Recently I recorded the movie Apocalypse Now with Marlon Brando. It was a great movie, a classic. In the final scenes with Brando, who'd shaved clean for the role--he's delivering his lines and rubbing his slick scalp. I realized unless you're one of us, it's hard to relate and appreciate what he's feeling from the physical act of rubbing his dome and what it adds to the content of his dialogue in the film. I've thought this many times before when I see some other sly guy, on television or live reaching up and rubbing his dome--it's like you know what he's feeling. Guys with hair or guys with remnants of hair as the result of mpb just can't know the experience. I've seen, and posted long ago, about one reaction I've seen many times traveling. A sly guy is at the gate, flight delay, baggage problem--some part of air travel hell hits him. He, like me, almost immediately goes and puts his hand to his bare scalp--sort of like our own built-in "Linus blue blanket" that we always have available to cushion the blows of modern living.
Anyone else realized we are the only ones who really know what other bald guys are feeling when they do this?
