Let me preface this story by saying it’s probably not true that Jeremy Piven actually put cat urine on his head. The source is Star Magazine, and while it may be accurate that he’s trying to stave off baldness it’s up to question whether he went to the extreme of applying cat urine to his scalp. Since it’s asswipe Jeremy Piven we’re talking about, I’ll give Star the benefit of the doubt.

Jeremy Piven, 42, revealed his insecurities about going bald (again?) to a friend and told her that he has tried absolutely everything! “He has experimented with all sorts of folklore remedies, like cat urine and bee pollen, as well as all the organic hair restoration formulas,” the source says. “He had literally 30 types of hair vitamins in his bathroom. It looks like a pharmacy in there.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition, May 5, 2008]

Star probably figured, “what the hell, it’s Jeremy Piven, he could have done this,” and that’s pretty much my opinion on it too.

It was hard to google to find out more about this supposed cat urine homeopathic balding treatment, because most of the results had to do with balding in house cats. Balding Blog has a Q&A with a doctor about washing your hair in urine - the human type, not the cat type, which somehow sounds less disgusting. The doctor points to a site that claims that heated urine mixed with potato and sulphur powder is a treatment for hair loss. Instead of trying such drastic remedies, a consultation with a medical professional is recommended.

As a woman who finds balding men sexy, I would suggest that if you’re a guy with a decent-shaped head you may as well shave it off or cut it super short. Balding is a sign of virility and men seem to be more worried about it than necessary. In Piven’s case, he probably has some sort of artificial hair coverage going on. Even if he did proudly shave his head there’s no compensating for that obnoxious personality.

Jeremy Piven is shown at the Broadway premiere of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” on 3/8/08, thanks to WENN.

The stars were out for the premiere of the new terrorism-themed film The Kingdom in LA on Monday. Jennifer Garner looked stunning in a loose red dress with tiered layers. Jada Pinkett Smith’s outfit was a definite miss, though. She wore fuschia satin shorts paired with a matching jacket. She loves bright colors and looks great in simple dresses with shocking colors, but her look was just wrong. Her husband Will looked hot though in a quilted black leather jacket, shades and dark jeans.

I saw the trailer for this movie during one of my rare nights out when my husband and I went to see The Bourne Supremacy. It looks like a good intelligent thriller, and centers around FBI agents, played by Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman and Chris Cooper, trying to capture a lead terrorist after a civilian attack on the US. Watching the trailer gave me goosebumps and it hit too close to home for me as I lived right near NY when 9/11 happened. I’m not sure theater-goers are ready for that with the war still going on and touching so many people. (Not that there is any connection between the war and 9/11. It’s just that too many people have died recently through random acts of terrorism, and there’s a lot of that in this movie.) It looks like it provides the riveting story of the capture of a top terrorist, but I don’t think I would be able to watch it, even on DVD.

Here’s the trailer:

The Kingdom is getting decent reviews, and is said to be an action-packed film with a tight plot. It currently has a 60% aggregate critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The Kingdom is out in US theaters on September 28.

Shown at the premiere are Jennifer Garner, Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, a hot-looking pregnant Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon, Jeremy Piven looking beat, Amanda Peet, Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, and Jason Bateman. Thanks to PRPhotos for these pictures.