I'm not sure how old you are, but I do know that, not all that many decades ago, in at least some places if not all, the concept of a man shaving his head was pretty close to inconceivable. Telly Savalas and Yul Brinner aside, it just wasn't done. For a period, it was associated basically with extremist (i.e. skinheads, etc) and when it started to go 'mainstream', it was associated with projecting a tough persona. So, the conductor not thinking that shaving the rest wasn't an option isn't all that outlandish.
Alas., pendulums swing...I'm old enough to have gone through both "why can't those g-d*mned hippies get a haircut like normal people!" and "why can't those young men just grow a nice, soft head of hair like normal people!"
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RobBase086-1
14 years ago
I am 39 years old and like you said when I was growing up there were not that many men shaving their heads bald at all. I remember watching Telly Savalas and Yul Brinner as a kid. There is Sid Haig who has done it a majority of his film career shaving his head, but he has always done that for the roles that he has done in film or TV shows to make himself look more intimidating. Trust me he does not have to do that at all to look more intimidating he already looks like that because I met him a couple of weeks ago at a convention. Ernie Hudson shaved his head on a episode of The Dukes Of Hazzard from what I can remember I believe for his role on the show.
Yes it has swung the pendulum because now a days more men are shaving their heads bald. I remember when Michael Jordan started in the NBA he had a full head of hair and then to give him that unique look he shaved his head bald.
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