JoAnne Schmitz wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:28:14 -0700, Don Freeman
<freemand@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>
>> JoAnne Schmitz wrote:
>>> My husband told me last night that Michael Chiklis (star of _The
****eld_, a
>>> USAn tv show) shaves his head because he had some kind of hair dye
incident
>>> that fried his hair and made it not grow back right. This reminded me
of
>>> the "shaving your legs makes it grow back thicker" idea.
>>>
>>> I didn't see anything with a cursory Google. Anyone familiar with
this
>>> story?
>>>
>>> JoAnne "couldn't find any pictures of him ****rtless, and he favors
high
>>> collars, so I'm not sure what the status of the rest of his hair is"
>>> Schmitz
>>>
>> Your husband is correct.
>>
>> Though Wikipedia echos the same story you heard I'm not thrilled with
>> using it as an unimpeachable source:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Chiklis
>>
>> "At age 20, Chiklis shaved his head to look like male-pattern baldness
>> for the part of a 65-year-old man in You Can't Take It With You.
Instead
>> of using powder on his head (as he did on his face), he used
>> greasepaint, and he failed to remove it properly at the end of each
day.
>> This killed the hair follicles on his head, essentially shaping his
>> career in many ways. Chiklis has said in an interview that this was a
>> very traumatic experience as a young actor, and is the reason he wore a
>> hairpiece in Wired."
>
> Okay, this sounds like it is his story, but is it true that leaving
> greasepaint on your head will kill the hair follicles? Some men go bald
> very very early.
>
> JoAnne "perfect head joke here" Schmitz
>
Some term it "emerging intellect"
Those of us blessed with hirsute maternal grandparents tend to be
somewhat meaner and mention bowling balls, queue balls, etc.
It was passed as the honest truth that military males who stayed in the
service until retirement would always lose their hair more rapidly than
the norm...allegedly the military hat requirement would somehow back the
follicles.
Lon "Deck your head with bows of Holly. Follicle La La" Stowell
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