Headline A peak behind the Hollywood mask by one of its foremost makeup artistsIn Hollywoods heyday, almost every major studio had a Westmore heading up the makeup department. Since 1917, there has never been a time when Westmores werent shaping the visages of stardom. For their centurylong 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 Hollywoods 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. Westmores 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, Rosemarys 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 Daviss preference for being madeup in the nude to Shelley Winterss habit of nipping from a little...

Binding: Paperback;320 pages; Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc; Classification: AGB; Weight: 952 g; Dimensions: 169 x 244 x 21

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