Bearded Hollywood nights costume

October 6, 2008 6:17 AM

CostumepartyFilter: Im going to a costume party where the theme is "hollywood nights". I have a beard and dont really want to shave for the party. Any costume ideas that will fit with a beard that goes well with "Hollywood nights"?
posted by flipmiester99 to society & culture (24 answers total)

Depending on your type of beard, you could be any stage of Bob Seger's career. Bob Seger, who is know for his song "Hollywood Nights"
posted by 2bucksplus at 6:25 AM on October 6, 2008 [1 favorite]

How much beard are we talking here?

You could go as something relatively anonymous, like a paparazzo.
posted by [NOT HERMITOSIS-IST] at 6:25 AM on October 6, 2008

How big is your beard?

You could go as Tom Hanks in Castaway. Or how about Bob Seger himself (he sang "Hollywood Nights")?
posted by nitsuj at 6:25 AM on October 6, 2008 [1 favorite]

Walter
posted by craven_morhead at 6:26 AM on October 6, 2008

You could be Freud, pretend the theme/party is a dream and ask other party goers why they chose a sexually inappropriate alter ego to dress up as and what does that say about their mother.

Other ideas: Foxy Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars (McGregor or Guinness)
Clint Eastwood in one of those old spaghetti westerns.
posted by dog food sugar at 6:33 AM on October 6, 2008

Not too long...About a months and a half growth.
posted by flipmiester99 at 6:34 AM on October 6, 2008

I would go as a director, if you don't care about the glamorous part of Hollywood nights - Spielberg off the top of my head. You can really play it up with accessories.
posted by shinynewnick at 6:36 AM on October 6, 2008

P.W. Herman.
(What kind of world do we live in where I can't find a good clear shot of this? It's the gag at the end of Pee Wee's Big Adventure, where James Brolin plays the super-suave fictionalized Pee Wee in the movie version of Pee Wee's, uh, big adventure. You know?)
posted by dirtdirt at 6:38 AM on October 6, 2008 [1 favorite]

If the theme is "hollywood nights" I would, without a doubt, dress as a bag of cocaine.
posted by Archers of Loaf at 6:48 AM on October 6, 2008

Why couldn't you be a smarmy talent agent?
posted by gwenlister at 6:48 AM on October 6, 2008

Jim Henson had a beard!

Get a Kermit doll, tie some strings to the arms and legs, and if you can, talk as Kermit for much of the evening (Muppeteers are NOTORIOUS for staying in character during breaks and in between takes).

This would let you go as two people!
posted by zizzle at 6:49 AM on October 6, 2008

Paging Mr. Herman.
posted by billtron at 7:01 AM on October 6, 2008

james lipton
posted by lockestockbarrel at 7:05 AM on October 6, 2008 [1 favorite]

Clooney often rocks a beard.
posted by 23skidoo at 7:06 AM on October 6, 2008

There's a good quality clip of Mr. Herman here. Kick-ass idea, if you can pull-off the Brolinity at all.
posted by Rock Steady at 7:10 AM on October 6, 2008

Late Orson Welles, get lots of pillows and and a three piece suit and a cigar. Work on Orson Welles voice imitation and project a willingness to appear in anything to get funding.
posted by Gnatcho at 7:30 AM on October 6, 2008

Bela Lugosi's body double in Plan 9 from Outer Space. Cover the lower half of your face with your cape.
posted by cazoo at 7:56 AM on October 6, 2008

If you've got the build for it, James Lipton would be fantastic, fairly recognizable without much chance of running into another James Lipton, and a fantastic excuse to start random conversations with random questions. I like it.
posted by piedmont at 8:01 AM on October 6, 2008

Take your shirt off, get sweaty and do Coppola directing Apocalypse Now...
posted by asavage at 8:09 AM on October 6, 2008

Put on a robe, carry a jar of urine, and be a post-breakdown Howard Hughes.
posted by absalom at 8:54 AM on October 6, 2008 [1 favorite]

Buy a book of paper dolls.

Put a dress on your beard. Give it a little sign that says

Hi, I'm
KATIE

Then put on sunglasses and smile a lot. You are now Tom Cruise and his beard.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 9:14 AM on October 6, 2008 [1 favorite]

Even though my name is Beardman, I'm just going to second other people's suggestions:

23skidoo said it: Clooney often rocks a beard. In particular, you could go as post-torture Clooney in Syriana.

But really, absalom's Howard Hughes suggestion is king. I may start expanding my beard (and saving my urine) just to do this for Halloween.
posted by Beardman at 1:01 PM on October 6, 2008

Sheridan Whiteside (played by Monty Woolley) in The Man Who Came to Dinner [IMDB]. As seen in this picture, this picture, and this picture.
posted by Mael Oui at 9:18 PM on October 6, 2008

A lot of this depends on your build and appearance. if you are heavyset your options are different from they would be if you are more slight.

A heavy Lebowski fan with short hair and a beard could get a khaki vest, shooting glasses, and a bowling shirt and go as Walter Sobchak.

You could also "misunderstand" the theme and come as a Holy Rood Knight, a Knight from the court of Mary Queen of Scotts.
posted by Megafly at 11:41 AM on October 10, 2008