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Article: Rock splits hairs with documentary on black styles
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- January 21, 2009
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Comedian Chris Rock was having a good hair day at the Sundance Film Festival.
Hours after President Barack Obama's inauguration, Rock sat down to talk about his Sundance entry, "Good Hair," a hilarious examination of the cultural pressures that prod black people into costly, often painful methods to care for their hair.
The idea first hit Rock in the mid-1990s on a standup tour through Atlanta, where he came across the Bronner brothers hair show, a glitzy convention for black stylists.
"I thought, wow, this would make a great movie, but that was like 15 years ago, and no one was making funny documentaries 15 years ago," Rock said in an interview Tuesday ...