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WB Bans Stars From Cutting Hair
To cut, or not to cut. That is the question.
The answer is easy enough for the young stars of Felicity, Dawson's Creek and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Keep your hands off the scissors! Or else!
So says Warner Bros. executives, who have issued a decree disallowing any of their young stars from following in the footsteps of curly-chopped actress Keri Russell. Last January the big guys blamed Felicity's close crop for crappy ratings.
Fans were angry with the actress--mostly guys, we'd guess--and many stopped watching the show.
"Nobody is cutting their hair again on this network," Susanne Daniels, the WB's entertainment president, said to TV reporters in January.
WB insists there's no official ban, but network spokesman Brad Turell confided in the New York Post that, "We wouldn't like it if Keri Russell cut her hair again." "You don't want to radically alter the look of a character from one season to the next. That generally doesn't work," Turell told the New York Post.
Evidently Turrell knows the inner workings of the show's star. He told the Post he believes Russell realizes long hair looks better on her than a short 'do.
"I think she's happy to have it grow back. Her marketability is enhanced with the longer hair," he said.
The New York Post reports that the edict extends to other WB shows like Charmed and Angel, which are also very popular with teens and twentysomethings. Lest Buffy star Sarah Michelle Gellar or Dawson's Creek's Katie Holmes and James Van Der Beek get any ideas, they must keep their respective hair long, too.
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Cool Now Dawson can have his hair REAL LONG again like in the first season.. Which they made him cut after the first season.. DA-HA What were they thinking..