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Botox Kabuki

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For a decade now, Hollywood acting has been slowly, steadily poisoned by a bacterium called Clostridium botulinum … Today, most actors in most movies have deliberately paralysed faces, incapable of registering anything … This Botox-bind leaves actresses who are hitting the Hollywood-elderly of 40 in a cruel position. If they refuse to have the face done, they can’t get cast. But if they have the face done, they can’t act. They are trapped by our creepy desire to have any sign of ageing banished from our sight-lines, even on the cinema screen.

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