In “Born to Be,” Tania Cypriano’s moving and fascinatingly forward-looking documentary about the Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery in New York City, we meet a handful of eager, at times desperate folks who are engaged in the existential medical conundrum of doing everything they can to become the people they are.
One of them, Mahogany Phillips, is getting surgery to reduce the downward-sloping masculine curve of her forehead. The physician who’s working with her, Dr. Jess Ting, explains that he’s going to drastically cut back the bone — which may give you a queasy shudder, since the bone he’s talking about encases that thing called the brain. This is no mere rhinoplasty or cheek implant; the procedure sounds drastic. But then the surgery happens, quite successfully, and we see what Mahogany looks like afterwards, the reduced size and slope of her forehead appearing as...
One of them, Mahogany Phillips, is getting surgery to reduce the downward-sloping masculine curve of her forehead. The physician who’s working with her, Dr. Jess Ting, explains that he’s going to drastically cut back the bone — which may give you a queasy shudder, since the bone he’s talking about encases that thing called the brain. This is no mere rhinoplasty or cheek implant; the procedure sounds drastic. But then the surgery happens, quite successfully, and we see what Mahogany looks like afterwards, the reduced size and slope of her forehead appearing as...
- 10/3/2019
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom producer Anant Singh and his South Africa-based Videovision Entertainment have acquired the film rights to biography Heartbreaker: Christiaan Barnard And The First Heart Transplant. Written by author James-Brent Styan, the book was recently published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the first human-to-human heart transplant, performed by South African surgeon Barnard. Singh is producing the screen transfer with Brian Cox…...
- 12/15/2017
- Deadline
CBS
The Star Trek franchise may be best known for Hugo-Award winning episodes like “The City on the Edge of Forever,” “The Inner Light,” and “The Trouble With Tribbles,” but no television behemoth makes it through more than 700 episodes without producing a few clunkers.
What follows is a list of twenty of those failures, misfires, and disappointments, including episodes from all five live action series. For simplicity’s sake, I’ve left out the movies, and ranked the following twenty installments from “best” to worst.
Without further ado, let’s take a look at the list.
20. Spock’s Brain (Tos)
CBS
“Brain, brain…what is brain?”
Perhaps the most infamous episode of the original series, “Spock’s Brain” is certainly a head-scratcher. Intended to capitalize on Dr. Christiaan Barnard’s recent success at performing the first human heart transplant, the episode has a group of aliens one-upping Dr. Barnard by surgically removing Mr.
The Star Trek franchise may be best known for Hugo-Award winning episodes like “The City on the Edge of Forever,” “The Inner Light,” and “The Trouble With Tribbles,” but no television behemoth makes it through more than 700 episodes without producing a few clunkers.
What follows is a list of twenty of those failures, misfires, and disappointments, including episodes from all five live action series. For simplicity’s sake, I’ve left out the movies, and ranked the following twenty installments from “best” to worst.
Without further ado, let’s take a look at the list.
20. Spock’s Brain (Tos)
CBS
“Brain, brain…what is brain?”
Perhaps the most infamous episode of the original series, “Spock’s Brain” is certainly a head-scratcher. Intended to capitalize on Dr. Christiaan Barnard’s recent success at performing the first human heart transplant, the episode has a group of aliens one-upping Dr. Barnard by surgically removing Mr.
- 1/26/2014
- by Michael Kmet
- Obsessed with Film
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