Vanity Fair needs an extra hand in its editing suite

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Twelve stars grace the cover of Vanity Fair's upcoming Hollywood Issue, 13 if you count Reese Witherspoon's extra leg.
Images from Vanity Fair’s upcoming Hollywood Issue are out and, based on the early reviews, it should be called the Mutant Issue
We already know magazines manipulate celebrity images. Faces are airbrushed. Torsos are contoured like Rodin sculptures. Voluminous hair is made to violate the rules of natural sheen and gravity. Abdomens ripple with fake shadows and muscles. Eyes become reflecting pools. Teeth as straight as two-by-fours glow in the blinding hue of radioactive white.
But what Vanity Fair accomplished this week after teasing the issue that’s due out next month is different.
Instead of adding by subtracting — the first rule of digital enhancement — they went nuts on the adding. And soon after a preview of the Mutant Issue arrived on Thursday, readers flocked to social media, baffled by the extra leg on Reese Witherspoon’s body and, scarier still, Oprah’s three hands.
Responding to the corporeal mystery, Witherspoon tweeted: “Well . . . I guess everybody knows now . . . I have 3 legs. I hope you can still accept me for who I am.”
To which Ms. Winfrey, with possibly too much time on her three hands now that she’s demurred on calls for a presidential run, replied: “I accept your 3d leg. As I know you accept my 3d hand.”
Vanity Fair quickly tried to correct the record and disabuse conspiracy theorists of any notion Witherspoon is a tripod fish. That’s not a superfluous appendage, they insisted. Witherspoon can’t ride a bike and kick a ball at the same time.
The official explanation was optical illusion.

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