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Making Up Eddie: Academy Award Winner Rick Baker Applies his
Make-Up Artistry To “The Nutty Professor" (above) to create six of
the characters that Eddie Murphy plays including two women
(clockwise from top left). Mama Klump and Grandma Klump, and
exercise guru Lance Perkins, Papa Klump and Ernie Klump.
The Nutty Preffesser
For three-time Oscar winning make
-including two females—played by
up artist Rick Baker, working with
Murphy, disguised beneath layers of
Eddie Murphy on the summer’s Num
foam-rubber latex, makeup and im
ber One box-office comedy "The Nut
mense body padding that Baker cre
ty Professor” was a chance to do some
ated for the update o f the classic
thing that's never been done before.
1963 Jerry Lewis comedy.
Says Baker, “ I think this is the first time
Baker, who previously collabo
where you see an actor playing a real
rated with Murphy on “Coming to
istic human character created entirely
America”, says the actor is “a make
with makeup,” as opposed to playing a
up artist’s dream”. You can do a
character who dons makeup as part of
great makeup on somebody, but if
the story, like Robin Williams in “Mrs.
they don’t know what to do with it-
Doubtfire" or Dustin Hoffman in
if they’re afraid to move, afraid to
“.Tootsie”.
perform -then it doesn’t work.
“Sherman Klump is the most amaz
“Eddie gets inspired by the make
ing makeup jo b I've ever seen,” pro
up; he just takes off with it and exper
claims director Tom Shadyac, refer
iments. He’s a master at turning a
ring to the shy,, good hearted, 400
.character into a real, live human be
[iound half o f the Jeykyll-Hyde per
ing.”
sonality Murphy portrays with as
A c c o rd in g to B aker, it was
tonishing alacrity in “The Nutty Pro
M urphy's idea to play all the adult
fessor”. Yet it’sonly ofseveral roles-
m em bersofthe Klump family: Papa,
Mama, Grandma and bad brother
Ernie, in addition to chemistry pro
fessor, Sherman. It’s a performance
that has left critics and audiences
alike incapacitated with laughter as
they marvel at Baker’s make-up wiz
ardry.
All told, Murphy spent about 70
days in character for “The Nutty Pro
fessor”. He underwent 3 1/2 to 4
hours o f makeup each morning, fol
lowed by 10 to 12 hours o f filming
and another one to two hours o f make
up removal. But the process o f re
searching and creating the numerous
makeup appliances required for the
unprecedented head-to-toe transfor
mation took much longer.
Baker spent six months preparing
for his most challenging assignment
In terstate Firehouse C ultural Center
in partnership with
G.R.E.A.T.
Gang Resistance Education and Training Program
presents the
N e ig h b o rh o o d Youth T h e a tre P ro je c t
(Previously know as Theatre in Da Hood,
Workshop Locations
Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center • 5340 N. Interstate • 823-2000
Villa De Clara Vista • NE 72nd & Killingsworth • 284-7075/ 249-2061
Rice School/Asian Family Center • 6433 NE Tillamook • 235-9396
Workshops
July 8 26
9 :0 0 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Potluck and Performances
July 2 4 -2 6
6 -9 p.m.
Breakfast and Lunch provided
Optional afternoon activities available
M TV Casts Rodman
R odm an’s 20-episode MTV
deal beginning this fall calls for
him to preside over what the net
work described as “a freestyle show
format combining commentary and
celebrity guests from the worlds of
music, television and sports.”
But Rodman him self insisted
Wednesday that the unnamed show
isn't nearly so simple to catego
rize, calling it “something totally
different” and notingtha, he would
be bringing “all o f my real life
stu ff’ into the show.
MTV president Judy McGrath
noted that Rodman would “talk to
rock bands and go shopping,” but
that the show “fits no traditional
description,” much like the man
himself.
Rodman said the show ’s taping
schedule would stretch “about five
weeks over the sum m er” and
wouldn’t conflict with his basket
ball duties. (He is reportedly close
to signing with the Bulls again).
to date, beginning with a life-size
cast of Murphy that became the foun
dation for the three-dim ensional
makeup designs.
He then made clay sculptures o f
thedifferent characters Murphy plays
in “The Nutty Professor”, which were
used to create molds for baking the
foam -latex appliances that were
painstakingly applied to the actor
each day during production. In addi
tion to facial appliances, hands, arms,
legs and even body pieces had to be
made to accommodate the various
costumes Murphy wears throughout
the film.
In the cuddly Professor Sherman
Klump, Baker and his team certainly
succeeded in creating a lead charac
ter whom everyone could embrace.
Notes producer Brain Grazer, “When
I first saw Eddie as Sherman Klump,
I just laughed and wanted to hug
him.”
Turning the fit and trim Murphy
into a 400 pound, insecure chemistry
instructor was no small task.
The daily makeup regimen includ
ed fitting Murphy with a major face
piece, a chin appliance and wig, fol
lowed by extensive paint and color
ing to smooth out the flesh tones and
add beard stubble and freckles.
While foam-rubber latex makeup
is nothing new to motion pictures (it
was used to great effect in the 1939
classic "The Wizard o fO z ”), Baker
and his team found innovative uses
for the material. With Professor
Klump, for example, the entire area
under the neck was hollowed out to
an even thickness and fitted with a
liquid-filled bladder. This added to
the realism, according to Baker:
“When Eddie would move around
the neck would jiggle just like a real
person’s. And it did some really nice
things the way it compressed when
he put his head down or stretched
when he put it up.”
The single biggest make-up chal
lenge facing Baker involved the char
acter ofexerciseguru Lance Perkins,
wh ich took up to 7 hours o f make-up.
Since Lance is seen wearing a tank
top and a pair o f shorts. Murphy’s
entire body had to be made-up: face,
legs, arms, down to the hair under his
arms. "We actually made arm pit hair
for Eddie,” Baker laughs.
Metropolitan Youth Symphony
Receives Performing Arts Award
Youth musician PhilipCook, Vi
olin player and Cedar Park Jr. High
student, accepted the award on be
half o f the Metropolitan Youth
Symphony.
The award was presented to
Philip by Cathy Stanton, Beaver
ton City Council President, at a
special reception in Council Cham
bers on July 8, 1996.
Metropolitan Youth symphony
performs several free concerts each
year in Oregon and Washington com
munities for fam i I ies that may not be
able to come to any o f the sympho
ny’s three concerts at Schnitzer Hall
each year.
The Metropolitan Youth Sympho
ny has also recently performed at the
Washington Park Zoo as part o f the
Zoo Tunes concert series, as well as
just completing a performing tour in
Italy. It has been a very busy year
for the 350 youth musicians and
their conductors.
Auditions are held in August,
please call M etropolitan Youth
Symphony @ 503-228-9125. Met
ropolitan Youth Symphony pro
motes participation o f all youth
musicians regardless ofrace, creed,
color, or financial situation (schol
arships are available).
X f ib a d y D o e s I t B e t t e r
“Nobody Does It Better” than Mer
cury R e co rd in g A rtist G ina
Thompson.
On August 13, 1996, Mercury
Records is set to release the explo
sive debut album o f R&B singer,
Gina Thompson, entitled “Nobody
Does It Better”, Thompson is des
tined to heat up the charts just in time
for summer. The first single, “The
Things That You Do”, will hit stores
on July 13th.
Gina Thompson’s vocal ability is
as unmatchable as her warmth and
sincerity. Offering the music indus
try a refreshing sound and funky at
titude, Gina is both sultry and dy
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hitmaster Sean “ Puffy” Combs lends
his production expertise to G ina’s
first single, “The Things That You
Do”. His production on this track
marks the first time Puffy has a re
mixed a new artist on a label outside
o f Bad Boy.
Additional production is added by
Rodney Jerkins (producer for SWV,
Total and Madonna) as this album
introduces groundbreaking hip hop
soul and darkchild funk Key tracks
include the sultry ballad “C an’t Wait
Another M inute”, and the sexy “Freak
On”, which Gina co-wrote with Jer
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A surprise favorite on the album is
G ina’s remake o f Anita Baker’s “An
gel” produced by Rodney’s older
brother Freddie Jerkins. Despite the
dramatic difference in their singing
styles, Gina admits to this song “be
ing the easiest and most comfortable
song to do.”