Harrison Ford Gets Chest Waxed to Promote Environmentalism

April 25th, 2008 1:42 PM

When I saw the headline in the NewsBusters' ad section for Deceiver's website "Harrison Ford Waxes Off His Man Fur for Mother Earth," I was expecting something tongue-in-cheek.

To my amazement, this was serious: one of my favorite actors of all time was actually waxing the hair off his chest to bring attention to deforestation.

Think I'm kidding, and participating in the joke?

Think again, for Access Hollywood hysterically reported Thursday (emphasis added):

In an effort to showcase the pain involved in deforestation, Harrison willingly subject himself to the painful process of stripping his chest of all its follicles.

What? Why? Does the earth actually feel pain when a tree is cut down?

Regardless, I sincerely hope the man that immortalized the names Indiana Jones and Han Solo didn't cry like these guys during the procedure: