Today I learned that you can make an aging, but still gorgeous star look distorted, doll-like and really a different person.  It’s sad to see what length magazines like Redbook will go to, not only touching up a photo (which everybody does), but to completely distort and change a person’s image to suit their desires.

I mean, I touch up my models all the time. A model may have some blemishes on their face or body, so I use things like the spot healing brush or clone tool to remove them. But I never remove beauty marks or thin out an image. I mean I had to remove a bug from a model’s hand one day, but that’s not distorting how the person really looks.

Personally I think Faith Hill is gorgeous just as she is, crowsfeet and all. I hate what Redbook did to her. What do you think?

(Original article and image from Jezebel).

About 55 minutes in, during a reel change the movie started going backwards and upside down! The audio was in reverse along with the movie, and it was starting about 20 minutes ahead of where we left off even! OMG, we were all gasping in horror. About 2 minutes later they finally shut it down and tell us that the reel is toast, and cannot be re-used! So what do they say they can do? They say that they are going to replace the reel with the NEXT reel and start the movie, having us lose 20 minutes of the movie in the process. Oh….and they’d throw in a free pass to come see the movie again.

I mean WTF? Why the hell would I want to watch the end missing 20 mins of the movie? I mean I could miss Optimus Prime coming down, or Megatron’s debut. Uhm, NO. I don’t THINK SO! So we hurried out of the theater and grabbed our pass and grumbled all the way home. It wouldn’t have been so bad if the damn movie was actually bad, but it was really really good! Grrrrr.

I still think the Decepticons hacked into the projection booth and took over the controls, all the while gleefully chuckling, “Silly humans!” to themselves.