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According to Wikipedia:

Bai had previously appeared in several Chinese movies when she was in China. In 1984, Bai appeared as a fishing village girl in the movie On the Beach (??). Later she filmed several other movies, including Suspended Sentence (????), Yueyue (??), Tears in Suzhou (????) without much attention. Her role as a girl with psychological disorder who had affair with her doctor gained her fame, in the movie Arc Light (??) directed by director Zhang Junzhao (???). She attended Moscow Movie Festival in 1989 due to this role. When she was in China, her photographs had been used in magazines and calendars frequently, mostly with her whole shoulder and upper breasts exposed, which was not common in China at that time. Since coming to the United States in 1991, she has appeared in a number of American movies. She began in the cult movie The Crow (1994), playing the half-sister/lover of the main villain, Top Dollar. Hu guang was her most celebrated role in the Chinese film industry, and Red Corner (1997) would be considered her break-out role in English film. She was named one of People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People in the World" in 1998. She appeared in Chris Isaak's music video "Please" in 1998. She shaved off her hair, which had exceeded a length of 36 in. (91.44 cm.) for her role in Anna and the King, and is widely known in Thailand as "Tubtim", her character's name from the film, even though the movie is officially banned because of its depiction of the King of Siam. She filmed scenes for Star Wars: Episode III (2005) as Senator Bana Breemu, but her role was cut during editing. She claimed that this was because of her posing nude for the June 2005 issue of Playboy magazine, whose appearance on newsstands coincided with the movie's May 2005 release, but director George Lucas denied this, stating that the cut had been made more than a year earlier. Her scenes were included in the "deleted scenes" feature of the DVD release. Later in 2005 Bai was a castmate of the VH1 program called But Can They Sing?. The show gave several non-singer celebrities an attempt at singing on every episode and then allowed the audience and home viewers to vote off one contestant each week. Bai Ling was most famous for her risqué and raunchy get-ups and her performances of Madonna's "Like a Virgin" and The Ramones' "I Wanna Be Sedated". Bai was eliminated just before the grand finale but was invited back on the final week for a special performance of Divinyls' "I Touch Myself". She has most recently appeared in the show Lost as part of Jack's flashbacks. Her character is Achara, who many believe to be associated with the Dharma Initiative. She has predictive powers, and is the artist of Jack's tattoo reading "He walks amongst us, but he is not one of us."[2] Achara attests to predicting Jack's leadership role on the island. She is expected to be on for three episodes.

From the December issue of L.A. Direct Magazine:

With all the attitude that Joanna Krupa and her younger sister Marta are spitting towards the Hilton sisters, we may be seeing a four-deep Hollywood cat fight going down in the near future. There’s nothing quite like seeing catfights in Hollywood on a Saturday night, especially when they’re at some posh club like Element or Les Deux. With all the fake plastic smiles around, sometimes it’s refreshing to see a little heat explode between females. Twenty-six-year-old Polish supermodel Joanna Krupa and her 22-year-old sister, Marta, have a lot to say about about their experiences running into the infamous Hilton and Lohan girls. Without any regard to reprercussions, these two ladies have no problem telling it like it is when it comes to the Hollywood scene.

From SFGate:

Former supermodel Janice Dickinson has confirmed she is addicted to cosmetic surgery. The 53-year-old has spent $100,000 preserving her youthful looks, but she has always denied being hooked on visits to the surgeon's office. But the former "America's Next Top Model" judge now admits it's an addiction. She says, "Believe me, I'm a 900-year-old dinosaur and without 14 inches of make-up and 32 pounds of fake weave I wouldn't look the way I do. I want to be the best-looking corpse there is. "I'm honest about it, I haven't got a problem with it. I borrow bits from everyone. Every six months I fly to Dallas to get Botox and I also get collagen injections. I'm addicted to cosmetic surgery."

Alex Kuczynski's story appears on this website about Beverly Hills plastic surgery:

THE American fascination with self-improvement, inside and out, has been documented in many variations. But the ardor for physical and aesthetic enhancement was best captured this year by "Extreme Makeover," an ABC reality program. In it, middleclass Americans - a police officer, a waitress, a local radio D. J. - were transformed by plastic surgery, sometimes several procedures at a time, from plain Janes and Johns into coiffed, glossed movie-star lookalikes. Along with the approval of BOTOX® for wrinkle reduction in 2002, the popular neurotoxin that has conquered wrinkles, the show drew attention to the increasingly popular notion that plastic surgery is not just for the vain or the wealthy. If cosmetic plastic surgery is available to the average consumer - thanks in part to lending agencies that specialize in financing cosmetic procedures - and no longer bears the stigma of vanity, the question arises: Are we on our way to becoming a nation of the surgically enhanced? If looking beautiful becomes as easy as buying a car or a dress, will beauty - or an imitation of it - become so commonplace as to be meaningless?

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