The prosecution opened its case against Mr Yeung on Friday by pointing to huge amounts of money that it said had gone through the ex-hairdresser's bank accounts.

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The train's hairdresser was reportedly known as "Sweeney Todd of the Rails", given his precarious trade.

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There is no evidence to link the disappearance Patrice Endres, the hairdresser, to Emerson's case, but investigators looked behind churches out of an abundance of caution, Huggins told CNN.

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Cyril, who was abandoned by his father in an orphanage, searches for that parent with a near-feral intensity, trailed first by officials from the institution and then by Samantha, a hairdresser who becomes the boy's weekend guardian.

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"I have this idea for a project I'm doing in the desert, and it's going to show you how crazy I am, " he says, launching into a description of Lee Grant's house in the movie, specifically the "kind of amazing" Indian print and bamboo bedroom in which Warren Beatty, the house-call hairdresser, sleeps with Carrie Fisher, who plays Grant's teenage daughter.

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Best's fans knew they were blue, just as they knew the name of the hairdresser who kept his Beatle-style hair in trim.

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And Thyssen's fifth wife, Carmen Cervera, a former Miss Spain known as Tita, refused to visit the hairdresser because she feared that hair and nail clippings could be used to prepare a curse on her and her husband.

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