![]() Björk, GlerbrotĮmily Yoshida: Our buddy Björk has had many fantastic hair moments. How else to explain this tribute video to the late Texas governor (and unparalleled hair enthusiast) Ann Richards? Watch it all the way to the end and just marvel at how wily our Hillary is. No doubt Mark Penn–style micro–focus groups have turned up prospective voters like me who love this stuff and recommended we be pandered to. Her Twitter bio, which self-describes her as both a “hair icon” and a “pantsuit aficionado” AND uses as its image that baller photo of her in sunglasses that went viral, is more self-aware than even those of the most self-deprecating Brooklyn writers. Watch the master expertly manage to bring up her hair as it relates to Mighty Morphin Power Rangers while in Israel, where the program was made!! That’s some good politics, ma’am. And at any rate, Hillary, being who she is, is obviously totally in on the appeal. ![]() I worry ever so slightly, am I contributing to the ongoing marginalization of women in power? But no, I do think if a guy had such legendary (and impeccably of-the-times) personal style variations as Former Madam Secretary Clinton I’d enjoy them just as much. Normally I might feel kinda bad about my obsession with what’s on Hil’s head. “People saw no firm direction as with husband Bill.” (Heh heh, hey-o, ain’t that the truth!) ![]() (The bike riding and the bangs era in particular.) “Sometimes she piled her hair up, sometimes she hid it or let it right down, or had it short, feminine, waved or backcombed,” the German narrator continues. “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. Don’t get us wrong - we’re very excited about David O.
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