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Hollywood ugly
adjective · first attested 20th century
Glasses and a ponytail are all it takes to be ugly in Hollywood.
Describing a conventionally attractive performer dressed down to read as plain.
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Hollywood ugly
The convention lets a film stage a makeover reveal without casting anyone the audience would actually find unappealing, and critics have named and mocked it since at least the 1990s. It is an informal label rather than an industry term, so its edges are loose.
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