Mary Elizabeth Williams wrote: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make beautiful. Just look what they did to Kim Novak. Until Sunday night, most of the world thought of Novak primarily as the siren of Hitchcock’s iconic “Vertigo,” a famously stunning actress whose career peak happened nearly 60 years ago. Then she showed up at the Oscars, presenting the award for best animated feature with an admiring Matthew McConaughey. Her hair was a shoulder length tumble of blond, but it was her face that was the most surprising for a woman of her 81 years. Her eyes seemed pulled back, her lips seemed strangely inflated and her skin seemed at once unnaturally taut and puffy. If you were on Twitter on the time, you could almost hear the collective gasp. […] Kim Novak, who in just the past few years has survived breast cancer, bipolar disorder , fire and a serious horse riding accident, doesn’t have to justify her face or her private choices to anyone. She essentiall...