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Healthy black hair is "good hair"

Watch the new Chris Rock "Good Hair" movie clip below; it's very entertaining, and makes viewers even more excited to watch Chris Rock's "Good Hair" documentary movie when it arrives in theaters October 2, 2009.

IMDB is reporting as of this writing that Chris Rock's "Good Hair" movie will open in a limited theatrical release -- however, here's hoping that the Good Hair movie overtakes the box office with a #1 box office take even as early as Friday, October, 2, 2009, forcing the studio heads and execs to open Rock's "Good Hair" in wide release across the country and overseas, eventually.

Watch the new movie trailer of Chris Rock's "Good Hair" documentary movie online:

Starring famous black artists like Meagan Good, who admits she wears extensions, to Sandra 'Pepa' Denton, who admits that relaxers burned the side of her hair off -- and that's how her infamous asymmetrical hair style in the "Push It" video was born -- Chris Rock has already hit a winner in choosing the "Good Hair" controversial topic for a film that was well-received at Sundance.

It all began when Chris Rock's daughter asked him: "Daddy, why don't I have good hair?"

Raven-Symoné also admits in the film to wearing a weave, and humorously tugs it from side to side.

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Comedian Paul Mooney dons an Afro wig and quips that "When black people wear a relaxer, white people are relaxed. When we're nappy, they're not happy."

"This is a weave," Nia Long confesses -- saying in the below video in an interview with Chris Rock and the Good Hair director Nelson George that she knew she had to come with it, or she'd end up on the cutting room floor.

Cheryl 'Salt' James sits next to her former group mate and makes an appearance, along with other stars like Tracie Thoms, Kerry Washington, Maya Angelou, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Eve, Melyssa Ford, Andre Harrell, Ice-T, Sarah Jones, KRS-One, Faheem Najm    (as T-Pain), Salli Richardson-Whitfield, who are all listed as part of the cast on Good Hair's IMDB page.

Watch Nia Long say she knew she had to be honest about her weave, or else end up on the cutting room floor and not in the "Good Hair" movie:

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Another funny exchange in the Good Hair film occurs between Chris Rock and the Rev. Al Sharpton when Rock asks Sharpton if his wife lets the Rev. touch her hair.

"The real question is whether I let her touch mine," Rev. Sharpton answers, aware of his own famously relaxed (or press and curl?) crown.

Perhaps the funniest exchanges are between Chris Rock and the people he interviews in hair salons not only in the USA, but between the long-haired Indian woman whom he warns to run if she sees a black woman.

Chris Rock runs his fingers through one black woman's newly straightened hair and declares, "I still have my ring on."

Black men joke that they already know not to run their fingers through a black woman's hair on point, and black women concur throughout the film that they don't like people messing around in their hair.

Huge vats of relaxer are displayed in the film, as well as a surprising scene showing the sodium- or calcium-hydroxide based relaxers eating through an aluminum can.

With heavy humor handling a delicate topic that has been the source of pain from even before the days that only certain black people were allowed to get into black clubs if they were lighter than a paper bag -- and if they could run a fine-toothed comb through their hair, "Good Hair" is going to expose some ugly truths and beautiful roots that need to be exposed and discussed.

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