Kang's Toupee

[johnnybear]

Wouldn't we all! Especially after seeing her dance in Voyage To The bottom of The Sea!
JB

 

[ZapBrannigan]

That hairpiece was a common style, even Anan 7 had a similar rug.

I recall a fan once claiming that Rojan ("By Any Other Name") wore the same model as Shatner, but a serious Warren Stevens fan swore it was his real hair.

I wish there wasn't this audience segment that's so eager mock Shatner for adjusting his natural appearance. The Shatner toupe blog really irks me. Vast numbers of actors do something cosmetic-- almost all of them as they age-- and if they didn't, that very same audience segment would turn around and mock the actors for the flaws that were not being covered up.

We just naturally want our fictional characters to be great looking, and that drives the actors and casting departments to comply.

 

[Green Shirt]

I wish there wasn't this audience segment that's so eager mock Shatner for adjusting his natural appearance.

We are bad people.

 

[Spock's Barber]

I wish there wasn't this audience segment that's so eager mock Shatner for adjusting his natural appearance.

We are bad people.

I'm not positive, but when Patrick Stewart was cast as Captain Picard, didn't Shatner make a comment that ST fans would object to a bald captain???

 

[Commishsleer]

Vast numbers of actors do something cosmetic-- almost all of them as they age-- and if they didn't, that very same audience segment would turn around and mock the actors for the flaws that were not being covered up.

We just naturally want our fictional characters to be great looking, and that drives the actors and casting departments to comply.

Agreed.
Shatner's good looks are just a part of his toolset to earn his living. Baldness in a leading actor wasn't acceptable in the 60s. Whereas now its sort of cool. Even the great John Wayne had to cover up his baldness.
No-one comments on Gates McFaddden's wigs.

Its not like Shatner or Stewart or Beltran did something to cause their baldness.
Frankly I preferred Shatner good looking with a wig, rug or whatever. As a leading actor.
But you know Shatner is big enough in personality to withstand that website. In his 80s he probably revels in the attention of such a website now. And there are way worse blogs on the internet about actors.

And its great that Stewart and many other actors can now be bald and lead a series. But I'm wondering how many bald romantic leads are out there?

 

[Spock's Barber]

Baldness in a leading actor wasn't acceptable in the 60s. Whereas now its sort of cool. Even the great John Wayne had to cover up his baldness.

Not to disrespect The Duke, but there is a fight scene in his movie 'North to Alaska' where no stunt double was used. The Duke gets punched, falls backwards and his toupee flies off. Sorry, Duke.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Another was Larry Hagman. I'd first seen him in I Dream of Jeannie and some other tv work. Then in 1974, he did the film Harry and Tonto without the toupee.

I well remember a "Return to Dallas" reunion telemovie where Hagman's eyebrows had grown so long and so wild, you could actually see them from behind! He could have used those as a comb-over toupee.