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Beauty/Fame*

• 2001 ----- color ----- 98 min ----- vhs
• (Human Face series, Part 2) Beauty (49 min) John Cleese examines beauty close-up; so close in fact that he spends much of this section perched upon various parts of Elizabeth Hurley's face. (You really have to see it to understand how very appropriate it really is.) Sarah Doukas, managing director of a leading model agency, takes us through the selection of a new model. Dr. Stephen R. Marquardt, surgeon at UCLA Medical Center explains how symmetry and the proportions of 1:1.618 can be used to "measure" beauty. Shows how infant's and children's faces are naturally beautiful and how this aids them in survival. As a person matures the age of beauty seems to be between 14 and 24. After than experience and aging sets in and changes beauty to character.
• Fame (48 min) The faces of the famous used to be recognized because they had done something meaningful--emperors, statesmen, authors. Today in the insatiable age of media exposure fame is something taken at face value with little depth. A leading Hollywood casting director examines the head shots of three aspiring young actors and, finally, sees each of them. What does it all mean? Not much. For, in the end, beauty is only skin-deep [Closed-Captioned]. (Produced by the BBC) (Restricted to classroom use only)
• Topics: (Anthropology, Biology, Child Study, Drama, Psychology: Social, Sociology)

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