On This Day in Weird, August 25...
2001: Hollywood makeup artist John Chambers, recipient of
special Academy Award in 1968 for his work on Planet of the Apes, dies
in a Los Angeles hospital at age 78. Shortly before his death, in an interview
conducted by Sasquatch researcher Bobbie Short, Chambers denied persistent
rumors that he created the costume for a female Sasquatch shown in Roger
Patterson's Bluff Creek film of October 20, 1967.
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