Makeup Man

Makeup Man
Author: Michael Westmore
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2017-02-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1630761915

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.

Men, Makeup & Monsters

Men, Makeup & Monsters
Author: Anthony Timpone
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1996-09-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780312146788

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.

Staging Your Comeback

Staging Your Comeback
Author: Christopher Hopkins
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0757398448

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

Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy

Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy
Author: Bil Wright
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2012-08-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1416940049

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.

Men, Murder and Makeup

Men, Murder and Makeup
Author: Shane K Morton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-04-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Murder is a Drag. Victor has a secret identity, and she's being framed for murder. Murder She Wrote... If Jessica Fletcher were a Fabulous Drag Queen The mayors been murdered and everyone is on edge and reclusive mystery author Vicki Dean is the prime suspect. Can Victor clear her name without revealing his secret identity? Will the hunky new sheriff help Victor prove Vicki's innocence or be a threat to not only his freedom but also his heart? Victor must let go of his fear and step out of the shadows in his high heels and lipstick to solve this mystery as only a drag queen can. His life depends on it!

The Romantic King

The Romantic King
Author: Huo Xingdaxia
Publisher: Funstory
Total Pages: 858
Release: 2019-12-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1647679656

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?

Making Faces

Making Faces
Author: Kevyn Aucoin
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Total Pages: 159
Release: 1999-09-01
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9781417818273

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.

The Song of Everlasting Sorrow

The Song of Everlasting Sorrow
Author: Anyi Wang
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2008
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0231143427

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.

Dietrich Icon

Dietrich Icon
Author: Gerd Gemünden
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2007-04-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780822338192

DIVCollection of essays on film icon Marlene Dietrich./div

Deadly Ambition

Deadly Ambition
Author: Morris Heldt
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1999-09-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1462815170

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?