[knovella]

I am always on the lookout for amazingly furry eyebrows. A lot of Englishmen and Irishmen are eligible, but this weeks two non-Brits are in the limelight:

Fernando Alonso, the F1 champion of the year.
http://www.biografiasyvidas.com/reportaje/fernando_alonso/fotos/alonso_214.jpg

Saddam Hussein, we all know who he is.
http://signs-of-the-times.org/images/saddam_contrast.jpg

In the annals of fame are such bright lights as:

Nigel Lawson, dec. Chancellor of the Exchequer

Milo O'Shea, Irish thespian

[grendel]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1995000/images/_1997872_brezhnev150.jpg

[knovella]

Holy cow. Good pic.

[HP]

http://www.monobrow.com/monobro/images/bro-55.jpg

[Digger]

surely this cant possibly be real! Such a monobrow I have never even imagined! :shock:

[knovella]

Damn, that took my breath away. What a shocker.

[grendel]

It has to be photoshop....it has to be....:shock:

[rick green]

This site is for people who are looking for something a little more high brow from their web browsing.

Oi! That's highbrow, not eye-brow. ;-)

[HP]

Neat, rick!

Yes, I wondered if a little surreptitious enhancement had taken place. Unfortunately, the site http://www.monobrow.com/monobro/ doesn't say who the chap is. Think he nurtures it with Baby Bio? Dunno. But with a personal forest like that one, the poor fellow could be playing host to thousands .....

Edit: Whoops. Just spotted it - he's Hansel Wadsorth, apparently. (I trust he's throttled his parents on both accounts.)

[knovella]

I'm not attracted to the monobrow/unibrow look.

I'm into the furry machismo of the Alan Bates-Ian Bannen brow, maybe early Connery even.

The statesmanly Robert Maxwell style is also appealing.

[HP]

Btw - if you've got a moment or two to spare, check out the mini-movie, row four, column three (cartoon head with black hair and laurel wreath) in their mono-movie section. You can get there by clicking on that website addy I gave you, then hitting the Mono-Movie button on the top menu. It's a gem!

[John Self]

That one Honey posted has definitely been touched up - the eyebrows are a different colour from the rest of his facial hair fer Chrissakes!

I don't remember Nigel Lawson having bushy eyebrows but I'm surprised nobody has mentioned another former Chancellor, Denis Healey.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y126/paradorlounge/DenisHealey300.jpg

[Maggie]

:lol: These were great. What you call a monobrow, my son and I call a unibrow. My son's dad, my ex-husband, has one of these. Not quite as bad as the young man in the picture but he did shave between his brows. One morning, hung over or maybe still schnockered from the night before, he shaved off half of one of his eyebrows. Looked really cute for a while :roll:


Maggie

[HP]

That one Honey posted has definitely been touched up - the eyebrows are a different colour from the rest of his facial hair fer Chrissakes!


Touched up it might have been but the argument about different hair colours doesn't hold up. Eyebrows (and moustaches - even beards) are freqently a very different shade to head hair. Nor do the eyebrows and other facial hair necessarily match. Open your eyes, man!

As it happens, Denis Healey was my first thought, too. But I couldn't find a decent enough picture of him to illustrate his furry brow-iness. That one you've snaffled is a corker.

[Colyngbourne]

I think Norman Lamont also qualifies but I can't find a good pic.

[HP]

Yes, this is the best I could come up with:
http://www.cityspeakersinternational.co.uk/assets/images/speakers/SP_Lamont_N.jpg

[ono no komachi]

David Hemmings' eyebrows were quite exuberant, I think:

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/2085000/2085951.vsmall.jpg

[RC]

Oooh, I want those.

[ono no komachi]

I don't think he's using them these days (http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3660337/), so you never know...

[RC]

Quite the career he had, including four marriages with children in each. Imagine the funeral, the private part, family assembles for drinks and reminiscences. Puts me in mind of the story some of the Palimpeers are writing together.

[knovella]

Though you may not recognize him here, this is brow-man Michael Lonsdale, renowned inspector from Day of the Jackal:


http://olivier.roller.free.fr/lonsdale.jpg

[HP]

Here's David Hemmings in his 'pretty-boy' days:

http://images1.moviemarket.co.uk/library/photos/167/167313.jpg

Looking at that picture of him above, if that's what divorce, debauchery and drink do to you, I'm glad I'm a once-only-still-happily-married teetotaller - give or take a little debauchery, of course!

[RC]

What? You don't think the later photo is a huge improvement?

[HP]

Ha! No, I don't go in for pretty boys at all. But it's a vast improvement on that raddled old bag of later years! Sean Connery used to be the shining example of scrumptious mature manhood (though even he's sliding down the wrong side of the hill these days), but Hemmings in the 'after' shot looks like a beanbag that's losing its stuffing!

[idioteque]

oh, those Russians.........

http://www.sentryoveramerica.com/Images/brezhnev.jpg

[RC]

HP, we've got our wires crossed as usual. I meant older, later in years. But you've answered that already.
Sean Connery? Who's Sean Connery? Humphh

[HP]

Who indeed. Film star or no, the man can't possibly hold a candle to a certain autumnal Canadian I know ...8)

Edit: Hell - make that 'late-summer' instead!

[RC]

Ahh. Well then, words become superfluous...

[HP]

Ah, clever Mister C ... :lol:

[John Self]

Get a room, you two! (And Gil will be getting jealous...)

[Digger]

Not to mention yjmli!

[youjustmightlikeit]

mmmmm

[rick green]

Blow Up: great movie by the way.

[knovella]

John Le Carre, browmaster:


http://eur.news1.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/xp/reuters_ids/20050725/i/3840473973.jpg