My favorite part of the writer’s strike last year were all the strike beards. Otherwise clean-shaven men suddenly started sporting shockingly Wooly Willy-esq faces. Conan O’Brien even made a YouTube video promoting the strike beard and all that it stood for. It’s the writers’ equivalent to wearing a ribbon. Sadly by that logic the female writers had no way to show their support.
Anyway it seems beards are back again, which is making me think it has less to do with impending strikes (though that’s always a possibility) and more to do with some primal urge to grow facial fur as the weather cools. Check out these photos of Jude Law in London yesterday – he’s growing quite the moustache for his role in the upcoming Sherlock Holmes film. Jude isn’t just a facial hair rebel – he’s a real law breaker too, talking on his cell phone while driving.
Bruce Willis is also rocking the Sasquatch look – not something just any guy can pull off. And it’s kind of debatable whether or not he’s one of them. Bruce took daughter his girlfriend Emma Heming shopping at Barney’s in L.A. yesterday, where he was photographed looking all sorts of scruffy. Hemming, by the way, is a British lingerie model. Bruce Willis is one of those guys who you’d think could really pull off the facial hair look – but I think it’s a little too bushy to work for him. He’s getting towards Santa Claus territory. And while Santa’s the guy you want to have around when you’re at Barney’s, he’s not the one you want driving the Mercedes home to the mansion.
Images thanks to Bauer-Griffin.
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Demi and Bruce's youngest daughter, Tallulah Belle Willis, stepped out in Hollywood yesterday to pick up a Harry Potter DVD.
Rumer, Scout and Tallulah used to all look so different (well, Scout and Tallulah always resembled each other more), but now they're starting to all look alike!
Think Tallulah will follow in her mom, dad and older sister's footsteps and go into acting?
She definitely seems to share Rumer's sense of style!
Who woulda thought these two would last? Bruce and a model?!
Well good for them -- they make a nice couple!
Oh, and check out that funky fan in the background, running after them!
If nothing else, having Emma by his side calms Mr. Willis. He didn't throw his drink at us this time!
George Clooney's new flick Leatherheads may seem like more of a crowd-pleaser than a work of modern art - but at least one museum would beg to differ!
Last night, Clooney held 
Bruce Willis and his absurdly hot (and young girlfriend!
Murphy Brown herself, Candice Bergen - can we say uh, damn, Candy!
And plenty of others - but you'll have to click through the jump to see 'em!
Harvey Weinstein and wife Georgina Chapman...
Julianna Margulies and hubby Keith Liberthal...
Andrew McCarthy and his wife Carol - jeez, was it date night or something?
Well, sorta! We spotted Bruce Willis, Demi Moore, their daughter Tallulah Belle AND Bruce's new girlfriend, model Emma Heming together in NYC.
We love how Bruce and Demi can still stay friends after all these years...this doesn't always happen in Hollywood!
How soon do you think we'll see a double date with Demi, Ashton, Bruce and Emma?
At the "Stand Up For Heroes" benefit Wednesday night, a New York Comedy Festival charity event produced with journo hero Bob Woodruff to benefit injured American troops, Bruce Springsteen told a knock-knock joke and then auctioned off a Harley. It went for a lot of money! But to whom? The gossips disagree!
On Friday night, we sent young gay writer-hottie 
