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Article: Battling baldness becomes behemoth business. (hair business in Los Angeles)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- September 2, 1991
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Battling baldness becomes behemoth business
On the television show "Cheers," playboy-bartender Sam Malone's most prized possessions, in no particular order, are his hair, manhood and Corvette.
About a year ago Ted Danson, the actor who plays Sam, went public with the fact that he is going bald and threw away his toupee. It shocked some people and hurt the hair replacement or transplant business, a multibillion-dollar-a-year industry that preys on men's vanity and insecurity.
But hold on, it now looks like the business will survive after all, because more women are now facing the problem of thinning hair and receding hairlines, at least according ...