Katie...Shorter...Blondest!

Wow Hal, I thought I'd be first-but you beat me to it!

She did cut her hair. Matt asked her about it & she said that her mom told her to. It is right around the chin, blunt, and slightly blonder in the front. It isn't bad. But, I'm still one of those who likes the almost shoulder length with the flip at the bottom. It really fits her personality best, IMO.

Katie's mom is a saint!

My two cents.

I really like Katie with longer hair and I'm usually not a fan of her haircuts. That being said, I like the color and, if she stays away from the ear tucks, maybe it will grow on me as it grows on her. Just minutes ago, they aired an interview Katie did with Amber Tamblyn and Blake Lively, a particularly fetching young woman with waistlength blonde hair. Both star in "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants." The interview was done the other day before Katie got her haircut and aired today. The contrast on the same show confirmed that I still like Katie better with longer hair.

The contrast on the same show confirmed that I still like Katie better with longer hair.

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Now thats a shocker...lol

There is one here, don't know how long it will be up for?

http://www.gogomag.com/cgi-bin/tvheads_viewer.pl?tvheads3185 4&31854&Ann

Morgan

I must say that the side look does make it look shorter than I initially thought.  I don't really care for it too much.  I think it's the shortest her hair has been in a couple of years...don't you think?  You think she had about 3 inches trimmed?  That's a lot when it's that length.

I think I recall one other time after she grew her hair longish that she cut it right around this short or perhaps a tad shorter. 

I was curious to see if she and Ann talked about her haircut.  Ann still seems to be growing her hair out and I've heard no mention of her hair getting long at all on the show ever.   

[QUOTE=fatmoogas]Hi Vicky. Katie Couric is an American icon of the talking head variety. She is a sweet and personable little thing, though homely to look at.[/QUOTE]

"Homely?" Katie is a lot of things, but she's not "homely to look at." She's shorter than most. She's perkier than most. She's got a smile that most would die for. She's got great legs. She raises money for charity. Some say she can be a b%$@! behind the scenes. But she's certainly not homely. I guess that statement says a lot about your taste or your age or both. Networks don't make a habit of paying millions to homely people. As I've said many times, Katie Couric has had the hair transformation of the 21st Century. (Although I liked that transformation much better before the current bob.)

I can no longer access my favorite Katie hair photo (link provided by Jerky Flea a year or so ago), but here are some of my favorite Katie looks:

Hair longer, parted on the other side:

http://fullfrontalfashion.com/nymetro/news/people/columns/in telligencer/katiecouric_28_175.jpg

Hair not so bright, wearing black:

http://www.gogomag.com/kc3/x_katiecouric.jpg

The famous head tilt:

http://www.mediaresearch.org/stillshots/2004/couric072004.jp g

National Enquirer look:

http://web1.ami-admin.com/images/11905.jpg

Longer and curly:

http://www.curlyhair.net/Celebs14/Katie_Couric.jpg

Tired but happy (because her hair is still long, no doubt):

http://www.americanphoto.co.jp/pages/celeb/C/1205/Previews/P lans-4430.jpg

With glasses:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.super-hair .net/couric56.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.super-hair.net/wa tch-couric.html&h=240&w=320&sz=29&tbnid=mCau cGi2YnUJ:&tbnh=84&tbnw=112&hl=en&start=183&a mp;prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2522Couric%2522%26start%3D180%26hl%3D en%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26sa%3DN

With bangs:

http://img.coxnewsweb.com/B/09/04/45/image_1345049.jpg

For KramerGord and others...

http://www.cameroncole.com/cgi-bin/imageFolio.cgi?direct=New s_Babes/Other/Katie_Couric&img=160

And check out all the others.  Pretty much every pic has a style and/or color better than what she has now.  It's too blonde, too blunt, and too blangless...er, bangless.  The color washes her out, the length does nothing for her and makes her face look rounder, and the lack of bangs only contributes to the effect.

Add some lowlights to give it some depth, some bangs to frame her face, some layers for some movement.  Heck, anything other than this bland bob.  And Katie is cute...or at least can be with a better hairstyle than this.

Poke through those other pictures on the link above (click the house icon to go to the top) and you'll see what I mean.

JF

P.S.  Anyone noticing how good Hannah Storm's hair on The Early Show looks of late?

Katie looks best (long or short) when she has bangs. 

God bless you, Flea, for steering me to that link. I'm a jumper when it comes to the Katie bandwagon. When she has longer hair, I'm a regular viewer of the Today Show. When she gets it cut short, like she did Tuesday, I'm definitely off the bandwagon. I still watch the show, hoping Ann Curry still hasn't had her gorgeous hair cut or I tune into Robin Meade on CNN Headline News. Robin truly has the best hair on morning TV, although she's gone through a 3- to 5-inch trim in recent weeks. I'm with you on Hannah Storm. Saw her this morning while channel surfing. She looked great -- and she was interviewing Anne Bremner, a lawyer/Michael Jackson court junky, who, disappointingly, seems to have gotten a half-foot or so of her own blonde hair cut. Back to Katie: With all the high-stakes competition between her show and ABC's Good Morning America, I'm a bit surprised she went with that drastic of a change, both in color and hair length. I like status quo when it comes to Katie -- and status quo Katie blows away softball Diane Sawyer any day.