My favorite part of the writer’s strike last year were all the strike beards. Otherwise clean-shaven men suddenly started sporting shockingly Wooly Willy-esq faces. Conan O’Brien even made a YouTube video promoting the strike beard and all that it stood for. It’s the writers’ equivalent to wearing a ribbon. Sadly by that logic the female writers had no way to show their support.

Anyway it seems beards are back again, which is making me think it has less to do with impending strikes (though that’s always a possibility) and more to do with some primal urge to grow facial fur as the weather cools. Check out these photos of Jude Law in London yesterday – he’s growing quite the moustache for his role in the upcoming Sherlock Holmes film. Jude isn’t just a facial hair rebel – he’s a real law breaker too, talking on his cell phone while driving.

Bruce Willis is also rocking the Sasquatch look – not something just any guy can pull off. And it’s kind of debatable whether or not he’s one of them. Bruce took daughter his girlfriend Emma Heming shopping at Barney’s in L.A. yesterday, where he was photographed looking all sorts of scruffy. Hemming, by the way, is a British lingerie model. Bruce Willis is one of those guys who you’d think could really pull off the facial hair look – but I think it’s a little too bushy to work for him. He’s getting towards Santa Claus territory. And while Santa’s the guy you want to have around when you’re at Barney’s, he’s not the one you want driving the Mercedes home to the mansion.

Images thanks to Bauer-Griffin.