:19:23 PM PDT by OneVike

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High-definition TV exposes Hollywood's ugly truths
Extra-clear TV reveals stars' imperfections, including once-concealed skin conditions
 
Aaron Sands
The Ottawa Citizen

Stop the presses -- Cameron Diaz has skin problems, according to high-definition television, which is threatening to expose the previously invisible "flaws" of the world's most physically beautiful people.

As HDTV spreads its digital clarity into homes worldwide, Hollywood is sounding the alarm. The stars are running for cover, warts and all, only to find the most advanced makeup wizardry to date failing to save perfect face.

Plastic surgeons are drooling. The makeup industry is strategizing. As the ugly truth reveals itself to an ever-expanding digital audience, some of the beautiful people have come clean.

Faced with the horror of a sudden acne attack, Ms. Diaz reportedly skipped a premiere showing of Gangs of New York.

"I want girls to realize that nobody looks like the women in the glossy photos without the help of a load of talented people," she recently confessed to Glamour magazine.

Those talented people, who make up the "Hollywood glamour machine," are looking for new answers, television industry columnist Phillip Swann explained in Television Week.

On Ms. Diaz, a regular on People magazine's list of the world's most beautiful, Mr. Swann writes, "the magazine's editors -- and most of the Western world -- do not have high-definition TV. If they did, they would see that Diaz's face is spotted with small pockmarks, the unfortunate consequence of a longtime acne problem.

"When seen on film," Mr. Swann says, "Diaz's skin imperfections are not noticeable, thanks to Hollywood's talented makeup artists. However, with HDTV, the picture is so precise that the acne damage cannot be hidden. In a high-def broadcast of Charlie's Angels on HBO, Diaz looks like a different person. She's still very pretty. But to be frank, I doubt that she would make People's most beautiful list."

A revolution in makeup, still in its infancy, is underway to cover the blemishes broadcast by HDTV. The art of airbrush makeup, a thin water-based liquid spray-painted onto face and body, is still being perfected.

"Airbrush is absolutely the wave of the future," said Amy Coffman, an airbrush artist with The Airbrush Shoppe, Etc. in Kansas City. "With high-definition TV, you can see every single flaw. And the only way to really disguise those flaws is to use the airbrush. It's still a really new thing; there are not a lot of people that actually have the skills.

"The airbrush comes out in such a finely atomized spray --in such a light coat that you can't even tell that it's there," said Ms. Coffman, whose company has applied makeup for Playboy, Mardi Gras, the Winter Olympics and the Super Bowl. "It does the job and it's the only option with HDTV. It's catching a lot of attention" in Hollywood and out.

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KEYWORDS: beatifull; brush; hollywood; looks
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To: Hawkeye's Girl
Thank you for the correction. I was misinformed.

" Jamie Lee Curtis has admitted having cosmetic surgery - and said that it does not work."

She's still cool...;o)

21 posted on 05/31/2003 12:12:28 AM PDT by dixiechick2000 (Never have so many, been so wrong, about so much.)
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To: OneVike
Sage words, indeed
HAIL, HAIL RAGNAR!
22 posted on 05/31/2003 12:14:46 AM PDT by Tin-Legions
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To: lib-r-teri-ann
damn man. there are more gorgous women in your town alone than in all of hollywood. you've been dupped...
23 posted on 05/31/2003 12:17:31 AM PDT by go star go
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To: Paul C. Jesup
By the way, some computer video cards are designed so that they can use an HDTV instead of a computer monitor if a person wanted to do that.

You're probably thinking of the DVI interface - most HDTV monitors already have a standard 15-pin VGA port attached, letting you use it as a computer monitor with any ordinary graphics card. But, of course, that's an analog link, versus the DVI port, which is digital all the way through...

24 posted on 05/31/2003 12:17:40 AM PDT by general_re (Chorus: "We are the chorus, and we agree. We agree, we agree, we agree.")
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To: Ronin
LOL! It wasn't that at all! I was just replying to the thread, and it really is true! I didn't do my own vanity and say Hey, we got HD TV! This was just a public service confirming that the story was true! :-)
25 posted on 05/31/2003 12:18:51 AM PDT by ladyinred
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To: OneVike
Looks like you could make a lot of money right now if you learn to do this airbrush makeup.
26 posted on 05/31/2003 12:20:05 AM PDT by honeygrl
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To: bruinbirdman
"The sun causes acne?"

No but I'm sure too much of it would damage the skin badly enough to prevent it from healing properly from acne problems.
27 posted on 05/31/2003 12:21:51 AM PDT by honeygrl
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To: go star go
damn man. there are more gorgous women in your town alone than in all of hollywood. you've been dupped...

Well yeah, this is true because "Hollywood" is a very small collection of women as opposed to a sample of millions in my city. But that doesn't mean that genuine Hollywood lookers are common! Maybe I'm just picky, but I figure I only meet a truly stunning woman once every couple of months, and I meet a lot of women.

28 posted on 05/31/2003 12:29:20 AM PDT by lib-r-teri-ann
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To: lib-r-teri-ann
Hollywood lookers came from your city and mine you dufus...
29 posted on 05/31/2003 12:30:37 AM PDT by go star go
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To: go star go
Where's quidam?
30 posted on 05/31/2003 12:40:20 AM PDT by bruinbirdman (Veritas vos liberabit)
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To: go star go
Hollywood lookers came from your city and mine you dufus...

Agreed :-)

31 posted on 05/31/2003 12:41:11 AM PDT by lib-r-teri-ann
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To: bruinbirdman
hell if i know and damn if i care...
32 posted on 05/31/2003 12:42:14 AM PDT by go star go
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To: lib-r-teri-ann
What, no pics?
33 posted on 05/31/2003 12:49:35 AM PDT by razorbak
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To: ladyinred
OK. I believe you. Honest!!!!

*giggle*
34 posted on 05/31/2003 12:51:39 AM PDT by Ronin
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To: OneVike
I wonder how they made Doris Day's freckles go away in her old movies. They didn't have air-brushes.
35 posted on 05/31/2003 12:52:02 AM PDT by stylin19a (2 wrongs don't make a right.....but 3 rights make a left)
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To: dixiechick2000
I thought Jamie Lee had breast enhancement?

Well.....her bosum buddies sure look good.

Somebody, smack me for that. ;-)

36 posted on 05/31/2003 1:10:29 AM PDT by Thumper1960
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To: lib-r-teri-ann
If you want to see perfect women you should visit Imperial Valley and Mexicali.
37 posted on 05/31/2003 2:19:45 AM PDT by Ajnin
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To: Ajnin
If you want to see perfect women you should visit Imperial Valley and Mexicali.

I can't quite figure if you're being facetious or not...or you are just betraying a partiality towards latinas.

38 posted on 05/31/2003 3:58:51 AM PDT by Jagdgewehr
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To: OneVike
This HDTV technology is amazing! I saw a demo in a Sears electronics department and it just blew me away. Look up close...very close...so close that you would see the individual red green and blue dots on an old-fashioned TV: all you see is detail of the picture, as though it were film from a film projector.

It's very much like looking through a window and I can't wait for full rollout. As soon as I can get one of those babies for less than a grand, I'm there!

39 posted on 05/31/2003 4:05:31 AM PDT by Petronski (I"m not always cranky.)
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To: Jagdgewehr
or you are just betraying a partiality towards latinas.

I guess I'm busted! LOL.

40 posted on 05/31/2003 4:44:17 AM PDT by Ajnin
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