The first remake, debuting in 1990, was directed by special effects artist Tom Savini.

Despite these failures, Tom Savini was nominated and won the 1985 Saturn Award for best makeup effects.

From 1996 – 2011, Savini was Vice President of Marketing and Communications at WLIW, a PBS station in New York City.

" The idea of Jason appearing at the end of the film was initially not used in the original script, and was actually suggested by makeup designer Tom Savini.

Savini stated that " The whole reason for the cliffhanger at the end was I had just seen Carrie, so we thought that we need a ' chair jumper ' like that, and I said, ' let's bring in Jason '".

The record price paid for a single white truffle was set in December 2007, when Macau casino owner Stanley Ho paid 330, 000 USD (£ 165, 000 ) for a specimen weighing, discovered by Luciano Savini and his dog Rocco.

Created by Victor Miller, with contributions by Ron Kurz, Sean S. Cunningham, and Tom Savini, Jason was not originally intended to carry the series as the main antagonist.

For Friday the 13th, the task of coming up with Jason's appearance was the responsibility of Tom Savini, whose design for Jason was inspired by someone Savini knew as a child whose eyes and ears did not line up straight.

The movie was produced by Strike Entertainment in association with New Amsterdam Entertainment, released by Universal Pictures and includes cameos by original cast members Ken Foree, Scott Reiniger and Tom Savini.

First, was the immensely positive audience response to one of the articles that appeared in the first issue of Fangoria, an article that celebrated the craft of special makeup effects artist Tom Savini, and his very wet-looking special effects for the 1978 film Dawn of the Dead.

Night of the Living Dead is a 1990 American remake of George A. Romero's 1968 horror film of the same name and was directed by Tom Savini.

The film was handled by the same team as the original, with the exception that directing duties were handled by famed special make-up effects artist Tom Savini, who originally signed up with hopes of doing the make-up effects as he was not able to for the original film.

Savini was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and of Italian descent.

As a boy his inspiration was the great Lon Chaney, Sr. and Savini attributes his earliest desires to create makeup effects to Chaney and the film Man of a Thousand Faces.

" In 1970, while on guard duty, a flare was triggered in the jungle area Savini was watching.

Due to his failure to follow orders, Savini was taken off guard duty from his bunker on the following evening.

In the DVD commentary for the episode, Doyle said that Savini was " really fun " when he visited to record his lines.

Only Seth, Jacob, Kate, Scott, a biker named Sex Machine ( Tom Savini ) and a Vietnam veteran trucker named Frost ( Fred Williamson ) survive the attack.

Savini served as a combat photographer during the Vietnam War.

Master tailor Nazareno Fonticoli and his business partner Gaetano Savini opened their first suit shop in Rome's Via Barberini at the end of World War II.

Savini created a plaster mold of Ari Lehman's head and used that to create prosthetics for his face.

Savini used his design from the original Friday the 13th, with the same practice of application as before, but molded from Ted White's face.

In 2004, Webb married Laura Savini, who appears nationally on PBS in pledge-drive programs.

Three actors from the original film have cameos in the remake, appearing on the televisions the survivors watch: Ken Foree, who played Peter from the original, plays an evangelist who asserts that God is punishing mankind ; Scott H. Reiniger, who played Roger in the original, plays an army general telling everyone to stay at home for safety and Tom Savini, who did the special effects for many of Romero's movies and played the motorcycle gang member Blades in the original Dawn of the Dead, plays the Monroeville Sheriff explaining the only way to kill the zombies is to " shoot ' em in the head.

To avoid an X rating, Savini had to cut several scenes from the film, some of which can be seen on the DVD.

Experimenting with whatever medium he could find, the young Savini practiced creating makeup effects on himself, later convincing his friends to let him practice his craft on them.

During the interview, Savini repeatedly plays tricks on Comic Book Guy, which causes him to suffer a heart attack.

Savini accepted the role because he is friends with Dana Gould, a former staff writer on The Simpsons.

Directed by Tom Savini, former special make-up effects artist, who worked on Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead while George A. Romero rewrote the screenplay.

George A. Romero, creator of the Dead Series, and Tom Savini pioneered effects that removed the need for cutaways in horror films.

Kaye's rubber face and fast patter were an instant hit, and rival producer Robert M. Savini cashed in almost immediately by compiling three of Kaye's old Educational Pictures shorts into a makeshift feature, The Birth of a Star ( 1945 ).

Gainey and Tom Savini as Big John and Ellis Brittle, two of the slave owners who separate Django and Broomhilda, Anthony LaPaglia and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Australian brothers, Jano and an unnamed character, respectively, who encounter Django while escorting slaves to a fight.

This edition includes many special features, including two audio commentary tracks with writer-director George A. Romero, Tom Savini, production designer Cletus Anderson, and lead actress Lori Cardille.

They met again when Savini interviewed Webb for her local television show and the two soon started dating.

The original design called for Jason to have hair, but Savini and his crew opted to make him bald, so he would look like a " hydrocephalic, mongoloid pinhead ", with a dome-shaped head.

Miner wanted to use a combination of the designs from Tom Savini and Carl Fullerton, but as work progressed the design began to lean more and more toward Savini's concept.

Tom Savini agreed to return to make-up duties for The Final Chapter because he felt he should be the one to bring Jason full circle in terms of his look from child to man.

The deleted slaughtering scene featured several elaborate Tom Savini special effects.

Heavily influenced by special effects pioneer Tom Savini, Peter Jackson incorporated camera tricks and many absurdly gory special effects.

Attempts to accuse anthropologists of complicity with the CIA and government intelligence activities during the Vietnam War years have turned up surprisingly little ( although anthropologist Hugo Nutini was active in the stillborn Project Camelot ).

He gave lectures on category theory in the forests surrounding Hanoi while the city was being bombed, to protest against the Vietnam War ( The Life and Work of Alexander Grothendieck, American Mathematical Monthly, vol.

While Grothendieck was at the IHÉS, opposition to the Vietnam War was heating up, and Cartier suggests that this also reinforced Grothendieck's distaste at having become a mandarin of the scientific world.

The first major meetings of the national left-wing campus group Students for a Democratic Society took place in Ann Arbor in 1960 ; in 1965, the city was home to the first U. S. teach-in against the Vietnam War.

Although the role of the ground attack aircraft significantly diminished after the Korean War, it re-emerged during the Vietnam War, and in the recognition of this, the US Air Force authorised the design and production of what was later to become the A-10 dedicated anti-armour and ground-attack aircraft of the Cold War.

On occasion SPAAGs have been used as very effective direct fire weapons against infantry, for example by American forces during late World War II, in Korea against mass infantry assault, and extensively during the Vietnam War, where for example the U. S. M42 Duster SPAAG ( based on a light tank ) was employed purely for this purpose.

The Norden bombsight was a highly sophisticated optical / mechanical analog computer used by the United States Army Air Force during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War to aid the pilot of a bomber aircraft in dropping bomb s accurately.

The first batch of herbicides was unloaded at Tan Son Nhut Air Base in South Vietnam, on January 9, 1962.

About 17. 8 % ( 3, 100, 000 ha ) of the total forested area of Vietnam was sprayed during the war, which dramatically disrupted ecological equilibrium.

Vietnamese academic and journalist Doan Viet Hoat was nicknamed " the Sakharov of Vietnam " for his criticism of Vietnam's communist leadership and his subsequent imprisonment.

Heschel saw the teachings of the Hebrew prophets as a clarion call for social action in the United States and worked for black civil rights and against the Vietnam War Heschel was an activist for civil rights in the United States.

25, 000 AIM-7Es were produced, and saw extensive use during the Vietnam War, where its performance was generally considered disappointing.

Clinton's November 2000 visit to Vietnam was the first by a U. S. President since the end of the Vietnam War.

Some military and medical aid was also supplied to North Korea and North Vietnam in the 1950s and 1960s.

The United States and Britain discovered plant growth regulators ( i. e., herbicides ) during the Second World War, and initiated an herbicidal warfare program that was eventually used in Malaya and Vietnam in counterinsurgency operations.

He was a vocal opponent of the Vietnam War and political movements such as McCarthyism, and he helped pay for the successful defense of a soldier accused of " fragging " ( murdering ) another soldier during the war.

Barry Sadler, while the latter was recuperating from a leg wound suffered as a medic in the Vietnam War.

The lyrics were written in honor of Green Beret James Gabriel, Jr., the first Native Hawaiian who died in Vietnam, who was executed by the Viet Cong while on a training mission on April 8, 1962.

The song was the # 1 hit in the U. S. for the five weeks encompassing March 1966, the # 1 hit on the Hot 100's end of the year chart for 1966, and the No. 21 song of 1960s, despite the later unpopularity of the Vietnam War and the competing " California Dreaming ", sharply dividing the popular music market.

At the time of the Executive Order, for example, the U. S. was not a belligerent in Vietnam, so U. S. advisers serving with the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces would not have been eligible for the award.

This was succeeded by Chenla, which controlled large parts of modern Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand.

By the mid-1960s, parts of Cambodia's eastern provinces were serving as bases for North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong ( NVA / VC ) forces operating against South Vietnam, and the port of Sihanoukville was being used to supply them.