Bio (auto)
Chad Prevost was born in Marin General Hospital in Fairfax, California and divided his childhood between there and Chicago, Morgantown, Phoenix, and Richmond. Prevost is the offspring of Mr. Mississippi College 1968 and The Queen of the Forest Beauty Pageant 1967. In other words, genetics alone might have suggested Prevost was destined for success as an all-around personable, high-achieving, handsome young man. His parents both graduated from high school and college with perfect GPAs. During the 70s in California when it was the style to wear one's hair slightly longish, Prevost's father looked a bit like Tom Sellek of Magnum P.I. It helped that Prevost's father was also named Tom. Over the years, however, Prevost's father's hair line receded until the center of his father's hair line was but a squiggle resembling a question mark. Nevertheless, with a beauty pageant winner mother and a father that resembled Tom Sellek other than a receding hair line, Prevost felt certain he would grow from a cute kid into a handsome man. In fact, as Prevost grew tall and lean and his blond hair lightened in the summer sun, someone mentioned that he resembled Val Kilmer, who played Ice Man in Top Gun. He was also told that he looked like Ricky Shroeder from Silver Spoons, and also the brother of Robb Lowe, Chad Lowe, who starred in his own sit-com for a brief stint, Spencer. Prevost especially like the idea that he looked like Chad Lowe since they shared the same first name. These glory days, however, were all only a mere brief stint on the radar of Prevost's life just before puberty arrived. Before he knew it, Prevost far more resembled Goose, played by Anthony Edwards than Val Kilmer. Prevost had yet to come to terms with a feature he inherited from his father, a feature he had overlooked in his father and a feature that really kept his father from resembling Tom Sellek beyond the mere receding hairline. That feature was a weak chin. Prevost inherited his father's jaw line which is barely a line at all. Prevost had the misfortune of inheriting his mother's long neck and missing out on her strong chin. Whereas a long neck is graceful on a woman, it tends to produce chicken-like necks in men whose Adams Apple sticks out almost like a second nose. Prevost was also slow in developing the substantial facial hair of his father. One of Prevost's issues related to the shade of the hair itself. Whereas the hair on his chin was a dark brown, the hair on his upper lip was a light blond, virtually undetectable unless one got up very close. When he was 21 and serving as a Youth Minister at Williams Trace Baptist Church in Sugar Land, Texas, Prevost had had enough of his moustache's fairness, and decided to darken it. By darkening the blond hairs, Prevost believed he would finally achieve that Tom Sellek-like handsomeness, possibly appearing more generally distinguished and even perhaps a bit biblical. Two treatments of the Just for Men dye didn't do much, so Prevost treated it again and again until he believed it evenly matched the color of his eyebrows. Prevost actually went around like this with an almost black moustache at the age of 21 for a week before he had second thoughts and just shaved the whole thing off. As Prevost grew older and finally did put on a little weight, his neck merged with his chin. Occasionally, a student would try to ingratiate herself with Prevost by noting that Prevost did seem to have an uncanny resemblance to Owen Wilson. Prevost liked Wilson and believed him to be as cool as the characters he played on the silver screen, but did think privately that he had a better nose than Wilson's crooked one. Someone else had noted that Prevost resembled Owen's older brother, Luke Wilson, who had darker hair and although Prevost didn't initially see it, still wanting to believe his brownish hair was blond, Prevost came to believe he did resemble the elder Wilson. After decades of denial about just how weak his chin was, Prevost finally decided that the best way to overcome the physical deficiency was to grow a goatee which would give his chin more substance and hide the merging line between his chin and neck. This backfired on Prevost as he came to resemble the skinny, chinless, hairline-receding, Canadian comic Tom Green. To this day, whenever Prevost dares to grow any facial hair, people stop him on the streets, in hallways, at bars and ask Prevost if he, Tom Green, will sign their autograph, and they won't take no for an answer.
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