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Chicago Cubs Pitcher Mike Krukow looked in for the sign, planted his foot on the rubber, gripped the ball and got set to throw. But there was a slight hitch as he began his stretch. The third-base umpire immediately waved home the New York Met base runner standing on third. Thus was scored the first run in the second half of the strike-broken 1981 baseball season. The national pastime returned, not with a bang but a balk...
...which were then covered with masks of false skin. At the proper moment, the sacs were inflated, and the faces seemed to grow as big as beach balls-about the size, that is, of the average movie werewolf's face. Bottin also devised fanglike teeth for his werewolves, rubber incisors that stretched when the actors pressed little triggers with their tongues...
...Christopher Tucker to turn John Hurt into the elephant man. Hurt had to report for work at 4:30 a.m. and, since he was not transformed until noon, often wound up on the set until after midnight. With his misshapen skull and body, which was in fact largely foam rubber, he was unable to lie down or even rest between shots. The tedium can result in tension on location, and there are some actors the artists will not work with. After clashing with Robert De Niro on The Deer Hunter, for instance, Smith resigned from the picture and now refuses...
...garbage on a sanitation truck. When the new National Aquarium failed to open by the July 4 deadline he had guaranteed, Willie Don, as they call him, demonstrated his contrition by plunging into the seal pool (temperature 79°) in striped Victorian swimsuit and straw boater, clutching a yellow rubber duck (he is also affectionately known as Donald Duck). His penitential immersion was shared by a voluptuous model done up as a mermaid. Since he was the target of an assassination attempt by a deranged citizen in 1976, Schaefer has been dogged by security guards; his daily delight...
...evening barbecue, dancing and lots of games, including at least two that are not recognized by the International Olympic Committee: a pillow fight on a greased pole laid across a swimming pool, and an English variation on the ancient Greek discus throw, in which the hurled object is a rubber Wellington boot...