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JOE BLASCO Article From, "FANGORIA," July 1982-Issue #20 cont.page 3 of 4
was beginning to take shape, and he had made enough money at it (and his other projects) to move the whole thing into its own building on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. A year or so after that, a man Blasco knew, by the name of Nick Vanoff, bought the Sunset-Gower Studios, a large group of buildings used as soundstages and offices not far from Blasco’s school. Blasco asked Vanoff if he could open up his school in the studios so that it would be more convenient for the people who would be needing Make-up artists. Vanoff agreed, and the Joe Blasco Make-up Center School was born. The school has always been successful, and Blasco has always had other jobs as well. In 1976, he did the effects for David Cronenberg’s Rabid, which was one of his last major special Make-up effects pictures. Blasco designed the retractable syringe-like organ that pops out of Marilyn Chambers’ armpit. Because he was in Los Angeles, and the actress was already in Canada, Blasco took the casts of the armpit and chest from one of his female students; and made the appliances in his lab in L.A. He sent them to Canada. The film was quite successful and made a lot of money; but it did relatively nothing for Blasco’s career, and he became discouraged about his movie making future. He was spending all kinds of time on low-budget pictures like Johnny Firecloud	and Ruby and was getting less money, and even less recognition for what many in the Make-up field consider outstanding work. Blasco then decided to stop pursuing movie work and concentrate in stead on his work in television. He had been the Make-up effects specialist at ABC television for 10 years, doing prosthetics and a variety of other types of effects for soap operas and specials. Joe was head Make-up artist for such programs as Barney Miller, and has be come the personal Make-up artist to dozens of actors and TV personalities, including Carol Burnett, Orson Welles, and Rona Barrett. Recently, Blasco was responsible for the werewolf Make-up on the short-lived TV series The Darkroom, and he did a couple of Frankenstein monster Make-ups for Tropicana orange juice and Kellogg’s. Blasco also did Orson Welles’ prosthetic age Make-up in the recent Pia Zadora film Butterfly. Today, Blasco splits his time between being “make-up artist to the stars” and running the world’s only complete film and television Make-up schools. However, producers are slowly but surely beginning to realize (once again) just what Blasco is capable of, and are approaching him with new projects all the time. His students, some of which have gone on to excellent careers of their own in Make-up and Make-up effects, would like to thank Blasco’s Aunt Nancy for having bought him that copy of Famous Monsters.

JOE BLASCO Article From "FANGORIA", August 1982-Issue #21
T here is question frequently asked by hundreds of readers of like FANGORIA that, up until recently, was difficult to positively. The question, “Where can a person go to learn and Make-up effects?” now has a relatively simple answer. The Joe Blasco Make-up Center School for Professional Make-up Artistry is the best bet by far. Blasco’s Make-up Centers are located in Hollywood, California (right in the thick of the entertainment industry), and is world renowned for its professionalism, and in Orlando, Florida. Blasco’s school covers everything in precise detail; even down to how to stay healthy on a hectic shooting schedule, and under adverse conditions.	“I put together a school that I would have wanted to go to,” says Blasco. “Though there are schools for beauty Make-up , and some colleges teach theatrical Make-up , there has never been a place where you could learn the techniques for all the media - stage, TV, film, and still photography.” Blasco’s school does just that, and is the only institution in the world of its kind. There are several courses of study to choose from at the Make-up Centers. You can take a specific type of class, such as prosthetics, or character Make-up; or you can take them all together in the complete 11 week Professional Make-up Artistry course, which is a rigorous curriculum of all types of Make-up . Says Blasco, “Students who have completed this course,

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