ONLY YOUR HAIRDRESSER KNOWS...

Last night after work (but before PT) I had my first session with a really great hairdresser. I decided to switch salons to hers as my hair started to resemble Jim Morrison. Her flyer was left on a display table where I do PT. As it turns out, she went through physical rehab (where I am seen)--only in her case a knee issue was the culprit after years of gymnastics, water skiing, and rock climbing--maybe not in that order--but the point should be made here that she is recovered. Further, the founder of my PT center will not let anyone else touch his hair but this girl. My good fortune. You may ask, 'Why is that, Michael?' Because for 20 years in Texas, I had one girl cut my hair and she was a comedic riot!

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For Christmas, I once gave her a voice-over audio tape I recorded in the studio of a rather obnoxious impression I did of Senator Ted Kennedy pleading for a date with her. You had to be there. For years, she kept that cassette tape in the glove compartment of her car. She played it for other customers during their haircuts and even at a party! I'm told that I was the hit of that party (even though I wasn't physically there). Lots of Laughs! Anyway, my new hairdresser here in Arizona is very easy going and is married with a 2 year-old son. So we chatted it up about topics ranging from the gory details of our orthopedic surgeries, to observations on being single. I don't know how many guys are fortunate enough to find someone to cut their hair well, but I've decided to fire the Mafia-type guys who have been cutting my hair lately (No, I've never watched "The Godfather" I or II all the way through--nightmares). All of this ultimately begs the question: Where did that saying come from: "Only my hair dresser knows for sure". Probably from a TV commercial dating back to the 60's and the hush-hush subject about people who dye their hair. In the film "AUTHOR, AUTHOR" it was Al Pacino who gets his hair cut at Sassoon's in New York to learn details about his estranged wife, Gloria Travalian (Tuesday Weld) with hysterical results. It's worth renting this feel-good drama/comedy DVD just to see this haircut! But moving right along...What guy didn't loathe the 1970's film "SHAMPOO" with that script by Robert Towne (Chinatown) featuring Warren Beatty as a rather clueless motorcycle-driving hairdresser who made house-calls to Lee Grant, Goldie Hawn and Julie Christie? Hang on guys! Before some of you develop high blood pressure, let's not forget how sad (if not Just) it was to see the film end with hapless George left on a hilltop after justifiably losing Julie Christie to a life with Jack Warden. A farce film, I admit. For example, I've never seen a motorcyclist on Phoenix highways cruising along with an electric hairdryer tucked into the front of his jeans! So maybe there's hope for the rest of us who work for a living. I laugh too, when I think back to a college professor of mine telling us that bartenders were once offered courses in Crisis Intervention (my Fieldwork Training for 2 years)! One look at the movie "10" with Dudley Moore visiting that cabana bar with actor Brian Dennehy in his break-through role as a bartender makes my point. Dennehy refuses to give advice beyond "I say, down the hatch". I wonder.

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Do you have a fairly trustworthy hairdresser?

Extra Credit if you can answer:

"What do they know about you, and when did they know it?"

:-D)

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IT'S WEDNESDAY!

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P.S.: We are movie-free this week as I have travel plans (See "News").

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