Do you see a resemblance between actors Ed Norton and Ben Hauck?

Well, apparently Lee at Sylvia Fay Casting saw the resemblance. And I photo-doubled for Ed Norton in his movie now in pre-shooting called Death to Smoochy.

This morning, all the way up in Washington Heights, Manhattan, I commuted to do a shoot that I understood involved a car and a helicopter. And Robin Williams ... well, a photo-double for him too.

And when Lee called the night prior, I remember there being an issue about my hair. His office has my old headshot, one featuring a much shorter, less desireable haircut. I may have instigated the conversation about my hair length, saying that my hair's longer now, which made Lee start thinking I had a pony tail or something. I communicated to him that my hair was about an inch longer than in my old headshot.

I got to the set and soon found out they would probably be cutting my hair. An actor named Tony who apparently has photo-doubled for Ed Norton in the past with less hair on his head than me was to get his hair cut, so I assumed I was to follow.

I tried to keep a cool head about it. Hey, I'll have Ed Norton's haircut, I thought to myself. The time came when the clippings would start. Tony walked out of the trailer and didn't look bad, but certainly trimmed up. I too was to go under the scissors . . .

So the guy cuts my hair. I'm listening to the scissors: Are they closing quickly? Or are they taking big swoops? Big swoops meant big cuts, big chunks of hair gone. I was feeling okay because I could tell he was cutting the hair on my pate with choppy cuts, how I like it. Messier.

He finished. It was spiky in the back. I could only glance at it. It looks like Ed Norton's hair, I thought again.

Ed Norton had no hair in American History X.

As the day went on, I started to think about my hair. I could get glimpses of it in the rear-view mirror of the car we were in for the shoot, but not a real good feel for it. Then, I began rehashing what the guy cutting my hair said: "We don't need to cut the nape, the collar'll cover it."

The hair at the back of my head was longer than up top. That's not right. I have a bad Ed Norton haircut.

At the end of the shoot, the barber guy asked me, "Are you coming back?" I said I didn't know. He said that if I did, he would make my hair less lopsided. GREAT. I have lopsided hair, and he's sending me off into the city. I was this close to saying, "Well, can you fix it up NOW??"

The movie features the head of Smoochy. From what I can glean, Smoochy is a television character like Barney the Dinosaur. I had the head of Smoochy under my arm in the back seat of a Lincoln Town Car most of the day, as an actor named Josh dressed like a disguised version of Robin Williams drove us back and forth across the George Washington Bridge. This was while a helicopter was chasing us. Filming us.

Ed Norton's character Sheldon plays Smoochy. I certainly felt like Smoochy after I left.

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