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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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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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!

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.

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?

Julie Olson, Mission Coordinator

We were contacted a few weeks ago by Elizabeth Bromstein with Now Magazine in Toronto, Canada to do a phone interview for an article she was working on relating to baldness. Here is the story:

Lay off on coif medicine

Growing stable of hunky, hairless celebs is rebranding baldness

Julie Olson, Mission Coordinator

Julie Olson, Mission Coordinator

I found this great article in the St. Paul Pioneer Press (MN): 

From Chrome Domes to Hip Heads, More Men Daring to Go Bald

By: Jesse Tinley 

For 32 years, George Sapir and his hairpiece were inseparable.

The hairpiece, which he'd glue to his crown each morning, was the source of his public confidence and his private shame.

His wife of many years and, later, a longtime girlfriend both failed to persuade Sapir to part with the piece. The idea of facing the world without it seemed frightening and out of the question.

Finally, on a warm June night this year, a new girlfriend persuaded the 65-year-old attorney from Chesterland to lose the wiglet.

He peeled off the phony hair and trimmed his real strands down to a shadow. He nervously stepped out into the world as a new man.

"I remember it was very difficult the first time I went out in public without my hairpiece," Sapir says. "I felt almost naked."

Julie Olson, Mission Coordinator

We know it is. Here's the article:

BALD IS BEAUTIFUL

FRESHLY SHAVEN METS SHAKE OFF BONDS' 745TH

By MARK HALE

Tom Glavine

May 9, 2007 -- SAN FRANCISCO - With Tom Glavine getting his head buzzed after the game, Rick Down thought the move was for the better.

"He looks 10 years younger," the hitting coach said. "He'll be pitching till he's 50."

Julie Olson, Mission Coordinator

Check it out - A Tribute to Bald Men:

http://www.pbase.com/ira_morenberg/bald_men