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PLASTIC SURGERY NEWS, SURGERY NEWS, COSMETIC SURGERY NEWS Dcember 2004 NEWS

Theatrical Breast implant requirements

Theatrical lore tells us of actors summoning teardrops by plucking nose-hairs or waving onion wedges under their eyes - crude, Bronze-age tools compared to the advanced weaponry employed in today's Hollywood. Arguably, the current trend exploded when non-pneumatic literary heiress Mariel Hemingway signed on to play murdered Playboy model Dorothy Stratten in Bob Fosse's 1983 tell-all "Star 80." Reportedly, Hemingway's casting was contingent on receiving breast implants, a claim the actress later denied. Still, she got them, and the role.