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CINDY CRAWFORD, 1991
For her first red carpet with her then-boyfriend Richard Gere, supermodel Cindy Crawford dominated the red carpet at the Academy Awards. For her all-eyes-on-me moment, she wore a scarlet Versace halter dress that featured a low cut in the front and a high slit in the back. It was widely copied at the time and is now considered one of the most iconic red carpet dresses ever.
It could be a paste-up as no one in the audience in the background are looking at them. But it did cause me to look at a few more shots. This one seems a better sizing, but what's with Gere's midget thumb?
That's suggests those four fingers might be fake, and used to give him a man sized hand. I don't know. But there is something equally strange about his lower leg. That angle on this right leg (left side) looks like a dislocation has occurred around the knee. But I've long worked out lift are widely used to fake famous people's height, and with that comes the need to optically move the location of the kneecap downwards to balance the longer lower leg...and that's why we sometimes see the Mr Bendy look, because there is a double knee going on.
Below, a similar strange leg shape on one of the medics attending an unresponsive George Floyd. It suggests to me it's a woman in lifts pretending to be a man, and the reason for going to that trouble...because the person playing Derek Chauvin in that particular video was also a woman. But I'll let you decide for yourself on this link if you so wish.
I've found an equally interesting photo in my search, which confirms something else I've talked about in these pages. This one has to be a paste-up because it's Richard Gere with his twenty-five year younger self...and look at the disembodied hand on younger Gere's shoulder. Below it, another picture taken at the same time as the first, but how it was likely originally published, Gere next to his wife Cindy Crawford.
That picture opens up a whole new can of worms, because we've got to wonder, is the original Cindy Crawford next to Richard Gere photo equally fake? ...I absolutely fancy it to be the case. I think a large proportion of pictures showing two or more famous people together are paste-ups. One reason, so they can be resized to fit their claimed height...and a second reason, so fake people who are fictionally married, don't actually have to spend time together.
And just a reminder of another famous disembodied hand.
That's 911 victim Geoff Campbell and his brother Matt with somebody else...and a link to that post if you are interested.