Face/Off part 2

BYN sweet fancy medicine wire

We at the Big Yellow Nasty very often sit around complaining about the media. Usually it's, "What have those losers done for us lately?"

Well, this time the media has come through with a photo of the world's first face transplant recipient. The photo was taken as 38-year-old French woman Isabelle Dinoire appeared in public for the first time to talk about the surgery that grafted a dead woman's face to her skull in order to replace her original face, which had been horribly mauled by her dog. Click here for the full story.

As the Big Yellow Nasty reported earlier ("Face/Off is science Fact," Nov. 30, 2005,), the similarities to John Woo's Face/Off are obvious. But unlike Face/Off, the real face transplant requires a lot of medication and physical therapy. It's important to realize that, as she regains feeling and control of her facial muscles, Dinoire will look better.

Reuters also reported that doctors think the media has sensationalized the story too much. Big Yellow Nasty thinks the media isn't sensationalizing the story enough, and we're worried that if mad scientists ever start re-animating dead people into zombies, the media will seriously undercover the news out of so-called "respect" for the zombies' families.

But we digress. Out of respect for Dinoire's family, we realize that it is important to de-sensationalize this story and not, under any circumstances, compare her face to a zombie.

That's why, unlike Reuters, we're not going to bandy about allegations that Dinoire tried to kill herself. Take that, the media.

And as for the sensationalism, blame John Woo. We sure do. We even blame him for all the sensationalism surrounding Mission: Impossible 2 star Tom Cruise.

Make sure to watch E! this week for an all-new Gastineau Girls, followed by a very special Dr. 90210. It'll be a TV event as Lisa Gastineau pretends to be sad when her more attractive daughter, Brittny, dies of an OxyContin overdose. But Dr. Robert Rey saves the day (and makes a fortune) when he grafts Brittny's face to Lisa's head. How much will Dr. Rey's wife, Hayley, starve herself when zombie-face Brittny-Lisa starts hitting on Robert? All this and Lisa Loeb, only on E!