Jigsawed Julia. Role Model Assembled to Order.

[ARTelevision]

Coming to a supermarket checkout Line near you in July!
Redbook rachets down the meaning of "Real" another notch.
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The unkindest cut
'n' paste for Julia



'Real Julia'? It sure isn't — Redbook editors cobbled together two photos of Ms. Roberts for the July cover.

Call her FrankenJulia.
Just one month after Redbook angered Jennifer Aniston by piecing together parts of her body from different photos and printing the composite on the cover, the mag has rejiggered Julia Roberts.

For the July issue, Redbook surgeons lopped off Roberts' head from one shot and attached it to a picture of her body - that is, the one she had four years ago.

"Based on her hairstyle, her head comes from the January 2002 People's Choice Awards," said a source close to Roberts. "Her body seems to be from the premiere of 'Notting Hill'" - which opened in London in April 1999, when the actress wore the glittery red dress shown.

While some women might actually enjoy being pictured with the body they had four years ago, Roberts' camp is horrified. It might have to do with the fact that the head was attached a mite too low, making Roberts' swanlike neck appear a bit squat.

Ironically, the cover line reads: "The Real Julia."

A Hearst corporate spokeswoman admits: "In an effort to make a cover that would pop on the newsstand, we combined two different shots of Julia Roberts. We acknowledge that we may have gone too far and hope that Ms. Roberts will accept our apology."

In fairness, the issue was put to bed before the Aniston imbroglio caused Redbook editor Ellen Kunes to end the puzzle-piecing practice on future covers of the mag, which has a circulation of 2.35 million.

Roberts' spokeswoman Marcy Engelman would say only: "It's a shame they didn't use the body that went with the head, because it was a great Giorgio Armani pantsuit."

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It's always interesting to see how blatantly and shamelessly our media lies to our faces. Isn't it?

[WhoaitsZ]

man, when i can't turn to enntertainment magazines for honesty, where should i turn?!?!

JR is an ugly biotch anyhow

[krwlz]

I never ad anything for her...that mouth is easily 4 miles wide....It is funny though that she would get bent about it.

[gov135]

Originally posted by ARTelevision

It's always interesting to see how blatantly and shamelessly our media lies to our faces. Isn't it?

The exact same thing happened to Donovan McNabb and his fiancée... probably worse. She doesn't go to his games, nor do they appear in public together. He asks that the media respect his privacy at home, and gives of himself (a public figure) as much as he can.
When Donovan announced his engagement, one of the prominent Philadelphia papers took a picture of her, a seperate picture of him (since they don't appear together) and pasted them together. Then pawned it off as an accurate photo on the front cover of the paper.
This isn't the tabloids. These people call themselves journalists. McNabb was upset, and he should have been.

Noone polices the media except the public. Photoshopping and passing things off for real is a more serious offense then it seems at first glance. It's simply unethical to misportray a situation when people rely on you for accurate representation.

What happened in the McNabb case? The paper and other "journalists" screamed first amendment. Noone suggested impropriety.

I'm an accountant. We have professional organizations that would hang us by our neckties at the very suggestion of impropriety, and rightly so. We also deal with public trust. Lawyers and law officers and other professions police themselves. Why can't the media do the same?

[krwlz]

Because media is a big dollar bussiness....

[susartele]

It's a very strange looking picture of her to begin with. The worst thing is that people look to these mags as the truth. If I could piece together myself from the last 30 years I think I could really come up with a great composite of me.
Also, aren't we entitled to see an up to date photo of this woman and see her age 4 years? No wonder we all want to be movie stars and are never satisfied with ourselves.
It points to the shallowness of the media today.

[lady]

I'm sure many people at TFP could've spliced those two images together a billion times better than Redbook did. :rollseyes:

[juanvaldes]

I still find it amusing that S-Mart out here in the central valley covers these types of mags with the same covers used to hid porn in other shops.

[seretogis]

That's nothing compared to this obvious hack-job at People Weekly magazine. What ever happened to journalistic integrity?!

[juanvaldes]

Originally posted by seretogis
That's nothing compared to this obvious hack-job at People Weekly magazine. What ever happened to journalistic integrity?!

That implies they had it to begin with.

Interesting photoshop btw.