Stockard Channing

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 8/29/14 at 9:53am

Another one of my favorite actresses has ruined their natural beauty by going under the knife.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 8/29/14 at 10:06am

I recently watched the movie "Bright Young Things" and she shows up as a missionary leading a girl's choir. It's such a small role, I wonder if she just did it as a favor. The movie is full of British actor cameos and then all of a sudden there's Stockard. (You have to watch the movie for the great performances of Julia McKenzie, Fenella Woolgar and Michael Sheen.)

I wish she hadn't undergone the surgery because I think she could have been one of those who looked good naturally.

And speaking of Joan Rivers, if you ever want to see a good makeup job on Stockard, check out "The Girl Most Likely To" on YouTube. I'm almost convinced they hired an actress that sort of looked like Stockard and dubbed Stockard's voice over her. That can't be Stockard in that tv movie!

Updated On: 8/29/14 at 10:06 AM

[jemjeb2]

Posted: 8/29/14 at 10:06am

Judge not lest ye be judged.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 8/29/14 at 10:16am

I always thought Stockard Channing was beautiful. If anything I always thought they went out of their way to make her ugly in THE GIRL MOST LIKELY TO. In GREASE there are some shots that she resembles a young Liz Taylor. I am not judging her for getting plastic surgery, it is after all a personal decision on her part. My opinion however is that the surgery didn't do her any favors. There are some actresses that have gone under the knife and it isn't so jarring. Jane Fonda comes to mind.

I still love Stockard Channing, plastic surgery or not. She is one of the best actresses out there. I guess it was just really shocking to see this picture. I meant no disrespect to her at all.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 8/29/14 at 10:18am

"If anything I always thought they went out of their way to make her ugly in THE GIRL MOST LIKELY TO"

Well that was the point. She had to be ugly in the beginning. I think it was a great makeup job though.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 8/29/14 at 10:30am

Yes they did do a great makeup job. It's also a very funny TV movie. I have to re-visit it. I haven't seen it in years.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 8/29/14 at 10:34am

It sort of misses Joan's humor. I wonder if they toned it down a lot because it was a tv movie. I'm surprised that there wasn't more of a "Joan Rivers" presence to it.

[followspot]

Posted: 8/29/14 at 12:26pm

^ The "Joan Rivers presence" was a little different in 1973 (when she wrote 'Girl Most Likely To') than it is today — all about relationship horrors and how unattractive she was. Film fit perfectly.
JR'74

[Gothampc]

Posted: 8/29/14 at 12:53pm

Interesting Joan Rivers clip. She was ahead of her time. It would be almost 20 years after that performance that "First Wives Club" would become a book and a film.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 8/29/14 at 2:12pm

I don't understand why people who make a living out of showing their facial expressions and moving an audience through their faces do this to themselves. I mean, I understand why, but at the same time, I don't understand. It's sad that this is the norm nowadays. I feel like they do it because they think it's gonna give them work or something, but really, what they do with their faces make them extremely hard to cast. And it's like Carlos said, it's not so much the plastic surgery, but ruining your face to adapt to some sort of standard is a real shame.

[Wilmingtom]

Posted: 8/29/14 at 2:22pm

I have nothing against plastic surgery. As others have opined, it's a personal choice and I can certainly understand actresses of a certain age feeling compelled to do so. But the trick is to start early and maintain. When you wait too long and do it all at once, it's jarring (Bea Arthur, anyone?) Jane Fonda has done it perfectly. I can't recall what talk show but when asked what she saw when she looked in the mirror, she said, "Good work."

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 8/29/14 at 2:47pm

There are worst things she could do. Sorry I couldn't help it.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/29/14 at 2:49pm

"Judge not lest ye be judged."



She's putting that face out there to the public as a public person wanting people to look at her. BIG difference. And I think you know that there's a big difference if you would take a step back from your Holier-Than-Thouness for a minute.

[jemjeb2]

Posted: 8/30/14 at 10:36am

"She's putting that face out there...wanting people to look at her.". That's a ridiculous assumption - but I guess you know Ms. Channing well and can speak for her.

[Auggie27]

Posted: 8/30/14 at 10:49am

It's not bitchy to state the obvious: she doesn't look like the same woman. The cheek filler thing makes her look like Julianna Margulies with the mumps. I'm saddened by this, because we're losing the great faces that these artists employed so well. Seeing Sally Field's knobbed cheeks recently was startling. She doesn't look younger, she looks like she had oral surgery 48 hours before. I'm tired of it. We can have opinions about something that's robbing a generation of beautiful women -- and men -- of their defining features.

Updated On: 8/30/14 at 10:49 AM

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 8/30/14 at 11:16am

Auggie27, that's the part that baffles me, the fact that in no way do these people look younger or even prettier than they looked before. Sally Field has (had) a gorgeous face, Stockard Channing has (had) such unique, stunning looks. It's the same thing with Botox, people get them to not have lines on their faces even though when they were making movies in their late 10s and 20s they had lines on their foreheads! It's called having a face. It's ultimately just sad, mainly because no one wins except for the plastic surgeons, the actresses usually stop getting good film work because they can only play witches, elves, and aliens (see Glenn Close in GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY) or appear in horror movies (ala Barbara Hershey in BLACK SWAN), we stop getting to see their talent, etc.

[theeatah]

Posted: 8/30/14 at 11:32am

This isn't her first face work. It will settle like the old work. Hopefully she'll ease up and not go full Lee Grant.

[SweetLips]

Posted: 8/30/14 at 8:31pm

I always question the surgeons-do they sign their work when finished?
It's like a friend who worked in a ladies fashion house-if madam tried on a dress that was too big,the friend would hold it in at the back-tell her she looked FABULOUS and made the sale--same sort of ethics-none.

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 8/30/14 at 8:45pm

"She's putting that face out there...wanting people to look at her."..". That's a ridiculous assumption - but I guess you know Ms. Channing well and can speak for her.

He knows what her profession is, though. An actress...get it?

[rjm516]

Posted: 8/30/14 at 9:19pm

"Judge not lest ye be judged."

I wish this thread ended after this, the only thing necessary in this awful thread, was said. This thread shows EXACTLY why famous people get surgery - because idiots think it's ok to constantly judge how they look. In an alternate reality you'd all be saying how old she got and oh man remember how stunning she once was and stuff like that.

[chrisampm2]

Posted: 8/30/14 at 9:47pm

" In an alternate reality you'd all be saying how old she got and oh man remember how stunning she once was and stuff like that."
Can you point to many posts here that feature that kind of sentiment? I find Channing almost unrecognizable. At least on stage, it's easier to accept. On The Good Wife, I can't get past the facial work to see her acting work. But I hope she likes the way she looks.

[lovepuppy]

Posted: 8/30/14 at 11:18pm

Agreed, RJM. Good thing Namo hasn't gotten to this thread; he's too busy spreading criticism and negativity on every other one, though.

I love Stockard Channing. Hopefully this will settle (why did she go out in public before it did, I wonder?). Meg Ryan's did. (Or else she had that bad job she had about 5-10 yrs ago corrected since then.)

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 8/30/14 at 11:45pm

[Auggie27]

Posted: 8/31/14 at 1:10pm

I'm more than happy to expand this discussion to the visages of Bruce Jenner, David Hasselhoff, Wayne Newton and countless newscasters, all male. The pertinent points made here are about the pandemic ravages of plastic surgery, and a cultural backlash against its excesses, and the equally pandemic anxiety about aging itself, the fear of both being and viewing an aged face. To openly decry the loss of a performer's identity (and segue into unrecognizability) isn't misogyny, nor is the goal to "shame" any woman. Or man. We're hardly in Ms. Channing's parlor lecturing her about her surgical decisions. We're in a public forum addressing our dismay that such decisions impact artists' performances, as we confront the degree to which such surgery distracts us. We are debating very public people who earn their living in our eye. There's no political correctness in accepting a negatively trending cultural phenomenon as an acceptable aesthetic. What's far more woman shaming is the now ubiquitous expectation that faces and necks shouldn't acquire lines and change.

Updated On: 8/31/14 at 01:10 PM

[SweetLips]

Posted: 8/31/14 at 2:44pm

Wow Auggie. Some you like to read, others not so, but you sure know how to put words together-what a pleasure to read-Thank you. I look forward to finding you again.SL.x