<![CDATA[Gawker: defamer, digital bazooms]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: defamer, digital bazooms]]> http://gawker.com/tag/defamer/digitalbazooms http://gawker.com/tag/defamer/digitalbazooms <![CDATA[Keira Knightley's Breasts Officially Unmarketable]]> After an intense period of debate, stroppy siren Keira Knightley has reportedly rejected Paramount Vantage's request to digitally enhance her breasts in publicity photos for its fall drama The Duchess. It's a devastating blow to what remains of the studio's thinning clout, what with pink slips subbing for napkins in the cafeteria, its Oscar legacy threatened by a genre-mediocrity torrent to come, and one of its biggest stars steadfastly refusing to be... well, one of its biggest stars.

It's not like there's not precedent here, however. Follow the jump for more, including a glimpse at Knightley's previous brush with the 'brush.

A little research at Vantage would likely have revealed Touchstone's own means of dealing with rack challenged starlets, as recalled over the weekend in published reports: Photoshop first, and ask questions later:

The actress drew negative attention in 2004 with her larger-than-usual breasts in publicity stills for King Arthur.

"Those things certainly weren't mine," Fox News quoted her as saying in 2006. According to Knightley, the studio marketing team was behind her suddenly C-cup breasts, but gave her final approval on the photos.

"I was like, 'OK, fine. I honestly don't give a s—-,'" she recalled.

Alas, after laying off the top-secret crew whose muscular augmentation of Daniel Day-Lewis's moustache put There Will Be Blood over the top in 2007, Vantage brass have lost their secret weapons in the even more subtle art of bosom heaving — a craft having long since fallen out of favor with critics from Scarlett Johansson to Liz Smith. But it could be worse — like that time Into the Wild attempted to pass off Emile Hirsch as a leading man? There are some miracles not even Photoshop can approximate.

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<![CDATA[Kate Hudson Latest Recipient Of A Digital Boob Job]]> Shocking (shocking!) news has surfaced that yet another flat-chested actress was deemed not voluptuous enough for her movie poster. The lusty marketing team behind Fool's Gold are not fools; they realized that Kate Hudson's no Lindsay Lohan in the breast department. To that end, The Daily Mail is reporting that Hudson's natural A-cups were boosted up to Bs in promotional pictures for the film, possibly in an effort to give Matthew McConaughey's pecs a run for their money. But Kate's not the only cleavage-challenged actress that's been digitally bazoomed on a poster. Anyone remember the titular tales behind Keira Knightley, Jessica Alba, Emma Watson and yes, even Lindsay Lohan's digital enhancements? We do!

Jessica Alba's not lacking in the mammary department, yet producers still felt the unwatchable Into The Blue could benefit from a little boost for Alba:
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Emma Watson was not a girl but not yet a woman when Harry Potter: The Order Of The Phoenix came out, but marketers wanted her to be a woman, goddammit!
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Perhaps the flattest of them all, Keira Knightley, famously had her barely-there bust bazoomed on the King Artur poster in an attempt to get more people to ignore how boring films set in the Middle Ages tend to be:
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And yes, we did say Lindsay Lohan's miraculous rack was enhanced in the past, but it was actually quite memorably reduced on the Herbie poster so as not to scare the kiddies:
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