tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1249569588037368037.post7399976307379698749..comments2024-03-27T05:06:05.811+01:00Comments on Shatner's Toupee: Assignment: Toupee!ShatToupBloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17135455289206032317noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1249569588037368037.post-21059059281751539872011-03-22T17:45:15.574+01:002011-03-22T17:45:15.574+01:00For many years, I did not want to believe that Sha...For many years, I did not want to believe that Shatner wore a toupee during the original series. Then at a ST convention in the late '80s I bought a poster-side photo enlargement from the original negative of the Kirk-Spock portrait taken for the March 1967 TV Guide cover. The quality of the first-generation enlargement makes it clear -- the lace front is apparent. It was a stunning realization for me ... it was a few years later that total confirmation came via the Solow/Justman story in "Inside Star Trek."DesiluTrekhttp://facebook.com/marstonjjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1249569588037368037.post-51158241763229979152011-03-22T03:20:35.858+01:002011-03-22T03:20:35.858+01:00Interesting hypothesis - very plausible. Here'...Interesting hypothesis - very plausible. Here's an alternate possibility:<br /><br />In the "Balance of Terror" pic, it looks like the toup has an extra region of rubber "skin" in front of the lace mesh, which is bunching up when he wrinkles his forehead. A little bit of the frontal "swoosh" comes out of that part. However, in the "Operation Annihilate" pic, you can't see that extra "rubber" region anymore - just the mesh. (The frontal swoosh is a little more distinctly cropped, too.) Maybe the makeup staff just trimmed the "rubber" part off of the toupees to reduce the number of toup malfunctions on set?<br /><br />Also, the "high hairline" photos from this era (e.g., "Deadly Years") suggest that whatever peach fuzz he had remaining stopped some distance above his forehead, which would reduce the benefits of anchoring the toup a bit lower...Dr. Clayton Forresternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1249569588037368037.post-85749191589198483982011-03-19T01:34:19.179+01:002011-03-19T01:34:19.179+01:00His hair looked pretty good in Season 1, almost fl...His hair looked pretty good in Season 1, almost flawless. I would never have guessed it was a toup without the evidence provided by the brilliantly dedicated toupologists here.<br /><br />In fact, I reckon Bill had the lace tape glued to his real hair to make us believe he was wearing a wig,when he wasn't thus spawning the legend of the Bill Shatner toup phenomenon. And this statement is about as real as Bill's hair, LOL!Toupee or not toupee!noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1249569588037368037.post-21239255722291858612011-03-19T00:58:11.614+01:002011-03-19T00:58:11.614+01:00poor bill! In the fight picture, with his ruffled ...poor bill! In the fight picture, with his ruffled hair, it really, does'ot look real at all. I dont know, if at this point, anyone else in the cast, was wearng a toupee. (apart from possibly, deforest kelly) but william's toup came off, badly, esp in the 3rd season, with toupee flips, and bald patchers, appearing. For sure, there's no real hair on show, as even his frontal hair, would have started to go from 1961!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com