Burt Reynolds and his rug

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.

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.

Nobody cared about the hair...on his head.

He started wearing pieces in the 60s, not the 70s, OP.

R2, I'm 60 and have a negligible amount of grey hair.

I think he looks tremendous

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.

What the hell is R2 talking about? I’ve reread it 3 times and still don’t understand a word.

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.

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.

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:

He looks like a clown. A sad one...

Wtf is going on with his eyebrows?

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!!!"

Here's one of Burt's famous nude layout pics they decided not to publish.

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:::

[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.

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.

[R21] You never lose the hair on the sides and in the back, so the piece has to be adjusted to taste.

R18 That bush is magnificent.

Burt’s rugs are better than the bad ones worn by Ricardo Montalban and Tony Bennett.

I think that's why Sally broke up with him, toupee kept coming off during sex.

Dom DeLuise gave the same excuse R27.

He reportedly owed over a million dollars to his toupee maker after his divorce from Loni.

No idea i he was gay or not. Never cared for his I'm not gay apparent gayness

'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.

I was always impressed with whatever Hanks did. The front was obviously thinning when he was about 30.

Jesus, R32, take a pill. A big pill.

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.

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.

I was a really surprised how much I like the film.

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