All righty then...on with the show...
Guess who was bored again? Man, I really have to get a life. Either that or agree to work more hours at the restaurant....nah. Anyway, you'll be happy to know that there's a theme this time (ooh, aah). It is based on that half-hearted debate we occasionally have over whether or not a guy looks better with long hair or short hair. So I went out and found pictures of certain gentlemen with long hair and those same gentlemen with short hair. I still can't decide which is generally better. Now, as you are looking, keep in mind that "long" and "short" are going to be relative terms. And that sometimes it's not actually their real hair in the long hair part of it. :) Hey, it's not my fault that Billy Boyd and Paul Ben-Victor are bald and wanted to be included anyway...
Sean Astin
Okay, this is more big hair vs. not-so-big hair. I don't think Sean Astin has ever had hair longer than that there mullet in his life. So I resorted to this. The one with the mullet is from a movie called Toy Soldiers, which I'm told is very good even though I've never seen it (the guy standing with him is Wil Wheaton...ever see Star Trek: the Next Generation?). The other is, of course, from Rudy. *sigh*
Paul Ben-Victor
Bad Vincent! You're not supposed to be until later! No biscuit! Anyway...Paul Ben-Victor plays Hobbes on The Invisible Man. He also played Moe in some television movie about the Three Stooges. That was as close as I could get to a picture of him with...hair. I think this man has been bald since he was Pfeiff's age or something. I personally like him better that way. And he certainly doesn't break that rule about a guy looking better with glasses than without... Of course, he's making a funny face in that one picture, but what can you do?
Orlando Bloom
Okay, so the long hair is a wig, but still. I'm torn here. He looks a little like a girly boy with the long hair, but that's not necessarily a bad look. And with the short hair he looks a bit too much like Jude Law but that's certainly not a bad thing either. I can't decide!
Billy Boyd
I couldn't help but wonder if maybe he was wearing a toupee in that one picture because he certainly doesn't seem to have that much hair nowadays. Maybe it's just old. Oh well. I personally prefer the Pippin look. He's just so cute! I changed my calendar today and this month is the Hobbits and Pippin is front and center (while Frodo is in the back looking like he's wetting himself). *fans herself*
Ian Hart
Okay, so it's not like you can tell he's got longish hair in the other picture, but we've both seen the movie and we both know it's there, right? The second picture is from some movie called Clockwork Mice, which I've never seen. I'm torn here a little too. I definitely like the whole John Lennon look better (it pisses him off, by the way, that he's been typecast as John Lennon impersonator...but what can you expect after having played him twice?) but there's just something so endearing about those ears. You can't see them when he's got longer hair! Hmm...
Ewan McGregor
Ewan was whining again about having to share space with other actors, so he got three pictures with varying lengths of hair. I can't get with the whole "virtually no hair" look from Trainspotting and Black Hawk Down, even though they were both good for the part. The one where he's got shorter hair is cute. He looks like he wants to tell you you look fat in that dress but doesn't dare for fear of getting clobbered over the head. The third one is a rare picture from Pillow Book where he has his clothes on. It's not much different from the haircut he had in Shallow Grave, though he does tend to look a little less like Keith Partridge in Pillow Book (thank God). I think, given these pictures, I like him with the long hair best.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Okay, I have no idea how this guy likes to have his name appear, so I just put him in with the M's. There's occasionally a hyphen between Rhys and Meyers (which is sometimes spelled Myers). Who knows? Anyway, I'm torn here. I like the photography better in the picture with the long hair, but he does look like quite the girly boy in the picture as well. Plus he reminds me a little of my cousin Jeremy in the long hair picture...except Jay is definitely not even close to being that hot (eeewww!). I've never really seen him in anything with short hair except Velvet Goldmine and that was generally a wig, so who knows? He looks good either way, I guess.
Liam Neeson
No contest here. Old(er) men just don't look good with long hair. Darth Maul is right, he looks like an aging hippy with the long hair. The short hair is much more sexy. Stop cringing! Liam Neeson *is* sexy, despite being nearly fifty years old! Besides, I had to include him because I was on a webpage for him when I came up with the idea for this theme.
Adam Storke
I don't know how Adam Storke keeps ending up with more pictures than anyone else. Probably because he's one of those guys who can just look so different depending on which haircut he has. Man, they really were trying to push him into being the pretty boy back in the eighties. That haircut makes me want to throw up. The one where he has a beard is slightly better (but I hear it's a horrible movie...I mean, it has Chad Lowe in it, so I guess that's self-explanatory). The extra short hair from Prey isn't a bad look, but I think the Larry Underwood "semi-long, slightly curly" look is definitely the best. Of course, the accent he did in that movie was kind of a turn off, but as long as he wasn't talking...*purr*
Vincent Ventresca
I don't know what it was with Vincent Ventresca and Adam Storke and those horrible long eighties type cuts. I mean, the one picture with him with long hair was probably taken in the early to mid-nineties, but still...it's weird looking. Of course, I've seen worse. I saw a picture of his guest starring role on Diagnosis Murder back when he was really young and almost died it was so horrifying. At least it's not past his shoulders in that one picture (from some television movie called Degree of Guilt where he plays an abusive husband...told you he always plays the bad guy). The other one is from the Learning Curve, one of the only instances where you can see his hair that short. He looks so much better that way. What was he thinking before?!?
And last, but not least...
Elijah Wood
All right, so the Frodo thing is a wig, but I'm of the opinion that he looks better like that (even if the picture is a little screwed up). He also sounds a hell of a lot better with an English accent than his real one. Probably not to a British person, but hey... I can't generally tell the difference between fake and real, so who cares. Yeah, I like him a lot better in the Frodo costume. Curled up with his copy of Good Housekeeping. *snickers*
P.S. Be on the look out for future themes....Glasses and No Glasses and Facial Hair or No Facial Hair?