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09/03/08

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In Nicolas Cage movies, there's always so much intensity, weirdness, and unintentional comedy. And that's just his hair. With the opening of Bangkok Dangerous this week, let's look at some of his weirdest and wildest 'dos.

BANGKOK DANGEROUS -- The Da Vinci Mullet

Nic borrowed Tom Hanks' ridiculous 'do from the Da Vinci Code for his role as a dead-eyed assassin. It's party in back and business up front especially when the business is killing people.

Photo by Buena Vista Pictures, Everett CollectionCON AIR -- The Bleached Blonde Billy Bob

If the director wanted to give Nic Cage the aura of honor, resourcefulness, and loyalty, why did he give him a haircut that would embarrass a bottom-feeding pro-wrestler?

Photo by ColumbiaGHOST RIDER -- Hell Toupee

Given the film's huge budget and fantastically expensive special effects (flaming skull, anyone?) you'd think that the director could have come up with a slightly more believable 'do for the movie's lead.

Photo by 20th Century Fox/Kobal, WireImageRAISING ARIZONA -- The Road Kill

Nic looks like a cross between a bingo hustler and a drowned cat in this early Coen brothers' opus.

Photo by Columbia/Kobal, WireImageADAPTATION -- The Balding Poodle

For his po-mo take on screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, Nic gets a poodle 'fro that looks like a thinning bath mat.

Photo by Paramount/Kobal, WireImageTHE WEATHER MAN -- The Ted Koppel

In this flick, Nic goes for a buttoned-down lid popular among weekend newscasters and men's underwear models.

Photo by Polygram/Kobal, WireImageWILD AT HEART -- The Graceland Ducktail

Nic channels the King with this slicked-back pompadour. All the more creepy that he later got hitched to Elvis' daughter, Lisa Marie.

Photo by Atlantic, Everett CollectionVALLEY GIRL -- The Flock of Seagulls

Nic's New-Wave carrot top is, like, so totally awesome.

Photo by Paramount, Everett CollectionFACE/OFF -- The Skeezy Caeser

Cage sports a lid so improbable that it makes the rest of John Woo's film look like gritty realism.

Photo by TriStar, Everett CollectionPEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED -- The Blonde Fabian

It was Nicolas' stupendous towering bleached pompadour that convinced Peggy Sue to get married.

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  • i'm so sure he is in charge of his hair on a movie set.
    report abuselallaloolly posted September 5, 2008, 6:08 pm PDT
  • Cage is just another screwed up Scientologist gay man that tries to hide his identity - Travolta, Cruise, M. Jackson.... He gets good roles but I would hate to be his therapist!
    report abuseK B posted September 5, 2008, 6:10 pm PDT
  • The worst actor on planet Earth! BUT...Raising Arizona was his best work.
    report abusestinkywiselteets posted September 5, 2008, 6:43 pm PDT
  • I love Nicholas Cage, and is it'nt his fault his roles come with bad hair, he don't do it himself!! Come on people!! His movies are good, and I think he is a sexy beast!!! Long live bad hair, happens to me every day!!!
    report abuseJoy posted September 5, 2008, 6:44 pm PDT
  • dont't think he has a lot to say about his hair guys - it is called hair sylists - and if the directors and producers want him to look acertain way - that is the way he looks - check out Bruce Willis- how many looks has he had? don't think he planned to have some of those looks either -
    report abusebetsys posted September 7, 2008, 6:42 pm PDT
  • I don't care, I love Nicholas Cage! Hair? What hair?
    report abuseelfmama posted September 7, 2008, 11:42 pm PDT
  • Who in the world pays attention to his hair in his movies???? He is one our best actors, way too good to be focusing on his hair. Should he have the same hair in every movie? How lame.
    report abuseYahoo! Movies User posted September 8, 2008, 2:00 am PDT
  • I think he needs to get it steady, he has had too much up and downs in this bussiness..you have to be able to keep up..the wicker man was the worst movie ever!!!, nobody liked that cheap ass bad movie, on the other hand he has done some good ones, like " the rock ", but hey!!..who made him famous in this movies?....Sean Connery..Nick needs to make movies on his own without great
    report abuseemelino posted September 10, 2008, 10:17 am PDT
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