Plastic Surgery: the Stuff of High Culture!
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Who would ever think that the subject of light opera on the London stage could be:
The musical comedy, “Skin Deep” (not to be confused with the 1989 movie of the same name starring John Ritter , or the U.S. Magazine, Skin Deep) opened in London, with a Philipino version opening in Quezon City.
Basically, the play is a satire on the culture of narcissism, with a Mephistophelian-like plastic surgeon giving seven characters the choice to look like whomever they want.
In the British version, the sinister surgeon is named Dr. Needlemeir whose famous saying is, “putting right what nature put wrong.”
According to Philipina Mom blogger, the Philipino version stars a surgeon, Dr. Beau Batocol, a play on words that gets totally lost in translation.
The clinics in both is the Skin Deep Beauty Sanctuary.
Of course, all this is a sharp departure from the real world of plastic surgery where surgeons are highly trained to spot patients who want too much or needless plastic surgery.
The cultural splash with plastic surgery does not stop with the performing arts.
A popular book, Face Lift Hotel, tells about the adventures, missteps and other off-the-wall moments observed by a registered nurse who ran a Beverly Hills plastic surgery recovery center for 18 years.
Author Maggie Lockridge figures she cared for about 40,000 people after their cosmetic surgical procedures.
The opening anecdote recalls when a lovely, 39-year-old New York City attorney told her husband she was going to L.A. for two weeks but had a face lift instead. While recovering, the attorney meets a high-powered real estate executive who is also recovering from a face lift and becomes enamored of him.
Although post-op patients are not supposed to drink, the duo consume two bottles of wine one evening and really get to “know” each other — in the biblical sense.
Suddenly, in the middle of the night, Ms. Attorney summons Nurse Lockridge to Mr. Real Estate’s room.
It seems the poor guy broke all his stitches, is bleeding and must make an expensive trip back to the plastic surgeon to re-stitch his incisions.
What are your favorite plays and books about plastic surgery?
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