The Prancing Pony or... "The Breck Girl"?

Oh. Dear. Just go here to watch the Prancing Pony making much ado about... his "do". As Slate put it, "For a guy who's been known derisively to the Bush crowd as the Breck girl," observes [Harry] Shearer, vice presidential candidate John Edwards seems "way too interested in his hair." He tries to straighten it with his fingers. A makeup technician approaches with a comb, but the senator likes it just so and does the combing himself. He signals he's ready for hair spray by closing his eyes expectantly, like a child. Then Edwards and the technician straighten a little more with their fingers. Please don't tell me that thing in his hand is a compact. Oh, dear. It is.