"American Idol" winner Taylor Hicks. and "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno pose during a visit to the show at NBC studios in Burbank. Calif. During a promo shoot for the show Jay exclaimed. We are announcing it here!"
For baby boomers fighting gravity. graying hair and growing waistlines. it must be refreshing to see an older-looking guy conquer the aggressively youthful "American Idol" stage.
"I strongly feel that Taylor's hair was part of his charm and individuality. and I am very happy that he kept it after rumors that he was going to dye it." said Alexandra Seuthe of Las Vegas. who writes an enjoyably catty blog about celebrity hair-don'ts (badhairday.typepad.)
While the evolution of Richard Gere from brunet hunk to silver-haired hunk may have started the trend. and certainly no story about graying hotties is complete without a mention of George Clooney. it is cable newsman Anderson Cooper who is the poster boy of this particular mini-trend.
The 38-year-old CNN anchor. whose steely blue eyes and even steelier hair are featured on the June cover of Vanity Fair magazine. has a fine sense of humor about his hair. which has been graying since he was a teenager.
How about the unfairly toothsome Halle Berry of "X-Men: The Last Stand." whose character. has shaggy gray hair. (Even co-star Anna Paquin has a Susan Sontag-ish waterfall of gray in her long dark mane.)
"If it encourages other women to say." Harris once said about her decision not to dye her hair. "We earned those gray hairs! a colorist at a Los Angeles salon. thinks the world would be a happier place if his clients -- especially women -- didn't fight the effects of aging.
Which brings us to Jennifer Lopez. who was photographed recently with her hair parted down the middle and a good inch of what stylists call "regrowth" showing.



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