Haven't These People Seen Zoolander?!

The joke in Zoolander was that Derek Zoolander, the male model played by Ben Stiller, believed himself to have a profoundly expressive and beautiful face. He spent hours in front of the mirror practicing "different" expressions and making up names for them, but in fact all his expressions were the same.

Apparently the folks at the New York Times fashion section haven't seen Zoolander (or maybe they just didn't get the joke?). Every week there's a new slide show on their website inviting readers to watch a model be "transformed." For example...

Watch Sigrid be "transformed" nine times!
http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/model-morphosis-sigrid/
Features include:
* Seven photos of Sigrid wearing different outfits, but the exact same utterly meaningless facial expression. I call this expression "Blade."
* One photo (#4) of her doing a modified version, "Victorian Blade."
* One photo (#8) of her with her head in the same position, but this time she's smiling. I call this expression "Cherish," because Madonna first brought the expression to a wide audience 12 seconds into her 1989 video "Cherish."

And here's another slideshow, featuring the constantly changing face of Agnete Hegelund. I call her expression "Autobahn."
http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/model-morphosis-agnete-hegelund/

And another: the many moods of model Anna J. This slideshow includes ten photos of her current expression, "Deneuve," and one of the expression used earlier in her career, a smile called "Britney":
http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/model-morphosis-anna-j/

If anyone's still wondering why models rarely make it as actors... !