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I'm amazed that movies ever get finished at all - much less come out good once in a while. It's an awful lot of work and it can go wrong a thousand different ways.

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Rick Baker
Age: 73
Born: 1950
Born: December 8
Actor
Make-Up Artist
Makeup Artist
Binghamton
New York
Richard A. Rick Baker
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