Mitchell Field Salon

Ryan Gosling Saves The Oscars...
Could tonight's 96th Oscars show have been a more boring, uneventful, unimaginative, lifeless ordeal?
Hardly...
The Bad...
Back in 1974, as the late, great David Niven was announcing a winner, a streaker ran across the stage flashing a peace sign...

Tonight's tarnished Tinsletown debacle needed at least a streaker to break the monotony of this ignominious fiasco...
Instead, we got an excruciatingly embarrassing skit featuring wrestler John Cena, (a fellow with an enviably massive chest and protruding pecs but oddly short legs) pretending to be a reluctant streaker. Poor Mr. Cena ended-up announcing the winner wearing a blush-colored, off-the-shoulder gown. It was host Jimmy Kimmel who should have been blushing. Kimmel had boasted on a Sunday morning news show that his team of 35 comedy writers had penned a selection of over 5,000 jokes for this show, sadly he seemed not to have used any of the good ones tonight. Fortunately for Jimmy, we weren't treated to any audience reaction to his jokes, because there wasn't much...
Whatever happened to the time-tested roasting of the nominated actors in the expensive seats, which had been a staple of the Oscars for decades? A dog, peeing on Matt Damon's Walk-of-Fame star was as close as we got tonight.
Where was Billy Crystal when we needed him?

Are a team of dancers dashing frantically about the stage to swelling music really necessary during the 'In Memoriam' portion of the show when The Academy is supposed to be remembering those lost during the prior year and why were the name captions so small that I had to actually stand in front of my TV to read them?
Can someone explain why 'Hair-and-Makeup' is just one award category, when they are clearly two different skills which makeup always wins? Case in point was the Oscar for 'Best Hair and Makeup' which went to 'Poor Things' (a wonderful fantasy film featuring the cuddly Mark Ruffalo) but all the winners could talk about was their 'Frankenstein' makeup for actor Willem Dafoe...

The Better...
Handsome Matt Bomer in a perfectly-fitted tux.
The gorgeous Issa Rae.
Chris Hemsworth's baby-blues...
Cute couple of the night: Kirsten Dunst and husband Jesse Plemons, who, along with Lily Gladstone, was the best thing about Scorsese's 'Killers of the Flower Moon' picture.
Gladstone, the odds-on pick for 'Best Actress in a Leading Role', was bested by the seemingly stunned Emma Stone, who made a big deal about her 'broken' dress, which was somewhat curious as she appeared totally naked in some of her superb and adorable 'Poor Things' scenes...
Speaking of adorable...Wouldn't the beautiful and savvy Margot Robbie and the equally talented, fun (OK and beautiful) Ryan Gosling make a great real-life power-couple?
Robbie starred in 'Barbie', the year's biggest box-office hit AND co-produced the debauched 'Saltburn' last year. Gosling whose Kenergy, in homage to Marilyn Monroe’s iconic performance of
'Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend' from the 1953 movie musical “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" absolutely stole tonight's show with his dazzling performance of “I’m Just Ken” from blockbuster “Barbie.”
Huff Post said, " Ryan Gosling saves the Oscars"...Hear Hear!

As Gosling's “I’m Just Ken” reached its crescendo, Guns ’N Roses guitarist Slash and Wolfgang Van Halen, son of late rocker Eddie Van Halen, appeared onstage to accompany hi for the remainder of the song.

Billie Eilish (in naughty-schoolgirl tweed, white socks, Mary Jane shoes and a Chanel bag) and brother Finneas, won their second Oscars for 'Best Original Song' “What Was I Made For?” from the 'Barbie' soundtrack. Their first win coming for the title song from the 2021 Bond film 'No Time To Die' Eilish is 22 and Finneas 26, making her the youngest and he the second-youngest ever to win two Oscars.
Sean Lennon (can you believe he's almost 50?) took home his first Academy Award for Best Short Film (Animated) for 'The War Is Over', inspired by the music of parents John and Yoko.

The Ugly...
The do**us award for biggest Oscar blunder of the night went to Al Pacino, who, after making bizarre Shakespeare references, didn’t even bother to name all of the movies nominated in the Best Picture category before announcing 'Oppenheimer' as the winner. Pacino is 83.

Sourpuss of the evening...Bobby De Niro, now 80, didn't crack a smile all evening, not even at rambling Al Pacino's toupee...
Aren't you glad that neither are running for President?

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On my walk today...Sun Cups, a sign that Spring is on the way...

Mitchell Field Salon
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A humorous (and mostly factual) story on your's truly from the MARINSCOPE Newspapers
May 11 2016

'The Ladies’ Man of Fairfax takes the Stage'...
by Woody Weingarten


Inside his Broadway salon in Fairfax, California, Mitchell Field flaunts two huge signs Beauty and Sexy — and an oversized high school photo of Elvis.
He readily admits to being a big fan of all three.

Mitch, thrice married, is an unabashed ladies’ man enjoying a bachelor’s life.

Including the freedom to ogle.

But “the first thing I see,” he tells me, “is the hair — like a dentist seeing your teeth first.”

Mitch, 68, has been styling and studying hair since age 16 — though he started two years before, as “shampoo boy” for the legendary Vidal Sassoon, whose London salon was “the epicenter of modern hair design.”

He became a Sassoon apprentice, he says, because “it seemed like a good place to meet girls.”

I remember working in a New York bowling alley, also at 14, for the identical reason.

Nowadays, Mitch limits appointments to three days a week. That gives him time to pursue a second passion — acting.

Which he’s been perfecting for 12 years.

And that doesn’t count being in the Woodstock movie for a few seconds — on a split screen with rocker Joe Cocker.

Mitch, a friend who’d originally come to the U.S. for San Francisco’s Summer of Love, had a backstage pass that let him mingle with the concert’s stars.

His later interest in theater stemmed from yet another penchant — hiking.

Immersion by the Wimbledon native with a distinct British accent happened rapidly: “I was leading a hike in 2004 and we went through the amphitheater on Mt. Tam and somebody said, ‘The Mountain Play is going to do ‘My Fair Lady.’ You should audition.’ So I did, and I got a role. And while I was doing that show, Ken Rowland, who was playing Henry Higgins, said, ‘I’m directing a show and you should audition.’ So I did, and I got it. It was ‘The Foreigner’ at Ross Valley Players. And while I was doing that, Bob Wilson said, ‘I’m directing a play and you should audition’ —it was ’45 Seconds from Broadway,’ a Neil Simon comedy. I got that, too.”

Shortly thereafter, “Jim Dunn was directing at the Marin Shakespeare Company and wanted me to go to work in ‘Two Gentlemen of Verona.’ I also did ‘Romeo and Juliet’ there that summer.”

Mitch subsequently auditioned at Berkeley Rep, where he's understudied half a dozen shows, including the current “Treasure Island”'

He’s also done voice-overs, commercials and independent films.

And conducted 100 radio interviews, mostly with arts and entertainment folks, for “The Field Trip,” a Radio Sausalito
series.

Unwilling to rest on any laurels, however, he looks ahead — “to bigger and better roles,” and creating a tragicomic one-man show based on the life and heroin-related death of 'Free' blues-rock guitarist Paul Kossoff.

Mitch doesn’t mind taking longer to get top billing. He’s building theatrical memories.

Which will match hairstyling reminiscences he rattles off as a
raconteur.

He recalls “a fun time in the ‘60s. London was swinging — with the Beatles, the Stones, Twiggy, fashion, mod, contraception…”

And he recollects styling famed musicians Alice Cooper, Billy Idol, Adam Ant and Eric Clapton in his Los Angeles salons.

Not to mention "Seinfeld" physical comic, Michael Richards, with his trademark “do.”

Why’d Mitch leave La-La-Land, where he spent a dozen years?

“In L.A, you can be any of three things — young, good-looking or both. Nothing else counts.”

Mitch preferred morphing into a scissors-and-comb artiste, fortified with more hair-colorings on his Fairfax salon’s shelves than Michelangelo had hues on his palette.

He now sports white hair and eyeglasses with frames of assorted colors (“You don’t want to wear glasses that clash with your clothing if you can avoid it”).

He favors dark dress pants and dress- shirt, rejecting current hairdresser picks — “flip-flops, cut-off shorts, T-shirts, tattoos and piercings.”

Mitch, who also called Montreal home for 12 years, is proud of his “personal service, including pre-styling consults with clients, and doing the whole job myself. No assistants.”

He does, however, occasionally work on two heads at a clip.

He doesn’t want for much.

Recently spotting a sign, ‘When I grow up I’m gonna do something else,” made me picture him. But when I ask what he aspires to be on stage, the 5’7” charmer answers with one word:

“Taller.”

Contact Woody Weingarten at http://vitalitypress.com/ or [email protected]

Photo: Mitchell Field prepares to go onstage in a performance of Chekhov's 'Three Sisters' at Berkeley Rep in 2011

Solo Snaps - Modern Salon story featuring hairstylist Mitchell Field. By Victoria Wurdinger "California Dreamin' from Solo Artist Mitchell Field"
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Solo Snaps: California Dreamin' from Solo Artist Mitchell Field

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