{"id":11294,"date":"2011-02-03T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=11294"},"modified":"2011-02-03T16:01:43","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T00:01:43","slug":"the-drex-files-michael-westmore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2011\/02\/the-drex-files-michael-westmore\/","title":{"rendered":"The Drex Files: Michael Westmore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Doug Drexler<\/strong> shared his memories of working with <strong>Michael Westmore<\/strong>, who transformed the actors into the characters (human and alien) on <em>Star Trek<\/em> from<em> The Next Generation<\/em> through <em>Enterprise<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Drexler takes fans inside Westmore&#8217;s house, in a video seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startrek.com\/article\/the-drex-files-hangin-with-mr-wezmo\">here<\/a>, where fans can see Westmore&#8217;s many awards on his mantel, including nine Emmys and one Oscar.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Westmore020311.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11295\" title=\"Westmore020311\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Westmore020311.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"138\" \/><\/a>Drexler found working with Westmore to be &#8220;sheer fun. He always wears a smile, and is just a delight. He is a dear, dear man. If you know anything about the Westmores of Hollywood, you know that the family practically invented the movie makeup game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Westmore family&#8217;s tenure in Hollywood dates back to 1917, and Michael Westmore&#8217;s children are the fourth generation to carry on the Hollywood tradition. A book about the family, <em>The Westmores of Hollywood<\/em>, written by his uncle, <strong>Frank Westmore<\/strong>, chronicles the Westmore family&#8217;s Hollywood tenure. Michael Westmore&#8217;s own career began on <em>Flower Drum Song <\/em>(1961) where he worked as an apprentice.<\/p>\n<p>Westmore shared a story with Drexler about his uncle, Bud, about a time when Bud was apprenticing on a Tarzan movie. &#8220;Cheetah the chimp was played by a male ape,&#8221; said Drexler. &#8220;Bud&#8217;s job was to take a wet sponge and burnt cork, and use it to black out the chimp&#8217;s &#8216;water works&#8217; so that they would not show up on the big screen. After about a week of that, whenever Bud walked on stage, Cheetah would scamper over excitedly, take the cork and sponge out of Bud\u2019s pocket and hand it to him.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Drexler shared his memories of working with Michael Westmore, who transformed the actors into&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[2705,3429],"class_list":["post-11294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-drexler","tag-westmore"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11297,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11294\/revisions\/11297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}