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Perhaps some of you have seen this in the news; this article appeared in January 2001:
Barbers in Afghanistan have been jailed for giving customers a haircut styled after Leonardo DiCaprio in the film Titanic. Officers in the Taliban militia have arrested 28 barbers across the city of Kabul for giving haircuts in the Titanic style. Other barbers have been sent a letter from the Taliban religious police warning them not to give "foreign haircuts". Specifically outlawed are what are called the English cut and the Beatles cut - a reference to the long hair of the British pop group - and a cut inspired by DiCaprio. The Titanic style, with a long fringe and cropped back, became popular when copies of the movie, which is banned in Afghanistan, were circulated on video tapes. (BBC)
http://archive.nandotimes.com/global/story/0,1024,500303386-500485612-503351003-0,00.html