See ya Stan
Damn. Stan Winston passed away at age 62. The man that brought us all the special effects of the Terminator, Aliens, Men In Black, Jurassic Park, Edward Scissorhands, Predator, Batman (er…the Tim Burton version) and countless others has gone… unless his body is just from an alginate mold.
There was a time wee little Garry wanted to do movie makeup and effects. As a creepy young kid my heroes were Lon Chaney (Sr and Jr), Rick Baker, Tom Savini — and of course Stan. I’d terrorize the few neighborhood kids I knew (sad Garry spent weekends in the library) — with fake scars, flesh wounds, glue on skin and eyeballs hanging out of their sockets. All thanks to a some book swiped from the library about makeup from home materials. Can’t remember what it was called.
Rest in piece Stan. Your children still live on in the movies.
Garry Schafer is ScribeMedia's Director of Interactive Media. His weapons of choice are many fold, but he's quite partial to Flex as he builds out live and on-demand media players and a host of other apps.
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