![]() ![]() “Some of the camera shots were from above, and I could see this balding pattern,” he says. In 1971 at age 25, he was cast as a high school student in an episode of Room 222. We still do literally hundreds and hundreds of actors at the Hair Club who are between the ages of 21 and 35.”įormer Hill Street Blues star Michael Warren knows the terrain. Otherwise he’s going to limit himself to older roles. A young, balding actor would still be very likely to do something with his hair. “But I think hairpieces will always play a role. “There are more and more men who are grinning and bearing it,” Sperling says. ![]() Might his company be hair today, gone tomorrow? Sperling says that’s nonsense, despite any increases in the numbers of men shaving their heads, shedding their rugs or making do with whatever strands they still have. Trend or no, fabled Hair Club for Men president Sy Sperling is in his 28th year of appliques. But I don’t remember us saying about an actor, ‘Put a toupee on him.’ “ When he walked in with that Julius Caesar haircut, we went crazy and told him to grow it back. George Clooney cut his hair after the pilot for (Warner’s) ER. “But by and large, I think the trend has gone the other way. “You’ll still see bad toupees here and there,” he says. Television, contends that TV “is more reality-based than it was 20 years ago.” “Why don’t I just look like what I am, you know? It’s easier that way.”ĬBS entertainment president Leslie Moonves, a former actor who joined the network after heading Warner Bros. His newly slicked hair is now longish in back but notably sparse on top. Hagman, who wore a silver-fox toupee on Dallas, decided to shed that particular pretense on CBS’ Orleans series, where he’s flamboyant judge Luther Charbonnet. A luxuriant shock of David Hasselhoff-ian hair no longer separates leading men from second bananas. ![]() Yet prime-time television lately is going against the grain – let alone the Rogaine – by casting men with pronounced widow’s peaks, if that. Self-confidence and sexiness supposedly await the users of these products. Men are inundated as never before with ads for potions, pills, transplants, extra-body shampoos, hair weaves and even hair-in-a-can. “Not to take anything away from Rogaine.” Mark Greene on prime time’s most popular series. “I hope if ER’s done anything, it’s said that if you actually look human, people will still come and turn on their television sets,” says Edwards, who plays Dr. So far, they’ve gotten ahead in Hollywood without any help from a hairpiece. Other balding TV stars – Anthony Edwards, Dennis Franz, Kelsey Grammer, John Lithgow, Jason Alexander – are simply asking us to go through thin and thin with them. Larry Hagman lately has pulled the rug out from over him, as has Ted Danson. ![]()
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