Makeup Maestro Rick Baker to Receive Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

This Friday, November 30th, Rick Baker will be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. There is a ceremony to celebrate the event at 11:30am at 6764 Hollywood Boulevard, in front of the Guinness World Records Museum. This is doubly fantastic because this will be two celebrations in one – you see, Rick will also be entered into the Guinness Book of World Records for not one but TWO categories – Most Oscar Wins/Nominations for Best Achievement in Makeup! He’s been nominated twelve times with seven wins for An American Werewolf in London (1981), Harry and the Hendersons (1987), Ed Wood (1994), The Nutty Professor (1996), Men in Black (1997), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) and The Wolfman (2010).

If you’re in the Hollywood area make plans now to attend and help celebrate the career of this truly deserving professional!

Beast Wishes, the Bob and Kathy Burns Documentary

I got a chance to catch the screening of the BEAST WISHES documentary at Wonderfest this year. This documentary was made by Frank Dietz and Trish Geiger and is a loving tribute to fandom's favorite monster kids, Bob and Kathy Burns. It played to a packed house and received a standing ovation afterwards.

Beast Wishes tells the story of Bob and Kathy Burns and all the amazing adventures they've had through the years while weaving in personal remembrances from friends of theirs along the way, many of whom are well know professionals in the Hollywood Sci-fi/Horror community such as Rick Baker, Joe Dante, John Landis, and many, many more.

The DVD will be out soon - currently it is playing the festival and convention circuit. This is a really top notch documentary and a DVD that all classic science fiction and horror fans will enjoy and want to own, and it was my privilege to take part in this documentary.  Frank told me that the title of the blooper reel, BEAST WITCHES, was inspired from one of my outtakes, where I messed up the title while shooting my bits - "This is Dr. Gangrene and you're watching the Beast Witches documentary. Wait a minute, that's not right. What the name of this thing?" LOL. Glad I could help, Frank!

Frankenstein 80th Anniversary ebook

    My good pal Scott Essman's 80th anniversary Frankenstein article is now available on google as an ebook. It features a beautiful digital illustration of the monster by artist extrordinaire Rick Baker, as well as a color illustration of the creature by Ray Spooky Santoleri. A well researched and written piece on one of the greatest monsters of the silver screen. Go get yours at:

http://books.google.com/books?id=ivDrKV1riE8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=scott+essman&hl=en&sa=X&ei=zQujT_fPHsSbiALU_tnfDA&ved=0CE8Q6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=scott%20essman&f=false

Contemporary Makeup Artist Photo Exhibit

Here's a really interesting show happening in Pasadena - it's a photo exhibit of makeup artists like Stan Winston, Rick Baker, etc... but not their work, this exhibit features close-up, black-and-white images of these artists' faces.They were taken by photographer Deverill Weekes from 1994-2011, and the show takes place June 6th at the Pasedena Convention Center. More details below...

Dick Smith

Stuart Freet

Kevin Haney