AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.

A GOOD NOSE.(makeup artist John Caglione, Jr.)(Interview)

The New Yorker

| May 05, 2003 | Schillinger, Liesl | COPYRIGHT 2003 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

What with the hubbub over Nicole Kidman's nose in "The Hours”--the film didn't get a best-makeup Oscar nomination because the nose was digitally enhanced--this is a good time to be a maker of bona-fide artificial noses. John Caglione, Jr., who won the Oscar for makeup in 1991, for his work in the movie "Dick Tracy,"takes great pride in his craft. "You have to be a really good sculptor to make a foamed-latex nose,"he explained the other day from his studio, on Long Island. He was busy baking nose molds for the actress Tovah Feldshuh, who plays Golda Meir in the play "Golda's Balcony.” "A nose is a tricky appliance, because it has to blend in with the whole face--it's kind of the bull's-eye on the target,"Caglione said.

It is widely understood in the industry that the best makeup artists work in film, not theatre, because of the closeup. So when David Fishelson, the artistic director of the Manhattan Ensemble Theatre, which is putting on "Golda's Balcony,"went looking for a nose man for the show he looked to Hollywood. "Caglione is Pacino's personal prostheticist,"Fishelson said. "This guy's a major Hollywood guy--he's the one people go to when they want a nose."

"For 'Dick Tracy,' I made Al a nose and an upper lip and a chin appliance,"Caglione said. "He said he looked like a cross between Adolf Hitler and Groucho Marx."Caglione's expertise doesn't come cheap. "It's not too bad, price-wise,"Fishelson said philosophically. "It's kind of the cost of another actor.”

The Golda nose is made of foamed latex. "I first have to make positive and negative molds, which get baked in the oven for two hours,"Caglione explained. "The positive mold represents Tovah's nose, the negative mold is Golda's nose, and then the two molds lock together. To make Tovah's mold, I took an impression of her face--the same way a dentist uses that jellylike stuff to make a mold of your teeth--but there's this special kind that's used for prosthetics, for people missing arms and legs. It's called prosthetic alginate. Then on top of that I lay plaster-of-Paris bandages. To make the negative mold of Golda's face, I surround my desk with photographs of her, and I get out my clay and make a guesstimate. In the airspace between Golda's nose and Tovah's mold, I pump in latex. ...

Related articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, and more
SHE'S GOOD AS GOLDA IN ONE-WOMAN SHOW.(U)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) February 4, 2005 700+ words
...hundred people - at an elaborate Golda Meir tribute, not that you...in Broadway history, as ``Golda's Balcony'' has become...under heavy makeup (by John Caglione Jr.) and a helmet of a wig...henerson(at)dailynews.com GOLDA'S BALCONY - Three and one...
Meir, Golda
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences January 1, 2008 700+ words
Meir, Golda 1898-1978 Golda Meir was born Golda Mabovitz on May 3, 1898, in Kiev, Russia (now Ukraine). Due to terrible hardship, Golda ’ s family immigrated in 1906 to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where Golda graduated from a teachers...
The rich life - and many loves - of Golda Meir
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Jay Bushinsky November 27, 1988 700+ words
Golda Golda Meir: The Romantic Years. By Ralph G. Martin. Scribner's. $19.95. Golda Meir's life mirrored her people's struggles and tragedies, from the pogroms that decimated Russian Jewry to the casualties that afflicted Israel...
Broadway Play Honors Former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir.
Newspaper article from: Israel Faxx November 10, 2003 700+ words
...play on the life of former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir has opened on Broadway. Golda's Balcony is set against the background of the...could smell yesterday that today it is war. " Golda's Balcony has moved to Broadway, after a successful...
Hagiography in the diaspora: Golda Meir and her biographers *.
Magazine article from: American Jewish History Schmidt, Sarah June 1, 2004 700+ words
...major role. Though the autobiography of Golda Meir presents an exception to this general...from outside Israel, continued to use Golda Meir as a symbol designed to inspire women...arrive at a better understanding of how "Golda" serves the need for myth in women's...
FROM RHODA TO GOLDA\ HARPER STARS IN ONE-WOMAN STAGE MEMOIR.(Arts &...
Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) Stein, Jerry January 24, 2006 700+ words
...shows a serious side as the Prime Minister of Israel Golda Meir. "Golda's Balcony," the second play playwright William Gibson...Harper said of Gibson's portrait. Harper said "Golda's Balcony," which comes to Cincinnati's Aronoff...
GOLDA MEIR MUSEUM DEDICATED `IT WAS IN DENVER THAT MY REAL EDUCATION...
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) Patty, Mike July 28, 1997 700+ words
...building - the only known U.S. residence of Golda Meir, former prime minister of Israel...as a museum and conference center. The Golda Meir House Museum will officially open...to treat her tuberculosis. In 1913, Golda ran away from her parent's home in Milwaukee...
Harper tackles new role in 'Golda's Balcony'.(Time Out!)
Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) Stewart, Laura May 26, 2006 700+ words
...current role in the national tour of "Golda's Balcony," the story of former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir. On this day, the production is...and again turns her thoughts to Meir. "Golda has been a hero of mine for a long time...
For more facts and information, see all results
©2009 Gale, a part of Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
About us | FAQs | Contact us | Privacy policy | Terms and conditions
Other Gale sites: Encyclopedia.com | HighBeam Research | Acquire Content | Books & Authors | Goliath | MovieRetriever | Smart QandA