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It's one thing to put on extra pounds for a role, as Renee Zellweger did in Bridget Jones's Diary; it's quite another to put on extra eyebrows. And yet the courageous SALMA HAYEK appears to be doing just that for her performance as the late Mexican painter Frida Kahlo in the upcoming biopic of the same name. Among museum goers, Kahlo is known as a bracingly personal artist; among most people, she's known as the chick with the unibrow. The usually multibrowed Hayek will star alongside Ed Norton, Ashley Judd, Antonio Banderas and Geoffrey Rush, and the presence of so many stars augurs well for the film, directed by Julie Taymor. Yet one wonders if it will be graced by the mustache conspicuous in Kahlo's self-portraits but imperceptible in photographs of Hayek in costume. Will make-up artists test Hollywood's capacity for realism by putting it in? Or will they test the tolerance of pesky intellectuals with a facial-hairless Hayek?