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Article: Real Life: Fear of balding
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 18, 1994
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WHATEVER happened to Hannibal Lecter when he sauntered into the
sunset at the end of Silence of the Lambs? I'll tell you. He went
to work in a London cosmetic clinic specialising in treatments for
hair loss.
He may not look the same, but it's him all right. Those same
piercing, lizard eyes. Those same insidious questions. "How would
you rate your anxiety about your hair, Nicholas, on a scale of one
to 10? When does it concern you? Is it in social situations. . .
perhaps with the opposite sex?" Like the best insurance salesman,
he wheedles his way into my darkest insecurities.
The clinic's brochure has a similar approach. It seems to have
been written by St John the Divine as a practice for ...