The man responsible for Aliens‘ aliens, Jurassic Park’s dinosaurs, and Terminator 2: Judgement Day’s deadly bots has died today at the age of 62, after seven years of suffering from multiple myeloma. Winston won four Oscars for his visual effects work, one for Aliens, two for Judgement Day and one for Jurassic Park.
“Stan contributed to some of the greatest — fantastic movie characters in motion picture history,” said friend and colleague, Phil Tippett, who shared a visual effects Oscar with Winston. “His loss is a great one and he will be missed.” [LA Times]
The air is humid, stagnant and reeks of beer. Ping-pong balls zip back and forth across 9-by-5 sheets of solid wood straddled across garbage cans.
A typical Friday night at Dartmouth Collge is well underway.
Beer Pong is the main staple of Dartmouth’s Greek-dominated social scene. An The New York Times article way back in October 2005 about the perils of drinking games labeled Dartmouth the official founder of beer pong. Unofficial College historian and history professor emeritus Jere Daniell ‘55 recalls playing pong in its most primitive form when he was a member of Alpha Theta fraternity between 1952 and 1955. “I’m not even sure it had a name,” Daniell says. Read More »
Football covercoming baseball as the national pastime in the United States can be directly attributed to gambling and fantasy. Seriously, is there any reason to sneak beer into the dorm and watch a football game when your favorite team is not even playing, unless you have a couple of C-Notes on it? I think not.
But where did fantasy football come from? What unheralded genius is responsible for making every Sunday afternoon from September to January a national holiday?
Have you ever wondered if Hollywood studios reuse the same scream effect over and over again? If you have, it’s with good reason.
The infamous death scream - “aaaaaaiiiyyeeeeaaaaaahhhh” - is called the Wilhelm Scream. The scream was actually a stock effect used in the 1951 film Distant Drums; it has been used in over 200 movies since, ranging from Star Wars to Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit.
But forget history: why read about the Wilhelm Scream when you can see and hear it in all its glory?
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The man responsible for Aliens‘ aliens, Jurassic Park’s dinosaurs, and Terminator 2: Judgement Day’s deadly bots has died today at the age of 62, after seven years of suffering from multiple myeloma. Winston won four Oscars for his visual effects work, one for Aliens, two for Judgement Day and one for Jurassic Park.
