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Defamer HQ subscribes to Vanity Fair (hey, it's the Friday before a three-day weekend, so potentially humiliating admissions like these quickly disappear into the ether of the interweb...right?), which means that we haven't actually seen our copy of the Hollywood issue yet. But earlier today, The Carpetbagger was stunned by Bob Weinstein's transformation at the hands of VF guest editor Tom Ford, and now The Reeler drives home the point by throwing together the above side-by-side illustrating his miracle-working with the historically schlumpier Weinstein. The results are so dramatic that we're forced to consider the disturbing possibility that the original vision for the cover featured Ford sensually nibbling his made-over masterwork's earlobe while an uneasy Harvey lay prostrate in the foreground, wondering whether to believe the charismatic designer's manipulative promises that the once-corpulent mogul had lost enough weight to abandon his self-consciousness and fully surrender to the liberating experience of being photographed in the nude.