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You Don’t Mess With the Beauty School Student

Published: September 07, 2008
by Rosanne Ullman

Now that you’re considering enrolling in beauty school, your radar may have picked up some buzz about the Adam Sandler movie, “You Don’t Mess With the Zohan.” The plot revolves around Sandler as an Israeli counter-terrorist agent who fakes his

death and moves to New York City to live his dream as a Manhattan hairdresser. Has Zohan gone to cosmetology school and attained a license? I guess I’ll have to see the movie to be able to tell you that.

And I probably will see the movie, as I urge you to do as well. Everyone cares about hair, people know what a hairdresser does and scriptwriters seem to enjoy crafting stories that give a glimpse into the hairdresser’s world. Check out a piece that Boston Globe reporter Wesley Morris wrote, “Getting Snippy,” inspired by the “Zohan” film and looking back at some of the other cinematic tales of hair styling. Morris writes: “The movies actually take hair and the people who do it pretty seriously, the salon being a realm of exposed truth—a strange, often fantastical space where anything is possible and everything goes.”

So true. The salon is a cherished place for stylist and client alike. The DVD of “You Don’t Mess With the Zohan” will be released on October 7, with an extended version that has lots of special features. Then rent “Shampoo” from 1975 and some of the other hairdressing movies. As a beauty school student, you should know how Hollywood views your new profession.