Harrison Ford waxes lyrical - and chest - to save rainforests

0 Comments | AFP, May, 2008

WASHINGTON (AFP) — He has cheated death and withstood excruciating pain in the Indiana Jones adventure movies, and now US actor Harrison Ford has gone the extra mile in the discomfort stakes to protect rainforests.

He has had his chest waxed.

Anyone who has ever waxed their legs or, worse still, bikini line or underarms, knows that this form of hair removal can be painful.

But while Ford winces, he doesn't make a peep when the esthetician in the short video rips a wide swathe of his chest hair out.

It happens as the actor nears the end of a monologue about how depleting the rainforests in distant lands hurts people in countries like the United States.

"When rainforests get slashed and burned, it releases tonnes of carbon into the air we...