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

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 05-MAY-03

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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...

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