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The Sunday Sermonette – Joseph Merrick, Inner Beauty.

The Sunday Sermonette – Joseph Merrick, Inner Beauty.

     I have always been intrigued by stage and movie makeup. From the cotton and collodion build-ups, gum, and greasepaint that movie actor Lon Chaney used in 1926 to create his frightful “Phantom of the Opera” to the complex arrangement of prosthetics Christopher Tucker used in his remarkable 1980 movie transformation of John Hurt into […]