Monday, November 13, 2017

Greetings Infomaniacs,

Dr. Tony Fallone noted in 1997 that hair color is the root of a person's personality. Blondes are typically more outgoing and lively and are perceived as more feminine than women with other hair colors. According to Fallone, being blonde is not a hair color, but a state of mind.

And the numbers seem to prove him right. While just 1 in 20 white American adults is naturally blonde, virtually 1 in 3 white adult females dye their hair a shade of blonde.

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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "There's only one sort of natural blonde on earth - albinos."

HINT: (1926-1962), American Actress who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s.

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RANDOM TIDBITS
People have gone to great lengths to achieve blondness. In ancient Rome, people used pigeon poop; in Renaissance Venice, horse urine. Throughout history, nonblonds have also tried white wine, olive oil, ivy bark, soap and saffron.

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According to Victoria Sherrow's Encyclopedia of Hair, there was an original "dumb blonde." An 18th century French actress and prostitute named Rosalie Duthe was known for being very beautiful but incapable of intelligent conversation. She was satirized in a play called "Les Curiosites de la Foire."

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Actress Marilyn Monroe colored her hair using a shade of blond called dirty pillow slip.

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Alfred Hitchcock cast so many blondes in his movies that film critics now write of "Hitchcock blondes: "beautiful, aloof, smart leading ladies. Think Grace Kelly, Tippi Hedren and Kim Novak.

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If the director yells "Kill the blonde!" on a movie set, he or she is probably ordering the crew to shut off an open-face, 2,000 watt spotlight.

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Actress Veronica Lake's peekaboo hairdo, with long blond hair over one eye, was a 1940s sensation. According to Life magazine, she had about 150,000 hairs on her head, with her tresses 17 inches long in front and 24 inches long in back.




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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "There's only one sort of natural blonde on earth - albinos."

ANSWER: Marilyn Monroe.