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Chris Rock Accused of Copying Documentary on Black Hair.

07.10.2009 in Uncategorized

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 LOS ANGELES (CN) – A documentary filmmaker has sued comedian Chris Rock for $5 million in Federal Court, claiming his upcoming movie about the politics of black hair is a copycat version of the documentary she made three years ago.
     Regina Kimball says she has shown her movie, “My Nappy Roots,” at various film festivals and universities, where she is respected as an “authority on the history and social dynamics of Black hair issues.” Kimball says she finished her movie in early 2006, but has never released it for commercial audiences.
     Rock’s movie, “Good Hair,” is scheduled to arrive in theaters on Friday.
     Kimball claims “Good Hair” producer Doug Miller asked for a private screening of “My Nappy Roots” in 2007, calling himself Rock’s “assistant” and hiding the fact that Rock was in the middle of working on his own movie on the same subject. Kimball says she agreed, on the condition that Miller sign a nondisclosure agreement.
     Kimball says she met Rock at Paramount Studios in Hollywood to show her movie. “Good Hair” writers Chuck Sklar and Lance Crouther attended the screening with Miller and Rock, but Kimball says she didn’t find out about the movie or its makers until later.
One scene in “My Nappy Roots” deals with the hair export business in India that supplies the majority of the hair used for weaves. During that scene, Kimball claims Rock pointed at the screen and yelled, “We have to go to India!”
     When the movie was over, Rock admitted that he was working on “a little film” for HBO about black hair and “didn’t know what to do,” the lawsuit says.
     Kimball says she was “stunned” and “felt violated” to find out about the alleged pretext for the screening.
     After the screening, Kimball claims Miller and Rock refused to sign the nondisclosure agreement.
“Good Hair” copies coverage from “My Nappy Roots” about the “story of the weave,” Kimball says, using similar footage from India, the leading exporter of human hair, to depict the Tonsure ceremony at India’s Temple Tirumala Tirupati. Both movies also include coverage of the controversy over who invented Jheri Curl, the toxicity of the chemicals used in hair relaxing treatments, and celebrity interviews, the lawsuit states.
     Kimball and Rock both claim they were inspired to make their movies by their daughters’ questions about their own hair.
     Reginald Brown is representing Regina Kimball and her company, Virgin Moon Entertainment, in her lawsuit against Rock, Chris Rock Enterprises, HBO Films, Roadside Attractions and Liddell Entertainment in Los Angeles Federal Court.

http://www.courthousenews.com/2009/10/07/Chris_Rock_Accused_of_Copying_Documentary_on_Black_Hair.htm

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Male Pattern Hair Loss Treated

07.10.2009 in HAIR LOSS [ PHOTOS ] TREATED, MALE HAIR LOSS

Jordan from Brighton came to us in July this year. He is just 22, suffering from Male Pattern Baldnes. His scalp had been scaling, irritable and sore for over 2 years. In the Summer of 2008 things got worse, he started to lose his hair rapidly. Like most young men he crossed his fingers and hoped that his hair loss would just stop by itself. After a year of further hair loss and deterioration he decided to contact The Hair Centre for advice. We put forward a plan of attack where he could take control and manage his genetic hair loss problem. Here are his early results and improvements. Jordan asked us to put his pictures on to our blog so that he could show his family and friends. He is one delighted young man. Jordan is currently using a combination of a 15% solution of both Vitastim and Biostim applied topically twice a day.  Not only is his hair growing stronger, his scalp is now becoming healthy again. 

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Battling baldness: The potions that really work.

06.10.2009 in HAIR LOSS FACTS

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My three-year-old son loves it when I carry him on my shoulders. Sadly, I’m rather going off the idea – because a couple of weeks ago, George made a discovery while he was up there. ‘Daddy,’ he said. ‘You’ve got a bald patch.’

How did he even know what such a thing is? I blame his mother. What, I asked him, does ‘bald’ mean? ‘It’s when your hair has all fallen out on the ground,’ said George. Thanks very much for reminding me.

He’s right. I’m the only one of my parents’ children to be losing their hair, which is gradually disappearing from my crown, disfiguring happy family photos and making me feel old. Pah! I hate baldness!

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Bald spread: Experts say half of men have lost a significant amount of hair by the time they are 50

The experts say that 50 per cent of men have lost a significant amount of hair by the age of 50. I just wish I was in the other 50 per cent.

Then again, it occurs to me that if baldness cannot be successfully staved off by the likes of Elton John (millionaire, very vain) or the Prince of Wales (lives in a palace, eats organic food, also probably rather vain), what chance is there of ordinary folk finding an anti-baldness cure that works?

In fact, there are all sorts of products out there – from pills and lotions to a laserpowered comb – that will slow down hair loss, even reverse it. Or so they say.

I decided to consult an expert. Dr Andrew Messenger is a consultant dermatologist at the Royal Hallamshire hospital, Sheffield, and specialises in male hair loss.

Dr Messenger says no one knows the precise cause, but three things need to coincide: the wrong genes; the presence of DHT, a highly concentrated form of the male sex hormone testosterone; and age.

As for the value of hair-loss products, he says: ‘There’s no doubt that people who are losing their hair are vulnerable to companies looking to make a quick buck. Men worry about losing their hair; they feel less physically attractive. It strikes very deep within us as human beings.

‘Even the ancient Egyptians used potions to treat balding. I guess going bald reminds us that we are getting older.

‘I see patients who have spent thousands of pounds on remedies for which there is no evidence at all.

‘If there were a product that you had to take once and it stopped you going bald, probably all men would use it, provided it were safe and had no side-effects. But we’re nowhere near that.’

‘The very best products will achieve an improvement of around 10 to 15 per cent in hair density. But what many men don’t realise is that you have to keep on using them for ever to maintain this improvement, otherwise you’ll simply go back to where you were before you started.

‘You’d do best to begin using them before you go very bald,’ says Dr Messenger. ‘You really need to start as soon as you notice any proper hair loss, if it’s that much of a problem for you.’

So, which cures will help you achieve that 15 per cent, and which should you leave alone?

Read more: http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/health/article-1218367/Battling-baldness-The-potions-really-work.html#ixzz0T9w8lHOZ

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Scalp Disorders Affecting Hair Growth

05.10.2009 in TRICHOLOGIST

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Various scalp disorders may as a side-effect of the disease affect hair growth. Some disorders such as Seborrhoeic Eczema, Psoriasis and Pityriasis Amienticea are all scaling disorders in which the scale can build up sufficiently to pull out hairs if the scalp is scratched or the scaling area is caught by the teeth of a comb. In some cases, particularly with Pityriasis Amienticea large areas of baldness or thin patches may develop and the problem is mainly a scalp rather than hair disorder. Happily with suitable treatment of the skin the hair re-grows to its normal state once the disorder is brought under control.

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Nutritional Effects on Hair Growth

05.10.2009 in HAIR LOSS SCIENCE

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Good nutrition will obviously be beneficial to the body, skin and hair. Regular meals are essential and should contain a good balance of protein, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. Since most of us eat too many fats and sugar, deficiency of these is extremely rare. A good diet should include white meat or fish, vegetables, fruit, salads, wholemeal grains either rice or bread or pasta. Sugar, chocolate, sweets and cakes, eggs, butter, milk and cheese should be taken only in moderation except for children who need the last four items for calcium content for bone growth.

Excessive or extreme dieting or fasting is dangerous and often causes diffuse hair loss due to changes in the body’s metabolism. This is reversible with sensible dietary advice.

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Hair loss is a common symptom of Anorexia Nervosa where people, usually teenage girls, create a distorted self image and starve themselves to achieve this. Bulemia – compulsive eating followed by self induced vomiting has the same effect. In extreme cases excessive body and facial hair may grow due to dysfunction of the adrenal glands.

Since many people in the world are overweight, strenuous dieting often causes a deficiency of carbohydrates, sometimes known as carbohydrate anorexia.

Carbohydrates are used by the body to create energy. Energy input must equal energy output. If you diet, cut down on fats and sugars, carbohydrates are essential. Many women and some men do not bother to have a breakfast. Even eating one slice of toast in the morning can help to solve some diffuse or general hair loss problems.

Buying large quantities of vitamins and minerals is no substitute for a well balanced healthy diet

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