Tom Cruise's pitched battle with baldness
Tom Cruise reportedly is terrified of losing his hair and has purchased a space age product to save his precious locks.
Tom Cruise’s pitched battle with baldness
Tirdad Derakhshani, Inquirer Sideshow Columnist
Tom Cruise had such thick, lush, slightly curly brown hair when he did that air guitar solo in his white briefs to Bob Seger’s “Old Time Rock and Roll” in Risky Business.
Remember?
Remember how you fantasized about running your fingers through it?
About gently brushing that magnificent mane for him 100 times every night?
It won’t be lush for much longer.
It’ll disappear. First a few will fall out, then hundreds at a time until there’s nothing but an embarrassing few strands you desperately arrange in some sad attempt to cover your bald pate.
At least that’s what Tom is thinking right now. It’s his greatest fear, losing that gorgeous matinee idol head of hair.
At least that’s what In Touch Weekly claims Tom is thinking right now.
See, Tom will 50 years old (50!) in July. July 3 to be exact. (And not July 4, as suggested by his 1989 Vietnam-era film, Born on the Fourth of July.) That's the other side of middle age. It's the time the body begins, ever so slowly at first, to give up on you.
Including your hair.
ITW says Tom is being proactive:
He’s shelled out $700 for a product called The Hands Free Hair Rejuvenator (it’s available at Hammacher Schlemmer) which is supposed to stimulate (and not simulate?) hair growth.
The Rejuvinator is this helmet-like contraption you put on your head which uses lasers (ooh!) to zap your scalp until it’s fertile soil again. (Or something like that.)
Hair Club fore Men. He can afford it many times over.— orange rhino- does it work if youre already bald— section707
- He would look just as hot bald.— lulu
- He looks good bald- wish I looked like that." That's right Iceman... I am dangerous"— friedmozzarela
Why is this reporter telling us about his fantasies with Tom Cruise? Who cares?— EGGHEAD.
Comment removed.- rofl this is such a strange piece but i enjoyed it— AbeVigoda
- That Yul Brenner was one smoking hot dude, not that there's anything wrong with that.— sillybilly
why does he suddenly have a neck tattoo and an earring,,,?- Not only does he suddenly have a neck tattoo and earring, but also a tan and lighter eyes. Well, he can take comfort in knowing that he will still have that zit. In all seriousness, dudes need to take a cue from Pittsburg Steeler great, Terry Bradshaw. He was hardcore with hair and cool hardcore with fading hair. Attitude is independent of hair.— WantToKnow
- Looks like 'Right Said Fred.' That tattoo symbolizes his imprisonment and ultimate destruction of Katie Holmes.— kjuggs77
- this seems like it was written by a 14 year old— Real names are preferred, though optional
- Jay Grace........Ash Bowl— quitethetenses
- Maybe its that his eyes are lighter, but I think the bald pic makes him look much more all that.— celicaricky
- Ralph Lauren, I was thinking the same thing. I guess turning 50 turns you into an ex con.— starman76
He hopes SideShow will help citizens better understand the vicissitudes of the Consumerist-Military-Industrial-Infotainment Complex, or, in other words, why Britney Spears has a tendency to shave her head, Brangelina to adopt children, and Lindsay Lohan to crave imprisonment. Read SideShow every morning.
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