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Happy New Year everyone!
Now that 2007 has officially passed (and for the record, it was a bad year for me), I am ready to meet the new year with optimism and a really big hello. HELLO 2008!
I thought I would share some of the things that I plan to work on this year
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Production on the movie Harold, has recently been completed. This movie stars Cuba Gooding Junior as a janitor who befriends (and helps out) a pubescent boy (Spencer Breslin) who suffers from premature male patterned baldness. Producers are hoping that the film will be ready to show at this years Sundance […]
Last week on Oprah, a very special episode was aired. For the first time in 22 years, the audience was completely comprised of men. I know…unheard of, right. The reason for this was, Dr Mehmet Oz hosted the show entitled 300 Men Ask Dr Oz. One of the subjects discussed on […]
I just finished watching the movie, Evan Almighty - starring Steve Carell. Don’t worry, I won’t tell you my views on this movie. I don’t review movies in general, and definitely not Hollywood ones. However, there is a scene in this movie that made me think about hair. If you […]
Here’s an interesting looking book: Medicalized Masculinities, edited by Dana Rosenfeld and Christopher Faircloth. From the Book Description out at Amazon.com:
When medicalization—the characterization of human traits in terms of disease and ailment—first appeared as a concept in the 1970s, most social science gender scholarship focused on female or genderless bodies. The work on men, health, […]
That’s the argument put forth by Drs. Bernstein and Rassman of Bernstein Medical in the latest issue of the journal Hair Transplant Forum. The journal is published by The International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS), and the lead article this time around is “Densitometry and Video-microscopy.”
In the article the doctors argue that a close, […]
At least she has in Karen Boettcher-Tate adaptation of the fairy tale. The Phipps Center in Hudson, Wisconsin is presenting this new twist on the classic Grimm Brothers story later this month. Things start off commonly enough… Rapunzel’s dad gets nabbed for petty larceny by a witch and pays the standard first-born fine. After that […]
Dead Famous: The Complete Series 2, starring our very own Ms. Porter, is now available on DVD in the UK. (Amazon US don’t seem to stock it.)
Look at that cover shot?
Gail before her alopecia. And such a serious look. I suppose it’s befitting a paranormal investigation.
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Set your VCRs (or for those of you already in the 21st century “TiVos”), because NBC’s Today show will be discussing among other things the new laser comb in a segment on baldness.
Here’s the promotional teaser:
Is There A Cure For Baldness?
Baldness… some men embrace it… others, well… they try to hide it. Men try lotions […]
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