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...stand in front of a green screen and mime fear. They are old-fashioned craftsmen, using spirit gum and other medieval (and modern) applications to devise prostheses so horrid, so hand-made, they'd scare anyone on the set. In a tradition stretching back to silent-film star Lon Chaney, the SPFX makeup men, in essence, build scary masks. They make horror visible by sculpting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stan Winston: Monster Magician | 6/16/2008 | See Source »

...they could be scrawled in a motel register by a teen seeking furtive sex: Jack Pierce and Dick Smith. Pierce, during his time at Universal Pictures in the 30s and 40s, created the studio's entire monster menagerie: Boris Karloff's Frankenstein and the Mummy, Bela Lugosi's Dracula, Lon Chaney Jr.'s Wolf Man, Claude Rains' Phantom of the Opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stan Winston: Monster Magician | 6/16/2008 | See Source »

...Global Contender Re your story on New York, London and Hong Kong and their status as global financial and trade hubs: Rather than celebrating Ny-lon-kong, you should have hailed New-syd-don [Jan. 28]. Sydney is a larger city than Hong Kong, and more companies have their Asia-Pacific regional headquarters there. The Australian Stock Exchange, based in Sydney, is among the world's 10 biggest and No. 3 in the Asia-Pacific. Sydney is one of the world's most cosmopolitan cities: about 3 in 10 residents come from overseas, representing 170 countries. In asserting that Hong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

...irradiated Sandman, a.k.a. Flint Marko, in Spider-Man 3, Thomas Haden Church researched the Golem of Jewish folklore and the Frankenstein monster--creatures as pathetic as they were horrific. He wanted to give a nuanced reading of a mutant steeped in self-knowledge. "I remember the performances of Lon Chaney Jr.," he says, "where there was the physical aggression with that kind of sadness and regret that he [was] physically aggressive and could terrify people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movie Villains: So Bad They're Good | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

...model all my actions on lessons learned from Lon Chaney, Jr. movies...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fifteen Things Not To Say During A Recruiting Interview | 10/5/2006 | See Source »

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