Soon even television anchors are going on camera without makeup.
I'm severely challenged in the lash department, so on camera my makeup artist adds individual eyelashes on the outer corners of my eyes to open them up a bit.
But the Democrats -- ostensibly the party of Hollywood -- are as clueless about the medium that can make or break them as the Republicans were when they let Richard Nixon go before a camera without makeup when debating John Kennedy in 1960.
She regularly appears on camera without makeup, revealing the dark circles under her eyes.
Have we reached the limitations of what actors, directors, cameras and makeup can achieve in terms of representing extremes?
They sacked their founding manager and abandoned all restraint, endorsing anything that plausibly could be sold to this market: snacks and drinks, cameras, toys, makeup, perfume even a Spice Girls deodorant.
It is impressive, not least because you can practically feel the good will towards her from everyone present, from director to camera operator to makeup artist.
They grin at the camera in clownish makeup, wobbly wigs and discount blouses, proud, valiantly oblivious to, or simply defiant of, our condescension, like the beauty pageant queen who drops her baton in the talent contest but keeps beaming.
The gimmick is pretty much the same in all of these shows: The experts are stranded in God-forsaken places with few or no supplies and only their own resourcefulness to turn to for help, unless you count their camera operators, producers, makeup artists, best boys, key grips, agents, publicists and personal masseuses.
