The "she" is Meryl Streep and the quote is from the hair person for the movie "Don't Look Up," in "Micro Bangs, Mullets, and a Republican Bob: Every Out-of-This World Hairstyle in Don't Look Up" (Pop Sugar). Streep plays the role of President of the United States.
We're told that Streep kept saying, "Don't try to make it look pretty. I like it when it has this flat weird thing!'"
I share her curiosity about why so many women have that hairstyle. It's so incredibly stupid...
It's hilarious to have a President with that hair. Can everyone please stop? It's like Shirley Temple grew up and couldn't figure out she wasn't a child anymore. That is, it's like Bette Davis in "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?"
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By the way, Bette Davis was 54 when she made that movie.
That's 18 years younger than Meryl Streep!
Did we have a president with that hair? I'm trying to think who and when?
Or right - FDR.
Even more hilarious is her texting a picture of her cooch and having a lower back tattoo.
Which Republican women are you thinking of? This is not a hairstyle I've ever noticed before.
When I first glanced at that Betty Davis photo I thought it was the Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of Oz. Had to read the text to learn who it was. The frown may have contributed more than the hair.
Not everyone can afford Pelosi or Clinton hair stylists.
Four words for Streep and the rest of those Hollywood pukes:
Harvey Weinstein Roman Polanski
I share her curiosity about why so many women have that hairstyle. It's so incredibly stupid...
Which Republican women are you thinking of? This is not a hairstyle I've ever noticed before.
Yes. If there are "so many," naming a few would be nice. I've not noticed any "incredibly stupid" hairstyles either.
Iman: "Four words for Streep and the rest of those Hollywood pukes:
Harvey Weinstein Roman Polanski"
Be careful. Merely whispering those names has had the effect of making liberals/lefties given standing ovations and calling one of those men "sort of a god".
And the standing ovation for Polanski, on more than 1 occasion, was given long after his conviction for drugging and sodomizing and raping an underage girl.
#Hollywood&DemocraticalMeTooButNotReallyCuzReasons
The only "incredibly stupid" (as in unattractive) hairstyles I've seen are the really short old-lady hairstyles.
Bender: "Yes. If there are "so many," naming a few would be nice. I've not noticed any "incredibly stupid" hairstyles either."
I'm guessing its the best looking republican women.
Democraticals despise attractive republican women....almost, almost, as much as LLR/NeverTrumpers.
I didn’t know Bette Davis had a tattoo…
Let's all talk about the latest Democrat propaganda film that even my liberal friends thought was stupid.
"When I first glanced at that Betty Davis photo I thought it was the Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of Oz."
LOL... after he gets his hair done in the salon.
I don't get it. Is Streep's hair bad in that picture?
If you put up a picture of just the hair women had could people really identify the person?
I can't find any politicians that have hair like Streep's either.
Nothing here makes sense.
I don't know. Like many in Hollywood Streep no doubt has a rich fantasy life. She may think that's what Republican women look like. OTOH the look she achieves is something like the wig of an English judge--after he or she pilled a pint or two of beer on it. Had to do something to get that golden tone.
OTOH one can rest assured that all I'll ever see of the movie or television show where Merle lays a female Republican is that little blip at the top of our host's post.
I've only watched the first 20 minutes of the movie. I intend to keep working on it. I don't know why a comedy is more than 2 hours. That feels like an ordeal. But there was some funny stuff — snacks at the White House, the President not focusing on the extinction event about to happen in 6 months, the upcoming mid-terms seemingly more important....
I noticed how she said she didn’t want it to look good.
When I saw the picture I thought it was that guy Levine secretary of health
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"I can't find any politicians that have hair like Streep's either."
I see it on TV newswomen all the time: Brooke Baldwin, Julie Banderas, Robin Meade...
"I noticed how she said she didn’t want it to look good."
Yes, that is the idea. Making fun of the women who wear their hair like that. I agree with her. It's incredibly stupid looking, and hilarious for a President to have hair like that. The film is a comedy. Streep is not trying to look good but to look funny.
Now, Bette Davis... her bad look is epic.
I just glanced at the TV and saw Kayleigh McEnany in that hairstyle.
Do hairstyles reflect political affiliation?
A few years ago I convinced my wife to cut her hair shorter. Bad idea. She said she looked like an Iowa Republican or a dyke. She is a Democrat, so the former was a bigger problem than the latter.
I run across a lot of 55+ women with purple, green or scarlet hair. I suppose they are liberals or just trying to emulate their grandchildren. It's rarely flattering in my opinion. I shudder when I run across my liberal Democrat neighbor who bobbed her long black hair, dyed it blonde and is now letting it grow out. She looks like a long term, psych resident let out for the weekend.
That's nothing compared the Debbie Wasserman Schultz Crazy Curls I see everywhere. It makes women look goofy.
Crazy hair = crazy mind.
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The New Yorker movie reviewer says: "Her political party isn’t specified (nobody’s is—there’s no reference to real-world politics in the film) but her actions resemble those of Donald Trump: she nominates a Supreme Court Justice of dubious qualification and sexual scandal, falsifies scientific data to seek advantage in the midterm elections, and leaves an underling’s public racist remarks unchallenged."
But I thought we saw a closeup of a photo — displayed in the Oval Office — of her with Bill Clinton. So I took her to be a Democrat.
@ Ann
I see it on TV newswomen all the time: Brooke Baldwin, Julie Banderas, Robin Meade...
WHO are they? &.. I thought you didn't watch the news?
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I just searched for each one and the photos that came up did not look anything like Meryl Streep's exaggerated curls. ) At most some mild messy curls.
I wonder if all this republican bashing will boomerang?
Everyone can see the concerted effort from the top down. add to that all of the censorship - and I hope thinking people will reject what the collective left are doing.
Ann Althouse said...
I see it on TV newswomen all the time: Brooke Baldwin, Julie Banderas, Robin Meade...
The main difference I see there is that those women all did stuff to thicken the hair at the crown of the head and Streep didn't. This makes their hair/head shapes remain more oval and Streep's head becomes more circular.
All of the research points towards female attractiveness correlating with a more oval shape face.
Personally I am hoping for more variety in hair styles in general. Our taste in style has become moribund and stale.
I think it's kind of weird for a woman to have long hair once she's reached a certain age, but if Dr. Jill can dress like she shops at Forever 21, then the Republican women can wear long hair. It wouldn't be my choice, but if they're happy with how they look, what else should matter?
Now let's talk about men's hair and how they're all doing it wrong.
I guess I’m not much of a fashion snob- I spend my days in sweats and heavy coats and barn boots, but not the rubber boots. I broke my ass once when I slipped outside and I’ve always blamed it on the muckboots. What people choose to wear- or how to wear their hair, etc? What do I know? I could care less. It’s what comes out of their mouths that can cause my judgy back to get up.
I’ve got to work on that.
"That's nothing compared the Debbie Wasserman Schultz Crazy Curls I see everywhere."
I disagree. It's much worse.
DWS's hair is naturally curly, and she's got a style that lets the curls be curls. If you have curly hair, you have various choices, and the ones that don't involve straightening are better. Love what you have.
The stupid hairdo MS is wearing is done to straight hair, deliberately adding the curls with a curling iron (or some other curling device, such as a long sock or rag).
I think I’ll skip the movie.
"I think it's kind of weird for a woman to have long hair once she's reached a certain age, but if Dr. Jill can dress like she shops at Forever 21, then the Republican women can wear long hair."
It's not the length that I'm calling stupid. I myself am old and have long hair. It's the fussy "barrel" curls.
“I broke my ass once when I slipped outside and I’ve always blamed it on the muckboots.”
Stay away from that glass bridge the Spaniard built, farmgirl!
“DWS's hair is naturally curly, and she's got a style that lets the curls be curls.”
Debbie Poodleman Schultz’s hair “naturally curly”?
Natural as a Brillo pad.
Barrel curls match the hideous clothing that is in style right now. A throw-back to the 70's (which I find funny because the 70's makes me think of a certain failed president and his inflation and malaise)
anyway - cap sleeves, clown ruffles - barrel curls. It's the 70's man.
"WHO are they? &.. I thought you didn't watch the news?"
I looked up TV newswomen and picked them out based on photographs.
...and high waist pants with exaggerated bell openings for the legs!
"Personally I am hoping for more variety in hair styles in general. Our taste in style has become moribund and stale."
Me too. This barrel curls bullshit has gone on for many years — feels like 2 decades.
In the 60s there was so much change, and there was real innovation in cutting. I remember when Vidal Sassoon did those geometric haircuts. That was so modern — such an ideal.
Isn’t that hair style commonly referred to as “spaniel ears?” That’s what I call it. It was ubiquitous on Hallmark Christmas movies a year or so go. Flat on top and curling midway to ends. I’m not sure I ever saw one IRL.
You were upset, by this same issue, in 2018 https://althouse.blogspot.com/2018/02/why-do-all-women-on-tv-wear-their-hair.html (I don't know how to insert links)
You also slammed "rollers" in a blog post last Sept? I won't link to that. Are they called rollers or curlers?
I don't see a problem with cascading curls. I think it's reasonable to curl one's hair. Even naturally curly hair has to be re-curled, to make it more refined.
Brooke Baldwin, Julie Banderas, Robin Meade... Kayleigh McEnany
CNN, Fox, CNN, Trump/Fox
Hardly all Republican. And from older pics, Kayleigh McEnany looks to have naturally straight hair. It's understandable she would put some waves into it.
If you're uitwaaien, barrel curls will look like mountain bike handlebars.
Ann Althouse said...
Me too. This barrel curls bullshit has gone on for many years — feels like 2 decades.
In the 60s there was so much change, and there was real innovation in cutting. I remember when Vidal Sassoon did those geometric haircuts. That was so modern — such an ideal.
I went and searched Sinema hoping for something different.
I just don't see many pictures of politicians. She and Psaki have essentially the same hair style. Straight shoulder length off center part framed out over the ears.
Kinda boring.
Trying to decide what her natural hair color is. If she dyes it it is very consistent. My hair did the same thing when it was blond getting lighter and darker during the year.
I should go do some work.
I'm going to proxy-whine for my wife, who would KILL to have anything but thin, lank, mousy hair. She used to send hours trying to make it do things it didn't evolve to do; I enjoyed the effect for the hour or so it would last.
As for the movie, that New Yorker reviewer sounds like a wanker--the three examples of Trumpian Republicannessness are fantastical.
I don’t have an opinion on the hair style one way or the other. Except the current trend of fox personalities that have long hair and always keep a hank forward over their shoulders. It seems unnatural/contrived to never brush your hair back over your shoulder.
I have what I consider to be unattractive hair. I had those barrel curls naturally as a child. If they were left unbrushed too long they would turn into (what my mom called) rat tails and result in a painful brushing out session. Hormones during puberty left me with very curly hair (Debbie Wasserman Schultz). Further hormone changes after pregnancy has left me with odd angled waves - very similar to marcel waves. It’s possible I’d have those barrel curls again if I let my hair get below chin length.
I do find it annoying when people go on about woman with short hair. It takes work to straighten curly hair and any moisture or humidity throws that work right out the window. With increasing arthritis in my hands it’s also a painful process.
For the first time in my life I am growing out my bangs. No particular reason why other than why not.
Honestly, I recognized that as Meryl Streep because of the hair. It looks like her hairdo from Mamma Mia. I thought it was signature look.
Vidal Sassoon geometric haircuts
Images: https://www.google.com/search?q=Vidal+Sassoon++geometric+haircuts.&client=firefox-b-1-d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiAn-irtJ71AhX7oXIEHZL0A50Q_AUoAnoECAEQBA
Talk about hideous.
Huge fucking eye roll.
People are pushing me to watch this propagandistic movie.
I think I’ll watch Carrot Top.
There was also that shitty Meryl Streep Netflix movie where at the end she pulled off her wig and broke the fourth wall to tell all how disappointed she was in us.
That’s enough.
DWS's problem is that she overcompensates for the frizzies by loading on the "Soul Glo". Not a good look on anyone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGrasobHcKA
I don't watch Streep movies. She's an over-rated hack and a Harvey Weisten excusing hypocrite.
I like Kat Timpf's hair. (Actually I like her legs, but her hait is nice, too.)
I find that many Democrat women wear hideous wigs. They also like to cuturally appropriate blonde hair.
I'm not saying, I'm just saying.
Streep is wearing female local TV newsreader hair.
Cow.
Veep answers all such questions, with actual humor.
The term "flat hair" made me think of AOC right away. Seattle's resident Socialist, Kashama Sawant - flat hair. Or is it only blondes with flat hair?
I liked the movie, although I thought a meteor was a bad analogy for global warming. I mean, meteors were here before us. They will be here after us. We are just in the way. What conceit to think we need to stop a meteor that may have started its journey before our species crawled out of the primordial swamp!
Since I'm not female, could you or anyone explain to me what makes a hairstyle "stupid"?
I thought that last photo was a picture of Hillary!
Back to the sixties. The politicization of haircuts. I had long hair for awhile to reflect my gentle, peace loving nature. It was kind of a drag. It takes forever for your hair to dry. I was just as glad to go back to short hair.....I never really thought of women's hair-do's as being reflective of their politics. In any event, good looks trump both politics and hair-do's....In Roman Holiday, Audrey Hepburn goes for a haircut. She has beautiful long hair, and the barber recommends that she keep it, but she insists. After the haircut, she becomes a beautiful woman with a gamin cut instead of a beautiful woman with long hair.
I agree about that range of styles. For the age and supposed professionalism of the women sporting this look it's too long for business, too arranged, too many fake curls, etc. They look like a bunch of 50 year olds trying to look like prom night. Im all for long hair but tie it back, roll it up whatever when you're trying to be a big shot. Gretchen Whitmer looks the worst to me. The harsh lipstick adds to the horror.
If I were in politics I would hire a staffer to make sure that I confounded every generalization people make about the relationship between fashion/livestyle and ideology. That would keep the idiots who write for the style pages busy.
Yesterday, I didn't know "barrel curls" were a thing. Now I am an expert. I sort of remember Jessica Tarlov wearing them. A web search also brings up Julia Roberts, Catherine Zeta Jones, Debra Messing, and Kyra Sedgwick coiffed similarly.
I guess the idea is to evoke the style without slavishly following it. Streep's character (or her stylist) takes it too literally, so it is supposed to be silly or stupid or vulgar or something.
I didn't see Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? until last year. I can't believe it took me so long. Bette Davis was most excellent.
There is no such thing as hair being "too long" on a woman, no matter what her age.
It's style that can be maintained with a portable curling iron.
I don't recall noticing it on any politician and I don't watch TV news so I've only noticed on television fiction that doesn't have much of make up budget. It seems to go with very dark eyebrows that make the women look surprised all the time.
I was very impressed with Maryl Streep a long time ago - particularly the movie "Plenty." She doesn't seem to be in many movies that I would be interested in watching for the last few decades.
"Four words for Streep and the rest of those Hollywood pukes:
Harvey Weinstein Roman Polanski"
Just locker room talk
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/a0/19/8e/a0198e9bdc5739b2f7efa409be6eee65.jpg
"But I thought we saw a closeup of a photo — displayed in the Oval Office — of her with Bill Clinton. So I took her to be a Democrat."
I watched another 40 minutes of the movie and there was a scene where she had a big portrait of Richard Nixon in her office. So, she's a Democrat... unless something very weird happened.
Speaking of "something very weird happened," Trump got elected, so that proves that Americans will elect a person despite (or because of) conspicuously bad hair.
"It's style that can be maintained with a portable curling iron."
You say that like it's no fuss!
What serious person carries around a curling iron?!
Is this a discussion on the hair style itself? It’s an interesting hair style: women tend to have the ability to experiment with their hair more than men, even as political figures. Sometimes with great success and sometimes not. It’s a fashion thing, I suppose.
Is this a discussion on the appearance of politicians? All I can say is, I ain’t voting for them because their hair is terrible! (That’s sarcasm).
Of course, this is a fictional President, so I guess all bets are off on both counts.
I just saw a photo of Joy Reid on the Hot Air site. She has barrel curls, but shorter than MS.
This appears to me to be more a TV news gal look than it does a Republican style. Someone else noted the real bad trend that accompanies this on-air hair, the weird one side in front of the shoulder and one side swept back look. No lady IRL goes through their day looking like they styled their hair by twirling with a sudden stop. Where did this strange look come from and why do so many chicks on TV wear it so! Is it a rule that only left shoulders should be exposed? After mocking this look for years I’m suddenly interested in the origin story.
I thought the movie was clever in places and effective mostly as a commentary on what social media, and Big Media, are doing to our world. I tried to make sense of the political angles and didn't see any consistent pro- or anti- Dem or Republican propaganda. Like most movies, it had a lot of internal inconsistency. It seemed like the main message was--they are all really, really sleazy.
Why would the two scientists who figured out that the comet was coming be surprised and amazed when they look up in the sky and see it coming? Didn't they know that already? If Meryl Streep was Donald Trump, why didn't he get Bruce Willis up there to blow the comet up? Why wasn't Bruce Willis in this?
Why wasn't Bruce Willis in this?
There was a Bruce WIllis character sent to blow it up. He turned around because of spoilers....
the Peter Thiel(? or Tim Cook? or Steve Jobs?) guy that pointed out all the money in the comet.
It's a funny movie, and I knew with the cast it had, that it had to be a anti-republican movie, but what I saw was an anti-elite movie. The elite scientists don't really know much, and are easily misled by the trappings of power, and suffer from panic attacks. The elite in the government are motivated by their own personal power and not the greater good. The elite in the media are motivated by their own base desires of sexual avarice and wanting to be liked. The elite in the military are scamming people they don't need to (the snacks joke was the best). The elite in popular culture are clueless. The elite in the tech industry are just evil. And all of them use each other to achieve their own personal goals. The poor public is just clueless. It's how Hollywood sees people from Kansas (or Wisconsin). Rubes.
It was only after watching reviews that I learned this was supposed to be about climate change. With the Fauci level adoration shown to Di Caprio's character I thought it was about Covid and was surprised it got made.
It certainly isn't going to make anybody vote for the New Green Deal. Still funny though.
'DWS's hair is naturally curly, and she's got a style that lets the curls be curls.'
It's not so much the curls, it's that it looks like she dips her hair in the leftover grease from the deep-fryer.
Either that or she's an aspiring bukkake actress who doesn't wash her hair after scenes...
Brian--I read it pretty much the same as you. I'm pretty sensitive to political cheap shots and I didn't get offended.
Curly hair tends to be dry and frizzy. If you don’t use some sort of gel to keep the clumps of curls together you end up with either something similar to an Afro (if you have thick hair) or something resembling a dandelion (if you have fine hair). I was a dandelion. DWS should probably use a lighter gel or maybe scrunch to break the gel curl casings.
The was Custer's hairstyle at the Little Big Horn. The Sioux didn't even scalp him. I think it was the ringlets.
As regards Don't Look Up, I saw that some of the humor was directed towards Republicans, yeah (though they were never actually named as such), but far more towards media culture. All the fawning over "the handsomest astronomer on the planet"! All the pathetic idiocy of what goes on TV and what guests are supposed to say and how it's spun. It was all extremely amusing until the comet hit. (ALP, it was a comet, not a meteor.) Frankly, I thought the movie could've done with a massive dose of Lucifer's Hammer, but for what it was it was pretty good.
If Thomas Berger can be credited, Custer wasn't scalped because he was found to be balding, which the Indians thought ludicrous and unmanly.
I sported beautiful wavy locks to my shoulders, for about three years--70 to 73 or so. Like many, I found it hot and bothersome and decided to go short whether people thought I looked like a fascist or not. You had to be there, to understand the social codes--IIRC Muggeridge commented on the era's "Roundhead ideas in Cavalier dress."
I saw that movie without knowing it was supposed to be against the Republicans, and just assumed she was channeling Hillary Clinton, and she did an excellent job of that…
Watched it last night. The hair was funny. The politics aren't specific until the second half when it gets specifically anti-Trump. That was a misstep--should have kept it broader as outrageous denials of basic facts are common to both sides. But overall it was very on-point in its critique of modern infotainment culture. I laughed out loud more than once.
The stadium pop song with dramatic lighting cues was particularly funny.
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