Sunday, February 18, 2007

Of Shaved Heads, Lollipops And Bad Decisions

LOS ANGELES, February 17, 2007 - Britney Spears appeared in a tattoo parlor in the San Fernando Valley with her head shaved completely bald.
Eyewitness News shot video of the newly shorn Spears, with tiny tattoos on the back of her neck, sitting for a new tattoo, a pair of red and pink lips, on Friday night.

A short history:

Telly Savalas, the man who played "Kojak", looked quite normal bald as a baseball, and acted macho enough to pull off the lollipop thing, a Kojak gimmick.

Yul Brynner, who played an Egyptian Pharoah in "The Ten Commandments", looked a lot sillier with his bald head, struting around the place, hands on hips, looking angry, angry, angry.

Persis Khambatta, who played the role of Lt. Ilia, the bald Deltan alien in "Star Trek: The Motion Picture", pulled off the bald bit gloriously becuse she was a beautiful woman to begin with.

Even Sinead O'Conner, one of the Vatican's favorite female singers, managed to look acceptable as a baldy.

Now come Britney Spears with her rendition of bald-headedness, and from what I've seen so far in the news, it is the result of yet another really bad choice by a young woman hell-bent on charging over the nearest cliff, dragging her career behind her.

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