Diesel Development#1B

We have recently seen the emergence of scads of shaven headed males on television and on the red carpets of Hollywood; lest we ignore the distaff side, do the names Britney Spears and Sinead O'Connor ring a bell ? Where did this about face really come from? Certainly not from the military boot camps or from Yul Brynner, the famed King of Siam. Yul gave it a valiant try, but he was a bit before his time and could not shake the cue ball sneers. Was it Mr. Clean? No, he was a joke...er, cartoon. Was it Kojak? Definitely not. None of the contemporary shavelings would be caught dead in constant use of a lollipop fashion accessory. Was it Howie Mandel? Who? You know, the white man's anemic answer to Oprah. Most assuredly not Mr.Mandel who is not an anthropological innovator but a mere camp follower. Who then has set thousands of years of hair idolatry on its collective backside ? None other than Vin Diesel actor, writer, director, producer, body builder, and proud owner of an award winning skull which may have had no more hair than a five-o'clock shadow since its emergence from the birth canal. Refer to Mr. Diesel in his cranial break-out movie Pitch Black in which the play of light and shadow off of his sleek skull is in the finest tradition of the German impressionists. This is the Olympian who has broken the bonds of our Neanderthal past and taught males everywhere to hold their heads high and shave that skull. Now if he can only get those well-oiled male models on board... VIN TRIUMPHANT