Another great one gone

Stan Winston has died at 62. He was the renowned makeup, creature- and visual-effects wizard who did memorable work on Aliens, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and Jurassic Park. Winston, as the New Yorker described several years ago, was known for "almost single-handedly elevating the craft of creature making from the somewhat comic man-in-a-rubber-suit monsters of the 1950s and '60s to animatronics-- electronically animated, part-robot, part-puppet creatures that have terrified millions of moviegoers."
Steven Spielberg, who worked with Winston on numerous films, said in a statement: "Stan was a fearless and courageous artist/inventor, and for many projects, I rode his cutting edge from teddy bears to aliens to dinosaurs. My world would not have been the same without Stan. What I will miss most is his easy laugh every time he said to me, 'Nothing is impossible'."