Word: beards
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...from a man who's chomped raw fish for the camera, was laid low for three weeks during last year's sweltering shoot on nearby Monuriki by an infected blister and then, over the year's hiatus, had to drop 55 to 60 lbs. (and grow a ZZ Top beard) and return for this rough, wet work. "People pay to do this stuff on vacation," says Hanks, 43, who earned his sea legs as a surfer...
Clowes' drafting skills have improved steadily over the past 10 years--he's much better at shading than he once was and relies on it more heavily. He has also honed his talent for drawing oddball characters, such as, in this latest issue, a professor with a Vandyke beard who analyzes dirty limericks...
...long time, I've overcompensated for my lack of manliness through sportswriting, porn watching and stock buying, but deep down I know I'm a little shy on T. I cannot yell at other drivers, raise my voice, pick up women in a bar or grow a full beard. All whiskey, no matter how expensive, just tastes like burning. Yet deep inside I long to sleep around, to kick some ass, to release my first rap album. As I saw it, I had little choice but to score some of that testosterone gel when it comes out this summer...
...Back across on the waters on his Island, the Satan-Prospero of long ago whipped up his own surreal theater of hysteria. In my dream I saw video closeups of the Dictator's famous beard, and I thought in the dream: "Ah, you know, the CIA tried years ago to make that beard fall out with depilatories, in order to make the Dictator look ridiculous and discredit him. And, by God, it looks now as if the depilatories are finally working! Forty years later! Get a load of that air-conditioned beard...
...delivering a speech in Spanish - a speech with emphatic gesticulations, and in my dream, I think to myself: They have, by this fanatical spiritual politics, metamorphosed the Boy into the Dictator. The Boy's video speech is a parody (simultaneously innocent and sinister) of the Beard's famously fervent and empty orations. Nice touch, Fellini...