Help!!

Okay, I need help on two counts, one SF related, one not (sorry for
using the list for the latter purpose but it's a total emergency.)
Firstly, I'm having to collaborate on writing a play as part of my
course. It's set approx. twenty years into the future and deals with
the subject of plastic surgery. What I want you folks to do is see if
you can remember any drama on a similar topic as I'd want to avoid
infringing on anyone's copyright (I can email more details on request.)
Secondly, due to the total printer meltdown currently in progress at the
computer centre, I desperately need people to participate in a short
survey about newspapers (it will take 10 minutes at most). Please email
me for a copy of the survey (I'll send it as a Word file unless you
specifically ask me to type it out in my reply) and I need replies by
Friday afternoon at the latest. I can't offer any payment other than -
here comes the SF bit - X-Files and B5 season 5 spoilers. Or I could
tell you how to method act an alien...
Mary-Jane

Can't think of many plastic surgery things... I'm pretty certain that
"The Avengers" did it a couple of times (certainly in the New Avengers
episode "Faces"... well, pretty certain anyway), New Adventures of
Superman had one episode with plastic surgery as part of the plot, think
"Doomwatch" may have done one.... I'm going home tomorrow so if you mail
me pretty swiftly and tell me exactly what is is you want I can do some
research for you when I unpack boxes at my new home address!

Cwej

send it to me

In article <7163823F2EDACF1188610000C0F06ACF01883D3E@>, Roebuck M <M.Roebuck@> wrote:
Obviously, Fay Weldon.

Equally obviously, Face:Off.

Beyond that, I can't remember many names. My feeling is that plastic surgery
in SF falls into two groups: plastic surgery to look good, normally with the
consequence that everyone looks the same (ie "Logan's Run", "Brazil" and
loads of other Utopia-type novels); and plastic surgery to make one person
(or alien) look like another and them imitate them - as "Face:Off", "Double
Star", and loads of others.

My initial feeling is that both of these are so common that it would be
difficult to claim that any one was being copied. Disguise and improvement
of appearance are used all through human storytelling - after all it appears
in Genesis, when Joseph pulls that nasty trick on his brothers; or in
Cinderella, when the fairy godmother makes her so beautiful that no-one can
recognise her. Shakespeare loved it - especially if cross-dressing was
involved. Then there's the tale of the Prince and the Pauper. And so on...


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