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Collection
Movie-Making
Collection
Title
Makeup
artist
brings
famous
prop
back
to
town
for
documentary
Subject
films
;
movies
;
props
;
special
effects
;
Wilmington
,
NC
;
makeup
;
Description
Twenty-six
years
after
"
Blue
Velvet
"
filmed
in
Wilmington
, the
cult
feature's
makeup
chief
is
back
in
town
. And he
brought
The
Ear
with him. If
you
ever
saw
"
Blue
Velvet
"
it's
hard
to
forget
the
severed
ear
that
co-star
Kyle
MacLachlan
finds
in a
field
,
shattering
the
serenity
of
seemingly
idyllic
"
Lumberton
" and
leading
MacLachlan
on a
long
,
dark
journey
. "
People
either
love
it
or they
hate
it
"
said
Jeff
Goodwin
over
a
cup
of
Port
City
Java
coffee
.
Goodwin
,
49
, has
done
makeup
for
film
and
television
for
nearly
three
decades
. His
work
has been
written
up
in
textbooks
. The
International
Society
of
Makeup
Artists
presented
him a
lifetime
achievement
award
in
1993
.
He's
worked
on
such
films
as "The
Last
of the
Mohicans
" and "The
Patriot
" and
consulted
on
Oliver
Stone's
"
JFK.
" He
made
Jon
Voight
resemble
a
Polish-born
pontiff
for the
TV
movie
"
Pope
John
Paul
II
" and
turned
Australian
actor
Anthony
LaPaglia
into the
spitting
image
of
N.C
.
State
basketball
coach
Jim
Valvano
for "
Never
Give
Up
: The
Jimmy
V
Story.
"
Still
, he
finds
, "
Blue
Velvet
"
is
the
one
everyone
remembers
. "
It's
the
one
that
still
opens
doors
"
Goodwin
said
. "
That's
the
one
they
want
to
talk
about.
" Not
long
ago
,
Goodwin
was in
Lithuania
and
Russia
,
filming
a
European
mini-series
version
of
Tolstoy's
"
War
and
Peace.
" On the
set
he
met
actor
Malcolm
McDowell
. "
I
wanted
to
talk
with him
all
about
‘A
Clockwork
Orange,'?
"
Goodwin
said
,
chuckling
. "But
all
HE
wanted
to
talk
about
was
‘Blue
Velvet.'?
"
Now
based
in
Rome
(his
wife
is
Italian)
,
Goodwin
is
back
in the
States
to
visit
family
. In
New
York
, he
brought
the "
Blue
Velvet
"
ear
for a
special
film-related
exhibit
, "
Magnificent
Obsessions
"
sponsored
by the
Persol
eyeglass
company
. He
stopped
back
in
Wilmington
to
sit
for
interviews
and
work
with
local
filmmakers
Benedict
Fancy
and
others
on a
documentary
about
the
filming
of "
Blue
Velvet
"
25
years
after
its
1986
release
.
(See
sidebar.)
"
He's
a
wealth
of
knowledge
,
especially
about
the
Wilmington
film
community
"
Fancy
said
. "
Jeff's
at the
top
of his
field
, but he
doesn't
boast
about
what
he's
done
.
He's
very
approachable.
" "
‘Blue
Velvet
' was a
breakthrough
for
me
"
Goodwin
said
. "
It
was the
first
time
I
was a
department
head
.
I
was
just
24
at the
time
.
David
(director
David
Lynch)
really
took
a
chance
on
me.
" A
native
of
Columbia
,
S.C.
,
Goodwin
said
he
knew
he
wanted
to be a
makeup
artist
"
since
I
saw
‘Planet
of the
Apes
' in a
theater
back
in
1967.
" As a
boy
, "
I
experimented
on
my
sisters
and
anybody
else
who
would
sit
still.
" For
college
, he
went
into the
theater
program
at the
University
of
North
Carolina
at
Greensboro
.
After
graduation
,
though
,
Goodwin
found
there
wasn't
much
call
for a
screen
makeup
artist
in
North
Carolina
,
circa
1980
. He
found
pickup
jobs
with "
drive-in
"
movie
maker
Earl
Owensby
out
of
Shelby
, but
it
wasn't
exactly
"
Planet
of the
Apes.
" Then
Italian
producer
Dino
De
Laurentiis
discovered
Wilmington
.
Goodwin
tried
to
get
on the
crew
for "
Firestarter
"
–
credited
as the
film
that
sparked
Wilmington's
movie
industry
–
but
found
the
makeup
section
was
already
filled
. He
got
hired
,
though
, for
later
De
Laurentiis
productions
,
including
"
Cat's
Eye
" "
Silver
Bullet
" "
Marie
: A
True
Story
" and "
Manhunter.
" "
Dino
brought
in
fantastic
crews
from
all
over
the
world
"
Goodwin
said
. "
I
learned
from
them.
"
It
was
clear
from the
start
,
however
, that "
Blue
Velvet
" was
something
special
. "
Everybody
knew
it
wasn't
just
another
movie
"
Goodwin
said
. "
We
all
wanted
to be
there.
" For a
makeup
professional
, "
Blue
Velvet
"
presented
a
wide
range
of
challenges
. There was
conventional
makeup
, to
give
stars
McLachlan
and
Laura
Dern
a "
wholesome
"
look
. There were
prostheses
to
do
.
When
"The
Yellow
Man
"
(Wilmington's
own
Fred
Pickler)
is
found
standing
in a
daze
and
nearly
dead
,
Goodwin
had to
cake
fake
blood
and
brain
around
his
head
. He had to
make
McLachlan
look
as if
he'd
been
worked
over
by
sadistic
criminal
Frank
Booth
(Dennis
Hopper)
. He had to
simulate
a
broken
leg
. Then there was The
Ear
. "
We
called
it
‘Mister
Ear,'?
"
Goodwin
said
.
Originally
, there were
two
ears
.
Co-star
Isabella
Rossellini
, as the
tortured
singer
Dorothy
Vallens
, was
supposed
to
flush
one
down
a
toilet
, but the
scene
was
cut
.
(That
scene
,
along
with
other
deleted
scenes
,
might
make
onto a
25th
anniversary
DVD
due
out
this
fall.)
In the
end
,
only
the
left
ear
had
screen
time
.
Originally
,
Goodwin
made
a
cast
of his
own
ear
,
adding
a
little
extra
skin
and
blood
.
(It
was,
after
all
,
supposed
to have been
cut
off.)
Lynch
looked
it
over
and
said
, "
That's
great
,
Jeff
–
now
make
us a
grown-up
ear
"
Goodwin
recalled
.
Apparently
Goodwin's
own
ear
was
too
small
. In the
end
,
Goodwin
used
producer
Fred
Caruso's
ears
as a
model
. For
some
extra
realism
,
Goodwin
added
some
hair
to
adhere
to the
tissue
. That
hair
came
from
David
Lynch
,
recycled
after
a
haircut
. At
first
,
Goodwin
used
ordinary
latex
to
sculpt
the
ear
, but he
wasn't
happy
with the
results
. Then he
substituted
silicone
so
the
fake
ear
would
flop
like
a
real
one
. "That was
about
the
first
time
anyone
had
ever
tried
silicone
for
something
like
that" he
said
.
Goodwin
said
he
enjoyed
Lynch's
aesthetic
vision
,
which
mixed
elements
of the
1980s
with
styles
from the
1940s
and
1950s
. "
I
think
that's
one
of the
things
that
makes
the
movie
so
timeless
" he
said
.
Creator
Steelman
,
Ben
;
Spencer
,
Mike
Publisher
Wilmington Star-News
Date
2011-07-02
Type
text
Format
pdf
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