The opinionated Karl Lagerfeld left behind many quotes – one of our favorites is “Sweatpants are a sign of defeat” – implying that people who wear sweatpants have given up. It’s quite possible that nice looking men who aren’t as young as they used to be GROW GREY BEARDS for the same reason! Kurt Russell is probably still an attractive man, but it’s easier to look like Santa Claus than shave and get haircuts. Poor Goldie…
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We like to reminisce about the original unbearded George Clooney back in the day (actually not so long ago) when he was a handsome man unfettered by facial hair. Luckily, for his wife Amal, George grew this bushy beard for his role in Good Morning, Midnight – in which he plays a scientist alone in the Arctic, who’s trying to make contact with a spacecraft. George is directing himself in the movie, which is not necessarily a good thing because we’ve never liked any of the films he’s directed. But we DO miss that cute smile…
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Nope, it’s not Brad Pitt – this is Scandal star (and Jennifer Garner’s ex-husband) Scott Foley doing his best Brad Pitt imitation at the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas…
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Men with grey beards are pretty much interchangeable, and unless there is a vast difference in height or fashion we can’t tell them apart. These two guys are both well-known actors, who started out in Hollywood as “pretty boys” who shaved daily and got haircuts. They’re still nice looking, but you wouldn’t know it behind those shaggy beards. That’s Breakfast Club bad boy Judd Nelson on the left and Jeff Fahey (The Marshall) on the right. Jeff’s young girlfriend Kirsty Parsons is in the middle. Judd is holding his jacket and helmet – after their dinner at Craig’s, he zoomed off on his motorcycle, as usual.
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It’s a group of people arriving at the Jimmy Kimmel Show – we don’t know any of them, except one. In the back you can see Jason Momoa WITHOUT his beard, in all his natural beauty for a change. Enjoy the view while you can…
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Keanu Reeves, 53, is perfectly able to ride the subway or sit on a park bench in New York without anyone bothering him – so that’s the upside of having long scraggly hair and a beard. Reeves looks a little glum while he waits for stunt men to set up safety mats for a motorcycle scene in John Wick: Chapter Three, now filming in Brooklyn. The lone wolf actor has no website or Twitter account and awhile back, Keanu’s fans were so concerned for his happiness that they declared June 15th as “Cheer Up Keanu Day.”
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Bo “10” Derek and John “Sex and the City” Corbett have been inseparable (but not married) since they met on a blind date 16 years ago. At the time, the boyish Corbett was playing Carrie’s boyfriend on SATC and his fans were disgruntled that he fell for a woman five years older. (Imagine that! Bo is now 61 and John is 56) The petite 80’s sex symbol Bo is only 5’3” and John is 6’5” but they were a good match. Funny thing, they were photographed at a recent event and John looks CONSIDERABLY older than Bo – thanks, in part, to that grey beard.
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First of all, how does a 55 year old man manage to have a long white beard and not a grey hair on his head? We hardly recognized Jim Carrey and maybe he wants it that way. The last few years have not been great for him. Not long ago he was heartily criticized by the medical profession for advising parents NOT to vaccinate their children. In 2015, his Irish makeup artist girlfriend died of a drug overdose and her family sued Carrey for supplying her with the illegal painkillers she used to kill herself. Other sordid accusations followed, some involving sexually transmitted diseases. Coincidentally or not, he plays a serious not-funny character in his next movie – a crime thriller called True Crimes.
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Rachel Bilson posed prettily next to her grandfather at the No Kid Hungry benefit event at the Four Seasons in Los Angeles. Wait! – that’s NOT her grandfather, it’s Jeff Bridges! A common mistake. After all, men in beards (like women in burkas) all tend to look alike. Hopefully Bridges grew the facial hair for his new movie Comancheria with Chris Pine and Ben Foster– Jeff plays a Texas farmer. Needless to say, we are NOT fond of facial hair and feel that only men with facial deformities should resort to not shaving. Jeff has a perfectly nice face. Looks aside, who can forget that recent news article declaring that a man’s beard has more germs than a toilet seat!
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It’s about time that guys realize what a beard REALLY does for them! Most often it makes a perfectly decent looking man appear to be a transient! Judd Nelson doesn’t look so bad sitting in his jeep, but when he walks down the street in Beverly Hills, people slide out of the way. Note that he also has a wool cap pulled over his hair (and he still has some.) The Breakfast Club bad boy seems determined not to be recognized. But those nostrils are a dead giveaway.
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