Makeup Ads featuring Julia Roberts and Christy Turlington Banned in the UK

The latest makeup ads for Lancôme and Maybelline feature Julia Roberts and Christy Turlington but they have now been banned in the U.K. over complaints that the images used in the campaigns were unrealistic and misleading.

L’Oréal Ltd., which owns both brands, has been forced to withdraw the ads after the U.K.’s Advertising Standards Authority upheld complaints that were presented by MP Jo Swinson. They claim that the images were overly “overly perfected and unrealistic,” by being airbrushed and otherwise manipulated, and “not representative of the results the product could achieve.”

L’Oréal UK has admitted that Turlington’s image had been “digitally retouched to lighten the skin, clean up makeup, reduce dark shadows and shading around the eyes, smooth the lips and darken the eyebrows”. However, they also claimed there were still signs of ageing, such as crow’s feet, and that the image “accurately illustrated” the achieveable results.

The ASA has ruled that images from both of the campaigns breached the advertising standards code. As they exaggerate the effects of their products and are generally misleading to consumers. As a result, both have been banned from future publication in the UK.

Obama to sign Wall Street reform bill on Wednesday

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama will sign sweeping regulatory reforms of Wall Street into law on Wednesday, the White House said.

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Australian PM announces Aug. 21 elections

CANBERRA: Australia’s first woman Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who has led the country for three weeks, on Saturday called a general election on Aug.

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Lindsey Vonn Wins Gold

TrendPK.com Lindsey Vonn Wins Gold : WHISTLER, British Columbia (AP) — Lindsey Vonn lived up to expectations and won the Olympic downhill Wednesday, and childhood rival and American teammate Julia Mancuso took a surprise silver medal.
In a race characterized by several crashes — including one to Swedish standout Anja Paerson — Vonn’s [...]

Generation Zero

TrendPK.com Generation Zero : Zero is a new generation of a controversial documentary film which was introduced at a tea party National Convention in early February.
The film’s cast a unique look of the recent economic downturn and the financial disaster facing the United States of America.
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Sophie s Choice

Sophie s Choice, The year is 1947. Aspiring southern author Stingo (Peter MacNichol) heads to New York to seek his fortune. Moving into a dingy Brooklyn boarding house, Stingo strikes up a friendship with research chemist Nathan Landau (Kevin Kline) and Nathan’s girlfriend, Polish refugee Sophie Zawistowska (Oscar-winner Meryl Streep). There is something unsettling about the relationship; Nathan is subject to violent mood swings, while Sophie seems to be harboring a horrible secret. Stingo soons learns that both Nathan and Sophie are strangers to truth; the audience is likewise led down several garden paths by a series of sepia-toned flashbacks, depicting Sophie’s ordeal in a wartime concentration camp. The scene in which we discover the facts behind Sophie’s “choice” is a gut-wrenching one; it might have been even more powerful had not the film taken so long to get there. It is betraying nothing to reveal that the character of Stingo is the alter ego of William Styron, upon whose best-selling novel the film was based. The film is rated R, due in great part to a disposable scene wherein Stingo tries to put the make on a “liberated” female intellectual.

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Julia Child Biography

Julia Child Biography, Julia Child (born Julia Carolyn McWilliams August 15, 1912 – August 13, 2004) was an American chef, author and television personality. She introduced French cuisine and cooking techniques to the American mainstream through her many cookbooks and television programs, notably The French Chef which premiered in 1963. Her most well-known cookbook is the Mastering the Art of French Cooking, published in 1961.

On August 18, 2004, a documentary filmed during her lifetime premiered. Produced by WGBH, the one-hour feature, Julia Child! America’s Favorite Chef, was aired as the first episode of the 18th season of the PBS series American Masters. The film combined archive footage of Child with current footage from those who influenced and were influenced by her life and work.

In August 2002, Julie Powell started documenting online her daily experiences cooking each of the 524 recipes in Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and she later began reworking that blog, The Julie/Julia Project, into a book.

In March 2008, director-screenwriter Nora Ephron began filming Julie & Julia, adapted from Child’s memoir My Life in France (written with Alex Prudhomme) and Powell’s memoir, Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen (Little, Brown, 2005), the paperback version of which was retitled Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously (Back Bay Books, 2006). Ephron’s film, the first major motion picture based on a blog, was released on August 7, 2009. Meryl Streep stars as Julia Child and Amy Adams portrays Julie Powell.

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