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Wig-Wam Bam

He doesn't bother much about Minnehaha, but Minnehaha appears to be in love with Hiawatha and wants to make him her man.


Bonnie Lou

Recently the Tennessee Wig Walk track was featured in a British comedy movie, The Infidel (2010 film) starring British comedian Omid Djalili, Richard Schiff and Matt Lucas.

Bu Laia

Bu Laʻia (born as Shawn Kaui Hill in Waimanalo, Hawaii) is a Hawaiian comedian known for his use of Hawaiian pidgin and for wearing a large "afro style" wig and blacking out one of his front teeth while performing.

Busby

Possibly the name's original sense of a "busby wig" came from association with Dr Richard Busby, headmaster of Westminster School in the late seventeenth century; the later

Button Gwinnett

In the 2008 role-playing game Fallout 3, a Protectron robot wearing a powdered wig has been left in command of the National Archives and due to a memory malfunction believes itself to be the real Gwinnett.

Clearview 77

The band has played countless shows within the East Coast with acts like Face to Face, New Found Glory, Finch, Saves the Day, The Amazing Crowns, US Bombs, Big Wig, Murphy's Law, Alkaline Trio, The Queers, GOB, and many more.

Debra Paget

In 1953, wearing a blonde wig, she auditioned along with, among others, Anita Ekberg and Irish McCalla, for the starring role in Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, which went to McCalla.

Green room

In 1735, actor Charles Macklin got into a quarrel with Thomas Hallam (another actor) over a wig and killed the other actor in the green room by accidentally thrusting his cane through Hallam's eye at Drury Lane.

Harpocrates

From the 1920s through the 1950s, Harpo Marx performed pantomime and wore either a curly red or curly blonde wig in character.

Jadwiga

It originated from the old German Hedwig (compounded from hadu, "battle", and wig, "fight").

Janet Arnold

A booklet on the development of wig styles in paintings at the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Jim Kimball

Kimball and Kevin Munro (aka Kevin Strickland or Keb) left to form Mule with Wig's P.W. Long in the early 1990s.

Masuimi Max

She also has a brief cameo at the end of the movie Inland Empire by David Lynch as a girl with the blonde wig who has a monkey.

Nanne Grönvall

For the Melodifestivalen performance of the song, she wore a purple wig and ears reminiscent of Star Trek's Mr. Spock.

Rated A for Awesome

Twitchy (voiced by Tabitha St. Germain) is an amazing smart monkey who is always wearing a blonde wig.

Sir Samuel Fludyer, 1st Baronet

The elaborate wig that he wore on becoming Lord Mayor in 1761 was depicted in William Hogarth's 1761 engraving Five Orders of Periwigs.

Skating with Celebrities

Dave Coulier and Nancy Kerrigan did their routine in drag—her in a man's suit and mustache, him in a padded suit shaped like a female figure skater's costume and a bouffant wig—as a response to John Nicks' criticism about Coulier's lack of grace that ended in the rhetorical cry, "Where is your feminine side?" The pair's appearance in the routine was very similar to costuming for a routine Lloyd Eisler used to do with his professional partner, Isabelle Brasseur, called "Patricia The Stripper".

The End of Twerk

In New York, Rachel Berry (Lea Michele) rehearses "You Are Woman, I Am Man" from Funny Girl with her co-star, Paolo San Pablo (Ioan Gruffud), and surprises the director, Rupert Campion (Peter Facinelli), by wearing a wig during the performance, which he agrees fits the character.

The Old Man and the Big 'C'

When he becomes a laughing stock both at the game and due to a Kia Motors-sponsored story with the slogan "Too bad it's a Kia." on Quahog 5, he decides to ditch the wig.

Trichosporon beigelii

The species was first described in 1867 from the hairs of a wig by Friedrich Küchenmeister and Rabenhorst.

You Don't Bring Me Flowers

On an episode of The Steve Harvey Show, Steve and Lydia performed the song during a teacher/student talent show at the school (with Lydia donning a Barbra Streisand wig).


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