Hannah Has Yet to Appear on Screen
Other things tangentially related to the previous two posts:
In contrast to this, male-pattern balding is somewhat counter-intuitively (at least in name) passed through the female line. (If it were from my father, then judging by his example, I'd know whether or not I had it by now.) Mother once said that she doesn't think I should have to worry, but this seems contrary to my observations. She doesn't have any brothers, but her maternal uncles I've seen at reunions and such certainly seemed to have the problem. Of course, I'm not sure about that, since (as you may have guessed from the previous post) that side of the family is made up of numerous people whom I don't know.
My brother says I'm obsessed with how tall people are. As he explained that his own obsession with the size of people's heads was related to his target assessment for striking, I realized that my interest has a similar function. Relative sizes are a very significant point for character design. Incidentally, though, researching this has also led to some other interesting discoveries:
One was when I was looking to see whether or not an actress from one of the series in this post qualified as a little person. I found out instead that she at least has a female partner, and that her Oscar is for playing a male character. (Between this and Ms. Swank, perhaps it's about time the Academy started thinking about how to deal with transsexual candidates, as the IOC already has.) Sadly, a running gag for her character is that she's had a fling with every male celebrity of the second half of the 20th century. A similar disappointment is found in the tough, car-loving field agent. In the original series, the current female regular often is the perpetrator or target of lesbian jokes, but there's been no evidence that there's anything to this other than teasing DiNozzo and McGee. Interestingly enough, as far as I've seen of D.C. (maybe all but one episode of the first six seasons, plus half the seventh), there have been numerous lesbian characters, but not a single rumor nor gag about gay guys has panned out.[*] In L.A., on the other hand, there have been a couple of the latter in the very first season, and I haven't noticed any of the former. . . .
The other was when I was researching the new detective who stands next to that olive-skinned beanpole feller. Besides the fact that she doesn't need elevator shoes to look like that, I also found testimony that the actress "bats for both teams." They've only aired two of her episodes so far, so we have yet to see whether or not that'll be carried on to her character.
[*Edit (2010.07.01): Upon closer inspection, there were a couple, including one in the first season that was significant to the plot. I guess my bias affects my memory.]