About a year ago, Malu Byrne discovered her first gray hair. Some 22-year-olds would have crumpled into a heap of self-pity on the bathroom floor. Byrne looked into the mirror and smiled.

Sometime in the mid-nineteen-seventies, David Byrne bought a cheap gray polyester suit at a discount ... had changed her hair the day before filming that he paid for her to get a weave.