Good Hair Page #2

Synopsis: Chris Rock, a man with two daughters, asks about good hair, as defined by Black Americans, mostly Black women. He visits Bronner Brothers' annual hair convention in Atlanta. He tells us about sodium hydroxide, a toxin used to relax hair. He looks at weaves, and he travels to India where tonsure ceremonies produce much of the hair sold in America. A weave is expensive: he asks who makes the money. We visit salons and barbershops, central to the Black community. Rock asks men if they can touch their mates' hair - no, it's decoration. Various talking heads (many of them women with good hair) comment. It's about self image. Maya Angelou and Tracie Thoms provide perspective.
Director(s): Jeff Stilson
Production: Roadside Attractions
  5 wins & 8 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Metacritic:
72
Rotten Tomatoes:
95%
PG-13
Year:
2009
96 min
$4,061,847
Website
711 Views


and all the other contestants

being Goliath.

Derek is a very exciting person.

He's a unique person.

His performance

is always at the top.

Styling, he might be

a little bit weak on that,

but exciting, very exciting.

Derek competed last year

and many people, mostly Derek,

felt he should have won.

But he ended up losing

on two technicalities:

nudity and too many people

on stage at one time.

My biggest scare was me

trying to find a pair of boots

to wear for the show.

A guy hit me up on MySpace,

and he ends up

being a boot designer.

Jayda, Tyree.

Terrence, Tyree.

And he basically

takes boots that you--

a boot

that you already have,

and redesigns it

and customizes it

and, hopefully, you guys will see

a phat pair of boots.

I can't wait.

I'm so excited about this right now.

Freddie...

very smart.

That's her strength.

Smart, can do hair.

Her weakness

is that she over-thinks it.

She goes

over the audience's head.

Last year's theme

was Broke Front Mountain.

So that was based

- on the movie Brokeback Mountain.

- It was, kind of.

When we did the...

We did a video clip

that was in the beginning

that was about thirty seconds.

I'm going to work on her

with all these.

I might have to hide

from them to get them, though.

I'm going to be hiding

more than Harriet Tubman was hiding.

You know,

I liked Broke Front Mountain.

I think I just shouldn't have

cut the hair in the boxes.

I put this ''FJ,''

my logo on there,

and people thought

it was something Asian.

They just couldn't keep up.

Now, which of the other stylists

are you most worried about?

Probably Jason.

Jason Griggers.

Me and Jason

know of each other.

Do you have

any enemies in hair?

No.

Jason's strength

is his incredible hairstyles.

l, actually, am

from the same hometown as Jason.

He's been doing my hair

since about 2000,

and my hair was her length

when I started coming,

and this is mine.

No tracks in this.

So he has what we used to call

''the growing hand.''

I never said that.

So, Jason, you seem to be able

to get women off the weaves.

You're kind of like

the Betty Ford of black hair.

I refer to it

as the Rosa Parks of hair.

Jason...

where does a white man

learn how to do black hair?

In school,

they teach you everything.

This one teacher that I had,

she would always give me

a pair of these

to walk around school with,

and she'd say,

''l don't hear you

clicking and twisting.

''l don't hear you

clicking and twisting.''

Was she a black woman?

She was a black woman.

She was

the only black teacher at school.

And she was determined

to teach you--

She was determined to teach me

how to work those Marcel irons.

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Lance Crouther

Lance Crouther is an American television producer, television writer and actor. He was the head writer of the TBS late night show Lopez Tonight until 2010, and was a writer for Down to Earth, Wanda at Large, and Good Hair, among others. As an actor, he was the star of the feature film Pootie Tang. more…

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