Lucasfilm announced that Stuart Freeborn, the makeup artist who helped create Chewbacca, Yoda, Jabba the Hutt and the crazy creatures in the Star Wars trilogy's famous barroom scene, has died. He was 98.

  • vonbobo

    ummm, it’s the famous CANTINA scene

    pffft

  • PhosPhorious

    In related news, the creators/designers of Jar Jar Binks continue to live.

  • Brainspore

    At least he won’t have to see another trilogy filled with CGI abominations.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/6KCGUODYSBDC2CPXKRAB7D73I4 Bill Sudbrink

    In addition to Star Warts (Oh! did I misspell that?) he did good movies too, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Bridge on the River Kwai, Dr. Strangelove.

    • Brainspore

      “Star Warts?” What are you, a MAD Magazine writer from the 70s?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Robert-Holmen/562023961 Robert Holmén

    The legend is that “2001″ didn’t get a best costume nomination because the Academy didn’t realize those were not real apes in the Dawn of Man sequence.

  • http://flickr.com/dbtelford dbt

    you spelled cantina wrong, xeni!