[Magdalen] British actors (was Clerical Beards)

[Roger Stokes]

On 24/01/2016 17:55, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
> In a message dated 1/24/2016 12:43:57 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> polycarpa3 at ckt.net writes:
>
> Some men  do comb-overs, some just take it all off, when they start
> getting  bald.  Beard isn't affected by "Male Pattern Baldness."  Maybe
> they grow them to prove they're still virile, or something.  My s-i-l
> had very long hair for a while, then when he started with the bald spot
> (very young for that) he went to the Take It All Off school.  But he
> continued to shave his face.  I suppose there are some who go that
> direction if they have to go into chemotherapy.  Women are different.
> Most of us never have to deal with baldness, unless it's chemo.
> Fashions are strange, too.  I don't know what's going on with  Trump.  He
> has enough money to get the most perfect toupee ever  devised!
>
> Personally, I think the comb-over procedure looks  ridiculous.>>>>
> Though I have the typical balding area at the vertex of my scalp, I
> otherwise
> have done very well keeping my hair.  I am the only one of four male  sibs
> to have done so.  My father and brothers were all bald, and did the
> comb-over.

Listren who have met me can attest that I have a full head of hair ay 
68, just as my father did when he died aged 80.  OTOH I recall a photo 
of my brother cutting his 21st birthday cake when the balding spot was 
clearly visible.

> I didn't realize I was balding up there until the mid-1970's when I
> attended
> a concert in one of the large Lutheran churches in Eau Claire.  The  O/C
> was a good friend, and I met him after the concert at the reception.   He
> said that he knew I was there because he "could spot my bald spot."  from
> the rear gallery where he was sitting.
>   
> My surprised response was, "What bald spot?!"  This was  pre-Minoxidil.
>   
> Incidentally, thinning of hair, even balding, is quite common in women  past
> the menopause.

I have known a few women with that condition.

Roger