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Balding and bearded, Jerry Miele pleaded with his family and friends in Pennsylvania and Ohio: "Please don't worry. I'm all right. I get depressed at times, but I'm doing fine." William Belk, whose long hair and beard are graying, managed to get a mild complaint past the censors. Greeting relatives in South Carolina and Seattle, he noted that "they're not receiving much of my mail, and I'm certainly not receiving much of their mail." Said Joseph Hall to his wife Cherilyn in Silver Spring, Md.: "I'm still...
Maurice Sendak derives much of his creativity from two early sources, a photograph of his bearded patriarchal grandfather ("I thought he was the image of God") and Mickey Mouse. "Mickey was born the same year I was," says the artist, who has the beard of a prophet and the astonished look of Disney's creation. "I keep acknowledging Mickey and my grandfather in my work." Much of that work is filled with private references: the bakery of his Brooklyn childhood is the scene of In the Night Kitchen, where another early hero, Oliver Hardy, is hard at work...
...James Mellon spent years combing the country for Lincoln pictures; when original plates or negatives were available, they were meticulously developed to bring out all retrievable detail. This work has brought forth images of astonishing clarity; it sometimes seems possible to number the hairs in the President's beard. Another byproduct is mystery: Lincoln's craggy features and soft eyes still contain as many secrets as they reveal...
...MELVIN PICKS UP in the desert doesn't. With a wild mane of white hair and a beard to match, he has obviously given up on society, checked out. Yet in their conversation in Melvin's truck--the first scene of the movie--the bum emerges as more than a derelict. Melvin wants to sing Christmas carols; his guest doesn't. He is ungracious, cold and strangely snide for a man of such decrepit circumstance...
...detective pauses, stroking the underside of his gray-black beard, before explaining that all three clues pointed directly to the same moral-crime syndicate. The conspiracy, however, was actually much larger than it first seemed, involving not only cowards and congressmen, but also journalists, lawyers, psychiatrists, the American Civil Liberties Union, Hollywood, and Harvard...