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The Human Face by Brian Bates with John Cleese, BBC Worldwide Books,
£20, ISBN 0563551887

EVERY newspaper editor knows that a front page emblazoned with a picture of a
beautiful woman sells more copies than one without—and so, it seems, do
the authors of this book. Open The Human Face and the first image you come to is
a close-up of Elizabeth Hurley. The glossy pages that follow are packed with
portraits of the beautiful and the ugly, the young and the old—even the
cosmetically and digitally enhanced. But perhaps Brian Bates and John Cleese
have a better…