Who needs Hairspray? John Travolta unveils bald head ... but it's all in the name of art

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 10:44 AM on 06th November 2008

He was the lush-haired young man who broke a thousand girl's hearts in teen movie Grease. But for his latest role Hairspray actor John Travolta has been transformed - into a bald-headed middle-aged thug.The actor was pictured on the set of new film From Paris With Love, which was filming on location on rue Saint-Denis in the French capital's red light district yesterday.

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Congratulations to Brotherhood Member Dominic Perino who has been selected for Chief Master Sergeant (E-9). This is the last stripe he could make, and it represents the top 1% of the enlisted corps. Only 520 Air Force wide were selected this year, and his line number is 314.

As Dominic says: "A big bad bald Chief!! Hoooah!"

We found this fun article online today:

When It comes to hair, remember; if you ain't got it, flaunt it! 

By Martin Newlands 

So you’ve finally noticed that either your head is growing at a pace that your hair can not match, or you’re going bald. I’m here to bring you a message of hope. All, is not lost. Well, apart from your hair, that is. But, as I will point out, sometimes bald is better.

Before the good news, an unhealthy dose of realism. You should get used to the fact that the tragic loss of your hair is a constant source of amusement to others. It is one of those bizarre paradoxes with which life head-butts you across the nose from time to time. Although society frowns on the ridiculing of the wobbly and the downright paint-peelingly ugly, it declares open season on baldies.

“He’s losing his hair!” trilled a charming lady, one of the first to out me as a potential chrome-dome. My response? “I can wear a wig. What are you going to do about your face?” Needless to say, my mild – though apt – retort was deemed brutal and my failure to enjoy the obvious humour of my predicament unseemly.

Consider the plethora of rib-tickling names that the Hairy Ones come up with for us: conehead, pankop, Kojak and – my personal favourite – slaphead. I’m not sure where this last charming term of endearment originated, but my money’s on The Benny Hill Show. One of the long-suffering regulars on the show, a perfectly respec-table elderly gent, would be repeatedly slapped on the back of his balding pate whenever he passed the beaming Mr Hill.

Okay, enough reality for a while. Now for the good news.

Tone Fly thanks Howie Mandell for helping to make the bald look mainstream:

http://v2.b96hiphop.com/avc-view.aspx?videoid=141&categoryid=2

For those of you who watched the presidential debate yesterday, you saw "Joe the Plumber" take his place in American history:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/16/joe.plumber/index.html

We were contacted last Friday by Melinda Beck from the Wall Street Journal. She had a few questions for Mike as she was working on the following article: 

Hair Apparent? New Science on the Genetics of Balding

The conventional wisdom on baldness has long held that men inherit their mother's father's hair, or lack of it.But that doesn't explain the legions of men whose pates look more like their own dads'.

Two studies in the journal Nature Genetics this week shed some light on that mystery -- even while leaving more men unsettled about the fate of their scalps. Two sets of researchers, working independently, identified a new gene variation strongly associated with early hair loss that can be inherited from either the mother's or the father's side.

"Sorry to break the bad news, but we'd known that for years, we just hadn't figured out why," says Brent Richards, an assistant professor of human genetics at McGill University in Montreal and the lead author of one study.

Most men and many women have some hair loss by their 70s or 80s. But the telltale loss of hair at the crown and temples, known as male-pattern baldness, starts as early as the 20s in about 20% of men. It's apparent in about 40% of men in their 40s and 60% of men in their 60s.

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Last night on Nightline, Robin Roberts from Good Morning America discussed her breast cancer journey. She specifically addressed the difficulty of losing her hair as a side effect of chemotherapy and radiation treatments. Medical hair loss can be devastating, but she has a message: "We are not our hair."

I found a video of this interview on the ABC News website. This link will take you to the page where the video is listed.

http://abcnews.go.com/search?searchtext=robin%20roberts&type=

A clip from Bald Night in July with the St. Paul Saints. During the video, you'll hear the announcer interviewing Mike Ubl, Brotherhood Mission Director. Enjoy!

We are an organization devoted to all bald people and bald causes around the world. One of the bald causes very near and dear to the Brotherhood is cancer. There are many people suffering medical hair loss as a side effect of cancer treatments. Our Brotherhood member, Mae ("Sweetchesney"), is one of those people. Mae sent me us a link to this video today so we could see her with long, flowing red locks (lol), but more importantly, we wanted to make sure to post this video for our readers because we think it has an important message. September is National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. Thanks Mae!

We found a great website today for those looking for hats or scarves while going through chemotherapy. Here's a little bit about it's creator:

ABOUT NICKI SERQUINIA

Congratulations from the Brotherhood of Bald People Worldwide to Officer Brent Nagel of the West St. Paul Police Department:

"2008 MPPOA Police Officer of the Year"

Read the full story here: http://www.mppoa.com/NEWMPPOASITE/TEMP%20TO%20DELETE/FALL%20JOURNAL2008.pdf

The following article was submitted to us by new Brotherhood member Chris Willie. It may be old news, but it's new to us here at the Brotherhood:

TWO LOOK-ALIKES BETTER THAN ONE 

By: Martiga Lohn, News-Tribune       August 6, 1999

Jesse the Guv and Jesse the Bod faced off Thursday afternoon at Spirit Valley Days in West Duluth.

Here's a before (with hair piece) and after photo submitted by one of our members:

I don't know about the rest of you, but I think this bare head is the bomb!  

Julie Olson, Mission Coordinator

It sounds like this bald athlete is having a good run at the games in Beijing this week.

Beach Volleyball Day 5 Preview: Top seeded team faces unbeaten opponent

Updated: 2008-08-13 01:00:11

Source: http://en.beijing2008.cn/news/sports/headlines/beachvolleyball/n214535278.shtml

Julie Olson, Mission Coordinator

Tone Fly, DJ for B96 FM Radio (Minneapolis, MN) throws the first pitch at "Take Me Out to the Bald Game" July 26th, 2008. Click on this link and check it out: Does Tone Throw a Strike?