{"id":229,"date":"2009-04-16T11:46:20","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T15:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=229"},"modified":"2009-04-16T11:46:20","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T15:46:20","slug":"the-eternal-appeal-of-hairlessness-part-deux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=229","title":{"rendered":"The Eternal Appeal of Hairlessness, Part Deux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Chip McGrath&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/12\/movies\/12mcgr.html?em\">profile<\/a> of Mike Nichols in the Times this past Sunday, we learn that the director of the cinema landmark, &#8220;The Graduate,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;wakes up every morning&#8230;, collects himself and, wearing a wig and paste-on eyebrows, plays a character called Mike Nichols.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Apparently Nichols&#8217;s permanent hairlessness stems from a childhood reaction to whooping cough vaccine. But being undowny has\u00a0 not impeded the hawkishly good-looking Nichols&#8217;s loveability, even when he was a child: when Nichols arrived to the States from Berlin at the age of 7 in 1939, he was armed with only two sentences in English&#8211;&#8220;I do not speak English, &#8221; and &#8220;Please do not kiss me.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Chip McGrath&#8217;s profile of Mike Nichols in the Times this past Sunday, we learn that the director of the cinema landmark, &#8220;The Graduate,&#8221; &#8220;wakes up every morning&#8230;, collects himself and, wearing a wig and paste-on eyebrows, plays a character called Mike Nichols.&#8221; Apparently Nichols&#8217;s permanent hairlessness stems from a childhood reaction to whooping cough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}