Scoop

Four bits of cool scoopage this month, so let's jump right in with the lovely young actress, LEELEE SOBIESKI.  The various bits of info I have on Leelee center around the fact that she seems to have a thing about hair.  You may interpret "thing" anyway you want, but I think after reading this excerpt from an interview Leelee did with USA Weekend, you'll have a pretty clear picture.  It starts with a discussion of her growing collection of celebrity hair (yup, you read that right):

Have you added anyone's locks to your hair collection lately? Who?

"I have Drew Barrymore's. Lately, I added Maximilian Schell, Shirley MacLaine, Peter O'Toole, Olympia Dukakis and Peter Strauss." 

What do you keep them in?

"Whatever package they're packed in at the original place. I don't bring some specific little plastic bag that I have all the hair samples in. Stanley Kubrick's hair is in the envelope that he sealed that I haven't opened yet. So his is remaining in that envelope. Most of the time I have them say this is my hair, or they just sign their autograph on the envelope to authenticate it." 

I read that you collect wigs. How many do you have? Colors? Styles? Length? 

"I don't collect them, but I have a couple. I have a bright purple, a green, a yellow, turquoise-and-black, a red wig.  The purple and the yellow are short with the bangs, cut right under my chin, and the turquoise and black one as well. And the green one is like really teased in the back à la Diana Ross and the the Supremes. On Halloween, I bought a really huge red one that looks like a Dolly Parton. It's a devilish red and it has two black horns coming out of the sides of it. I was a she-devil for Halloween." 

Do you think you'll ever cut your hair?

"I'd like to cut it, but my hair is very fine, very thin. I like having long hair. It's like a feminine asset, long hair. It brings something to you. I find short hair to be more fun and spunky, that's why there's the wigs. Because it's easier to cut your hair than to grow it. You can always cut your hair shorter, so the wigs are in the sense then I can always have long hair if I keep the wigs and it doesn't take that long. Probably if I had short hair I'd have to do all these annoying things. I'd have to blow-dry it every morning and put all of this hairspray in it and all of this stuff that I really don't have time to do. I get really bored with doing my hair. I hate it. I can't stand it. I'd rather look really bad than spend an hour in the bathroom every morning." 

Where do you wear those wigs? 

"If I want to let myself go or go out and have fun. Different wigs give you a different appearance so you can sort of be a different person that day. In Joan of Arc, I wore two different wigs but it had to look like the wig really wasn't a wig. Some of my wigs look like they're wigs on purpose. The purple one, I wear it out to the movies theaters,walking down the street. The turquoise-and-black one I have a turquoise-and-black dress that I wear it with just outside, just walking around. But I don't wear a really big wig in the movies because that's really annoying to the people sitting behind you. So there is a wig etiquette.  You cannot wear a huge crazy wig in a film. It's not nice. It's like wearing a high hat. It's not fair." 

What do you do on a bad hair day?

"It doesn't matter. I don't care. I just go out with a bad hair day." 

Are your friends into wigs?

"I do a lot of my girlfriends' hair and makeup, just because when you're working on a film or doing the photo shoots you learn all these tricks. So I can do makeup pretty well because of that. So they always come over and I do their hair and makeup and they always look really beautiful and then I go out looking really crappy. That's probably why I put a wig on." 

Next, thanks to the fine folks at Fashion Dish, I have an explanation of why SANDRA BULLOCK's hair looks as though the style isn't quite finished...and why Sandra isn't exactly thrilled with it herself:

"I just wanna chop it off!" That was Sandra Bullock at the first FOX Teen Choice Awards, telling us that her smooth, 70's-style blow-dry look is actually the transition between two haircuts.  Like most people in that in-between stage, Sandra's been having her share of bad hair days.  "I chopped my hair off, and now I have to let it grow again," she said. When we noted that her slightly feathered do complemented her vintage beaded corduroys, peacock-feather wrap necklace and neo-hippie sandals, Sandra admitted, "Yeah, it looks great when someone blows it out. But it's driving me crazy!"

I bet you've been wondering where the heck I was going to include someting on LAURA PREPON (Donna on "That 70s Show") since she was this month's cover girl.  That is, if you weren't wondering who the heck that was on the cover.  Well, wait no more.  Once again, Fashion Dish comes through with the true scoop on Laura's red locks: 

Claudio Lazo of Allen Edwards salon makes Laura Prepon's locks shine with a neon glow on "That 70s Show." He took Laura from a muted blond to her carroty color, touching up the orange-red every three weeks.  "It was very hard to get her into the color change," says Lazo.  "Now she's in all the time." In a shear away from authenticity, Prepon's hair is not simply a blunt cut.  "I cut little pieces to break it up, give it a little texture.  That's today's version of the 70s."

Lastly, if you're like me (and who wouldn't want to be?), you've probably been wondering why no one interviewing RENE RUSSO about "The Thomas Crown Affair" has asked her about sensational change in her hair.  Fortunately, Los Angeles Magazine finally got the answer from her (and faithful reader ssjockey was nice enough to point me toward it).  Seems that she and director John McTiernan had a rather intense discussion on her fears about her role and how she would portray the character (quite the cathartic and traumatic episode for Rene in and of itself, if you read the rest of the article).  Though they came to a basic agreement on her character, that wasn't the end of creative struggle between her and the director...

McTiernan wanted her to lose her trademark blonded mane of curls in favor of an edgier, more sophisticated image. "He goes, 'I gotta tell you something,'" she remembers. "'If you look like you do in Lethal Weapon, we're in trouble.'" Numerous wigs and wardrobe variations were tested. McTiernan fired Russo's longtime hairdresser and convinced Russo to cut her hair and dye it red. She loved the results. "I don't know why I hadn't done it years ago."

Leelee Sobieski pictures courtesy USA Weekend, Sandra Bullock picture courtesy Fashion Dish, Laura Prepon picture courtesy FOX, Rene Russo picture courtesy Los Angeles Magazine

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