It's never a good sign when I get a correct entry for the contest before I even get the email from Jeff letting me know the column is up.  Yup, once again, it was easier than I thought it would be.  If you didn't get them, they were...

I guess I really need to start watching VH1's "Before They Were Stars" more often.  Anyway, the first person to guess them correctly was...

Teresa is also our first repeat winner; guessing quickly and correctly in the September/October contest as well.  Way to go Teresa!

The next 9 correct guessers in order were Shannon Moore, Larchman, Karen Chew, VerySlick, Gina Meyers, P. Hurd, Blythe C, Allison Miller, and Kathleen from White Lake, Michigan. 

On to this month's contest.  As usual, I give you either a picture of a celebrity from early in their life or career with some completely different look or I disguise a current picture.  You then have to tell me who the celebrity in question is.  Simple enough?  Of course. 

I had a tough picture all set for this month, but you know me and themes.  Yup, once again, I found a couple of pictures that kind of go together and couldn't resist using them.  So...

Who are the curly haired celebrities pictured in the two photos below?

No hints this time...like that will make a difference.  If these last more than a day or so, I'll be amazed.

Email your guess to JerkyFlea@HairBoutique.com with the subject "JerkyFlea Contest". (NOTE: PLEASE BE SURE TO USE THAT SUBJECT LINE SO THAT IT DOESN'T GET LOST IN MY EMAIL!  THANKS!)

As usual, THE FIRST PERSON to send me the correct answer for BOTH gets a hearty virtual handshake and pat on the back...and their name featured in the next column.  The next nine just get their name in the column.  Sure, it's a subtle difference, but those yellow letters don't come cheap.  Good Luck! 

Had I stumbled across this little tidbit on ROBIN WRIGHT PENN back in 1996, it would have found its way into Scoop.  Since I didn't and also because I wasn't even doing a column then, it now becomes a Did Ya Know?  Robin is probably best known as Buttercup in "The Princess Bride" and Jenny in "Forrest Gump".  As you probably remember from her appearance in the former, she was also easily recognizable for her thick blonde hair that reached to her waist.

In 1996, Robin made the movie "Moll Flanders".  While her length and color remained mostly intact for that film, around the middle of 1996, she became virtually unrecognizable, suddenly appearing with a dark crop.  What happened?  Thanks to an interview with Jeanne Wolf from The Detroit News, we get some more detail:

It would be easy to miss Robin Wright in a crowd. The trademark blond has become a brunet.

"This is closer to my real color," she explains with a laugh, running her fingers through the startlingly short cut that has replaced her waist-length tresses. "Now that I'm not a blond, hardly anybody recognizes me, which is great."

Then, Wright adds with an irresistible touch of self-deprecating wit, "But you know what's funny? I think blonds do have more fun. Men seemed to stare at me a lot more when I was a blond. Now it's not the same. I don't get checked out as much anymore."

Wright's decision to change her image to help her look the part of the 18th-century heroine in Moll Flanders.

"I bleached and permed my hair to get the right look," she reveals, "and it was completely damaged by the end of the movie. So after they said, 'Wrap,' I just went for a buzz cut."

With the brief exception of the terrific wavy bob she wore in "Message in a Bottle" (below left) and promptly cut off into an unflattering shag after the movie wrapped (below right)...

...she's never recovered from the post-Moll shearing.

It's always sad when bad things happen to good hair.

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