Basically, 'Good hair' is defined as straight hair. That concept has social and
political implications, and fuels a billion dollar industry.
Filmmaker Jeff Stilson follows Rock to hair salons, barber shops, celebrities'
homes and the annual Bonner Bros. Hair Show, an African-American hairstyle expo
that culminates in the Hair Battle Royale, in which where star-status stylists -
including Tanya Crume, Kevin Kirk, Jason Griggers, Freddie J and Derek J --
stage spectacular, outrageously costumed, carefully choreographed performances
in which they style hair while dancing and doing acrobatics to win the best
stylist title.
Interviewed at length, actress Nia Long reveals that she's completely obsessed
with her weave, and that meeting up with a lover in the shower -- where her hair
might get wet and nappy -- is more intimate than getting into bed with him. Also
interviewed, women who work as teachers, secretaries and other professions say
they spend a small fortune, even go into debt, to have their hair relaxed or get
weaves. And, assuring equal opportunity, Rock interviews African-American men,
some of whom pay for the 'good hair' of the women in their lives, admitting that
it's important to them, too, or raising their eyes as an expression of 'what can
you do?'.
