Download or read book Makeup Man written by Michael Westmore and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Headline: A peak behind the Hollywood mask by one of its foremost makeup artists In Hollywood’s heyday, almost every major studio had a Westmore heading up the makeup department. Since 1917, there has never been a time when Westmores weren’t shaping the visages of stardom. For their century-long dedication to the art of makeup, the Westmores were honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2008. In this lively memoir, Michael Westmore not only regales us with tales of Hollywood’s golden age, but also from his own career where he notably transformed Sylvester Stallone into Rocky Balboa and Robert DiNiro into Jake LaMotta, among many other makeup miracles. Westmore’s talent as a makeup artist first became apparent when he created impenetrable disguises for Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Robert Mitchum, and Frank Sinatra for the 1963 film The List of Adrian Messenger. He later went on to become the preferred makeup man for Bobby Darin and Elizabeth Taylor, and worked on such movies and TV shows as The Munsters, Rosemary’s Baby, Eleanor and Franklin, New York, New York, 2010: A Space Odyssey, and Mask, for which he won an academy award. The next phase of his career was to create hundreds of alien characters for over 600 episodes of Star Trek in all its iterations, from The Next Generation to Enterprise. Replete with anecdotes about Hollywood and its stars, from Bette Davis’s preference for being made-up in the nude to Shelley Winters’s habit of nipping from a “little bottle” while on the set, Makeup Man will satisfy any Hollywood’s fan’s appetite for gossip or a behind-the-scenes look at how tinsel town’s most iconic film characters were created. Academy Award-winning Michael Westmore has been making up the stars for over fifty years. He frequently appears on the SyFy channel show Face Off with his daughter McKenzie Westmore.
Download or read book Men Makeup Monsters written by Anthony Timpone and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1996-09-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood's Masters of Illusion and F/X Cinema is illusion, and the 12 masters of magic to be found in this book are the best to be found in Hollywood. The films featured include: Terminator Two, Aliens, Living Dead, Hellraiser, Jurassic Park, The Fly, The Exorcist and many more. Ideal interested in learning the craft of movie make-up or for film buffs who want to know how its all done. Foreword by Clive Barker.
Download or read book Staging Your Comeback written by Christopher Hopkins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Hopkins first became known as “The Makeover Guy” during his two appearances in Oprah’s over-50 makeover shows. Since then, he has dedicated his talents and passion for fashion, makeup, and hair care to this booming audience of women. In Staging Your Comeback, Hopkins champions women over 45, teaching them how to command attention by looking and feeling great. With compassion and brutal honesty, Hopkins tackles and rectifies problems that women face as they age. Hopkins’s simple tips and tricks help women create their own self-expression and turnaround common mistakes they make in fashion and hair and skin care. Some topics include: Gray or nay? Your ideal hair color Working with over-40 skin Discover your image profile Second-act ground rules Your ideal silhouette When symmetry goes south Myths and misconceptions Long hair in act two: Does it work? Managing curl What you need to know about undergarments Fads, trends, and classics
Download or read book Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy written by Bil Wright and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen-year-old Carlos Duarte is on the verge of realizing his dream of becoming a famous make-up artist, but first he must face his jealous boss at a Macy's cosmetics counter, his sister's abusive boyfriend, and his crush on a punk-rocker classmate.
Download or read book The Romantic King written by Huo Xingdaxia and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was struck by lightning for no reason! Misfortune? But why would a beauty come to my house in the middle of the night to take a bath?
Download or read book The Song of Everlasting Sorrow written by Anyi Wang and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Song of Everlasting Sorrow follows the adventures of Wang Qiyao, a girl born of the crowded, labyrinthine alleys of Shanghai's working-class neighborhoods. Infatuated with the glitz and glamour of 1940s Hollywood, Wang Qiyao seeks fame in the Miss Shanghai beauty pageant, and this fleeting moment of stardom becomes the pinnacle of her life. After the Communist victory, Wang Qiyao continues to indulge in the decadent pleasures of the Shanghai bourgeoisie, secretly playing mahjong during the antirightist campaign and exchanging lovers on the eve of the Cultural Revolution. She reemerges in the 1980s as a purveyor of "old Shanghai," only to become embroiled in a tragedy that echoes the Hollywood noirs of her youth.
Download or read book Dietrich Icon written by Gerd Gemünden and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-12 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVCollection of essays on film icon Marlene Dietrich./div
Download or read book Deadly Ambition written by Morris Heldt and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 1999-09-24 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darcy Scott, 50-something, and trying to maintain her high standard of network television journalism, finds herself being forced to fight the natural aging process for women by the "good ol' boys' club," as she investigates her old college classmates, Congressman Elliott Lodge and Dr. Raymond Miller. Congressman Lodge is campaigning for the Vice Presidency of the United States. He has convinced himself, by spinning the facts to suit his own reality, that he can purify this nation through gene control. Dr. Miller assist by using uneducated, poor, Mexican girls as surrogate mothers; inseminating them with sperm and eggs from Aryan looking college students, and then selling their babies to upper class "White America." Simply put, using young, illegal, Mexican women's wombs as baby factories. This procedure fulfills Dr. Miller's desire for money, and the beginning of Congressman Lodge's dream for a superior America through better breeding, (Adolf Hitler's delusional fantasy). After receiving a suspicious letter from a young Mexican girl, accusing Dr. Miller of impregnating her, and other young, female illegals, Darcy approaches her network boss. He dismisses the letter and refuses to authorize an investigation. Darcy, finding the letter so disturbing, takes it upon herself to assign her female Hispanic associate producer to inquire into Dr. Miller's Texas border town clinic. Darcy's assistant is then found dead near the Texas/Mexican border--only a few miles from Dr. Miller's clinic. Darcy becomes convinced that her friend, and protege, was killed by her ex-college school mates to cover up their insidious plan for power and money. But, how does she prove it? Darcy solicits her old college love, John Lang, (former friend of Lodge and Miller, and recently fired NBA coach), to help her investigate. Darcy and John banter back `n forth as if they were Nick and Nora Charles from the "Thin Man." Consequently, along the way they both find the lost love they once had for one another, in addition to appreciating reaching middle age. However, how does an aging female television journalist, who is fighting the youth movement at the network, along with the lack of moral credibility in their stories, prove murder, and bring down a United States congressman, and his highly-respected physician partner? The twist in the end creates a revelation for Darcy's own self-worth, and forces her to confront her real motivation to why she pursued Lodge and Miller with such zeal, and causes her to make a life changing decision. This story not only examines a female's point of view about reaching 50-something, in a high-profile professional industry, but, also deals with society's self-imposed restrictions on age, and the erosion of the truth--being replaced with spinning network stories that cater to big business, and influential people. More importantly, it deals with the question: can one person make a difference in this world, or has society made it impossible to individually matter?
Download or read book A New Way of Looking at Movie Stars written by Susan Marg and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-01-12 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can you name ten actors who played women or ten actresses who played prostitutes in the movies? What about anyone who gained weight or got into shape for a movie role? And, there are those who fell in love on a movie set, performed together, and were paid big bucks for a divorce. The answers are in this book, although you might have a preference for someone I didn’t recognize. You might even learn something new about the movies or your favorite stars. Did you know that television’s Police Squad! ran for only six episodes, but it led to three movies. Do you remember when Paul Newman played himself on The Simpsons? The idea for the book was based on a childhood pastime similar to hopscotch, but without the hopping or standing on one leg. This book is sure to bring hours of entertainment. There are over 1000 entries, organized into ten chapters with ten sections each. Sit down, keep reading, and enjoy!
Download or read book A V A to Z written by Richard W. Kroon and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 773 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defining more than 10,000 words and phrases from everyday slang to technical terms and concepts, this dictionary of the audiovisual language embraces more than 50 subject areas within film, television, and home entertainment. It includes terms from the complete lifecycle of an audiovisual work from initial concept through commercial presentation in all the major distribution channels including theatrical exhibition, television broadcast, home entertainment, and mobile media. The dictionary definitions are augmented by more than 700 illustrations, 1,600 etymologies, and nearly 2,000 encyclopedic entries that provide illuminating anecdotes, historical perspective, and clarifying details.
Download or read book Getting the News written by William Shipman Maulsby and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Continental Films written by Christine Leteux and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1940 to 1944, the German-owned Continental Films dominated the French film landscape, producing thirty features throughout the Nazi occupation. Charged with producing entertaining and profitable films rather than propaganda, producer Alfred Greven employed some of the greatest French actors and most prestigious directors of the time, including Maurice Tourneur, Henri Decoin, Henri-Georges Clouzot, and Marcel Carné. Using recently opened archival documents, including reams of testimony from the épuration (purification) hearings conducted shortly after the war, Christine Leteux has produced the most authoritative and complete history of the company and its impact on the French film industry—both during the war and after. She captures the wide range of responses to the firm from those who were eager to work for a company whose ideology matched their own, to others who reluctantly accepted contracts out of necessity, to those who abhorred the company but felt compelled to participate in order to protect family members from Nazi reprisals. She examines not only the formation and management of Continental Films but also the personalities involved, the fraught and often deadly political circumstances of the period, the critical reception of the films, and many of the more notorious and controversial events. As Bertrand Tavernier explains in his foreword, Leteux overturns many of the preconceptions and clichés that have come to be associated with Continental Films. Published to rave reviews in French and translated by the author into English, this work shatters expectations and will reinvigorate study of a lesser-known but significant period of French film history.
Download or read book Memory written by Donald E. Westlake and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2011-10-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE CRIME WAS OVER IN A MINUTE – THE CONSQUENCES LASTED A LIFETIME Hospitalized after a liaison with another man’s wife ends in violence, Paul Cole has just one goal: to rebuild his shattered life. But with his memory damaged, the police hounding him, and no way even to get home, Paul’s facing steep odds – and a bleak fate if he fails… This final, never-before-published novel by three-time Edgar Award winner Donald E. Westlake is a noir masterpiece, a dark and painful portrait of a man’s struggle against merciless forces that threaten to strip him of his very identity.
Download or read book Potomac Jungle written by David Levy and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-03 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the backdrop of an invisible escalating war for nuclear submarine superiority, one man holds the fate of the country in his hands. President H. Stephen Thompson has nearly completed one term in office, aided by his son Harry and by Vice President Clifford Hawley, but the medical report from the Bethesda Naval Hospital has confirmed that the President's health is deteriorating. He suffers ominous memory losses that cause him to forget the names of important senators...and important matters of state. Now, on the eve of the upcoming nominating convention, President Thompson is embroiled in a struggle for survival, a battle for power driven by the ambitious Vice President and a secret self-appointed committee. As the Committee threatens to implement the 25th Amendment-the Constitution's provision for the succession of power-President Thompson is confronted with contradictory loyalties: his wife, Kathy, cannot suppress her feelings for Vice President Hawley but is determined to hold on to her position as First Lady; his son, Harry, works for the Vice President, but is keenly aware of his father's brilliance. The President's political allies and Cabinet members are dividing over the issue of the President's health, and of the necessity for proceeding with Red Dye Day, the secret technological breakthrough in the deadly game of underwater nuclear warfare with the Russians. Will the implementation of Red Dye Day be read by the Kremlin as a provocative act? Power, passion, and ambition lurk in this suspenseful novel, where the jungle world of Washington politics is starkly revealed.
Download or read book It Came from Horrorwood written by Tom Weaver and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Weaver's classic fifth volume of interviews is now back in print. Originally published as It Came from Weaver Five in 1996, this collection goes behind the scenes with 20 of the most talkative people of Hollywood's horror, science fiction and serial films of the 1930s through 1960s. Delores Fuller loaned Ed Wood her angora sweater, but didn't fully realize he was a transvestite until Glen or Glenda was released. Tom Hennesy played the title role in Clint Eastwood's first movie--Revenge of the Creature. The interviewees include Fuller, Hennesy, Junior Coghlan, Charlotte Austin, Les Baxter, John Clifford, Mara Corday, Kathleen Crowley, Michael Fox, Anne Gwynne, Linda Harrison, Michael Pate, Gil Perkins, Walter Reed, Joseph F. Robertson, Aubrey Schenck, Sam Sherman, Gloria Stuart, Gregory Walcott and Robert Wise. Also included is "A Salute to Ed Wood," with illustrations by Drew Friedman.
Download or read book Making Faces written by Kevyn Aucoin and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's preeminent makeup artist shares his secrets, explaining not only the basics of makeup application and technique but also how to use the fundamentals to create a wide range of different looks. 200 color photos & sketches.
Download or read book The Sea Elephants written by Shastri Akella and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Shuggie Bain and A Burning, a queer coming-of-age novel set in 1990s India, about a young man who joins a traveling street theater troupe, seeking to outrun the dark secrets of his past "An exquisite novel destined to be a classic.” ―Eric Nguyen, author of Things We Lost to the Water Shagun knows he will never be the kind of son his father demands. After the sudden deaths of his beloved twin sisters, Shagun flees his own guilt, his mother’s grief, and his father’s violent disapproval by enrolling at an all-boys boarding school. But he doesn’t find true belonging until he encounters a traveling theater troupe performing the Hindu myths of his childhood. Welcomed by the other storytellers, Shagun thrives, easily embodying mortals and gods, men and women, and living on the road, where his father can’t catch him. When Shagun meets Marc, a charming photographer, he seems to have found the love he always longed for, too. But not even Marc can save him from his lingering shame, nor his father’s ever-present threat to send him to a conversion center. As Shagun’s past begins to engulf him once again, he must decide if he is strong enough to face what he fears most, and to boldly claim his own happiness. Utterly immersive and spellbinding, The Sea Elephants is both dark and beautiful, harrowing and triumphant. An ode to the redemptive joys of art, Shastri Akella’s debut novel is a celebration of hard-won love—of others and for ourselves.
