Word: makeups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...innards of the Conrad Hilton. His bodyguards were relegated to the hallway, playing cards, while a mixture of radicals and others, totaling twenty or so, crowded into the room which Teller, with his enormous frame, dominated easily. The session appeared to be chaired by a lady in heavy makeup whose main job seemed to be keeping tempers cool...
...insults hurled at him. Of course the students wanted to talk polities. Teller maintained that he had no opinion on socialism or capitalism. But communism-well-that's something else. It seems that this friend of his was sent to Siberia. A good scientist, too.... Often the lady in makeup had to intervene between him and the students...
Bethany Brethren Hospital, a 66-bed facility run by the Church of the Brethren, went out of its way to accept poor residents as patients as early as 1960, when the area's ethnic makeup began changing rapidly from Italian to Spanish to black. By the time of the 1968 race riots, 90% of Bethany's patients were black; though nearby buildings were damaged during the disorders, the hospital sheltered community residents and escaped untouched...
Unbreakable Bones. As Penn began casting about for a white actor to play Old Lodge Skins, he considered Sir Laurence Olivier (who presumably would have dug up his old betel-nut makeup from Khartoum), and eventually offered the part to Richard Boone, who turned it down. Then Gene Lasko, associate producer of Little Big Man, happened to see Smith! and immediately dispatched a script for the chief to read in Vancouver. Says Dan George, in his measured English: "I saw so many lines and dialogues, I got scared. I called Gene Lasko and told him it was too much...
...called upon only to look virile, admittedly a difficult assignment given such smotherhood. As Mama, Melina Mercouri (Mrs. Dassin offscreen) has moments of solar intensity coupled with an absolute lack of vanity. When the script calls for her finally to be ill and old, she permits the makeup man to do his worst and appears pitiable indeed. In its own way, her vital, uninhibited performance is mere makeup, covering the scenario's merchandised nostalgia. There is, of course, the melancholy possibility that the Dassins wished to construct a burlesque. Sadder still, they probably imagine that they have fashioned...