Monsieur de Pompadour
By Izzy
The poet Walt Whitman once rhapsodized:
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
But that apologia for inconsistency surely doesn’t excuse Sean Penn’s combining a 1950s rockabilly pompadour with a nineteenth-century-style shirt and tie. To Izzy’s eyes, chronological contradictions can be the most disagreeable.
May 27th, 2008 at 10:49 am
I think the pompadour outdates the rockabilly era by quite a bit. Maybe even back to the 19th century.
May 27th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
I dunno. The hair/wardrobe combo he’s sporting looks almost exactly like some Andrew Jackson pictures I vaguely remember. Or Edgar Allen Poe. Either way, not as chronologically contradictory as advertised.
Perhaps it’s that his hair isn’t really a rockabilly pompadour, as it appears to lack the requisite pomade. It’s not slicked against the side of his head or anything. No . . . this is Andrew Jackson all the way.
May 29th, 2008 at 9:44 am
Well, should David Tennant tire of playing Doctor Who, the Sean can take over for him.
He is coming to look rather like the Third Doctor, Jon Pertwee:
http://www.firsttvdrama.com/show1/honor/pertwee.jpg
August 5th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Pop some steroids to make his forehead a bit bigger and he’d be perfect to play abe lincoln.