Short Stuff
 JENNIFER JASON LEIGH, best known as the
blonde in "Fast Times At Ridgemont High", has just recently cut her hair into a
very short crop and briefly returned to her natural brown color before going blonde
again. For anyone else, this would be major news, but for her it's par for the
course. I don't think Jennifer has looked the same in any two roles she's had, let
alone any two times I've actually seen her. The only reason I'm reporting on
this particular change is that I had just seen her fairly recently and her hair was blonde
and a couple of inches below her shoulders. As I said though, if I hadn't told you
this was a major change, you probably wouldn't have even noticed v Saw some pictures of JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT taken during filming of her new "Party of Five"
spinoff series, where she's out to find her birth parents in NY. Looks like she has
added some major blonde streaks to her brown locks. Not talking highlights here, but
big, chunky, Courtney-Cox-in-"Scream" blonde
streaks. Not a big fan of the look on her.
Posters for the new movie "The Thomas
Crown Affair" show RENE
RUSSO and costar Pierce Brosnan. In the poster (and in
the movie, so I've heard) Rene wears a just below chin-length bob. Don't know if she
actually cut her hair for the movie or not, but I would be surprised if she did.
She's worn her hair long for quite a while and has gone with a wig rather than cutting it
for other roles. I'll let you know if I hear anything else about and if you do, let
me know and I'll pass the word. v Caught MIA
FARROW on ET the other night and it looks as though she has
finally completed her gradual move toward short hair. If you remember a year or so
ago, she still had the long, wavy, below the shoulders style she had worn for the past
several years. She then cut it to a bob, but kept the same general style. Now,
she has drawn from her past and sports a very short crop. The look is virtually
identical to what her "Rosemary's Baby" pixie would
look like if it grew out for a couple of months. Her given reason for doing
it? The ever popular "got tired of long hair" response.
Unfortunately, it doesn't look quite as good on her this time.
Lead singer of The Cranberries, DOLORES O'RIORDAN, has grown
her hair out since we last saw her, which was a couple of years ago before she had her
baby and the band took some time off. Best known for her pixie cut (be it either
brunette or bleached blonde), she has once again let it grow to a layered, almost
shoulder-length blonde style. Looks very cute on her. You will probably have a
good chance to get a look at it soon since the band is now promoting their brand new
album, "Bury the Hatchet", and is making the talk show rounds. I should
have some pictures by next column v Just when I went to the trouble to compliment KATIE COURIC on her flip,
she goes and cuts it off. Unfortunately, it seems that was the only change to the
cut and now it looks unbalanced; as if she said to cut off the flip and leave everything
else the same. Odd.
 JENNIE GARTH continues to let her hair
grow back out after having a short cut for several years. It's back out to
shoulder-length in an attractive long-layered cut. Interestingly, I think Jennie
looks best with either short hair (above the shoulders) or long (below the
shoulders). This transition stage just doesn't work as well for her. It will
be interesting to see if this was the style she was going toward or if she keeps growing
it v
Several folks have emailed me about BROOKE
SHIELDS cutting her hair, but I didn't think anything of
it. I had seen Brooke in a recent interview and the descriptions I was getting
matched what I had seen then, which was straight and still a bit below the
shoulders. Well, I caught her on ET the other night and it and it turns out I was
way off. Brooke has chopped off about 8 inches or so and the style is virtually
identical to Sandra Bullock's new cut (shown above), but about a couple of inches
longer. Needless to say, it doesn't look any better on Brooke than it does on
Sandra. Yet another truly unfortunate hair decision, but since she has been under a
ridiculous amount of stress lately, I don't think it's all that fair to be overly critical
of it. See, I'm not completely heartless. J
Name That
Celebrity!
Well the previous contest ended early as a result of
the move and the winner has long been announced, but for those few of you who didn't catch
it...
Mystery Celebrity: ALYSSA MILANO
If you are wondering, this unfortunate blonde 'do was
the result of Alyssa's role in the Academy Award non-nominee, "Double
Dragon". Fortunately, this style was temporary. Anyway, the winner
guessed who it was correctly and she was…
Jessica Johnson!
Congratulations Jessica and thanks to everyone who
entered and all the comments. Now, on to this month's celebrity.
vvv
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.
So, this time tell me who's the celebrity getting the
early '80s Teen Beat makeover, pictured below?
Mystery Celebrity:
Here's where stuff changes. THE FIRST PERSON to
send me the correct answer gets a hearty virtual handshake and pat on the back...and their
name in the next column. And really, what more could you want? Email your
guess to JerkyFlea@HairBoutique.com
with the subject "JerkyFlea Contest". Good Luck!
Did Ya Know?
Got a two-fer for you this time; both concerning DEMI MOORE.
As you know, when Demi made "GI Jane" she had to
not only cut all of her hair off, but do it on camera. What you probably didn't know
was that she didn't do it all at once.
 
So that director Ridley Scott could make sure that he captured every
possible camera angle of the cut (since they obviously couldn't do another take), she had
to stop half way through. Demi then had to sit around with just the top and sides of
her head shaved for about an hour while they repositioned the cameras. Once they
were done, she shaved the back and finished the scene.
 The second thing you probably didn't know is that this wasn't as traumatic to
Demi as you may have thought. Why? Well, because she had actually had a
virtual crewcut once before. When she made "The Butcher's
Wife" in 1991, she dyed her hair blonde [left] to go  with the blonde fall she wore (because her hair was still short from "Ghost"). After the movie, however, the blonde had so
damaged her hair, that rather than recoloring it and letting it grow, she just sheared it
off into an ultra-short pixie cut [right]. It was from that point that she
let it grow until she cut it all off for "GI Jane".
Which was just pretty darn depressing, for obvious
reasons. J
As usual,
JerkyFlea
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