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Luther's nephew Dobie
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#11 Post by Luther's nephew Dobie »

IslandHopper wrote:I think I read somewhere that Larry Manetti said that JH did wear a hairpiece. I believe he indicated that when they were on the set of a particular talk show promoting MPI, he said he would tease JH and take his hairpiece. I think he also said that TS snapped at him to behave. This all may have been in Larry Manetti's book. I'll have to check. Whenever they do flashback scenes of Higgins on MPI you can see his hair is much fuller and covers his entire head, even the part of his forehead near his part that is usually bare. An example of this can be seen in "A Letter To A Duchess" (season 4) when Higgins remembers first meeting the Vivian (The Lady Wilkerson).
We had a guy in our Lions Club who owned a wig, er, Hair Replacement System, shop.
He said Hillerman definitely had a toupee. He also mentioned Frank Sinatra, Tony Randall, Jack Klugman, Lorne Green, Steve Martin, Stacy Keach and John Wayne as having good toupees but
that Seinfeld's was as bad as John Boehner's.

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