Lion Painting
Stirling Westrup
from behind the scenes of "Beastmaster", a moderately forgetably fantasy
movie. One of the features of this show was a pure black lion. Now, since
they don't naturally come in that color, the thing was dyed for making the
movie. I am informed that the dye turned out to be toxic when used in such
large quantities, and two weeks after filming the movie, the lion died.
Can anyone support/refute this story?
Stirling
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Nate Smith
>Here's a (possibly) new UL for you folks. Today a friend told me a story
>from behind the scenes of "Beastmaster", a moderately forgetably fantasy
>movie. One of the features of this show was a pure black lion. Now, since
>they don't naturally come in that color, the thing was dyed for making the
>movie. I am informed that the dye turned out to be toxic when used in such
>large quantities, and two weeks after filming the movie, the lion died.
>Can anyone support/refute this story?
>
> Stirling
>
ah yes, and what ever did happen to the woman they painted in Goldfinger?
Nate, who wont necassarily go swimming in latex either....
Stephanie da Silva
> Today a friend told me a story from behind the scenes of "Beastmaster",
> informed that the dye turned out to be toxic when used in such
> large quantities, and two weeks after filming the movie, the lion died.
It wasn't a lion, it was a tiger. In fact, they had 4 different tigers
they used for the movie. One of them did die as a result of being
painted, but not because the paint was toxic.
To dye the animals, they had to sedate them first, and one of them
never woke up from the anesthetic. There was some investigation into
the incident to see if any animal cruelty was involved, or so I heard.
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John Pipkins
That wasn`t a lion, that was a tiger. I have seen the movie a couple
of times. That's when I noticed that the 'loin' had darker stripes
when view from the right angle (i.e. any way but looking up the nose
or up the tail).
john "Well, Joey, you like movies about gladiators?" pipkins
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Graham Toal
:from behind the scenes of "Beastmaster", a moderately forgetably fantasy
:movie. One of the features of this show was a pure black lion. Now, since
:they don't naturally come in that color, the thing was dyed for making the
:movie. I am informed that the dye turned out to be toxic when used in such
:large quantities, and two weeks after filming the movie, the lion died.
:Can anyone support/refute this story?
No no no! What happened was that they forgot to leave a little
unpainted area around its tail, for its skin to 'breathe', and
it died of 'suffocation'...
G
PS :-)
Chuck Adams
na...@ll.mit.edu ( Nate Smith) writes:
In article <1...@ozrout.UUCP> stir...@ozrout.UUCP (Stirling Westrup)
writes:
>Here's a (possibly) new UL for you folks. Today a friend told me a story
>from behind the scenes of "Beastmaster", a moderately forgetably fantasy
>movie. One of the features of this show was a pure black lion. Now, since
>they don't naturally come in that color, the thing was dyed for making the
>movie. I am informed that the dye turned out to be toxic when used in such
>large quantities, and two weeks after filming the movie, the lion died.
>Can anyone support/refute this story?
>
> Stirling
>
>ah yes, and what ever did happen to the woman they painted in Goldfinger?
>Nate, who wont necassarily go swimming in latex either....
Sounds similar to what happened to Buddy Ebsen when he was cast as the
original Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz. He was painted with aluminum paint
(on face and hands) and became so sick (allergic?) that he had to drop out
and they got a new guy to play the part.
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Kerr Avon
Here's one that I can answer!!
In article <1...@ozrout.UUCP> [which I never saw]
stir...@ozrout.UUCP (Stirling Westrup) [allegedly] writes:
> Here's a (possibly) new UL for you folks. Today a friend told me a story
> from behind the scenes of "Beastmaster", a moderately forgetably fantasy
> movie. One of the features of this show was a pure black lion. Now, since
> they don't naturally come in that color, the thing was dyed for making the
> movie. I am informed that the dye turned out to be toxic when used in such
> large quantities, and two weeks after filming the movie, the lion died.
> Can anyone support/refute this story?
the guests was the star of the film (Marc Singer), who was there to
promote his new movie ("Beastmaster II", how's that for an original
title). He told the story:
The two tigers to be used in filming (not lions) were anesthetised
to apply the black dye, and one of them never fully recovered from the
anesthesia (allergic reaction??), and did in fact die. As a result of
this tragedy, a new law was passed forbidding this type of anesthesia
process (and perhaps the dyeing as well, but, let's face it, who would
want to try to paint a tiger that was awake). The tiger in the sequel
is of your normal, everyday, tiger-coloured variety, which is probably
just as well.
Mr. Singer notes that he respected the professionalism of the
animals with whom he worked in the films a lot more than that of the
Homo Sapiens he also had to work with...
Thor "Do I have to put a quote in the middle of my name?" Thomas
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S. Mudgett aka little gator
(Kerr Avon) writes:
> The two tigers to be used in filming (not lions) were anesthetised
> to apply the black dye, and one of them never fully recovered from the
> anesthesia (allergic reaction??), and did in fact die. As a result of
> this tragedy, a new law was passed forbidding this type of anesthesia
> process (and perhaps the dyeing as well, but, let's face it, who would
> want to try to paint a tiger that was awake).
i would, if the tiger was in cage and i could do it by just sticking the
nozzle of a spraygun between the bars.
but what i wonder about is the plastic wrap tv ad which shows a tiger
chewing on a steak wrapped in the competition. on the screen appears the notice
"tiger did not consume plastic wrap". what i wanna know, is who took it
away from the tiger, and how?
> Thor "Do I have to put a quote in the middle of my name?" Thomas
little "i seldom bother to myself" gator
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Kerr Avon
s...@harvee.UUCP (S. Mudgett aka little gator) writes:
>In article <1991Oct30.1...@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
>tth...@isis.cs.du.edu
>(Kerr Avon) writes:
>> but, let's face it, who would
>> want to try to paint a tiger that was awake).
>i would, if the tiger was in cage and i could do it by just sticking the
> nozzle of a spraygun between the bars.
> but what i wonder about is the plastic wrap tv ad which shows a tiger
>chewing on a steak wrapped in the competition.
>on the screen appears the notice
>"tiger did not consume plastic wrap". what i wanna know, is who took it
>away from the tiger, and how?
Hmmm... Vandalising wildlife with a paintspray, eh? You haven't
been painting any radioactive deer white lately, have you?
As for tiger-friendly food-wrap, I just read today about a new
sort of protective film made of food-protiens. You can put this stuff
in the middle of your PBJ sandwich to keep the peanut-butter from
mixing with the jelly or the jelly from soaking into the bread and
making a mess that no kid would be able to trade for a chocolate
cupcake... The product is still in the development stage, and I
gather it's made from celulose and chitin-protien from crustaceans...
(doesn't sound like it would be kosher) With this and the new
biodegradable plates some clever Japanese inventer made from rice, you
could feed a whole place-setting to a tiger without ill-effects.
I've always thought tigers were such incredibly magnificent
creatures (with the possible exception of "Frosted Flakes[tm]"
pitchman Tony), and it always seems so unnatural to see one cooped up
in one of those terrible tiny cages. I like Hobbes' theory that the
purpose of humans on Earth is "TIGER FOOD"... >;->
ObUL: IBM and Apple are getting together to form a monopoly to
crush Atari, Commodore/Amiga, NeXT...
>> Thor "Do I have to put a quote in the middle of my name?" Thomas
>little "i seldom bother to myself" gator
Thor "Insert witty quote here" Thomas