![]() ![]() “Congress pulled her ideas out by the roots,” the translated captions smirk, as we go on a visual odyssey through the early ’90s that, with the exception of that awesome maroon ball gown getup, really reminds me of nothing so much as my own mom. While on the hunt for its equivalent in YouTube form, I found this time capsule from some German NBC program (?) in 1994 that basically leverages HRC’s ever-changing tresses to make harsh remarks about her failures in health care reform. Katie Baker: I would spend a significant amount of money on a well-made coffee-table book that traced the recent social history of the United States vis-à-vis Hillary Clinton’s hair. I wish I could sit here with a straight face and act like Camp was embarrassing to watch even as a preteen, but that would mean I never spent that hour before school one Friday trying as hard as I could to recreate those hair-gel-stalagmites. He’s still alive, but “was” is the operative word here - the now-34-year-old former MTV VJ has long since faded into cocaine-dusted obscurity, his insane hair vanishing along with his fleeting, screeching celebrity. ![]() Zach Dionne: Jesse Camp was 5 percent human, 20 percent voice, and 75 percent hairstyle. ![]() Look into Al Pacino’s eyes as he stares across the barrel of that revolver. Just as you will not be able to gaze upon Bradley Cooper’s salon-quality curls or the tattered scrap of swap-meet bear rug gently resting upon Christian Bale’s razored-back scalp without knowing there is one of your favorite actors toiling underneath, you could not watch Penn work beneath that fright wig and not marinate in the aggressive Penn-ness of it all. It is the spiritual ancestor of every period-illustrative hair decision in American Hustle, the movie that inspired this week’s Hall of Fame exercise. There’s a graph I could draw illustrating this, but who has time for that? This is about art, not math. The more extreme the divide between reality and artifice, the greater the effect of the hair work, as the audience becomes unable (and, eventually, unwilling) to divorce performer from character. Mark Lisanti: The key to extracting maximum impact from a hair-acting choice is to play off the friction between the public’s knowledge of your civilian hairstyle and what you present to them onscreen. Here’s an audiovisual lookbook of some of our favorites. We’re just equally excited about the hair in American Hustle, and we can’t wait for J-Law’s towering updo and C-Bale’s “elaborate” comb-over to join the ranks of the greatest follicular innovations of our time. Russell’s American Hustle, which gets its limited release this weekend. It’s never too early to start planning for Halloween, and if your friends would understand the reference, $20 is a totally reasonable cost to dominate any costume party, so get a wig for yourself here.Don’t get us wrong - we’re very excited about David O. Sadly, Score wasn’t rocking his signature hair in that video, so here’s “Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)” for your viewing pleasure: The wig is selling for just $20, and it “will fit most adults.” For the young’uns among is who don’t quite know who A Flock of Seagulls are, it’s likely you’ve come across “I Ran” before: ![]() The accuracy does come with a caveat, though: The same reviewer said that “a lot of people will ask to take pictures with you so be warned.” The artificial do is totally convincing: One reviewer wrote that he wore the wig to an A Flock of Seagulls concert, and said that people “lost their minds when they saw” it and thought it was his real hair. But now, the struggle is over, as has won the battle with their Mike Score wig ( via Dangerous Minds), which looks absolutely amazing: File this one under products that arrived 35 years too late, but are still too wonderful to avoid today: In the early 80s, new wave/synthpop group A Flock of Seagulls set the game ablaze with both their upbeat hits and lead singer Mike Score’s upright hair, with its iconic styling of wings on the side and a pronounced downward swoop in the middle.īack in the day, many tried and failed to emulate the style: It’s hard, and there’s a lot of hair product used in this fight against gravity. ![]()
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