My favorite part of the writer’s strike last year were all the strike beards. Otherwise clean-shaven men suddenly started sporting shockingly Wooly Willy-esq faces. Conan O’Brien even made a YouTube video promoting the strike beard and all that it stood for. It’s the writers’ equivalent to wearing a ribbon. Sadly by that logic the female writers had no way to show their support. Anyway it seems beards are back again, which is making me think it has less to do with impending strikes (though that’s always a possibility) and more to do with some primal urge to grow facial fur as the weather cools. Check out these photos of Jude Law in London yesterday – he’s growing quite the moustache for his role in the upcoming Sherlock Holmes film. Jude isn’t just a facial hair...
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