And The George "Fat Clooney" Clooney Memorial Oscar For Suffering In The Name of Award-Winning Art goes to No Country for Old Men's Javier Bardem, whose willingness to be saddled with Anton Chigurh's instantly iconic bowl-cut had serious psychological repercussions for the actor. Says co-star Josh Brolin: "He was depressed during the process...He felt like he wouldn't have sex for three months. Full-blown depression. I mean, bad. (He) didn't like the way he looked. He'd stay home for hours on end. He wouldn't go out."

Confirms Bardem: "You see yourself, you see the haircut. You don't realise that it's affecting you in a very delicate way, through your own psyche. What happened to me was that after a couple of weeks, I was a little bit - a little bit - strange to myself. There was something that was not familiar. It was like, 'What am I doing here?" Of course, even the most profound of these wounds will heal instantly upon receiving his Best Supporting Actor in two weeks, particularly that brief fear about an inability to get laid. [Entertainmentwise UK via Guanabee]

12:50 PM on Fri Feb 8 2008
By Mark
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BestFrenemies at 01:22 PM on 02/08/08
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I'd F* him, even with the bowl-cut and homicidal tendencies.
secretagentman at 01:33 PM on 02/08/08
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Dude, you're acting in a movie for serious cash. Chill the fuck out. Pick up a newspaper or watch the news (not Fox though cause they lie) and maybe get depressed about Darfur, or Congo, or any other place where babies are dying.
spanktastic at 02:17 PM on 02/08/08
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Stop blowing it out like Prince Valiant. A dab of gel on your hands and run it through.... And stop whining.
hack-a-rific at 02:32 PM on 02/08/08
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Me thinks the Heigl and the Brolin should go in on some Discretion Training.
Benovite at 02:35 PM on 02/08/08
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No Country For Old Men is one of the most overrated movies of all-time.

There I said it.
louisev at 02:38 PM on 02/08/08
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So is this the first documented case of "Method hair"?
NotReadyForPrimeTime at 02:49 PM on 02/08/08
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And why was there no sympathy for Tom Hanks during his DaVinci bad hair days?
CrankYank at 02:53 PM on 02/08/08
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I just went from loving to hating him so fast, I got whiplash. Suck it up, buttercup, and cash those checks. Boo friggin' hoo.

@hack-a-rific: oh so agreed.
Little Mintz Sunshine at 03:13 PM on 02/08/08
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OK, this is called "Monday" at my house. And "Thursday" and sometimes "Friday". Obviously Javier didn't grow up with curly hair in the Midwest. Before FrizzEase. Remember, John Freida, if you ever need a kidney...
Miss Anne Thrope at 03:39 PM on 02/08/08
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What about a headband?
hack-a-rific at 03:52 PM on 02/08/08
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@louisev: love it!

@LIttle Mintz Sunshine: and loving the organ committment to JF. Oh how I can relate....Thank you both for getting my weekend kicked off on the right foot!
Pomalina at 04:05 PM on 02/08/08
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@Miss Anne Thrope: Oh, a head band and a little pony tail with a dab of pomade and it would've been so Colin Farrell Night On the Town Who Gets Laid All the Time Despite the Girl Hair. Dude needs some lessons. Who knew?
DrFeelgood at 04:06 PM on 02/08/08
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I liked the movie the first time it was made.
It was called "Rolling Thunder".
Miss Anne Thrope at 04:13 PM on 02/08/08
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@LIttle Mintz Sunshine: Geez, imagine if he actually got PMS?
WGARefugee at 04:36 PM on 02/08/08
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He didn't complain about shaving his head for The Sea Inside. Maybe women in Spain care more about the essence of a man instead of just caring about his hair style. Who am I kidding.
Sweet Panda Love at 05:31 PM on 02/08/08
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I think Dorothy Hamill is totally fuckable.
Miss Anne Thrope at 06:18 PM on 02/08/08
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@Sweet Panda Love: You're so cute.
Baronzemo at 11:51 PM on 02/08/08
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That's strange, when "that guy from The Sea Inside" was filming NCFOM in Santa Fe he was highly visible for such a small town, jogging daily out & around The Square, The Palace Of The Governors & The Plaza restaurant(famous from "Billy Jack"). When my buddy saw him before he could say "You were one of the truly great things in 'Collatera'l" he got a don't-recognize-me face & ran off. So I guess that's Method Hair.
CrankYank at 08:26 AM on 02/09/08
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@Baronzemo: Yeah, I may start calling bullshit on this one.

@Miss Anne Thrope: Panda on a roll. Quite tasty.
Dwayne Provecho at 11:05 AM on 02/09/08
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@Miss Anne Thrope: I was thinking it was nothing a well-placed man-scrunchie couldn't fix. Uh, ladies like that, right?
deadlizard at 07:38 PM on 02/09/08
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No one deserves the "Fat Clooney" Oscar for suffering more than Viggo Mortensen. That guy put his balls and his dignity on play for the sake of an ultra-violent fight scene. I don't know how he gets out of bed anymore.
raincoaster at 05:13 AM on 02/10/08
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@deadlizard: Viggo has long since transcended the concept of dignity. You should have seen him in The Indian Runner.
Miss d at 06:29 PM on 02/10/08
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It's not like it's a tight poodle perm fer crying out loud!

Javier - ask Pene for some hair care advice... as she's been an expert in beards for years...
Homage at 09:05 PM on 02/10/08
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People who write comments in which they address celebrities in the first person, those people wig me the fuck out.
gwendolyn at 11:46 AM on 02/11/08
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@hack-a-rific: a Katherine Heigl/Josh Brolin marriage would be the National Inquirers' and TMZs' wet dream fulfilled, don't you think?

Not to mention E!...
hack-a-rific at 12:10 PM on 02/11/08
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@gwendolyn: Indeed- and Defamer commenters', too!
Miss d at 03:44 PM on 02/11/08
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@Homage: Hope you enjoyed your wigout then...