Stan the Man

Monday June 30, 2008 | 1 comment

Over the last few weeks, the entertainment industry lost some giants.

Last week, we learned that Geoge Carlin had shuffled off this mortal coil. Though he would probably scoff at the kind words being thrown his way (His famous retort to anyone offering bereavement support – “You want to help? Fine, why don’t you come over tomorrow and paint the garage.”) – I decided that he made me laugh (and think) enough in my lifetime to warrant a few words of remembrance. Look for that later this week.

Simply because he passed on first, today I decided to pay my tribute to Stan Winston, the great makeup artist and creature effects wizard who engineered some of the most beautiful beasties Hollywood ever set loose upon my fragile psyche.

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