An editorial this week in the New York Times by Catherine Orenstein, author of "Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale" compared the novel/film STEPFORD WIVES to the story of Cinderella. She mentions "the Cinderella Cycle" which is universal in world myth, the transformation of a woman from ugly duckling to swan, or from slave to princess. Extreme Makeover! Today so many women (and men too) have nose jobs, liposuction, implants, and various other forms of shapeshifting to make themselves into some kind of ideal self. We don't need a fairy godmother anymore, we can just see our "cosmetic surgeon". Orenstein closes her editorial with a quote from a Sylvia Plath poem that is like a warning. "The woman is perfected/Her dead/Body wears the smile of accomplishment."