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A Hairy Situation
Posted: Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Is it just me, or does Phil Spector look a lot like O.J. prosecutor Marcia Clark? I'm telling you, they could have been separated at birth --- at gunpoint, of course.

Now, I do not know or have ever met Phil Spector, and I am not about to pass any judgement as to if I belive he was fully responsible for whatshername's death, but I am fully intrigued by the mystery that is Phil Spector's hair.

I really appreciate a high-profile male celeb who can change up his style with regularity. How many famous men can you name who dare to change hairstyles as often as a chick?

Early Phil Spector hair consisted of about 10 years worth of museum-quality comb-overs, but arguably the most impressive hair-do can be seen in a 2005 photo from the courtroom where he looks like he had just put his tongue to a Tesla Coil, or saw himself naked for the first time.

This is the big daddy of all of Phil's hair-do's. It's big and round and so expansive that you can conceivably perform puppet theatre in it. I especially love the way that he is completely at ease with this circling mound of hair.

The title-holder of Most Mysterious Hair used to belong to Christopher Walken. His hair seems to stay somewhat the same, yet changes up in the most delicate of ways throughout the years. One cannot quite pinpoint the direction of his hair yet it seems to cover the scalp at all times.

Donald Trump's hair, while astonishing, holds no mystery whatsoever. We all know what the deal is with that hair-do.

The current relaxed hairdo that Phil Spector is sporting now is (I'm guessing) supposed convey a relaxed and guilt-free soul. The light coloring must be meant to portray a man who bears no weight of homicidal activity.

When you think about it, most murderers have very normal hair.

Ted Bundy. Normal name, normal hair, wacked-out brain. His crimes were so icky yet he had a super-normal guy hairdo.

Gary Ridgeway killed for years and years but you'd never know it by his hair.

Andrea Yates, the mommy who heard the voice of Satan who told her to kill her 5 children, had totally normal long brown blah hair.

Jeffrey Dahmer used to kill and eat people, and tried to make his own human zombie sex creatures. His hair was unremarkable.

Phil Spector's hair may have the chance to shapeshift one more time before his trial comes to an end. I will watch and wait, and continue to appreciate the folly and folllicle's of Mr. Phil Spector.