Tragedy of Bob Costas’ Youthful Looks
by Brendon Carr
I am going to start posting comments on things that interest me—Korean legal topics and perspectives will probably remain the dominant theme here, but the legal world doesn’t produce Earth-shaking news every day.
Over the weekend I caught the latest episode of HBO’s political talk show Real Time with Bill Maher. It’s an entertaining show, despite the pronounced liberal bent of the host, the audience, and two-thirds of the invited guests (if you’re conservative you must be bold to venture into that studio). This weekend’s show was aberrant—they somehow got four conservatives—Jonah Goldberg, Matthew Dowd, Amy Holmes and P. J. O’Rourke—invited to appear on the show, together with the pride of St. Louis (my hometown), NBC sportscaster Bob Costas.
Bob Costas is a handsome and fresh-faced 55 year-old man, pixieish in stature at 5’ 7” (if you’re feeling generous—I suspect he’s shorter than that) and graced with wild intelligence, encyclopedic sports knowledge, and a great voice for broadcasting. He’s widely known and respected as a decent fellow, despite his liberal politics. Everybody likes Bob Costas (in St. Louis, anyway).
He has done something terrible. Throughout the program, I was unnerved by the fact that Costas’ forehead, eyebrows, and upper lip were immobile. Having just seen an episode of Penn & Teller: Bullshit! featuring graphic footage of plastic surgery, in particular Botox injections into the (you guessed it) forehead, eyebrows, and upper lip of women who refused to age gracefully, I am certain that’s what’s behind Costas’ frozen mien—in addition to the probable surgery he’s had. He also has bleached his teeth and perhaps gotten veneers, although because his upper lip never moved I couldn’t see the top teeth to be sure.
Bob Costas! You’re 55 years old. It’s okay if you no longer look 20. In fact, it would give many of us comfort.
UPDATE 8/11—Welcome NBC Olympics viewers! Looking at the referrer logs, I can see that many of of you share my concern over Bob Costas’ appearance. Except that the search which brings most of you here is for Bob’s toupee, something I hadn’t considered. His hair is unusually thick and lustrous for a 55 year-old man, but I didn’t imagine it was a toupee. Alas, it seems to be.
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what choice does someone like Costas have? It’s either botox or be replaced with a younger and fresh face.
Are you kidding? Sports coverage is one of the few places on the teevee where horrible-looking old men run the show.
I have been watching the Olympics this Summer of 2008. Bob Costas just looks weird, and it is not a good look in any way! You linger looking at his face,
but it is, for me, with a sense of horror!