I am waiting for DDL to redistribute his third oscar to somebody who deserves it more. He didn't win that, somebody else made that happen. What a scumbag.

I don't see the point of industry insiders telling us what they think of themselves. I voted with my wallet, and nobody won.

isn't that the hipster thing to do, these days? I've had a full bear most of my adult life, and it's funny how it comes into and out of style... or maybe it's ironical an' stuff.

"I've had a full bear most of my adult life,"

well no, a BEARD, OI! Though I kinda do look like a bear...

"Though I kinda do look like a bear..."

If you went with the ZZ Top look, it would work out about the same! I tried to grow a fashionable goatee after I retired from the Air Force. My daughters were not happy with me, and anyway, it came in white. I got rid of it. As far as Hollywood's leading men? I forgot to watch, and probably wouldn't know one from another these days anyway.

If you went with the ZZ Top look...

I met those guys, they're awesome! Billy Gibbons is especially a hoot - he told me that they did a Playboy interview once, and the interviewer asked him if it was true that the Gillette razor company offered them $1 million to shave their beards off for a TV commercial. He said "I told him, 'not only do we not need the money, we're too ugly! NO!'" Cracked me right up! And the funniest thing, the one guy in the band whose last name is Beard, hasn't got one!

Hair is about the only way Hollywood men can safely be allowed to display any style trend at something like the Oscars.

Otherwise they'd probably show up in some sort of Eldridge Cleaver couture:

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Yes. He was a Black Panther. Yes. He designed those pants.

Because as our culture provides few opportunities for a man to be genuinely masculine in action, the more he must seek to display masculinity in his presentation. Men don't "do" anymore, but they look rough and ready.

Eldrige Cleaver once told me I'd never be President.

Gah! My eyes! Thanks for retinal scarring Gog!

I'm glad for the facial-hair trend. With so many Hollywood men looking like teenage girls, it was getting complicated to sort them out.

Plus, pretty boys have never done it for me.

It's a subtle gender protest thing.

Smarter men than I complain that too many women insinuate themselves into every male activity -- for example, now it's military combat.

But they can't grow beards.

Hah!

I find it interesting that some women don't mind (or apparently don't mind) kissing men with beards. To me, it seems like it would be extremely unappealing. If women could grow mustaches and beards, I sure wouldn't want to kiss a woman with hair surrounding her lips.

I think some guys look better (or at least the same) with beards and some don't. For example, I think Affleck looks just as good with a beard as without, whereas Clooney looks much worse with one.

Hair is about the only way Hollywood men can safely be allowed to display any style trend at something like the Oscars.

Tuxedos are sure boring compared to this.

They have finally recognized me as a trend setter.

I heard the ZZ top/razor company story some place else before...I always thought they should have said "Shave beard for $1million, Ok" Then shaved the guy who does not have a beard but is named beard.

My Uncle had (probably still does) have a friend nicknamed Bear who had a beard that went to his eye sockets. Kinda looked like a were wolf.

"What is it in Hollywood that suddenly compelled all the leading men to dump the Cary Grant look for the Grizzly Adams?"

I wonder if the way they look has anything to do with the role they're playing in whatever movie they're working on at the time.