New Aid Campaign for Lebanon
We had begun to wonder if a world conflict would pass us all by without there being a good old-fashioned charity event to lend it some prestige. Yet with Friday night’s launch of ‘Eyebrows for Lebanon’, the world of Hollywood glamour responded to the situation in the Middle East with its typically understated display of political conviction. The evening kicked off with Jack Nicholson making the ultimate sacrifice of having his famously arched eyebrows shaved off for charity. Nicholson was joined on stage by dozens of ‘A’ list Hollywood stars including Ed Norton, Robert DeNiro, Keira Knightley, and Woody Harrelson. Pamela Anderson had promised to grow her eyebrows back just so she could have them shaved off on the evening, but what little stubble there was had to be deemed inelligible for the event and she left the studio swearing her revenge on the organisers whom she accused of not giving her a fair chance. Event organiser Ted Danson admitted that ‘Pamela was a little upset and we understand that, but it doesn’t matter how hairy her shoulders are, we can hardly consider them eyebrows and that’s what this evening is all about.’
Although Barbra Streisand, George Clooney, and Liam Neeson couldn’t make the event, they did send their eyebrows along in a show of solidarity. In a statement, Ms. Streisand spoke for all when she said: ‘Everyday, people are losing their eyebrows in places like Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan, and across the rest of Africa. The least we can do is send out our thoughts to those people and tell them we are standing behind them. When will these politicians learn that their actions cause needless eyebrow loss?’
The evening concluded with a sing-a-long led by ZZ Top, but because of a pyrotechnic mishap during rehearsals, they couldn’t donate their eyebrows to the cause. They did, however, promise to make up for it at next year’s ‘Beards for the Balkans’.
All eyebrows donated to the evening are to be converted into high-quality bedding material for refugees.
