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...ceremony—which has become an object of cultish delight for audience members—showcases a dizzying sequence of mock tributes and absurd skits, monitored by its mascot Ig: a bespectacled, nearly nude bald man painted silver from head to toe who wandered around carrying a flashlight. The evening also featured genuine Nobel Laureates. Harvard chemistry laureates Dudley R. Herschbach and William N. Lipscomb, as well as physiology or medicine laureate Richard Roberts, presided over the ceremony, leading everything from a can-can dance to a Karaoke rendition of “Can’t Take...
SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA—I arrive at the Bald Rock Bush Retreat expecting to check the prices and move on, but after cresting a hill on a dirt road for which my rented Ford Focus is woefully unequipped, I am instantly captivated by the stunning Spanish-style hacienda. Gorgeous flowering vines climb in manicured patterns up broad stucco walls, and peering into windows I see clean, open rooms painted in bright oranges, greens, blues and reds. I’m ahead of schedule so I opt to call it a day and settle into one of the dorm beds...
FATHER FIGURE Few Presidents have been bald. The last was Dwight D. Eisenhower. Luckily, he ran both times against another chrome dome, Adlai Stevenson...
POPULIST COIF The first President to appeal directly to voters, Andrew Jackson had the biggest hair of his day and beat a bald incumbent, John Quincy Adams...
Conventional wisdom has it that video games based on movies are supposed to be lousy, but The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (Xbox; $50) might just be better than the movies (Pitch Black and The Chronicles of Riddick) it was spun off from. In Butcher Bay, the bald, bass-voiced badass Riddick has just been locked up in a high-security sci-fi slammer, and he's hell-bent on shivving and shooting his way out of it. Game play is a tasty mix of hand-to-hand fighting and gunplay, relieved by some smartly scripted role playing...