HDTV Coming! Celebs Run Scared!
Category: TV & Radio...
Posted Thursday, December 30, 2004 at 12:55 PM [GMT-6]

We blogged about this almost a year ago, but it's back in the news: the inevitable penetration of HDTV broadcasts has some interesting implications for television actors and actresses. OnHD.tv takes a brutally honest look at those celebs who will benefit the most from HDTV exposure, and those who will (or should) run away screaming before the audience does.

According to them, those who will benefit the most include Anna Kournikova, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Halle Berry, George Clooney and Liv Tyler. Lesson? Those who already have it just get more.

On the flip side, those whose inherent flaws will just be more noticeable include Cameron Diaz ("has had a terrible acne problem since high school"), Britney Spears ("looks 10 years older in hi-def"), Brad Pitt ("terrible skin problem in high school"), Renee Zellweger ("her cheeks look like she's had a Rosacea
problem; very visible in high-def"), and Joan Rivers...like we needed HDTV to tell us that.

Of course, many on the latter list make very infrequent TV appearances anyway (Rivers being the unfortunate exception; Bill Mahrer is also on the list), so they might just decide that discretion is the better part of valor and stay away from the TV cameras. Others will rely heavily on the magic of make-up, even more so than they do now.

The real victims of this new technology may well be the local talent...the news anchors, meteorologists, sportscasters, etc. They likely won't have access to the state-of-the-art makeup techniques and, let's face it, they're generally just regular folks like you and me, albeit with better teeth.

Given all of this, I predict that faceless blogging will get a big boost from HDTV.