Guess he started losing his hair late 1970s in a narrow window of time. His toup was more than obvious in the second Smokey and the Bandit film which was filmed in 1979 or early 1980. But his hair still looked natural in Starting Over which was 1979. Wtf? He was sex on a stick in 60s and most of 70s.
I guess
by Anonymous | reply 1 | December 10, 2017 3:17 PM |
With a rug, there comes a certain point where you go for "realistic" and another point where you go for "best."
For instance, almost every single man is going to have some gray by age 40. And everyone has a few random variations of color. But after 40 it's easier just to dye the hole head and not worry about putting a few variations in, because everyone know at your age, you are dying it anyway.
So after a certain point, everyone knew Burt was wearing a piece, so he went from the realistic look to the look that looked best, even though what made him look best, was certainly not real.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | December 10, 2017 3:39 PM |
He started wearing pieces in the 60s, not the 70s, OP.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | December 10, 2017 3:59 PM |
R2, I'm 60 and have a negligible amount of grey hair.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | December 10, 2017 4:18 PM |
I think he looks tremendous
by Anonymous | reply 6 | December 10, 2017 4:23 PM |
by Anonymous | reply 7 | December 10, 2017 4:30 PM |
i feel bad for him. i liked his latest book. too bad he got mixed up with that goldigging asshole Loni, that bitch took him for everything.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | December 10, 2017 4:32 PM |
by Anonymous | reply 9 | December 10, 2017 4:32 PM |
R5 I'm 70 and look 23.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | December 10, 2017 4:37 PM |
What the hell is R2 talking about? I’ve reread it 3 times and still don’t understand a word.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | December 10, 2017 4:40 PM |
I have an intellectual disability that prevents me from being able to discern when someone is wearing a wig or a toupee. I believe I am both observant and intelligent otherwise, but I am a patented moron in this respect.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | December 10, 2017 4:47 PM |
R12 me too. I found out earlier this year that my uncle has worn a piece for the past 20 years and I never realized it.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | December 10, 2017 7:41 PM |
Judy Carne wrote that Reynolds' hair was thinning badly when they were married in the 1960s, and he joked about wearing a hair piece in the early 1970s.
What no one talks about is Reynolds' nose jobs, including a very bad one with his last plastic surgery:
by Anonymous | reply 14 | December 10, 2017 7:55 PM |
He looks like a clown. A sad one...
by Anonymous | reply 15 | August 28, 2018 6:37 AM |
Wtf is going on with his eyebrows?
by Anonymous | reply 16 | August 28, 2018 6:53 AM |
The same thing that's going on with 90% of the pre-teen to 20's female demographic. They're dyed or drawn in with a marker to scream "LOOK AT ME.....I'M A GIANT, BUSHY EYEBROW!!!....I LOOK LIKE A CATERPILLAR CRAWLING ON THIS CUNT'S FACE!!!"
by Anonymous | reply 17 | August 28, 2018 7:00 AM |
Here's one of Burt's famous nude layout pics they decided not to publish.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | August 28, 2018 12:26 PM |
Isn’t it awkward and uncomfortable to walk around with a little shag rug glued to your head all day? Wouldn’t you be even more self-conscious than you’d be if you were just bald? I would be paranoid people were judging me and assessing me and trying to figure out if the hair was real, making fun of me behind my back, etc. And even when I wear just a baseball cap, my scalp often gets itchy and it makes me hot. Don’t wigs and toupees do that to people?
Not long ago, I was driving on a highway behind a woman who was being fucking beaten by someone as she drove. I changed lanes and sped up to look over at the domestic assault as I tried to figure out what the fuck was happening and if I should call the police and I was shocked to see the woman was alone, smacking herself in the head. She looked like she was hitting herself hard. I told people at work and all the black women told me she was patting her weave because they itch as the hair grows out. Somehow I knew nothing about the phenomenon. But I asked them if they think driving around and smacking yourself in the head like an insane person is a good look even with good-looking hair, and they rolled their eyes and said everyone but me knows that black women have to pat their weaves. :::dumbfounded:::
by Anonymous | reply 19 | August 28, 2018 12:33 PM |
[quote] Wtf?
OP, are you really 'WtF'ing' Burt Reynold's hair in the 70's? You aspired to this topic when you woke up today?
I hope you're a ward of the state. It's scary if people like you have a drivers license. Or maybe Russia is holding you on a farm. I hope so.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | August 28, 2018 12:40 PM |
Hair pieces never lay naturally on the back of the head. The wearer never sees that you should glue the back flap which tends to separate from your head. This is true for all large rugs.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | August 28, 2018 12:54 PM |
[R21] You never lose the hair on the sides and in the back, so the piece has to be adjusted to taste.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | August 30, 2018 10:57 PM |
R18 That bush is magnificent.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | August 30, 2018 11:02 PM |
R16, prosthetics.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | September 1, 2018 3:59 PM |
Burt’s rugs are better than the bad ones worn by Ricardo Montalban and Tony Bennett.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | September 1, 2018 4:40 PM |
Wig bump.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | September 6, 2018 2:30 AM |
I think that's why Sally broke up with him, toupee kept coming off during sex.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | September 6, 2018 3:03 AM |
R.I.P.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | September 6, 2018 9:17 PM |
Dom DeLuise gave the same excuse R27.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | September 6, 2018 9:56 PM |
He reportedly owed over a million dollars to his toupee maker after his divorce from Loni.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | September 11, 2018 2:42 AM |
No idea i he was gay or not. Never cared for his I'm not gay apparent gayness
by Anonymous | reply 31 | September 11, 2018 2:58 AM |
'Isn’t it awkward and uncomfortable to walk around with a little shag rug glued to your head all day? Wouldn’t you be even more self-conscious than you’d be if you were just bald? I would be paranoid people were judging me and assessing me and trying to figure out if the hair was real, making fun of me behind my back, etc. And even when I wear just a baseball cap, my scalp often gets itchy and it makes me hot. Don’t wigs and toupees do that to people?'
Yes to everything but the 'Wouldn’t you be even more self-conscious than you’d be if you were just bald?' part. Of course you're horribly self conscious walking around in a wig. The problem is the you'd even be more self conscious without it. Somebody said to me only black men can get away with being bald and that's true.
A baldie is a baldie even without a wig. Owning your baldness doesn't make you any less bald. I remember the vice president of a very good company I worked for behind his back being referred to as 'the bald guy." No matter what he had achieved to get to where he was that was what he was reduced to.
Everybody knows you're wearing a wig and talking about you and laughing about you behind your back and what are you going to do? Walking around with nothing on top but a shiny dome is even worse.
Reynolds went bald in the late 60s. Everybody knew it as he was always in the public eye. He became a movie star because he wore a toupee not in spite of it. His stardom would not have happened without the wig.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | September 11, 2018 3:03 AM |
I was always impressed with whatever Hanks did. The front was obviously thinning when he was about 30.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | September 11, 2018 3:12 AM |
Jesus, R32, take a pill. A big pill.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | September 11, 2018 3:16 AM |
It's understandable that your baldness is hard to deal with R34. But just because you go without a wig does not mean people don't still call you egghead or bowling ball head behind your back.
The itching, constant maintenance and money though are a huge pain in the ass and if you don't want to deal with it that's ok.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | September 11, 2018 11:14 AM |
It was the last trace of vanity that he clung to.
He appeared aged, feeble, and broken in his last film, The Last Star, but he couldn’t give up the wig.
It’s not a great film, but it is a great performance, a testament to star charisma even in the face of impending death.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | September 12, 2018 6:08 PM |
I was a really surprised how much I like the film.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | September 12, 2018 7:33 PM |