Back in the olden days Oscar nominees were photographed to look glamorous

Nowadays Oscar nominees are photographed to look like characters critters out of the Sci-Fi Channel:

George Clooney on the cover of today's NYT Sunday Mag. Check out the slide show, if you think I exaggerate.

And while on the subject of movies, ShrinkWrapped writes about How Ideological Bias Destroys Reality Testing: Yet Another NY Times Example

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