- Patrick Stewart inherited alopecia and
had completely lost his hair by the age
of 19. Shortly after landing the role
of Captain Jean-Luc Picard in "Star Trek:
The Next Generation" Stewart's daughter,
then 15, suggested a new tagline for the
show: "To baldly go where no man has gone
before."
- One day late in life, Robert Frost was
asked where he got his hair cut. "I cut
my own hair now," he replied. "I got sick
of barbers because they talk too much
- and too much of their talk was about
my hair falling out."Frost, Robert Lee
(1874-1963) American poet, Poet Laureate,
Pulitzer Prize recipient (1924, 1931,
1937, 1943) [noted for such deceptively
simple poems as "The Road Less Traveled"
and "Stopping by Woods at Snowy Evening",
collected in such collections as A Boy's
Will (1913) and In the Clearing (1962)
- Cary Grant's mother, having seen her
famous son on a television broadcast one
day, scolded him for letting his hair
turn gray. "It doesn't bother me," he
casually replied. "Maybe not," his mother
retorted, "but it bothers me. It makes
me seem so old!"
- "Charlton Heston wears a hairpiece,"
Dustin Hoffman once remarked. "His character
in A Man For All Seasons was bald. Instead
of doing without his hairpiece, he put
a bald pate over it!"
- Because she did not want anyone to know
that her hair was not in fact her own,
Catherine the Great kept her wig-maker
confined for three years... In an iron
cage in her bedroom.Catherine II [Catherine
the Great], (1729-1796) Russian czarina
(1762–96) [noted for her failed efforts
at legal reform, and for her wars with
the Ottoman Empire]
- Jason Alexander (famed for his 'George
Costanza' character on "Seinfeld") was
once asked what sort of woman was attracted
to him. "It's interesting how the 'Seinfeld'
fan base broke down," he replied. "Michael
Richards would get the lunatics, Julia
Louis-Dreyfus would get the convicts,
Jerry would get the young, attractive
girls, and I would get their mothers!"[Alexander
started losing his hair at the age of
16. "The baldness thing has only helped
me in life," he added. "I could play older
guys in my 20s, and if I needed to play
a guy with hair, I'd throw on a wig."][Details:
"My introduction to sex came when I was
quite young, with a much older woman I
was working with," Alexander once recalled.
"I was 13 at the time, and she was in
her 30s."]Alexander [born Greenspan],
Jason Scott (1959- ) American actor [noted
for his roles on "Seinfeld" and in various
films]
- One day a female fan broke into Thaddeus
Stevens's Congressional office begging
for a lock of his hair. Stevens removed
his chestnut wig and handed it over. "Pray,
madam," he declared, "select any curl
that strikes your fancy." Stevens, Thaddeus
(1792-1868) American politician and lawyer,
U.S. Congressman (Pennsylvania, 1849-53,
1859-68) [noted for his leading role in
the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson
(1868)]
- Prince Philip addressed a meeting of
manufacturers of man-made fibers one evening.
"I'm not very good," he confessed, indicating
his balding head, "at producing man-made
fibers myself!" Philip, Prince, Duke of
Edinburgh (1921- ) British husband of
Queen Elizabeth II
- Chinese proverb, "Of 10 bald men nine
are deceitful and the tenth is stupid."
- In the biblical story, the cutting off
of Samson's hair deprived
him of his strength. This may be an example
of a man's head hair "displacing" his
facial and body hair as a symbol
of virility and power . Scalp
hair loss is seen in much the same way,
as an indicator of age and loss of virility.
- Two psychiatrists, TA Szasz and AM Robertson,
from the University of Chicago many years
ago claimed that baldness was
due to laughter. They suggested
that the facial nerve which allows fluidity
of facial expression, has branches that
activate the muscles of the scalp. Broad
smiles and hearty laughter cause this
muscle to pull on the scalp and tighten
it which constricted the blood vessels
supplying the hair.
- Hippocrates was perhaps
the first to realize a link between
androgens and pattern
baldness when he wrote in Aphorism
VI 28, " Eunuchs are
not subject to gout nor do they become
bald."
- Julius Caesar was bald,
which is ironic because the name Caesar,
from the Latin "caesaries," means "abundant
hair." Cleopatra proposed a baldness cure
made from ground up burnt domestic mice,
horse teeth, bear grease, and deer marrow
to treat the baldness of Julius Caeser.
- Sioux Indians believed
hair was the seat of strength so much
so that they scalped their enemies
to take away their power
, even in death. Because hair is so strong
you could hang between 5,600kg and 8,400kg
from one head of hair without it breaking
(although your neck would not take it
!).
- female scalp hair is regarded as an
indicator of sexuality so to cover it
up is to show modesty and subservience.
- humility and subservience or as a punishment
. Buddhist monks/ indicator of mourning.
- second world war female traitors
in France had their scalps forcibly shaved
before being paraded through the
streets.
- The longest scalp hair
on record was grown by a medicine man,
Hoo Sateow of Muang Nge, Chang Mai, Thailand.
The hair measured 16 feet 11 inches (5.15
meters) on the 21st November 1997. Mr
Sateow stopped cutting his hair in 1929
in the belief that his long hair held
the key to his healing powers
- You shed more hair in the fall and spring
than in summer and late winter in response
to the changes in seasons and daylight
exposure.
- Over $6 billion is spent in the US each
year on treating hair loss.
- Hair fiber is as strong as copper wire
of the same diameter.
- $180 million of minoxidil is sold each
year.
- Over 70 million people in the US have
some degree of androgenetic alopecia.
- Asian men have little beard growth and
a lower risk of developing androgenetic
alopecia as, on average, they produce
less testosterone than Caucasians
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