RIP: George Carlin
By one of those odd coincidences I was in the loo reading the chapter ‘The Seven Words You Can’t Say on Television’ in Steven Pinker’s The Stuff of Thought when I heard the news.
Ah 1972, I remember it well — well hazily anyway. Hopefully, that’s a result of the chemical and alcohol smog on campus at the time rather than a sign of incipient dementia.
According to the New York Times, WBAI ‘can’t take a chance’ on rebroadcasting the programme that led to the Supreme Court case because it ‘would cost us $360,000 per incident — so those seven words would cost us $2.5 million’.
georgecarlin.com includes the Supreme Court decision and the transcripy of the ‘Filthy Words’ monologue.
34th Saturn Awards: the winners
The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films announced the winners of the 34th Annual Saturn Awards on 24 June 2008.
The winners for Best Makeup were:
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Ve Neill & Martin Samuel.
The big winners were Enchanted (three awards including Best Fantasy Film and Best Actress) and Lost (four awards, including Best Network Television Series and Best Actor on Television). Sweeney Todd, Ratatouille, and 300 each won two Saturn Awards, including Best Film in their categories.
IMATS LA 2008
I can’t get to the International Make-Up Artist Trade Show (IMATS) in Pasadena this weekend but I’d be grateful if anyone who is attending could let me have any images of the makeup demonstrations to use at themakeupgallery. I will, of course, credit any images and provide a link back to the contributor’s website on request.
If you have any images I could use, please email me.
Hope you have a great time.
The British Academy Television Craft Awards: winners
This is old news but I’ll include the post for the sake of completeness — at the time the British Academy Television Craft Awards were announced my kit was dismantled and covered in black sacks to protect it from builders dust.
BAFTA announced the winners for the British Academy Television Craft Awards on 11 May.
The winners for Best Makeup & Hair Design are:
My Boy Jack
Morna Ferguson & Lorraine Glynn.
RIP: Stan Winston
Stan Winston died of cancer on 16 June, aged sixty-two.
In honor of his significant contributions to prosthetic makeup artistry Make-up Artist magazine, in conjunction with the Stan Winston Studios, will host a tribute at IMATS on Saturday, 21 June. As Michael Key said: ‘He’s left a sizable void in the industry. There’s not a prosthetics makeup artist out there who hasn’t been influenced by Stan Winston.’
His influence on special effects is attested by a shelf full of Oscars, Emmys and BAFTAs. But his impact extended way beyond special effects; he enabled filmmakers to bring new, different and stranger visions to our screens. As James Cameron said: ‘We’ve lost a great artist, a man who made a contribution to the cinema of the fantastic that will resound for a long long time.’
I can only commend the tribute at AICN which contains personal and artistic tributes from Rick Baker, Alec Gillis, Tom Woodruff, Joe Dante, Richard Taylor, James Cameron and other effects artists and filmmakers.
