I can’t quite put my finger on it, but there’s just something different about actor Brendan Fraser here lately. Brendan who? No, you remember — that guy from “Encino Man.” The ugly bug-eyed one. Let’s ask the Daily Mail:

It was clear in 2003 that the one time pin-up was thinning rapidly, but as he wrapped filming the third installment of the Mummy franchise in Shanghai yesterday, his long mane had made a rather miraculous comeback. Perhaps it’s courtesy of a hair transplant or an old fashioned toupee, but whatever the case, he looked to be rather pleased with the result, giving fans a thumbs up as he left the studio.

You know, that reminds me of a certain scripture. Just let me grab my Bible and — let’s see… oh, yes — here it is! From II Kings 2:23:

From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. “Go on up, you baldhead!” they said. “Go on up, you baldhead!” He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the Lord. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths. And he went on to Mount Carmel and from there returned to Samaria.

Given my vast hermeneutic knowledge of the Bible, now we just sit back and wait for the bears to start mauling Brendan. I’d probably start with an all-bear viewing of “Son-in-Law” followed by a couple of rounds of “poking with sticks and air horns.” Then we just let God do his stuff!

Various stages of denial and male-pattern baldness: