Battling baldness becomes behemoth business. (hair business in Los Angeles)

From: Los Angeles Business Journal | Date: September 2, 1991| Author: Deady, Tim | Copyright information

Battling baldness becomes behemoth business

On the television show "Cheers," playboy-bartender Sam Malone's most prized possessions, in no particular order, are his hair, manhood and Corvette.

About a year ago Ted Danson, the actor who plays Sam, went public with the fact that he is going bald and threw away his toupee. It shocked some people and hurt the hair replacement or transplant business, a multibillion-dollar-a-year industry that preys on men's vanity a...