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• The Art of Theatrical Makeup for Stage and Screen ( illustrated by Al Mayton) McGraw-Hill (New York, NY), 1973
• Star Trek Aliens & Artifacts Pocket Books (New York, NY), 2000
• Makeup Man: From Rocky to Star Trek; the Amazing Creations of Hollywood's Michael Westmore Lyons Press (Guilford, CT), 2017

1. Makeup man : from Rocky to Star trek : the amazing creations of Hollywood's Michael Westmore LCCN 2016044748 Type of material Book Personal name Westmore, Michael G. author. Main title Makeup man : from Rocky to Star trek : the amazing creations of Hollywood's Michael Westmore / Michael Westmore with Jake Page. Published/Produced Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, [2017] Projected pub date 1703 Description pages cm ISBN 9781630761905 (pbk. : alk. paper) Library of Congress Holdings Information not available. 2. Star trek aliens & artifacts LCCN 2001270421 Type of material Book Main title Star trek aliens & artifacts / Michael Westmore ... [et al.]. Published/Created New York : Pocket Books, c2000. Description 208 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. ISBN 0671042998 Links Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/simon052/2001270421.html Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/simon032/2001270421.html Sample text http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0645/2001270421-s.html Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0645/2001270421-t.html CALL NUMBER PN1992.8.S74 S725 2000 CABIN BRANCH Copy 1 Request in Jefferson or Adams Building Reading Rooms - STORED OFFSITE 3. The art of theatrical makeup for stage and screen LCCN 72001795 Type of material Book Personal name Westmore, Michael G. Main title The art of theatrical makeup for stage and screen [by] Michael G. Westmore. Illustrated by Al Mayton. Published/Created New York, McGraw-Hill [c1973] Description 155 p. illus. 28 cm. ISBN 0070694850 CALL NUMBER PN2068 .W4 1973 Copy 1 Request in Jefferson or Adams Building Reading Rooms

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  Born March 22, 1938 in Los Angeles, California, USA
  Birth Name Michael George Westmore
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  Michael Westmore was born on March 22, 1938 in Los Angeles, California, USA as Michael George Westmore. He is known for his work on Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993) and Star Trek: Voyager (1995). He is married to Marion Westmore. They have one child.
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  Marion Westmore (? - present) (1 child)
  Trivia (8)
  Son of Monte Westmore and Edith Westmore.
  Father of McKenzie Westmore
  Brother of makeup artist Marvin G. Westmore and Monty Westmore.
  Grandson of George Westmore.
  Uncle of Kevin Westmore and Kandace Westmore.
  The Westmores were awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Pictures at 1645 Vine Street in Hollywood, California.
  Possibly out of recognition for his years of contribution to the science-fiction genre, a character has his name in the Smallville (2001) episode, Smallville: Tomb (2006).
  Nephew of Ern Westmore, Bud Westmore, Frank Westmore, Perc Westmore and Wally Westmore.

  Filmography

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  Star Trek: Enterprise (TV Series) (makeup supervisor - 8 episodes, 2001 - 2005) (makeup designer - 3 episodes, 2003)
  - United (2005) ... (makeup supervisor)
  - Zero Hour (2004) ... (makeup supervisor - as Michael G. Westmore)
  - The Shipment (2003) ... (makeup designer) / (makeup supervisor)
  - Exile (2003) ... (makeup designer) / (makeup supervisor)
  - Canamar (2003) ... (makeup designer) / (makeup supervisor)
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  2002 Star Trek: Nemesis (makeup designer and supervisor)
  2002 Dead Above Ground (special makeup effects artist - as Mike Westmore)
  1995-2001 Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series) (makeup designer and supervisor - 137 episodes)
  - Endgame (2001) ... (makeup designer and supervisor)
  - Renaissance Man (2001) ... (makeup designer and supervisor)
  - Homestead (2001) ... (makeup designer and supervisor)
  - Natural Law (2001) ... (makeup designer and supervisor)
  - Friendship One (2001) ... (makeup designer and supervisor)
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  2001 Along Came a Spider (prosthetics makeup designer)
  2000 The Wonderful World of Disney (TV Series) (prosthetics creator - 1 episode)
  - Geppetto (2000) ... (prosthetics creator)
  Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series) (makeup designer and supervisor - 143 episodes, 1993 - 1999) (makeup designer - 18 episodes, 1996 - 1997) (makeup supervisor - 17 episodes, 1996 - 1997) (makeup design and supervision - 2 episodes, 1993)
  - The Dogs of War (1999) ... (makeup designer and supervisor)
  - Extreme Measures (1999) ... (makeup designer and supervisor)
  - Tacking Into the Wind (1999) ... (makeup designer and supervisor)
  - When It Rains... (1999) ... (makeup designer and supervisor)
  - The Changing Face of Evil (1999) ... (makeup designer and supervisor)
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  1998 Star Trek: Insurrection (makeup designer) / (makeup supervisor)
  1997 Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (Video Game) (makeup artist)
  1997 Chachi 420 (makeup artist: Chachi - as Micheal Westmoore)
  1996 Avvai Shanmugi (makeup creator: Shanmugi)
  1996 Star Trek: Borg (Video Game) (makeup consultant)
  1996 Star Trek: Klingon (Video Game) (makeup artist) / (special makeup effects artist)
  1996 First Contact (makeup designer) / (makeup supervisor)
  1995 Star Trek: The Next Generation: Interactive VCR Board Game - A Klingon Challenge (Video Game) (special makeup effects artist)
  1994 Star Trek: Generations (special makeup effects designer and supervisor)
  Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series) (makeup supervisor - 176 episodes, 1987 - 1994) (makeup designer - 103 episodes, 1990 - 1994)
  - All Good Things... (1994) ... (makeup designer) / (makeup supervisor)
  - Preemptive Strike (1994) ... (makeup designer) / (makeup supervisor)
  - Emergence (1994) ... (makeup designer) / (makeup supervisor)
  - Bloodlines (1994) ... (makeup designer) / (makeup supervisor)
  - Firstborn (1994) ... (makeup designer) / (makeup supervisor)
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  1991 Babe Ruth (TV Movie) (special makeup designer)
  1990 Rocky V (special makeup)
  1990/I Revenge (prosthetics designer)
  1989 The Blood of Heroes (special makeup designer)
  1989 Johnny Handsome (special makeup effects artist)
  MacGyver (TV Series) (special makeup designer - 3 episodes, 1987 - 1989) (makeup artist - 1 episode, 1987)
  - Cleo Rocks (1989) ... (special makeup designer)
  - Kill Zone (1988) ... (special makeup designer)
  - The Widowmaker (1987) ... (special makeup designer)
  - Friends (1987) ... (makeup artist)
  1988 Remo Williams: The Prophecy (TV Movie) (special makeup)
  1988 Backfire (makeup artist)
  1987 Highway to Heaven (TV Series) (makeup artist - 1 episode)
  - I Was a Middle Aged Werewolf (1987) ... (makeup artist - uncredited)
  1987 Masters of the Universe (makeup designer)
  1987 Roxanne (makeup designer)
  1987 Project X (special makeup and applications - as Michael G. Westmore)
  Amazing Stories (TV Series) (makeup artist - 1 episode, 1987) (special make-up - 1 episode, 1986) (special makeup creator - 1 episode, 1986)
  - Without Diana (1987) ... (makeup artist)
  - Miscalculation (1986) ... (special make-up)
  - Grandpa's Ghost (1986) ... (special makeup creator)
  1986 Solid Gold (TV Series) (makeup artist - 2 episodes)
  - Episode #7.8 (1986) ... (makeup artist)
  - Episode #7.7 (1986) ... (makeup artist)
  1986 Psycho III (special makeup effects artist)
  1986 Annihilator (TV Movie) (makeup artist)
  1986 The Clan of the Cave Bear (co-head makeup department - as Michael G. Westmore) / (special makeup creator - as Michael G. Westmore) / (special makeup designer - as Michael G. Westmore)
  1986 The Defiant Ones (TV Movie) (makeup artist)
  1985 Blackout (TV Movie) (special makeup designer - as Michael G. Westmore)
  1985 The Rape of Richard Beck (TV Movie) (makeup artist)
  1985 Mask (Rocky makeup designed and developed by)
  1984 2010 (makeup supervisor)
  1984 The Three Wishes of Billy Grier (TV Movie) (special makeup creator) / (special makeup designer)
  1984 Iceman (makeup creator)
  1984 Why Me? (TV Movie) (makeup designer) / (special makeup)
  1983 Uncommon Valor (makeup artist)
  1983 Right of Way (TV Movie) (makeup artist)
  1983 The Day After (TV Movie) (makeup designer - as Mike Westmore)
  1983 The Star Chamber (makeup artist)
  1982 First Blood (makeup creator)
  1982 Blade Runner (prosthetic makeups - uncredited)
  1982 Rocky III (makeup creator)
  1981 Bosom Buddies (TV Series) (makeup designer - 11 episodes)
  - Other Than That, She's a Wonderful Person (1981) ... (makeup designer)
  - WaterBalloonGate (1981) ... (makeup designer)
  - One for You, One for Me (1981) ... (makeup designer)
  - Reunion (1981) ... (makeup designer)
  - There's No Business... (1981) ... (makeup designer)
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  1981 True Confessions (makeup designer)
  1981 Victory (makeup artist - as Mike Westmore)
  1980 Raging Bull (makeup creator)
  1979 Charlie's Angels (TV Series) (makeup artist - 1 episode)
  - The Prince and the Angel (1979) ... (makeup artist: Miss Fawcett - as Michael C. Westmore)
  1979 Hart to Hart (TV Series) (makeup artist - 1 episode)
  - Hart to Hart (1979) ... (makeup artist - as Mike Westmore)
  1979 Rocky II (makeup designer)
  1979 A Christmas Carol (makeup artist)
  1978 Paradise Alley (makeup artist)
  1978 Circle of Iron (makeup artist - as Mike Westmore)
  1978 Deathmoon (TV Movie) (makeup artist)
  1978 F.I.S.T. (makeup artist - as Mike Westmore)
  1977 Capricorn One (makeup artist - as Mike Westmore)
  1977 Once Upon a Brothers Grimm (TV Movie) (makeup artist - as Michael G. Westmore)
  1977 A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story (TV Movie) (makeup artist)
  1977 Curse of the Black Widow (TV Movie) (makeup artist)
  1977 New York, New York (makeup artist)
  1977 The Amazing Howard Hughes (TV Movie) (makeup artist)
  1977 The Spell (TV Movie) (makeup artist - as Mike Westmore)
  Land of the Lost (TV Series) (makeup artist - 17 episodes, 1974) (special makeup - 13 episodes, 1976)
  - Medicine Man (1976) ... (special makeup)
  - Scarab (1976) ... (special makeup)
  - Ancient Guardian (1976) ... (special makeup)
  - Timestop (1976) ... (special makeup)
  - Abominable Snowman (1976) ... (special makeup)
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  1976 Rocky (makeup creator - as Mike Westmore)
  1976 The Million Dollar Rip-Off (TV Movie) (makeup artist)
  1976 Trackdown (makeup artist)
  1976 Eleanor and Franklin (TV Series) (makeup artist - 2 episodes)
  - Episode #1.2 (1976) ... (makeup artist - as Mike Westmore)
  - Episode #1.1 (1976) ... (makeup artist - as Mike Westmore)
  1975 The Kansas City Massacre (TV Movie) (makeup artist - as Mike Westmore)
  1975 Trilogy of Terror (TV Movie) (makeup artist - as Mike Westmore)
  1974 The Great Ice Rip-Off (TV Movie) (makeup artist - as Mike Westmore)
  1973-1974 The Wide World of Mystery (TV Series) (makeup artist - 4 episodes)
  - Nightmare at 43 Hillcrest (1974) ... (makeup artist - as Mike Westmore)
  - Shadow of Fear (1974) ... (makeup artist - as Mike Westmore)
  - Frankenstein: Part 2 (1973) ... (makeup artist)
  - Frankenstein: Part 1 (1973) ... (makeup artist)
  1974 The Invasion of Carol Enders (TV Movie) (makeup artist - as Mike Westmore)
  1974 Scream of the Wolf (TV Movie) (makeup artist - as Mike Westmore)
  1973 Sigmund and the Sea Monsters (TV Series) (makeup artist - 1973-1974)
  1973 The Picture of Dorian Gray (TV Movie) (makeup artist - as Mike Westmore)
  1964-1966 The Munsters (TV Series) (makeup artist - 69 episodes)
  - Herman's Lawsuit (1966) ... (makeup artist - uncredited)
  - Herman's Sorority Caper (1966) ... (makeup artist - uncredited)
  - A House Divided (1966) ... (makeup artist - uncredited)
  - Herman, the Tire Kicker (1966) ... (makeup artist - uncredited)
  - Eddie's Brother (1966) ... (makeup artist - uncredited)
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  1965/II Harlow (makeup artist - as Mike Westmore)
  1964 McHale's Navy (makeup artist - uncredited)
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  Westmore, Michael

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  Star Trek: The Next Generation
  Episode: TNG 101 - Encounter at Farpoint, Part I
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  Michael Westmore is the primary make-up supervisor and designer for all of the current Star Trek series as well as a number of feature films and television shows. A winner of several Academy and Emmy Nominations and Awards, Westmore has created some of the most intriguing looking characters in the universe.
  After graduating from the University of California at Santa Barbara, Westmore began his career as a make-up artist for Universal Studios in 1961. After only three years, Universal promoted Westmore to Assistant Department Head of Make-Up. Soon after, through the 1970's and 1980's, Westmore became a freelance make-up artist working on several feature films and television series. His many film credits include work on the first three "Rocky" films, "Raging Bull," "2010," "Clan of the Cave Bear," "Project X," and "Mask," which won him his first Academy Award.
  In 1986, Westmore was hired by Paramount Pictures as a Make-up Supervisor and Designer where he was put in charge of the make-up for Star Trek: The Next Generation. Westmore worked on a variety of television series and movies during this period accumulating some 30 Emmy nominations in the process.
  Westmore has written several books on make-up design and his works have been featured in a numerous museum exhibits including a special exhibit at the California Museum of Science and Industry.
  Westmore's research includes five years on the use of therapeutic cosmetic aids to normalize the reflective and self-image of individuals who have been severely scarred due to accidents, facial cancer excisions, cleft lip repair, birthmarks and other skin discolorations. This work has been done in conjunction with plastic surgeons world-wide.
  Westmore is best known for creating the magnificent aliens seen on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Voyager, as well as the latest peek into the future, Enterprise. Westmore frequently speaks to fans at conventions around the country, as his schedule permits.

• Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Westmore

  Michael Westmore
  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Michael Westmore
  Born Michael George Westmore I
  March 22, 1938 (age 79)
  Los Angeles, California
  Alma mater University of California-Santa Barbara
  Occupation Make-up artist
  Years active 1961–2005
  Known for Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise
  Children McKenzie Westmore
  Parent(s) Monte Westmore
  Relatives Westmore family
  Awards 1985 Academy Award for Make-up
  9x Emmy Awards
  Michael George Westmore I (born March 22, 1938) is an American make-up artist best known for his work in various Star Trek productions, winning nine Emmy Awards, and is a member of the Westmore family. He won the Academy Award for Make-up in 1985 for his work on the film Mask. His career began at Universal Studios in 1961, and spanned four decades, including working for the CIA creating make-up kits for spies overseas.

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  1 Biography
  2 Awards
  3 Published works
  4 References
  5 External links
  Biography[edit]
  Born in Los Angeles, California, Westmore is the son of Monte Westmore,[1] husband of model Marion Bergeson Westmore, father of McKenzie Westmore, Michele Westmore Meeks, and Michael Westmore II, and brother of Marvin Westmore,[1] and Monty Westmore,[1][2] who are also make-up artists. His family is heavily involved in the Hollywood make-up business. In 1917 his grandfather George Westmore had created the first studio make-up department.[3] Michael's father was a make-up artist for Gone with the Wind[1] and his uncle was Bud Westmore, famous for co-creating the creature in Creature from the Black Lagoon.

  He is a 1961 graduate of the University of California-Santa Barbara and a member of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity. He began working for Universal Studios in 1961 as a make-up artist, and was promoted after three years to Assistant Department Head of Make-Up.[4] He apprenticed to John Chambers on the 1963 film The List of Adrian Messenger.[5] Some of Westmore's earliest roles at Universal included The Munsters and Land of the Lost.[6] He became a freelance make-up artist during the 1970s and 80s, working on films such as "Rocky" and Raging Bull.[4] For Raging Bull, Westmore designed the prosthetic noses which Robert De Niro wore throughout the film, and the make up which simulated bleeding though tubes placed under fake skin. One of the more unusual effects used on the boxing film was a special effect which showed a nose breaking from a punch on screen.[7] He worked with Tom Burman on make-up sets for the Central Intelligence Agency for operatives overseas to change identities. A set created by the pair sold for $20,000 in 2011.[5]

  The Ferengi (left) and Borg (right) designs, both developed by Westmore for Star Trek: The Next Generation
  In 1985 he appeared in a video released on VHS called Looking Your Best with Michael Westmore.[8] He was hired in 1986 to work on Star Trek: The Next Generation, and would go on to work on all other Star Trek television series to date, Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise.[4] He was initially apprehensive about working on a television show as his previous experience had been only with feature films, but after discussing it with his wife he thought that the idea of a year-long project was positive. During his time on the shows he developed the make-up for several alien races, including the Ferengi, Cardassians,[9] Jem'Hadar,[10] and further developed the make-up used on Klingon characters. One of his first roles was the development of the make-up used on Brent Spiner to create the character Data.[11] He left the Star Trek franchise in 2005, following the cancellation of Enterprise.[12]

  Following Star Trek, he went into semi-retirement and worked on the musical version of Mask, having previously worked on the movie version. He was responsible for Kamal Hassan's make up in the Shankar directed Indian Tamil film called 'INDIAN'. He also spent eighteen months on the Indian film Dasavathaaram, where actor Kamal Haasan played ten different roles which each required prosthetics.[6] He has begun work as a producer and aims to write a two-volume autobiography.[6] He also made a guest appearance on the third series finale of reality TV make-up show Face Off, alongside his daughter McKenzie Westmore who is the presenter of the show.[13] After that, he has appeared in subsequent seasons as a mentor to the contestants of the show.

  Awards[edit]
  Westmore won an Academy Award for Makeup for the 1985 Cher film Mask, and has been nominated three other times, for 2010 (1984), The Clan of the Cave Bear (1986) and Star Trek: First Contact (1996).[14] He has won nine Emmy Awards, and was nominated for at least one Emmy every year from 1984 to 2005 (as well as from 1976 to 1978).[15] He has also suggested that he may be indirectly responsible for the addition of a make-up award at the Oscars as he was put forward for a special Oscar in 1980 for his work on Raging Bull, and after it was turned down there was such a reaction that a proper award was instituted during the following year.[16]

  Published works[edit]
  Westmore, Michael G. (1973). The Art of Theatrical Makeup for Stage and Screen. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 9780070694859.
  Westmore, Michael G.; Nazzaro, Joe (1993). The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation FX Journal. New York: Starlog Communications. ISBN 9780070694859.
  Westmore, Michael G. (2000). Star Trek Aliens and Artifacts. New York: Pocket Books. ISBN 9780671042998.

• Star Trek - http://www.startrek.com/article/michael-westmore-talks-makeup-man-memoir

  Michael Westmore Talks Makeup Man Memoir
  StarTrek.com Staff March 01, 2017 ShareComments (0)
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  Michael Westmore heard it for years and years and years: You should write a book. And he wanted to for much of that time; in fact, he kinda, sorta did so, jotting notes on paper, by hand. After all, he’s part of the iconic Westmore family, royalty in Hollywood makeup circles. He worked on everything from Rocky, Land of the Lost, Raging Bull, Mask, Capricorn I and Blade Runner to First Blood, 2010, Iceman, Clan of the Cave Bear, Psycho 3 and Roxanne. He’s won an Oscar (for Mask). And, of course, he led the award-winning makeup teams that created all of the wondrous aliens for Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise, as well as the TNG features, not to mention other Trek projects.

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  Now, finally, fans can read Westmore’s story in Makeup Man – From Rocky to Star Trek, The Amazing Creations of Hollywood’s Michael Westmore. Available now from Lyons Press, the book was written with the help of the late Jake Page and features a foreword by Patrick Stewart. And it’s not just about Star Trek. Actually, it’s maybe 1/3 devoted to Trek. The rest dives into his family’s history, reveals anecdotes about Bette Davis and Elizabeth Taylor, and goes into depth about his many pre-Trek credits. There are even a couple of recipes. Yes, recipes. StarTrek.com recently engaged the effusive, chatty Westmore in a freewheeling conversation about the book, and here’s what he had to say:

  What took so long, and once you decided to finally do it, what was it like to put pen to paper?

  I tell you, it started in 2003. It's funny, I was sitting in the office, and I was just thinking about all the things I'd done. I had been writing for Makeup Artist Magazine for three years at that point. I thought, "Gee, it'd be interesting if I just jot down some notes on piece of paper." The whole idea in the beginning was not so much to write a book, but to do something for my kids where I would write down some memories, because they grew up through all of this, and I thought, "I may never find a publisher for it, so I might even self-publish it", just to they would have some type of a record. I started writing it, and we still had two years to go in Star Trek at that point, and I wrote more. I asked my secretary… I said, "Get me a legal pad. A yellow pad," and I started writing. I wrote three full legal pads full of notes, and none of it's in the book. I literally started with myself as a child, being born.

  Then I got up to my apprenticeship, and then I kept writing, and then over the years it's like all of a sudden I would be thinking about, "OK, Masters of the Universe. What do I remember about Masters of the Universe?" I'd sit and I'd make notes and write it all down. I collected all of these yellow pads. Then I said, "You know, I'm going to type them up again, because there's things I forgot that I want to switch things around."

  Star Trek

  At that point, you finally made the transition to a computer, right?

  Right. I'm not that big on computer work, so I literally sent these things as emails to myself, and I collected this giant stack of emails, of which, when I finally got around to putting it together, my son found a technique of being able to convert the emails to Word and re-write the whole thing another time. Other things that I had forgotten. Anyway, having to work and doing other things, I maybe stopped for a month and then would go back and write a story. I was continually stopping and starting, as opposed to sitting down and just pondering it. I would think about something, like Rocky, and I would try to just think of the things before I ever picked up the pen or the pencil to jot it down.

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  Enter your late collaborator, Jake Page…

  Exactly. Once I finally got it together, there was a man – Jake – who did an article on me for Smithsonian Magazine years ago. By the time he passed away he’d written 49 books, and his wife was a professional photographer, and he came to Paramount Studios. Jake said to me, "I don't know why,” he said, but he was working for Smithsonian Magazine at that time, he got a call from the head of Smithsonian that he should go to California and do an article on me for the magazine. He came out to California in either 2000 or 1999, and he stayed for a week. He literally came every day and would go to the set and talk to the makeup artists and talk to me and everything, and the article was published in the May issue in 2000. It’s probably one of the best things that was ever put together on me. It was so in-depth because we’d spent a week, literally, talking, and I’d taken him to the labs and showed him how everything was done.

  I finally had reached a point where my writing was, to me, wasn't sufficient. I found Jake. He had retired, and he was living in Colorado. I called him and I said, "Jake, I've got an idea, and I've got a lot of pages. You want to help me with it?" He said, "Let's do it." He was retired, so it literally gave him something to do it. His background was unbelievable, where he himself had been the editor of magazines and newspapers and everything. He spent the time with me putting together a basic outline that we could send to publishers. Some people were not interested, but Lyons Press loved it, and they said, "Let's do it." We went with Lyons Press and they gave me nine months to wrap it all up and get it done and find the pictures and everything. I put it all together and it was 300 and some pages. I was expecting to do rewrites and all of that.

  And then Jake passed away in Feb. 2016…

  During those nine months, he died. My writing mentor and go-to guy was no longer in existence. Michael, my son, transferred everything over. He had a punctuation program. So we fixed commas and periods as best we could, and then the publishing house said, "Don't worry about it. We'll clean it up from there." I said, "You know, I'm not really a writer," and I was so used to Makeup Artist Magazine. There was an editor there who, every time I sent an article in, would rewrite it to the point I didn't even recognize it was me. I literally quit writing for them, in about 2012. I said to the Lyons people, "Are you going to rewrite me?" They said, "No. We really like it in your own words." In reading the book, it's in my own words. It isn't somebody else who has corrected anything.

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  For people who only know you from Star Trek, what do you think they will be most surprised to learn about you and your career if they pick up Makeup Man?

  That I had a whole career before Star Trek, because only maybe a third of the book is about Star Trek. All these other movies I started working on, literally in 1961, that's where I had to start the book. So, I still have three legal pads sitting here that I haven't gone back into for years, which I may do one of these days. There may be something interesting in there to go ahead and find again. In fact, in the beginning, I wasn't going to put any Star Trek in it because I was going to do another book with just Star Trek. The publisher said, "No, we have to. Your name is so connected with it that people will buy it expecting something, and if it's not there…" ...

  So, I took a different approach. As opposed to writing about the typical type of aliens and things on Star Trek, I had Armin Shimerman and Rene Auberjonois and Patrick Stewart people write little things for me, of what it was like for them to go through this experience. That's what a lot of the Star Trek angle is in the book. I tried to pick out spots that were not just the humans or the crew, the human crew, but tried to take what I thought were the humanoids and creatures that were featured in different episodes, and give my background on them of what my inspiration was and how we did it. Then getting the people themselves to actually give their insight of how they developed their character, how they felt wearing the makeup, fleshes that out.

  Star Trek,

  You've done tons of interviews over the years about Star Trek specifically, including a couple with us here at StarTrek.com. What would you say is new in Makeup Man for Star Trek fans, that they don't know, aside from what Rene, Patrick and Armin have written?

  There are some stories in there, too, where I give specific accounts of a few of the different episodes and talk about things that had never really come up for some reason along the way. I tried to take a fresh approach to the writing. I tried not to do the same old, same old. Aliens and Artifacts covered so much of that, and really well. So, for the Trek portion of Makeup Man, I tried to tell the stories behind the aliens and artifacts.

  Auberjonois shares a very cool anecdote…

  Yes, he says that he couldn't even use that Odo voice without being in the makeup. It didn't work just with somebody saying, "Oh, talk like Odo." He said he couldn't do it. It was interesting to find out what the actors actually felt like when they looked at themselves in the mirror as their characters.

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  One question we’ve wanted to ask you about doing the makeup for Trek is this: The choice to make every alien humanoid came from the top, from Gene Roddenberry. How tough a constraint was that on you?

  I think I just mention it in the book, but that's what Gene wanted. His whole concept was that the people had to be able to talk, and they had to be able to see. He didn't care how I designed the bone structure around the eyes, or put contact lenses in them, or put fake teeth in them or something, or rubber lips, whatever. He didn't care if I did any of that. It's just that they had to be able to move so you would believe that there was a living creature inside of it.

  The big one I remember was Mick Fleetwood, when he became a fish. He could actually kind of talk, but he didn't have eyes that blinked. In fact, the great big eye on there, opticals made it blink once in the very beginning when you see him so you get the idea that, yeah, he can blink, and then you don't have to spend the money to do it anymore. But we really didn’t do anything like that very often, and we did less and less of it over time. And, was it constraining? No. It just gave me a fun time trying to figure out how to create a mouth, lips and, as I said, an orbital around the eye that could be different. Actually, by the time we closed shop in 2005, I still have a book filled with sketches that were never used. In every one of them there are usable eyes and a usable mouth to be able to talk.

  Star Trek

  Not to be at all negative, but the Trek faithful may take you to task for using the word Borgs as the plural of Borg.

  (Laughs). Not only do I have S's on the Borg, but, in fact I found in other places, too, that I've mentioned names and put S's on the end of them when I shouldn’t have. If that's the worst criticism, I'm fine.

  We are going to make the chili recipe you include in the book, which you say Elizabeth Taylor loved and ordered from the long-gone, beloved Chasen’s in Hollywood…

  Good. You should. I've done it. Here’s how much she loved Chasen’s chili. She was working on Cleopatra in Europe and had it frozen and sent to her there. Or that’s the rumor, the legend. When I met her in the 80s, she still loved that chili. It was literally one of her favorite dishes. One day when I was working with her, she had it sent over for lunch. I said to her, "God, I'd really love to make it." She said, "Let me see if I can find the recipe." Somebody over there scribbled it down. It had actually been a secret recipe for many, many years, but I think what Elizabeth got was as close to the real thing as anyone could ever get.

  Star Trek

  Before we let you go, what else are you working on at the moment?

  We banked three seasons of Face Off, so that’s on the side. Presently, I have an exhibit in Santa Barbara that is 90% Star Trek and 10% movies, with Raging Bull, Rocky and Mask in it. It’s running until the end of April at The Art, Design & Architecture Museum at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I have been going back and forth, giving talks, and I’ll be doing a book signing there next month. So, that's been keeping me busy, just having to put that together. Then, with all the things I've dug up to be able to put in the museum, we only had room to put about half the things up. I'm hoping when it closes in April we'll be able to move it to another location. I don't want to bring it all home and store it. I'd just as soon have it go sit where people can enjoy it, because it's turned out to be a very successful exhibit.

  Star Trek

  And, lastly, we know that you’ll be at Star Trek Las Vegas in August. In the past, you’ve transformed Terry Farrell back into Dax and Robert Beltran into Chakotay again. What are you planning to do this year?

  This year, I don't know yet. We did a Borg makeup last year. I don't know if we're going to actually do a makeup or not this time, because I'm going to be doing a book signing. So, it may just be a talk with me about my career and Trek and the book and everything, followed by a signing.

  Makeup Man is available now from Lyons Press, priced at 29.95. Go to www.amazon.com to purchase it.

Makeup Man: Making Up the Stars from Rocky
to Star Trek
Glendy X. Mattalia
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Chronicling Westmore's life and career as one of Hollywood's most renowned makeup artists, this book will have
cinephiles and film historians on the edge of their seats. From the foreword by Patrick Stewart to the book's final
pages, which include photographs of Indian actor Kamal Haasan, this volume is burgeoning with one anecdote, juicy
tidbit, and entertaining story after another of behind-the-scenes Hollywood through the ages. Hailing from a makeup
and special-effects dynasty dating back to the 1900s, Westmore tells, with coauthor Page, of his family's impact on the
motion-picture industry in the preface and explains how it has earned them the name the "Royal Family of Makeup
Artists." In the pages that follow, it becomes clear why the moniker is well deserved. Westmore's grandfather George is
credited with no less than establishing the makeup industry in Hollywood, while Westmore's career includes iconic
projects like Blade Runner, Raging Bull, and TV's The Munsters. For anyone who loves an insider's peek into the
golden age of Hollywood and beyond, this book will deliver. --Glendy X. Mattalia
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Readers will want to take a giant step back in time with Academy Award--winner Westmore's amiable and intimate
look at his family, a Hollywood makeup dynasty for four generations, and the stars they've been making look good
since 1917. His own career began in 1961 with a Universal Studios apprenticeship, all the time being "watched like a
hawk" by family elders. Readers of a certain age will lap up stories about Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee's budding
romance, Desi Arnaz's (emergency) horsehair mustache, and Ernest Borgnine's doomed marriage to Ethel Merman. As
the book progresses, younger readers will recognize more names and productions, including Harrison Ford in Blade
Runner and Sylvester Stallone (whose fight scene injuries Westmore created) in Rocky. Westmore dishes occasionally
but usually has a nice word to say about his clients. He even shares Elizabeth Taylor's chili recipe. Later sections
concentrate on Westmore's decades-long association with the Star Trek series. Tighter editing might have eliminated
the book's "Snippets," a miscellaneous closing collection of reminiscences, but most of them are just as entertaining as
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  Makeup artist Michael Westmore shares decades of Hollywood stories in new book
  Filed under: Backstage Pass, Comics & Books, Movies, Retro Fix — 1 Comment March 13, 2017

  Review by C.J. Bunce
  For one hundred years the Westmore name has been synonymous with makeup. Modern fandom knows Michael Westmore as the go-to guy for the face of the stars and alien prosthetics of decades of Star Trek TV shows, but what you may not know is Westmore had an exceptional career in cinema before his days creating the look of the final frontier. You may also not know Westmore is a great storyteller. Happily for cinephiles everywhere, Westmore has chronicled many of his encounters with film greats past and present and documented his stories in a new book, Makeup Man: From Rocky to Star Trek, The Amazing Creations of Hollywood’s Michael Westmore.
  Full of anecdotes and brushes with Hollywood royalty, Makeup Man showcases Westmore, his famous family that preceded him, and the work he created that cemented his name in the Hollywood Walk of Fame. For Star Trek fans looking for insight into re-creating their own Klingons and Vulcans, Westmore previously shared his knowledge in the now out-of-print books Star Trek: Aliens and Artifacts (available at Amazon here), and the Star Trek: The Next Generation Makeup FX Journal (available here). Makeup Man touches on Westmore’s Star Trek makeup work in the last third of the book, but it is targeted more at his Hollywood memories before the 1980s. In fact Makeup Man is best when Westmore recounts stories that blend the unique creations and techniques of his craft with the acting and film legends of the past that he worked with, like a story about a little-known, MacGyver-esque, facelift trick he used from his family’s past for Shelley Winters.

  Westmore’s prose evokes an amiable master artisan sharing campfire stories of days long ago. Most interesting is his work with Sylvester Stallone in creating the look of Rocky (1976). Westmore discusses dodging the cameraman during takes to be able to add the necessary makeup to reflect Rocky’s next punch to the head. Westmore recounts a little known (but popular at the time) 1984 made-for-TV movie based on a true story, called Why Me? For the film he had to recreate actual facial reconstructive surgery during all its phases for a woman disfigured in an auto accident. Westmore’s greatest achievement is probably his Academy Award for Mask (1984), also based on a true story, where he earned the Westmore family’s only Oscar for his work recreating a 16-year-old boy with a rare facial disorder (played in the film by Eric Stoltz). Each of these stories documents the challenges of Westmore’s craft and his ingenuity in delivering Hollywood magic on the big (and small) screen.

  Michael Westmore makeup notes for Rocky.
  Makeup Man includes praise about Westmore from Patrick Stewart, Sylvester Stallone, Rene Auberjonois, Armin Shimerman, and others. Filled with humor, including a few recipes Westmore collected over the years like a chili recipe from Elizabeth Taylor, Makeup Man is a fun read for film buffs. Westmore has mentioned he initially wanted this to be the first of two books, with a second devoted to Star Trek, and fans can only hope that may still happen. Fans of film in the 1960s, especially the decade’s pop heroes like Shirley MacLaine, Bobby Darin, and Sandra Dee, and the 1970s and 1980s, with actors including Robert DeNiro and Liza Minelli, will be interested in Westmore’s personal encounters. But Westmore also worked with stars of an earlier era later in their careers, like Milton Berle, George Burns, and Greer Garson. And, of course, Westmore discusses highlights of his work on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Star Trek Voyager, and Enterprise.

  Makeup Man is primarily text but it is sprinkled with photos, both black and white and color, showcasing relics from Westmore’s past, his makeup design notes, and his creations.
  Pick up Makeup Man: From Rocky to Star Trek, The Amazing Creations of Hollywood’s Michael Westmore, available now here at Amazon.

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  Ten Star Trek Fun Facts From Michael Westmore’s Memoir
  from Makeup Man by Michael Westmore

  | April 27, 2017 | By: Laurie Ulster 24 comments so far

  Michael Westmore was, in his own words, “the makeup creator and supervisor of everything Star Trek” for 18 years. While that history alone is fascinating and well worth telling, his entire career will blow your mind when you read his memoir “Makeup Man — From Rocky to Star Trek, The Amazing Creations of Hollywood’s Michael Westmore,” written with Jake Page and featuring a foreword by Patrick Stewart.

  Westmore comes from a dynasty of Hollywood makeup artists that started with his grandfather George, who established the first movie makeup department in cinema history. George’s five sons all went into the same business; Westmore’s father, Monte, designed Paul Muni’s makeup for Scarface (1932), helped create the flapper sensation with Clara Bow’s “It” girl look, and worked on Gone With The Wind.

  The book covers the Westmore family history, then takes a deep dive into Michael Westmore’s astonishing career. He worked on all of the Rocky films, and was the ONLY makeup artist on the first one, having to keep meticulous records of each cut, swelling, and bruise on the faces of both Sylvester Stallone and Carl Weathers. This came in handy when he was working on Raging Bull with Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese, too.

  He has worked with every major Hollywood star you can think of: Bette Davis, Jimmy Stewart, Shelley Winters, Robert Duvall, Shirley MacLaine, Elizabeth Taylor, and more. He made up Michael Jackson so the superstar could go for walks in public without anyone knowing. He created makeup for Blade Runner, Mask, and First Blood, the first Rambo movie. “When traveling with Sly,” wrote Westmore, “I could never carry enough fake blood and sweat.”

  Star Trek comes a-calling …

  In the spring of 1987, he started getting a lot of phone calls from friends who wanted help with Vulcan ears, Klingon foreheads, and alien makeup, all for a brand new Star Trek series. Finally the producers heard his name so many times that they called him in for a meeting, and offered him the job that same day. Westmore created and shaped aliens from the early days of Star Trek: The Next Generation to the final days of Enterprise, and four of the movies as well (Generations through Nemesis).

  Some of these stories will be familiar to longtime fans, some will be new, but all are pretty fascinating.
  Michael Westmore with Borgs

  Photo from Michael Westmore’s book “Makeup Man”

  1. Brent Spiner’s chest hairs got special treatment.
  Occasionally, Westmore had to make a plaster cast of some part of Brent Spiner for a specific scene. Once, while doing one of his chest, he didn’t have quite enough Vaseline on hand to prep him. When it became time to remove the cast, it stuck, so Westmore had to snip Spiner’s chest hairs one by one until he was free … and each snip, no matter how carefully done, was followed by an “ouch!” from poor Spiner. (Westmore had some experience with this, as he and his uncle Bud once similarly trapped Rock Hudson’s entire head, and Bud had done the same to Loretta Young with a plaster leg mold, but in that instance, the snipping had to happen a lot lower. Ouch, indeed.)
  Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation

  Brent Spiner didn’t know what was coming.

  2. Alien heads were not always that easy to remove.
  Remember the Selay from Star Trek: The Next Generaton? Originally designed by Andy Probert, the costumes followed Gene Roddenberry’s rule that one always had to be able to see aliens’ eyes and mouths. Things were so busy that week, as they were also creating Anticans for the same episode, they farmed out the creation of the Selay headpieces. When they got them back, the heads were very rigid and difficult to put on, or remove, quickly. One day on set, an actor in a Selay costume wasn’t feeling well, and while everyone scrambled to get the headpiece off him, they were too late: he threw up inside it. Needless to say, that particular headpiece was permanently retired.
  The Selay

  The Selay in Star Trek: The Next Generation‘s “Lonely Among Us.”

  3. There’s a reason Jolele Blalock’s eyebrows kept changing.
  Westmore was never happy with Jolene Blalock’s eyebrows; he thought that they violated the rule that all Vulcans have arched eyebrows, and hers were pretty round, especially at the beginning of Enterprise‘s run. Over the course of four seasons, he arched them more and more, and says that if the show had gone to a full seven seasons, they would have been perfect by the end.
  T'Pol in Star Trek: Enterprise - Jolene Blalock

  T’Pol’s eyebrows underwent some changes between season one and season four.

  4. The Borg were made from some pretty old tech.
  Westmore’s son Michael helped him design the Borg, using parts from old, broken circuit boards to make the various implants and pieces stuck to their bodies.
  The Borg

  A Borg drone in “Best of Both Worlds” from Star Trek: The Next Generation.

  5. The Borg concealed some silly secrets, right on their bodies.
  They took things a step further for the movie Star Trek: First Contact. Makeup artists were creating dozens of individual pieces for the Borgs’ faces, and wrote their own names directly onto the implants, making sure they wouldn’t be seen on camera. One artist added the words “Westmore’s House of BBQ” in one of them, and Westmore himself didn’t find out until long after the movie was finished.
  a Borg from Star Trek: First Contact

  A Borg with secretly inscribed facial appliances from Star Trek: First Contact.

  6. The Borg’s blinking lights were not as random as they looked.
  Final Borg fact: the blinking lights on some of the Borg actually spelled words out in Morse code, including the name of Michael Westmore Jr.’s dog.
  A Borg with lights from Star Trek: First Contact

  Blinking lights on the Borg weren’t as random as they seemed.

  7. Sometimes Westmore was very literally behind the scenes … as in RIGHT behind them.
  Remember TNG “Conspiracy,” when Remmick swallowed the parasite and his neck started puffing out in all different directions? Westmore attached air bladders to Robert Schenkkan, who played Remmick, and to that attached some rubber tubing and ran it down his back. But the only way to inflate it to get the effect they wanted was for Westmore to lie on the floor behind Schenkkan and puff into the tube whenever the director told him to. It required a lot more takes than he expected, so with each retake he slowly changed from light pink to dark pink to red until he was so exhausted he had to just lie there, helpless, for a while before he could breathe normally again.

  Fun fact: Robert Schenkkan is a playwright who has won both a Tony and a Pulitzer, and co-wrote Hacksaw Ridge.
  Remmick in "Conspiracy"

  Those neck bulges got their fresh air from Michael Westmore.

  8. LeVar Burton had a very specific morning routine.
  LeVar Burton used to look at each day’s scripts while in the makeup chair on shooting days, while he ate his cereal out of a coconut shell. He had no trouble memorizing his lines, even though this was the very first time he was seeing them.
  LeVar Burton

  There’s a reason LeVar Burton is the Reading Rainbow guy!

  9. Dax’s spots and Chakotay’s tattoo held secrets.
  Westmore used to hand draw both Dax’s spots and Chakotay’s tattoo every day, and would number the day and add his signature every time. Chakotay’s final tattoo was numbered “#750 MW” and Dax’s final set of spots was signed “#538 MW,” right on her neck (but under the uniform collar). He frequently gets asked how he managed to make Dax’s spots identical in every episode, but admits that they weren’t, and no one ever noticed–not the producers, and not even nitpicky Star Trek fans. Chakotay, however, remained perfectly consistent, despite being hand drawn every day, and Westmore accomplished this by making sure he always started and finished in the same spot, right over Beltran’s inner left eyebrow.
  Michael Westmore painting Dax's spots on Terry Farrell at a convention demo

  Michael Westmore painting Dax’s spots on Terry Farrell at a convention.

  10. Makeup had its very, very unglamorous side.
  There’s a scene in TNG’s “The Offspring” in which Data has first created Lal and is introducing her to Deanna Troi. Lal doesn’t look human yet, and is a metallic-looking android with no discernible facial features. To get that effect, actor Leonard Crofoot (who also played Trent in “Angel One” and a Qomar dignitary on Star Trek: Voyager) had to endure a very complex process. His whole body was covered, including his head, and while he had a small space near his mouth to breathe, his ears were covered and the director had to shout for Crofoot to hear instructions. More challenging still, getting the right look meant he had to wear full latex body pants glued in place, coated with an adhesive-based bronze makeup, and was then rubbed down with a bronze powder so he wouldn’t stick to everything he touched. The entire concoction was was so confining that he couldn’t go to the bathroom while he was in it. He spent one very long 14 hour day in that makeup, and avoided all food and drink because 14 hours is a very long time to not use the bathroom!
  Leonard Crofoot in "The Offspring"

  Leonard Crofoot’s makeup covered him from head to toe.

  For many more reasons than Star Trek you should pick up this book. If you have any interest in TV, movies, Hollywood, or the creative arts, you won’t be able to put it down. Pick up the book here.

  Makeup Man by Michael Westmore with Jake Page

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