The Luv Doc: Sunshine Patriot

We'll never really know if he's the Antichrist until we shave his orange toupee

"...and while no one has actually shaven his orange toupee and revealed a 666, my bet is that this..."

Nov. 18, 2016 Column by The Luv Doc

One Night at McCool's

"...whose production company developed the movie. Wearing a godawful toupee and scuzzy attire, he plays the role of the..."

April 27, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Hitman

"...movie in a few years. Maybe it's the shag toupee that fits like one of those caps soldiers wear..."

Nov. 1, 1991 Movie Review by Steve Davis

And So It Goes

Diane Keaton and Michael Douglas are ill-served by director by Rob Reiner in this odd-couple romance.

"...pointless) turn as Leah’s clueless accompanist with the bad toupee distracted him from his principal responsibilities behind the camera...."

July 25, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

After a Fashion

Your Style Avatar goes back to his youth and gets all horny (and toady)

"...feathers, attack his head and shoulders, pecking at his toupee and scratching him. Needless to say, we children, waiting..."

April 14, 2006 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

After a Fashion

Check it out! Stephen gets a little 'boot'y …

"...my skin while I run my fingers through his toupee. I want ... omigod, Jimmy, I want you! Cast..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Shallow Hal

"...bars in his Members Only jacket and a bad toupee, he is the kind of jerk who would drop..."

Nov. 9, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Love Divided

"...her father is terrorized (so badly it pushes his toupee halfway down his head, in a regrettably amusing moment)...."

Aug. 3, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Madeleine Leigh, HONK TX, and Eclipse Mania Leads Our Crucial Concerts

Find some sounds to match the celestial sights this week

"...who indeed loomed larger than life: his hands, voice, toupee. Guitarist, bandleader, and amp tech Jeremy Slemenda and his..."

April 5, 2024 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Don’t Stop Believing: Moving Panoramas’ Leslie Sisson Overcomes the Trauma That Birthed In Two

Sophomore LP spins a sequel to the shoegazers’ extraordinary journey

"...keep the comb-over from blowing over onstage like a toupee...."

Feb. 15, 2019 Music Feature by Leslie Sisson

Magna Carda

"...passive-aggressive battle rap: "Sitting at the top like a toupee/ Who say little miss couldn't be the objet trouvé?"..."

July 15, 2016 Music Review by Kahron Spearman

Austin Playhouse's The Philadelphia Story

Don Toner's direction and a top-drawer cast make for a riotous evening in this version of Philip Barry's crisp comedy

"...Stuart is hilarious as Uncle Willy, sporting a referenced toupee by costume designer Buffy Manners, who drapes every actor..."

Dec. 11, 2015 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

In Praise of Eyebrows

The brow beat

"...plugs. There is no such thing as a brow toupee...."

Jan. 17, 2014 Column by Amy Gentry

Face Off Recap: Bad For Your Gums

Candy-coated nightmares as the contestants suffer sweet dreams

"...challenge. Hair is tough (explaining the wealth of bad toupee gags out there), but then it could be a..."

Feb. 10, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Caught in the Orbit of 'Shatner's World'

Bad Billy re-runs his life from Captain Kirk to Denny Crane

"...smooth, the charming senility of Denny Crane versus the toupee-clad stupidity of T.J. Hooker. Has he earned a one-man..."

Jan. 11, 2013 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

After a Fashion: Top 10s 2011

You know that Your Style Avatar's tops are always bottoms, yes?

"...1) RICK PERRY'S TOUPEE What a weave!..."

Jan. 6, 2012 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Live Shots

The Montreal Jazz Festival skronks Zornumental

"...jazz turf, and damned if they didn't blow the toupee off any and all expectations. At the last, elephantine..."

July 9, 2010 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Lovey and Lovey: Tippling twosome toasts the town (but no titillation, please)

The gin-soaked alter egos of comedians Tami Nelson and Michael Jastroch dish on Austin, alcohol, and their new show

"...access talking about zoning applications and wearing a terrible toupee. Any doctor worth his salt knows how to do..."

July 11, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

After a Fashion

Stephen dishes on celebrities local (Capitol Kia's wide-mouthed Bill Dickason) and visiting (Quentin and Fiona), and more.

"...Piven in which, among other things, she described his toupee as looking like a grapefruit-flavored Fruit Roll-Up embedded with..."

Sept. 8, 2006 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

There ain't nothin' like a ho'-down, and Austin Playhouse's production of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas draws the audience to her big friendly bosom

"...wide until a Houston aiii-witness reporter with a shifting toupee and yellow-tint aviator glasses decided to do an exposé...."

June 23, 2006 Arts Review by Patti Hadad

Postscripts

The 24th Annual O.Henry Pun-Off World Championships and other upcoming literary events.

"...no fury as a woman shorned! She'll have hell toupee because I am not someone to tangle with. Prince..."

May 18, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

The Great Escape

Chain Gangs! Cast Aways! Kung Fu! Chocolate! ... It's Time for the Holiday Film Previews

"...Barry Levinson to direct this humble comedy about rival toupee salesmen in Belfast: one Catholic (McEvoy) and the other..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Puns of Steel

There's a science to interpreting puns; just ask audience members at the 23rd Annual O. Henry Pun-Off World Championships.

"...no fury as a woman SHORNED! She'll have hell TOUPEE because I am not someone to TANGLE with. Prince..."

May 12, 2000 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Too Dumb to Die

A profile of Austin's longest-running musical parody, the Uranium Savages.

"...see Mike Myers as Austin Powers with that chest toupee? How tame. We were stuffing hair in our pants..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Potholes and Potshots

"...no shortage of jokes at public forums about his toupee. Honts, who left office in 1986 when he chose..."

Feb. 13, 1998 News Feature by Amy Smith

Coach's Corner

"...Marv is the seedy uncle who wears a bad toupee and has had three wives. The kids like Uncle..."

May 30, 1997 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton