With cosmetic surgery seemingly a constitutional duty in Hollywood, is it any wonder its inhabitants are oft dismissed as ‘plastic’? Now it seems Tinseltown’s Dorian Grays - like Linda Gray, the perennially fresh 68-year-old - are also putting their apparent ability to withstand the ageing process down to anything but the knife. Recent shots of a transformed Rupert Everett astound me; the greying, craggy features that had hitherto lent the actor a slightly raffish, lived-in sexiness, replaced by a weirdly waxen head seemingly on loan from Madame Tussaud's. I’m reminded of an early Everett film - A Shocking Accident - for although the actor denies having surgery, how else to explain that fresh-from-the-embalmers, cheesy-1950s-game-show-host look? Lines are fine: the life-lived-to-the-full, furrowed dial of the then octogenarian, Samuel Beckett, beats waxwork dummy every time.
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