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10 1G T Wednesday August 14 2019 | the times & radio Beauty is only skin-deep, but so was this film

Burke’s bugbear, understandably, is popularised “heroin chic”. “You have Chris the obscene beauty standard foisted to look at fashion as fantasy — what on women by Love Island, you are seeing in a magazine is not and the like, jostling more and more real,” were his weasel words. These Bennion young people into therapy or under things look pretty real — in the knife. She began with a visit to the magazines, on television, on social Love Island alumna Megan Barton- media — to teenage girls. Burke said TV review Hanson, a woman not afraid of that heroin chic was “repulsive”. But scalpels. “ don’t want young girls to she said it to the camera, not Rankin. have unrealistic expectations,” said An opportunity missed. Barton-Hanson, a walking unrealistic Beauty is only skin-deep was the expectation. Burke frowned. message Burke kept falling back on, Would a visit to a different idea of but everywhere she turned there were feminine beauty help? Burke has a lot young women desperate to conform to of time for Sue Tilley, the model for a homogenised physical ideal. Burke’s Lucian Freud’s 1995 painting Benefits well-meaning film, alas, was skin-deep Kathy Burke’s All Woman Supervisor Sleeping, a woman entirely too, amounting to an hour of fretting comfortable with her “magnificent and beautifully phrased Burkeisms. {{{(( piles of flesh”. Freud, said Tilley, “Where does this insecurity come Inside the Factory thought that libraries should be from?” Burke asked. Well. This year BBC Two renamed beauty parlours, because Channel 4 is launching The Surjury, a {{((( “that’s what makes you beautiful — reality show in which a panel decides learning things”. “Oh, that’s whether a young person should have ust because I’m happy with my interesting,” Burke said. “The man their “dream plastic surgery” or not. big fat self doesn’t mean to say who f***ed every woman he met? That, perhaps, would be a good place other women are,” said Kathy What a crock of f***ing shit.” to start. Burke in Kathy Burke’s All A trip to a Harley Street plastic Meanwhile, in France, Gregg Woman. In a three-part series surgeon was a similarly frustrating Wallace, that distinctly 21st-century ‘theJ actress is investigating what being experience for the viewer, with Dr study in aimless, erratic masculinity, a woman means in 21st-century Julian De Silva wibbling on about the had his hairnet on (why?) and was Britain, focusing on marriage, actress Amber Heard having a face hollering things such as “I want to be a childbirth and, last night, “the tyranny that is “92 per cent towards the golden croissant!” at the patient staff of a of beauty”, in what is essentially a ratio”. That golden ratio sounded like a croissant factory. Inside the Factory distaff remodelling of Grayson Perry’s crock of f***ing shit to me, but Burke used to have a jolly appeal, with masculinity-uncovered series All Man was a bit too polite to say so. She was Wallace’s asinine enthusiasm making (except at the end of each episode similarly kind to her old pal Rankin, for decent junk-food telly. Now it’s just Burke doesn’t make a slightly naff pot). the Britpop photographer who Megan Barton-Hanson and Kathy Burke in All Woman dull. Time to shut the factory gates.

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