Films get their 'do as critics wig out
Cage's hair doesn't hurt 'Ghost Rider' grosses
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The thesp -- as Johnny Blaze, a motorcycle stuntman whose head regularly bursts into flames due to an unfortunate deal with the devil -- racked up the worst hair reviews since Tom Hanks in "The Da Vinci Code.Cage -- even sans flames -- has one bad hair day after another in Sony's comicbook adaptation, thanks to a hairpiece the Boston Globe described as "the size of a marsupial." The L.A. Times deemed Cage's onscreen hair "distractingly bad," while the New York Post cracked that, of the pic's $120 million budget, "$5 million was left for visual effects other than Nicolas Cage's hairpieces."
While the pic isn't likely to win any best-tressed awards, the knocks didn't hurt box office: "Ghost Rider" blazed to a boffo debut -- much as "The Da Vinci Code" did last year despite negative reviews of Hanks' stylized locks.
Other pics have had a hairier time: "Alexander" got raked over the coals in 2004 for Colin Farrell's blonde dye job and the pic mustered a tepid bow; it took in just $34.3 million at the domestic B.O.
