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...Iditarod weather, makes a few cracks about Enron and Arthur Andersen (the latter has its headquarters in Chicago), and the audience is his. He segues into the Olympic luge competition--"invented by a drunken German gynecologist; you steer with Kegels"--and then it is on to anthrax and botox, and then he jumps straight into Sept. 11. He gets cheers for a bit on a flight attendant telling passengers that in the event of a hijacking, a Louisville Slugger will fall from the compartment above--"Apply to the head, groin and knees...
...Food and Drug Administration may shortly agree. Botox, made by the Irvine, Calif., pharmaceutical firm Allergan, is expected to win FDA approval--but only for removing frown lines, not for the full facial makeover. According to a source close to Allergan, if the company had applied for multiple places to use Botox, it would have been required to conduct more expensive clinical testing. Either way, doctors will still inject you all over...
...miracle has skeptics, and Botox has earned its share. Dr. Robert Butler, president of the International Longevity Center, worries that "no one will look as if they have facial expressions" and that repeated use of the drug, which requires an injection every few months, could "create a psychological dependence." Down-market clinics could flourish, offering the drug for $100 by diluting it, thus causing creepy side effects. Dr. Debra Jaliman, a dermatologist who teaches a Botox course at Manhattan's Mount Sinai, is a proponent of the drug but has corrected nasty complications from other doctors' misapplied injections: "Eyelid droop...
Warnings won't scare off the folks in Hollywood. "I live in a town completely devoted to vanity," says writer-actress Carrie Fisher, 45, who has been Botoxing for five years. "It irons out the wrinkles. You'd never know I was manic-depressive." Danny Bonaduce, 42, a child actor (The Partridge Family) turned co-host of The Other Half, was accompanying his wife to a Botox session when her doctor asked him if he wanted some. "Three days after I did it, Dick Clark said to me, 'You look 10 years younger!' With Botox, people can't really tell...
...trend has spread beyond the beauty-fanatic media world. Patty Reimerdes, 50, a divorced mother of two from Queens, N.Y., had her first Botox procedure last week and pronounces herself pleased. Reimerdes says she doesn't mind being 50: "I just don't want to look 50." And so what if your face freezes up a little? As Fisher notes, "It's good for poker...