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| Posted by: schmiggens | | Portman predicts new look for spring: baldness
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Portman shaves head
It took two different attempts for "The Amazing Race" to get a woman to shave her head, but all it took for Natalie Portman was a good role. The 23-year-old actress rid herself of her lovely brown locks for the part of Evey Hammond in the upcoming V for Vendetta. The film is the first for the Wachowski Brothers since the Matrix trilogy ended in 2003. It is based on a graphic novel in which Portman plays a suspected terrorist in a totalitarian state. Natalie found having her head shaved on camera "really exciting," but now she's preparing for the aftermath of the experience. "Some people will think I'm a neo-Nazi or that I have cancer or I'm a lesbian," she told Time Magazine. But Nat doesn't care; she's too busy petting her scalp. "I can't stop rubbing my head. It's so soft, I might keep it for a while," she said. (By Kate Lanahan)
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| Posted by: schmiggens | |
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| It took two different attempts for "The Amazing Race" to get a woman to shave her head |
My boyfriend and I would've been laughing if we'd got that short cut challenge on the Amazing Race, he shaves his head anyway and I have no hair. I was just amazed tha those two puncy models wouldn't do it, they were so upset they were crying. It's only hair for god's sake  It grows back (well in most cases  )
Do you think Natalie can start a trend with her baldness? There's girl who works/ lives near where I work and she is bald and proud, I see her every know and then walking around with her baldness out inthe open. I couldn't so it though, I am too self conscious.
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| Posted by: Crazie | |
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schmiggens said this in post #2 :
My boyfriend and I would've been laughing if we'd got that short cut challenge on the Amazing Race, he shaves his head anyway and I have no hair. I was just amazed tha those two puncy models wouldn't do it, they were so upset they were crying. It's only hair for god's sake It grows back (well in most cases )
Do you think Natalie can start a trend with her baldness? There's girl who works/ lives near where I work and she is bald and proud, I see her every know and then walking around with her baldness out inthe open. I couldn't so it though, I am too self conscious. |
Well Demi Moore couldn't do it when she did it for GI Jane.
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| Posted by: schmiggens | | Yeah, I guess. And the chick who was in The Craft shaved her head when she was in Empire Records as well, but that's going back a fair while.
Maybe if Paris Hilton did it .... | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: HECK! | | It looks good on some people. Natalie Portman is cute regardless.
Demi Moore pulled it off, too.
Oh, and that bald chick from Star Trek: The Motion Picture. She was hot.
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| Posted by: Lawless | | I think that she looks so beautiful in that picture. WOW...
And OMG... Demi was hotter than anything in GI Jane. I loved when she did that. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: schmiggens | | Portman's close shave wows crowds
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Wow!: Natalie looks strikingly different
Star Wars actress Natalie Portman stunned the Cannes Film Festival with a new skinhead look.
The 23-year-old beauty has shaved off her hair in preparation for her next role as a freedom fighter in the film V for Vendetta.
Her Sinead O'Connor style skinhead drew gasps from onlookers as she arrived on the Riviera ahead of the world premiere of the sixth and final Star Wars movie.
Portman will be joined on the red carpet by co-stars Hayden Christensen and Samuel L. Jackson, together with director George Lucas. Ewan McGregor, who plays Obi-Wan Kenobi, will miss the premiere because he is in London rehearsing for West End musical Guys and Dolls.
Portman's radical new look is in marked contrast to the elaborate hairstyles she wore in the Star Wars movies. The Oscar nominated actress has played Padme, Queen of Naboo, in all three films.
"I feel very lucky to have played this part," she said. "It was an amazing opportunity to play the same character more than once. It's always sad at the end of a film when you have to say goodbye to everyone. Ending a film and knowing you will see everyone again was just fantastic."
Revenge of the Sith is the prequel to the original 1977 Star Wars movie and brings the saga full circle.
It reveals how young Jedi Anakin Skywalker (Christensen) turns to the Dark Side and becomes Darth Vader.
Critics have hailed it as a return to form for Lucas after The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones disappointed many fans.
Lucas defends episodes one and two
But Lucas defended the other episodes, saying: "I see it all as one movie and I don't pay much attention to whether people like one chapter or another. We have two fan bases - the over 25s and the under 25s. The over 25 fan base is loyal to the first three films, they are people in their 30s and 40s now and they are the people in control of the media and the web. The films those people don't like are fanatically adored by the under 25s. The devotion from each group is pretty much equal. It's like one group saying the Rolling Stones and the Beatles are great, and another saying hip hop is great and all that old rock and roll stuff is boring."
Some observers have drawn parallels between the political element of the Star Wars films, in which a power-crazed ruler wages war on his neighbours, to US President George Bush and the conflict in Iraq.
Lucas said: "I wrote these films during the Vietnam War and the Nixon era and the question was: how does a democracy turn itself over to a dictator. It is a recurring theme in history and I hope it doesn't come true in our country. When I wrote Star Wars, Iraq didn't exist. We were just funding Saddam Hussein and giving him weapons of mass destruction, we weren't worried about him. I was writing it at the time of the Vietnam War but the parallels between Vietnam and what we are doing in Iraq now are unbelievable."
British actor Anthony Daniels, who plays robot C3PO, and Scottish actor Ian McDiarmid are also in Cannes for the premiere.
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| Posted by: schmiggens | | I never noticed that. It's bulbous, like a growth. Ewwww. What is it? | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: HECK! | | Turkey neck.
I think he just cuts his beard too high to try and cover a double chin. Hope it's not a medical thing, I'd feel bad.
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| Posted by: HECK! | | I keep forgetting how young Natalie Portman is.
I remember seeing her in 'The Professional' and 'Beautiful Girls' when I was in my teens. I always said she was going to be a very pretty woman. I'm only a few years older than her, but I didn't want to sound pervy.
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| Posted by: Crazie | | I don't know, I'm not with the whole women shaved head thing. I want a woman to look like a lady not a man. I suppose homosexual women would like her looking like that but as for me as a man. I"m gonna have to say no. Bring back the long hair.  | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: HECK! | | Well, long hair on a woman is more fashion than anything else.
I've seen a lot of African American women with very short hair that are hot. Asian women, too. Just because she doesn't have long hair doesn't mean she isn't a woman.
Personally, I think she looks better with longer hair... but maybe that's just because it's so new. Dunno.
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| Posted by: Crazie | |
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HECK said this in post #15 :
Well, long hair on a woman is more fashion than anything else.
I've seen a lot of African American women with very short hair that are hot. Asian women, too. Just because she doesn't have long hair doesn't mean she isn't a woman.
Personally, I think she looks better with longer hair... but maybe that's just because it's so new. Dunno.
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I'm afraid you took me the wrong way and I apologize for that. I'm not saying the hair has to be like Rapunzel. I'm simply saying a buzzcut or bald on a woman does not look good to me.
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| Posted by: Crazie | |
I'm standing by my statement of long hair is better. Except Alec Wek poor thing looks horrible either way IMO
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| Posted by: Sierradaddy | | Wow, I thought I posted in this thread when it was first started...
I think that Natalie Portman is just a beautiful young woman. I've always thought that. There's a girl that I work with who reminds me of her...
I think that Natalie looks GREAT with a shaved head. She also looks great with her hair. She's one of those people who are just beautiful no matter what.
Well, I shouldn't say that. I thought her hair in CLOSER was ridiculous. But still, she rocked the shaved head and still looked like a woman to me. Hair length isn't what makes a woman look like a woman, IMO. | | Reply To this Message
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