William J. Tuttle, 95, who as head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios' makeup department enhanced the looks of some of Hollywood's most beautiful people and helped design the creepy, human-devouring Morlocks in "The Time Machine," died July 27 at his home in Pacific Palisades, Calif. No cause of death was reported.
Mr. Tuttle's career encompassed more than 300 films as well as the transition from black and white to Technicolor, a development he called "murder" because the intense light needed for the process could melt layers of makeup. As a young man, he worked on the early Technicolor classic "The Wizard of Oz" (1939) with Judy Garland.
He was MGM's makeup chief from 1950 to 1970. For his work on "7 Faces of Dr. Lao" (1964), starring Tony Randall as a cunning Chinese medicine show impresario with many identities, he was the first in his profession to win an Academy Award. An Oscar category recognizing makeup skill did not begin on a regular basis until 1981.
He became known as King of the Duplicators for his way of making a wax facial mask of practically everyone at the studio. Once he had the impression of a face, he would easily develop character makeup that transformed, for example, Hurd Hatfield from a handsome young man into an aging degenerate in "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (1945).
Mr. Tuttle spent 15 years as assistant to the head of MGM's makeup department during the heyday of the studio system. Plucking, dabbing, swabbing, he fiddled with the faces of MGM's biggest stars, including Katharine Hepburn, Greer Garson, Jeanette MacDonald, June Allyson and Donna Reed, to whom he was briefly married in the early 1940s.
Reed, then an unknown starlet, said at the time: "The first day I went to the studio, they sent me to the makeup department and a makeup man named Bill Tuttle looked me over. He shook his head, mumbled something about what will they dig up next, and then went to work on me. He changed my eyebrows, shaded my chin and made my mouth bigger. He made me very mad.
"Then he looked at me again and said, 'Now you'll do. Except you should change something else.' When I asked him what, he said, 'Your name. It should be Mrs. William Tuttle.' "
While head of MGM's makeup staff, Mr. Tuttle applied his considerable talents on dozens of films a year. They ranged wildly across genres, including "Julius Caesar" (1953), "The Teahouse of the August Moon" (1956) and "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1962), with Marlon Brando as, respectively, a Roman leader, an Asian servant and an 18th-century British seaman.
There was also "Jailhouse Rock" (1957) with Elvis Presley; "North by Northwest" (1959) with Cary Grant; and the all-star western "How the West Was Won" (1962).
For the popular 1960 movie version of H.G. Wells's "The Time Machine," Mr. Tuttle's trip to the monkey house at the San Diego Zoo provided inspiration for creating the fur of the underground-dwelling Morlocks. He also put tiny light bulbs in facial masks to create the spooky electric-eye effect.
"7 Faces of Dr. Lao," directed by George Pal, was Mr. Tuttle's tour de force of makeup artistry. According to an account in "The Films of George Pal" by Gail Morgan Hickman, Mr. Tuttle made watercolors of the seven characters inhabited by Tony Randall and a plaster cast of Randall's head. The cast became the mold from which he created the heads of the distinctive characters.
"He then went to work on me," Randall said in the book. "He shaved my head and eyebrows. Socially, it was a disaster. The effect gave me an unborn look. But professionally it was a masterstroke. All of my preconceived notions on how I would play the characters vanished.
"As soon as Tuttle applied his makeup magic, I felt myself actually become these strange people," Randall said. "I had green plastic lenses for the Medusa, blue for the Apollonius of Tyana, and old Merlin had the faded-washed-out light blue. . . . Every makeup would take about two hours to put on, and on some days, I'd be in three different makeups."
William Julian Tuttle was born April 13, 1912, in Jacksonville, Fla. He was 15 when his father deserted the family, and he was forced to use his skill as a violinist to support his mother and younger brother, Thomas, who also became a Hollywood makeup artist.
William Tuttle won musical jobs in burlesque houses and for a while fronted his own dance band. In Southern California by the early 1930s and in need of work, he became a makeup apprentice, first at 20th Century Pictures and then at MGM. Jack Dawn, one of the most respected makeup artists in the business, became his mentor.
Mr. Tuttle left MGM after businessman Kirk Kerkorian bought the studio and began dismantling it. He continued a long freelance makeup career -- working on such features as Mel Brooks's "Young Frankenstein" (1974) and the drama of aging adulterers in "Same Time, Next Year" (1978) -- and created his own makeup line, Custom Color Cosmetics.
He also received an Emmy nomination for his makeup work on the CBS special "Babe" (1975), about golfer Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias. Years earlier, while at MGM, he had also worked on episodes of "The Twilight Zone."
His marriage to Reed ended in divorce. His second wife, Marie Kopicki Tuttle, died in 1961.
Survivors include his wife of 40 years, Anita Aros of Pacific Palisades; and a daughter, Teresa, from his second marriage. A son, John, from his second marriage predeceased him.
I can't imagine, a spouse, not attending a funeral for a wife. Strike me with lighting, but this custom just doesn't fit with anything inside my soul.
Sadiya Sahal and her daughter, Hana, who both died in the I-35W bridge collapse, were buried in a traditional and casual ceremony.
On a sweltering Saturday afternoon, about 100 men gathered in an open field to bury the remains of Sadiya Sahal, of St. Paul, and her 22-month-old daughter, Hana, who were both killed in the Interstate 35W bridge collapse.
"We need as a community to learn from this event," said Imam Abdisalam Adam of Dar Al-Hijrah Cultural Center in Minneapolis. "When the bridge collapsed, it did not ask for anybody's nationality. It did not ask if anybody was an immigrant. I hope that we live together as a community regardless of where we are from, regardless of our social status. That would be the best legacy."
Imam Hamdy El-Sawaf of Masjid Al-Ikhlas in Minneapolis spoke of how Sahal, 23, was training to be a nurse to serve the community. He spoke of a legacy of standing "hands in hands and shoulder to shoulder," helping each other. "We're one body. If part of that body would be aching, the whole body would be aching," he said.
The sedate ceremony began with the men in three rows facing the boxes with the two bodies. Imam Hassan Mohamed recited the Janaza, the burial prayer of supplication, as the ceremony began at an 8-acre part of the Burnsville cemetery called Garden of Eden that is reserved for Muslims.
A handful of Somali women stood across a cemetery road from the ceremony, watching. El-Sawaf said women are not allowed at Muslim funerals because they are more emotional than the men. The imam said the women tend to stay back at the mosque, reading the Qur'an for comfort.
Normally, custom dictates that Muslims are washed and buried within hours of death, but that wasn't possible because the bodies of Sadiya and Hana were trapped in the bridge wreckage in the Mississippi River for days after the Aug. 1 collapse.
As is Islamic custom, the bodies were carried in wooden boxes by groups of men to the two gravesites. A purple and green drape with verses of the Qur'an written on it covered Sadiya's box. Hana's smaller wooden box was carried to a part of the cemetery reserved for babies -- at the request of Sadiya's father, Ahmed Iidle of Minneapolis. Sahal and her husband, Mohamed, were expecting their second child in four months. Funeral officials said he did not attend the service.
The bodies -- which were not embalmed -- were wrapped in white fabric shrouds. They were lifted from each box and placed on mechanical lifts, which lowered them into the ground as the men crowded closely around. As soon as the bodies were down, several men picked up shovels and filled the graves with dirt.
The bottom of the vaults were left open to the earth. The bodies were lowered on wooden trays full of large holes. The dirt floor and the holes allow the bodies to return to the earth as they decompose, said Mohamed Elakkad, the funeral director.
At Sahal's graveside, several imams recited favorite prayers and made comments -- some in the victim's native Somali tongue, some in English. The ceremony was casual with the men -- some in traditional head wraps and tunics, others in dress pant and ties or jeans and T-shirts -- milling about and chatting among one another. "We consider everyone will die anyway so why make a big deal of it," Elakkad said. In my culture, the funeral is a ceremony of closure, to admit the unreal is indeed, real. I knew there were cultural differences in our religions, but this article just painted a picture that I just can't grasp. Of how the value of life, is so different.
As the event drew to a close, many of the men washed their feet and hands in fountains, then found patches of shade near the trees to begin mid-afternoon prayers.
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Also -- sorry about the size of the pic -- I used the PIC thingy in the posting part. And have no idea how to control the sizing.
And another also... can someone please explain to me (I've wondered since we began seeing pics of this) how in the world that white car stopped where it did? There are several others like that.... I just have to wonder if I would have had enough thought to slam on the brakes soon enough and strong enough to stop that forward momentum that had to be occurring.
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It must have been that s/he was already stopped and then that section of bridge tilted. See how the section is broken not far behind the car?
And it seems to me that even those living here in many cases have minimal respect for life and way too much love for death. Perhaps they fear death the most so they over-embrace it. Maybe not. Just wondering out loud.
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A very nice Catholic girl I was dating in 1966 told me her Grandmother had passed away. I said, "Oh, I'm sorry." She said, "I'm not; she's in heaven with God!"
I guess it's selfish to miss the departed. The year before, my best friend was killed in a motorcycle accident, and I was extremely selfish.
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A few years back I was returning home from attending a funeral of one of my uncles. Sad time; he was a very popular, well-respected man, and he died suddenly, so there was a big hole in many of us in the family.
I stopped at a gas station in Indiana, still in my funeral clothes, and as I'm filling the tank the person at the pump next to me inquired as to my suit. When I mentioned that I had just been to my uncle's funeral, the man asked, "was your uncle a Christian?"
"Yes," I replied, "he was indeed."
"Then he's already in heaven," the man said. He was sincere and quiet about it, and I found it difficult to respond to that.
So like Bobby's ex-GF, there are people who indeed see death and a funeral as just one more step.
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"can someone please explain to me ... how in the world that white car stopped where it did?"
Very good brakes, Sherry?
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"We need as a community to learn from this event," said Imam Abdisalam Adam of Dar Al-Hijrah Cultural CenterFuture Terrorists of America Training Center in Minneapolis.
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I thought there were very strict laws covering burial, because the kind described in the article leads to contamination of the groundwater... in addition to making the worms happy.
ISMAILIA, Egypt - Three young Egyptian brothers were killed when a landmine they were playing with exploded, security and hospital sources said on Sunday. The brothers found the mine in the village of Ain Ghosein near the coastal city of Ismailia on Saturday evening. Not knowing what it was, they hammered it with stones, triggering the blast, one source said.
The area near Ismailia and the Sinai Peninsula still have landmines from the Arab-Israeli wars of the last century. Egypts Western Desert also contains mines, dating back to World War Two.
Clothes of the late Augusto Pinochet are on sale at a central Santiago tailor's shop, but only to customers identified as the Chilean dictator's supporters, local media reported on Saturday.
About 20 pieces of Pinochet's wardrobe are on sale at D'Adriany tailor, mainly suits and jackets he wore between 1980 and last year when he died, his elder son Augusto Pinochet Hiriart told the La Tercera newspaper. "They are the best, modern suits that he used at home or to go out for special activities, though not for special ceremonies," he said.
38-Regular?
Each suit is priced at more than $2 000, the report said. The tailor shop has only placed a dinner jacket in its window with a sign "For Sale" on it, while the other garments are inside protected by special wrapping.
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...If I'm understanding this right, the fact that Communist troops were shooting on sight for 28 years was not interpreted as doing so on orders because they couldn't find a signed piece of paper that said so. To paraphrase Fred Thompson, "Commies don't take a dump without an order, son."
Mike
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This is Germany, where people do not poop without a bureaucratic order in triplicate and a police license. I was once amazed to learn that they had a 500DM fine for stepping on the third rail of a streetcar, which would work out to about 1DM per ampere flowing through your body.
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LOL. On one of my first trips to Germany I was in a small city in the market area. A light turned red at a crossing of a tiny street that you could just about jump across, and all the German pedestrians stopped and waited for it to turn green. The funny thing was, not only weren't there any cars comming, but there wouldn't be for several hours because no vehicular traffic was allowed in that area during "market hours"
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Every year little first graders walking alone to school the second day of the academic year are hit by cars crossing against the light. The ones who waited survived to adulthood, having already learnt that German drivers do not look out for rule breakers. Hence your experience, Cowboy.
We are winning the war against the insurgency at home just as our troops are winning the war against the insurgency in Iraq! All of our empirical evidence shows that local support for our counter protest actions is increasing while the opposition grows more disheartened week by week! The Rangers Up! website just came out with a new T-Shirt dedicated specifically to our operations which sums up the sentiment exactly. You can see it on the national website: www.gatheringofeagles.org.
We need to increase the pressure we are putting on the opposition in every theater. Mark your calenders for the BIG ONE, Gathering of Eagles III, September 15th in Washington, DC, when we once more go toe to toe against the ANSWER Coalition, the Muslim American Society, CAIR, Code Pink, the Black Bloc, SDS and all the rest of George Soros' puppets, who are trying to pressure Congress to retreat from Iraq. We need you to get the word out to everyone you can that we are on the move again to protect and defend our memorials and monuments against the radicals of the left.
Before then, in less than two weeks we face off against the northeast moonbats in Kennebunkport once more. For many of us that is just a day trip away to the beautiful shore of Maine. The opposition will number in the hundreds perhaps thousands if their estimates are to be believed. We need to show up in force to capture the media attention and rain on their parade!
If you or anyone you know can spare some cash to help us in this fight please visit the national website and click on the "Donate to GOE" item in the upper left corner. If you are uncomfortable using paypal you can make a check payable to GOE and mail it to GOE, PO Box 291; Chocowinity, NC 27817. Every little bit helps so donations of $5, $10, $20 or more are welcome!
We also have a New York State website where you can get our local intelligence, local action alerts and news items about our activities in New York: http://newyork.gatheringofeagles.org.
Please scroll down for our Action Alerts.
Dan Maloney
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Action Alert - Kennebunkport
If you have missed your chance to heap scorn and derision upon the media darling of the left wing, Cindy Sheehan, during her recent "Walk for Humanity" tour. If you want to show her your contempt for her consorting with the enemy during her August 'Traitor' tour of the Middle East. If you just want to go for a great ride through scenic New England with some fun action at the end then this is the Alert for You!
Who: Cindy Sheehan, Dennis Kucinich, and a whole menagerie of traitors.
What: Kennebunkport Rally and March for Peace (www.kportprotest.org)
Where: Kennebunkport, Maine. (Southeast corner of Maine below Portland)
When: Saturday, August 25th, 9:00am to 2pm (ending time may vary)
This is a very big event in New England with lefties coming in from Boston and Portland. The opposition is predicting they will turn out 10,000 demonstrators. All the big names will be here. On July 1st we did a counter protest to a similar event there and held our own even though we were badly outnumbered. We didn't get the word out in time or disperse it far enough for that one. We are doing a much better job with this one. This will be a good warm up for the Washington event in September.
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Gathering of Eagles III
Action Alert - Washington, DC
Return of the Eagles!
The ANSWER Coalition with their motley assortment of radical left wing organizations, Jihadist fronts, useful idiots and assorted whackos is sponsoring a huge march in DC on September 15th.
Who: ANSWER Coalition of subversive organizations.
What: End the War Now! March in Washington
Where: Washington, DC
When: Saturday, September 15th, 9:00am to 2pm (ending time may vary)
This is the big one that all of us who went to DC in March have been expecting. The Black Bloc and SDS are buzzing about this one. They want a rematch with the veterans and patriots who put the kibosh on their March fun. If you can make no other event this year, this is the one to make. Eagles will be gathering from all across the nation to be in DC this day. If you cannot attend, or have extra bucks you can spare, now is the time to make a contribution of any amount to the cause at www.GatheringofEagles.org. If you could not make it in March, here is your chance to see what the combined might of patriots from across this nation looks like in action! Be LOUD, Be PROUD, Be THERE!
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Suggested items to bring: Water, Flags, signs, banners, cow bells, duck callers, megaphones and anything else you feel would make an impression on the moonbats.
For up to the minute information on any events go to www.GatheringofEagles.org.
For information on New York State events go to www.NewYork.GatheringofEagles.org.
Dan Maloney goe.ny@earthlink.net
New York State Coordinator
Gathering of Eagles
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"... and anything else you feel would make an impression on the moonbats."
Among the many cultural contributions of the underworld is the word 'encounter'. No language owns this word but it is Indian, and has an unambiguous meaning - death.
The encounter department of the Mumbai crime branch whose cops were once identified with the number of goons each had killed, has now lost its shine and is battling charges of nexus with the underworld. In the diminished glow of neglect, its cops mull over their future and talk with a sparkle in their eyes of past.
They still hold ranks like assistant police inspector, inspector and sub-inspector. It doesn't seem to disturb them. In fact, one gets the feeling that they don't want promotions because that would prevent them from going out in the field and scoring more 'hits'.
One of them, whose score is over 100, is sitting calmly in the Police Club and sipping tea. He is put off by the naïve questions of morality. When he speaks, it is in short, crisp sentences, like a staccato burst.
"In the line of duty, I had to get hold of the society's scum which is exactly what I've done," he says, appalled by the idea that there could be any other way of dealing with gangsters.
Sachin Vaze, an encounter specialist who claims his score is 63, is amused that people think police actually use words like "surrender" to the criminals. He clarifies that a more accurate expression is, " saath mein chalo ".
Vaze operates out of Thane area and has been in the police force since 1990. When he joined the force, gangsters were called dadas , such as Jaggu dada and Pakya dada. And they used knives. When the economy opened up, the goons went for country-made revolvers, commonly called kattas .
These kattas were used to silence anyone who interfered in the mafia's black-marketing and hoarding of essential goods such as kerosene. The 1993 bomb blasts changed the game. The big bosses fled to Europe and Dubai. Some eventually went to Pakistan. They left their stooges in charge in the country.
As Manmohan's India emerged, the underworld too moved from kerosene hoarding to real estate and films. In the mid-90s, at least three FIRs were registered every day in Mumbai in extortion related cases. Loopholes in the law allowed hardcore criminals to walk free within hours of being arrested.
Pressure from the public and, as a consequence, from politicians led to the state murder principle. But the first recorded encounter in Maharashtra was in 1981 when a dreaded gangster called Manohar Arjun Surve alias Manya was killed by then sub-inspector Ishaq Bhagwan.
From then until 1992 there were less than 10 police shootouts. After that the crime scene changed in Mumbai. "We needed to act accordingly and so we decided to take the encounter route if gangsters refused to co-operate with us," Vaze says.
The Hindu-Muslim divide in the gangs (which led to the formation of the Rajan gang), the introduction of the draconian MCOCA Act and of course, encounters, decimated the mafia. With the fall of the underworld and the dismantling of the encounter policy, the quaint world of police informers too perished.
Informers are usually part of the criminal syndicate who decide to help the police either for monetary reasons or to settle personal scores. Now their role is getting sidelined. Very few police officers now have the patience or the inclination to cultivate informers.
"Only Rakesh Maria is known to believe in the human communication chain," says Hussain Zaidi, author of Black Friday. Sahil was one of the professional informers in the Sanpada area till 2001. These informers derive income from tipping off the police. "Things started going down after the Dawood-Rajan gang war in 1999 further shrunk the underworld in Mumbai. After 2001 there was nothing to report to the police," Sahil says. He now runs his own small tourist business in Mohammed Ali Road. This is more or less the fate of most informers today.
Police officials say that while Mumbai has almost got rid of the underworld, the goons are now moving to Bangalore. "Which is where the money is now," according to an encounter specialist.
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