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Stan Winston
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Stan Winston
Stan Winston and Michael Jackson.jpg
Stan Winston (right) with Michael Jackson during the 50th International Cannes Film Festival.

Born
April 7, 1946
Arlington, Virginia, USA
Died
June 15, 2008 (aged 62)
Malibu, California, USA
Occupation
Special effects
makeup artist
Years active
1972–2008
Spouse(s)
Karen Winston (1969-2008; his death; 2 children)
Stanley Winston[1] (April 7, 1946 – June 15, 2008) was an American television and film special effects supervisor and makeup artist. He was best known for his work in the Terminator series, the Jurassic Park series, Aliens, the Predator series, Iron Man, Edward Scissorhands, and Avatar.[2][3][4] He won four Academy Awards for his work.
Winston, a frequent collaborator with director James Cameron, owned several effects studios, including Stan Winston Digital. The established areas of expertise for Winston were in makeup, puppets and practical effects, but he had recently expanded his studio to encompass digital effects as well.


Contents  [hide]
1 Life and career 1.1 1970s
1.2 1980s
1.3 1990s
1.4 2000s
2 Death
3 Collaborators
4 Academy Awards
5 Filmography
6 References
7 External links

Life and career[edit]
Winston was born on April 7, 1946, in Arlington, Virginia, where he graduated from Washington-Lee High School in 1964. He studied painting and sculpture at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville from which he graduated in 1968. In 1969, after attending California State University, Long Beach, Winston moved to Hollywood to pursue a career as an actor. Struggling to find an acting job, he began a makeup apprenticeship at Walt Disney Studios.[4]
1970s[edit]
In 1972, Winston established his own company, Stan Winston Studio, and won an Emmy Award for his effects work on the telefilm Gargoyles. Over the next seven years, Winston continued to receive Emmy nominations for work on projects and won another for 1974's The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Winston also created the Wookiee costumes for the 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special.
1980s[edit]
In 1982, Winston received his first Oscar nomination for Heartbeeps, by which time he had set up his own studio. However, his ground-breaking work with Rob Bottin on the science fiction horror classic The Thing that year brought him to prominence in Hollywood. Between then, he contributed some visual effects to Friday the 13th Part III, in which he made a slightly different head sculpt of Jason in an unused ending.
In 1983, Winston designed the Mr. Roboto facemask for the American rock group Styx.[5]
In 1983 he also worked on a short-lived TV series Manimal, for which he created the panther and hawk transformation effects.
Winston reached a new level of fame in 1984 when James Cameron's The Terminator premiered. The movie was a surprise hit, and Winston's work in bringing the titular metallic killing machine to life led to many new projects and additional collaborations with Cameron. In fact, Winston won his first Oscar for Best Visual Effects in 1986 on James Cameron's next movie, Aliens.[6]
Over the next few years, Winston and his company received more accolades for its work on many more Hollywood films, including Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands, John McTiernan's Predator, Alien Nation, The Monster Squad, and Predator 2.
In 1988, Winston made his directorial debut with the horror movie Pumpkinhead, and won Best First Time Director at the Paris Film Festival. His next directing project was the child-friendly A Gnome Named Gnorm (1990), starring Anthony Michael Hall.
1990s[edit]
James Cameron drafted Winston and his team once again in 1990, this time for the groundbreaking Terminator 2: Judgment Day. T2 premiered in the summer of 1991, and Winston's work on this box office hit won him two more Oscars for Best Makeup Effects and Best Visual Effects.
In 1992, he was nominated with yet another Tim Burton film, this time for Burton's superhero sequel, Batman Returns, where his effects on Danny DeVito as The Penguin, Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman, and in delivering Burton's general vision for what was an increasingly Gothic Gotham City earned him more recognition for his work ethic and loyalty to what was an intrinsic ability to bring different directors' ideas to life. It was particularly poignant because for Batman Returns, Winston had to follow on from Anton Furst's earlier work, and recreate change according to what Burton wanted to do differently the next time around.
Winston turned his attention from super villains and cyborgs to dinosaurs when Steven Spielberg enlisted his help to bring Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park to the cinema screen. In 1993, the movie became a blockbuster and Winston won another Oscar for Best Visual Effects.
In 1993, Winston, Cameron and ex-ILM General Manager Scott Ross co-founded Digital Domain, one of the foremost digital and visual effects studios in the world. In 1998, after the box office success of Titanic, Cameron and Winston severed their working relationship with the company and resigned from its board of directors.
Winston and his team continued to provide effects work for many more films and expanded their work into animatronics. Some of Winston's notable animatronics work can be found in The Ghost and the Darkness and T2 3-D: Battle Across Time, James Cameron's 3-D continuation of the Terminator series for the Universal Studios theme park. One of Winston's most ambitious animatronics projects was Steven Spielberg's AI: Artificial Intelligence, which earned Winston another Oscar nomination for Best Visual Effects.
In 1996, Winston directed and co-produced the longest and the most expensive music video of all time, Ghosts, which was based on an original concept of Michael Jackson and Stephen King. The long-form music video presented a number of never before seen visual effects, and promoted music from two consecutive Jackson albums, HIStory and Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix, which went on to become the biggest selling double-album by a solo artist and remix album of all time, respectively (25 million (50 million units) and 13 million).
2000s[edit]
In 2001, Winston, together with Colleen Camp and Samuel Z. Arkoff's son, Lou Arkoff, produced a series of made-for-cable films for Cinemax and HBO. The five films, referred to as Creature Features, were inspired by the titles of AIP monster movies from the 1950s — i.e., Earth vs. the Spider (1958), How to Make a Monster (1958), Day the World Ended (1955), The She-Creature (1956), and Teenage Caveman (1958) — but had completely different plots.[7]
In 2003, Stan Winston was invited by the Smithsonian Institution to speak about his life and career in a public presentation sponsored by The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. The presentation took place on November 15, 2003, at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.[8]
In 2004, he expressed great disappointment when director Paul W. S. Anderson did not come to him for the creature effects for Alien vs. Predator, seeing as how he designed the Predator and the Alien Queen. "They're like my children to me," he stated.[citation needed]
Winston also worked on Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.
At the time of his death, Winston was working on the sequel Terminator Salvation.[9] According to reports, next for Stan Winston was Jurassic World.[10][11] Winston designed the original monsters that appeared in the Midway game The Suffering[12] and its sequel, The Suffering: Ties That Bind. He was also helping with his old friend, film director James Cameron and his upcoming film Avatar.
Death[edit]
Stan Winston died on June 15, 2008, in Malibu, California after suffering for seven years from multiple myeloma.[2] A spokeswoman reported that he "died peacefully at home surrounded by family."[3] Winston was with his wife and two children, actor Matt Winston and Debbie Winston. Arnold Schwarzenegger made a public speech about his death, and Jon Favreau dedicated his Spike TV Scream Award to him upon receiving the award for Best Sci-Fi Movie for Iron Man. Terminator Salvation starts and ends the credits with a dedication to him. After his death, his four supervisors (Shane Mahan, John Rosengrant, Alan Scott, Lindsay Macgowan) founded and built their own studio, Legacy Effects, aptly named to honor his memory.
Collaborators[edit]
Winston worked with the following directors on more than one film:
Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, Big Fish)
James Cameron (The Terminator, Aliens, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Avatar)
John Carpenter (The Thing, Starman)
Dennis Dugan (The Benchwarmers, You Don't Mess with the Zohan)
Jon Favreau (Zathura, Iron Man)
Stephen Hopkins (Predator 2, The Ghost and the Darkness)
Peter Hyams (The Relic, End of Days)
Frank Marshall (Congo, Eight Below)
Steven Spielberg (Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, A.I., War of the Worlds, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)
Robert Zemeckis (Amazing Stories episode "Go to the Head of the Class", What Lies Beneath)
Academy Awards[edit]
1982: Oscar Nomination For Best Makeup: Heartbeeps
1987: Won Oscar For Best Visual Effects: Aliens
1988: Oscar Nomination For Best Visual Effects: Predator
1991: Oscar Nomination For Best Makeup: Edward Scissorhands
1992: Won 2 Oscars – Best Visual Effects & Best Makeup: Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1993: Oscar Nomination For Best Makeup: Batman Returns
1993: Oscar Nomination For Best Visual Effects: Batman Returns
1994: Won Oscar For Best Visual Effects: Jurassic Park
1998: Oscar Nomination For Best Visual Effects: The Lost World: Jurassic Park
2002: Oscar Nomination For Best Visual Effects: A.I.
Filmography[edit]
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974)
The Bat People (1974)
The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)
Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde (1976)
The Wiz (1978)
The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan (1979)
The Exterminator (1980)
Heartbeeps (Oscar Nomination) (1981)
Dead & Buried (1981)
Friday the 13th Part III (1982)
The Thing (1982)
The Terminator (1984)
Ghoulies (1985)
Invaders from Mars (1986)
Aliens (Oscar Winner) (1986)
The Monster Squad (1987)
Predator (Oscar Nomination) (1987)
Pumpkinhead (1988)
Leviathan (1989)
Edward Scissorhands (Oscar Nomination) (1990)
Predator 2 (1990)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Oscar Winner) (1991)
Batman Returns (Oscar Nomination) (1992)
Jurassic Park (Oscar Winner) (1993)
Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Congo (1995)
The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
The Island of Doctor Moreau (1996 film) (1996)
T2 3-D: Battle Across Time (1996)
The Relic (1997)
Michael Jackson's Ghosts (1997)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Oscar Nomination) (1997)
Mouse Hunt (1997)
Small Soldiers (1998)
Instinct (1999)
Lake Placid (1999)
Inspector Gadget (1999)
End of Days (1999)
Galaxy Quest (1999)
What Lies Beneath (2000)
Pearl Harbor (2001)
A.I. (Oscar Nomination) (2001)
Jurassic Park III (2001)
The Time Machine (2002)
Darkness Falls (2003)
Big Fish (2003)
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
Wrong Turn (2003)
Constantine (2005)
Zathura (2005)
War of the Worlds (2005)
Doom (2005)
Eight Below (2006)
The Shaggy Dog (2006)
The Benchwarmers (2006)
Skinwalkers (2006)
Iron Man (2008)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)
Terminator Salvation (2009)
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)
Pandorum (2009)
Avatar (2009)
Shutter Island (2010)
Enthiran (2010)
7aum Arivu (2011)
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Stan Winston Biography (1946?-)". Filmreference.com. 1946-04-07. Retrieved 2011-07-20.
2.^ Jump up to: a b Cohen, David S. (2008). "Effects master Stan Winston dies. Work included Jurassic Park, Terminator", Variety webpage retrieved 2008-06-16.
3.^ Jump up to: a b Crabtree, Sheigh (2008). "Stan Winston, dead at 62; Oscar-winning visual effects artist suffered from multiple myeloma", Los Angeles Times, Entertainment industry news blog, June 16, 2008; online version retrieved 2008-06-16.
4.^ Jump up to: a b Stan Winston Studio (2008). "Press Release" posted at Los Angeles Times Entertainment industry news blog, June 16, 2008; online version retrieved 2008-06-16.
5.Jump up ^ "Center For Roboto Research And Preservation", webpage retrieved 2008-06-16.
6.Jump up ^ "Bring on the Gore: Top Ten Practical Effects in Horror!". BloodyDisgusting.
7.Jump up ^ Biodrowski, Steve (June 2001). "Stan Winston's Creature Features". Cinefantastique. Retrieved 2008-06-18.
8.Jump up ^ "Two-part podcast of the presentation given by Stan Winston as part of The Lemelson Center's "Inventing Ourselves" symposium". Invention.smithsonian.org. Retrieved 2011-07-20.
9.Jump up ^ McG (2008-05-22). "Terminator Salvation Blog". Official blog. Retrieved 2008-06-04.
10.Jump up ^ Franklin, Garth (2005). "Winston Talks Jurassic Park IV", webpage from Dark Horizons website. Retrieved 2008-06-16.
11.Jump up ^ "Stan Winston talks Jurassic Park IV". MoviesOnline.CA. Retrieved 2008-06-18.
12.Jump up ^ IGN FilmForce (2005-09-08). "Games to Film: The Suffering; Midway action-horror title to Hollywood". IGN Entertainment. Retrieved 2008-06-18.
External links[edit]
Stan Winston Studio
Stan Winston at the Internet Movie Database
"Stan Winston". Find a Grave. Retrieved June 12, 2013.


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Stan Winston
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search


Stan Winston
Stan Winston and Michael Jackson.jpg
Stan Winston (right) with Michael Jackson during the 50th International Cannes Film Festival.

Born
April 7, 1946
Arlington, Virginia, USA
Died
June 15, 2008 (aged 62)
Malibu, California, USA
Occupation
Special effects
makeup artist
Years active
1972–2008
Spouse(s)
Karen Winston (1969-2008; his death; 2 children)
Stanley Winston[1] (April 7, 1946 – June 15, 2008) was an American television and film special effects supervisor and makeup artist. He was best known for his work in the Terminator series, the Jurassic Park series, Aliens, the Predator series, Iron Man, Edward Scissorhands, and Avatar.[2][3][4] He won four Academy Awards for his work.
Winston, a frequent collaborator with director James Cameron, owned several effects studios, including Stan Winston Digital. The established areas of expertise for Winston were in makeup, puppets and practical effects, but he had recently expanded his studio to encompass digital effects as well.


Contents  [hide]
1 Life and career 1.1 1970s
1.2 1980s
1.3 1990s
1.4 2000s
2 Death
3 Collaborators
4 Academy Awards
5 Filmography
6 References
7 External links

Life and career[edit]
Winston was born on April 7, 1946, in Arlington, Virginia, where he graduated from Washington-Lee High School in 1964. He studied painting and sculpture at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville from which he graduated in 1968. In 1969, after attending California State University, Long Beach, Winston moved to Hollywood to pursue a career as an actor. Struggling to find an acting job, he began a makeup apprenticeship at Walt Disney Studios.[4]
1970s[edit]
In 1972, Winston established his own company, Stan Winston Studio, and won an Emmy Award for his effects work on the telefilm Gargoyles. Over the next seven years, Winston continued to receive Emmy nominations for work on projects and won another for 1974's The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Winston also created the Wookiee costumes for the 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special.
1980s[edit]
In 1982, Winston received his first Oscar nomination for Heartbeeps, by which time he had set up his own studio. However, his ground-breaking work with Rob Bottin on the science fiction horror classic The Thing that year brought him to prominence in Hollywood. Between then, he contributed some visual effects to Friday the 13th Part III, in which he made a slightly different head sculpt of Jason in an unused ending.
In 1983, Winston designed the Mr. Roboto facemask for the American rock group Styx.[5]
In 1983 he also worked on a short-lived TV series Manimal, for which he created the panther and hawk transformation effects.
Winston reached a new level of fame in 1984 when James Cameron's The Terminator premiered. The movie was a surprise hit, and Winston's work in bringing the titular metallic killing machine to life led to many new projects and additional collaborations with Cameron. In fact, Winston won his first Oscar for Best Visual Effects in 1986 on James Cameron's next movie, Aliens.[6]
Over the next few years, Winston and his company received more accolades for its work on many more Hollywood films, including Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands, John McTiernan's Predator, Alien Nation, The Monster Squad, and Predator 2.
In 1988, Winston made his directorial debut with the horror movie Pumpkinhead, and won Best First Time Director at the Paris Film Festival. His next directing project was the child-friendly A Gnome Named Gnorm (1990), starring Anthony Michael Hall.
1990s[edit]
James Cameron drafted Winston and his team once again in 1990, this time for the groundbreaking Terminator 2: Judgment Day. T2 premiered in the summer of 1991, and Winston's work on this box office hit won him two more Oscars for Best Makeup Effects and Best Visual Effects.
In 1992, he was nominated with yet another Tim Burton film, this time for Burton's superhero sequel, Batman Returns, where his effects on Danny DeVito as The Penguin, Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman, and in delivering Burton's general vision for what was an increasingly Gothic Gotham City earned him more recognition for his work ethic and loyalty to what was an intrinsic ability to bring different directors' ideas to life. It was particularly poignant because for Batman Returns, Winston had to follow on from Anton Furst's earlier work, and recreate change according to what Burton wanted to do differently the next time around.
Winston turned his attention from super villains and cyborgs to dinosaurs when Steven Spielberg enlisted his help to bring Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park to the cinema screen. In 1993, the movie became a blockbuster and Winston won another Oscar for Best Visual Effects.
In 1993, Winston, Cameron and ex-ILM General Manager Scott Ross co-founded Digital Domain, one of the foremost digital and visual effects studios in the world. In 1998, after the box office success of Titanic, Cameron and Winston severed their working relationship with the company and resigned from its board of directors.
Winston and his team continued to provide effects work for many more films and expanded their work into animatronics. Some of Winston's notable animatronics work can be found in The Ghost and the Darkness and T2 3-D: Battle Across Time, James Cameron's 3-D continuation of the Terminator series for the Universal Studios theme park. One of Winston's most ambitious animatronics projects was Steven Spielberg's AI: Artificial Intelligence, which earned Winston another Oscar nomination for Best Visual Effects.
In 1996, Winston directed and co-produced the longest and the most expensive music video of all time, Ghosts, which was based on an original concept of Michael Jackson and Stephen King. The long-form music video presented a number of never before seen visual effects, and promoted music from two consecutive Jackson albums, HIStory and Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix, which went on to become the biggest selling double-album by a solo artist and remix album of all time, respectively (25 million (50 million units) and 13 million).
2000s[edit]
In 2001, Winston, together with Colleen Camp and Samuel Z. Arkoff's son, Lou Arkoff, produced a series of made-for-cable films for Cinemax and HBO. The five films, referred to as Creature Features, were inspired by the titles of AIP monster movies from the 1950s — i.e., Earth vs. the Spider (1958), How to Make a Monster (1958), Day the World Ended (1955), The She-Creature (1956), and Teenage Caveman (1958) — but had completely different plots.[7]
In 2003, Stan Winston was invited by the Smithsonian Institution to speak about his life and career in a public presentation sponsored by The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. The presentation took place on November 15, 2003, at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.[8]
In 2004, he expressed great disappointment when director Paul W. S. Anderson did not come to him for the creature effects for Alien vs. Predator, seeing as how he designed the Predator and the Alien Queen. "They're like my children to me," he stated.[citation needed]
Winston also worked on Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.
At the time of his death, Winston was working on the sequel Terminator Salvation.[9] According to reports, next for Stan Winston was Jurassic World.[10][11] Winston designed the original monsters that appeared in the Midway game The Suffering[12] and its sequel, The Suffering: Ties That Bind. He was also helping with his old friend, film director James Cameron and his upcoming film Avatar.
Death[edit]
Stan Winston died on June 15, 2008, in Malibu, California after suffering for seven years from multiple myeloma.[2] A spokeswoman reported that he "died peacefully at home surrounded by family."[3] Winston was with his wife and two children, actor Matt Winston and Debbie Winston. Arnold Schwarzenegger made a public speech about his death, and Jon Favreau dedicated his Spike TV Scream Award to him upon receiving the award for Best Sci-Fi Movie for Iron Man. Terminator Salvation starts and ends the credits with a dedication to him. After his death, his four supervisors (Shane Mahan, John Rosengrant, Alan Scott, Lindsay Macgowan) founded and built their own studio, Legacy Effects, aptly named to honor his memory.
Collaborators[edit]
Winston worked with the following directors on more than one film:
Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, Big Fish)
James Cameron (The Terminator, Aliens, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Avatar)
John Carpenter (The Thing, Starman)
Dennis Dugan (The Benchwarmers, You Don't Mess with the Zohan)
Jon Favreau (Zathura, Iron Man)
Stephen Hopkins (Predator 2, The Ghost and the Darkness)
Peter Hyams (The Relic, End of Days)
Frank Marshall (Congo, Eight Below)
Steven Spielberg (Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, A.I., War of the Worlds, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)
Robert Zemeckis (Amazing Stories episode "Go to the Head of the Class", What Lies Beneath)
Academy Awards[edit]
1982: Oscar Nomination For Best Makeup: Heartbeeps
1987: Won Oscar For Best Visual Effects: Aliens
1988: Oscar Nomination For Best Visual Effects: Predator
1991: Oscar Nomination For Best Makeup: Edward Scissorhands
1992: Won 2 Oscars – Best Visual Effects & Best Makeup: Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1993: Oscar Nomination For Best Makeup: Batman Returns
1993: Oscar Nomination For Best Visual Effects: Batman Returns
1994: Won Oscar For Best Visual Effects: Jurassic Park
1998: Oscar Nomination For Best Visual Effects: The Lost World: Jurassic Park
2002: Oscar Nomination For Best Visual Effects: A.I.
Filmography[edit]
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974)
The Bat People (1974)
The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)
Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde (1976)
The Wiz (1978)
The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan (1979)
The Exterminator (1980)
Heartbeeps (Oscar Nomination) (1981)
Dead & Buried (1981)
Friday the 13th Part III (1982)
The Thing (1982)
The Terminator (1984)
Ghoulies (1985)
Invaders from Mars (1986)
Aliens (Oscar Winner) (1986)
The Monster Squad (1987)
Predator (Oscar Nomination) (1987)
Pumpkinhead (1988)
Leviathan (1989)
Edward Scissorhands (Oscar Nomination) (1990)
Predator 2 (1990)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Oscar Winner) (1991)
Batman Returns (Oscar Nomination) (1992)
Jurassic Park (Oscar Winner) (1993)
Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Congo (1995)
The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
The Island of Doctor Moreau (1996 film) (1996)
T2 3-D: Battle Across Time (1996)
The Relic (1997)
Michael Jackson's Ghosts (1997)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Oscar Nomination) (1997)
Mouse Hunt (1997)
Small Soldiers (1998)
Instinct (1999)
Lake Placid (1999)
Inspector Gadget (1999)
End of Days (1999)
Galaxy Quest (1999)
What Lies Beneath (2000)
Pearl Harbor (2001)
A.I. (Oscar Nomination) (2001)
Jurassic Park III (2001)
The Time Machine (2002)
Darkness Falls (2003)
Big Fish (2003)
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
Wrong Turn (2003)
Constantine (2005)
Zathura (2005)
War of the Worlds (2005)
Doom (2005)
Eight Below (2006)
The Shaggy Dog (2006)
The Benchwarmers (2006)
Skinwalkers (2006)
Iron Man (2008)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)
Terminator Salvation (2009)
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)
Pandorum (2009)
Avatar (2009)
Shutter Island (2010)
Enthiran (2010)
7aum Arivu (2011)
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Stan Winston Biography (1946?-)". Filmreference.com. 1946-04-07. Retrieved 2011-07-20.
2.^ Jump up to: a b Cohen, David S. (2008). "Effects master Stan Winston dies. Work included Jurassic Park, Terminator", Variety webpage retrieved 2008-06-16.
3.^ Jump up to: a b Crabtree, Sheigh (2008). "Stan Winston, dead at 62; Oscar-winning visual effects artist suffered from multiple myeloma", Los Angeles Times, Entertainment industry news blog, June 16, 2008; online version retrieved 2008-06-16.
4.^ Jump up to: a b Stan Winston Studio (2008). "Press Release" posted at Los Angeles Times Entertainment industry news blog, June 16, 2008; online version retrieved 2008-06-16.
5.Jump up ^ "Center For Roboto Research And Preservation", webpage retrieved 2008-06-16.
6.Jump up ^ "Bring on the Gore: Top Ten Practical Effects in Horror!". BloodyDisgusting.
7.Jump up ^ Biodrowski, Steve (June 2001). "Stan Winston's Creature Features". Cinefantastique. Retrieved 2008-06-18.
8.Jump up ^ "Two-part podcast of the presentation given by Stan Winston as part of The Lemelson Center's "Inventing Ourselves" symposium". Invention.smithsonian.org. Retrieved 2011-07-20.
9.Jump up ^ McG (2008-05-22). "Terminator Salvation Blog". Official blog. Retrieved 2008-06-04.
10.Jump up ^ Franklin, Garth (2005). "Winston Talks Jurassic Park IV", webpage from Dark Horizons website. Retrieved 2008-06-16.
11.Jump up ^ "Stan Winston talks Jurassic Park IV". MoviesOnline.CA. Retrieved 2008-06-18.
12.Jump up ^ IGN FilmForce (2005-09-08). "Games to Film: The Suffering; Midway action-horror title to Hollywood". IGN Entertainment. Retrieved 2008-06-18.
External links[edit]
Stan Winston Studio
Stan Winston at the Internet Movie Database
"Stan Winston". Find a Grave. Retrieved June 12, 2013.


[hide]
v ·
 t ·
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Jurassic Park



Jurassic Park Novel ·
 Soundtrack
  The Lost World: Jurassic Park Novel ·
 Soundtrack
  Jurassic Park III Soundtrack
  Jurassic World


Directors
Steven Spielberg ·
 Joe Johnston ·
 Colin Trevorrow
 

Producers
Kathleen Kennedy ·
 Gerald R. Molen ·
 Colin Wilson ·
 Larry J. Franco
 

Screenwriters
Michael Crichton ·
 David Koepp ·
 Peter Buchman ·
 Alexander Payne ·
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Jurassic Park (song)
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"Jurassic Park"

Single by "Weird Al" Yankovic

from the album Alapalooza

B-side
"Frank's 2000" TV"
Released
October 1993
Format
CD, cassette
Recorded
July 16, 1993
Genre
Comedy rock
Length
3:53
Label
Scotti Brothers
Writer(s)
Jimmy Webb, Al Yankovic
Producer
"Weird Al" Yankovic
"Weird Al" Yankovic singles chronology

"Taco Grande"
 (1992) "Jurassic Park"
 (1993) "Bedrock Anthem"
 (1993)

"Jurassic Park" is a parody of Jimmy Webb's single "MacArthur Park" written and performed by "Weird Al" Yankovic; it was released both as a single and as part of Yankovic's Alapalooza album in October 1993. "Jurassic Park" was penned by Yankovic after he remembered the enjoyment he had when he combined a classic rock track with a recent movie topic with his 1985 song "Yoda". Yankovic decided to combine the plot of the recent movie Jurassic Park—a film about a park on a fictional island where geneticists have succeeded in cloning dinosaurs.
The song was paired with an elaborately animated music video, which was created by Mark Osborne and Scott Nordlund almost entirely via claymation. The video did not receive extensive play on MTV, although it was popular on The Box, VH1, and in Canada, where it was played on MuchMusic. The video, due to its animation, also later went on to be praised at various animation festivals worldwide.
"Jurassic Park" was met with mixed to positive reviews; while many reviewers enjoyed Yankovic's humor, others felt that the song did not satirize the source material, but instead merely recounted the plot to the movie. Webb himself was very pleased with the final result and has been known to sing the parody lyrics in concert. Although the single did not chart in the United States, it peaked at number 5 on the Canadian magazine The Record's single chart. The video was also nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video at the 37th Grammy Awards, although it did not win.


Contents  [hide]
1 Writing
2 Recording and lyrics
3 Music video
4 Release 4.1 Reception
4.2 Reviews
5 Track listing
6 Charts
7 Credits and personnel
8 See also
9 References

Writing[edit]
Yankovic was inspired to write the song after he heard the The Kinks' song "Lola" while driving in his car one day. He noted, "I was driving a rent-a-car through Florida when the song 'Lola' came on the radio, and it got me thinking about how much fun I had doing 'Yoda' [a song from 1985's Dare to Be Stupid] where I took a then-current topic and combined it with a classic rock tune."[1] He soon turned his attention to the film Jurassic Park—about a park on a fictional island, where geneticists have succeeded in cloning dinosaurs. The film is based on the 1989 novel of the same name by Michael Crichton—which had just come out and was already a blockbuster success. Yankovic decided to write a parody about the movie, and considered various songs that he could spoof. Eventually, he decided to parody the 1968 hit single "MacArthur Park", which was performed by Richard Harris. Yankovic approached the original song's writer, Jimmy Webb, who agreed to the idea.[1] In fact, Webb was so amused by the parody that he penned a letter to Yankovic stating "Well, this [the parody] oughta [sic] bury that song once and for all!"[2] In addition, Yankovic received permission from Crichton and director Steven Spielberg to produce the track.[1]
Recording and lyrics[edit]
Yankovic entered the studio to record "Jurassic Park" on July 16, 1993.[3] Backing Yankovic were Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz on drums, Steve Jay on bass, and Jim West on guitar.[4] "MacArthur Park" contained an actual orchestra complete with a strings section.[5] "Jurassic Park", however, features synth strings courtesy of keyboardist Brad Buxer, who programmed the section himself.[4][6] Intermixed during the interlude are various dinosaur sound effects courtesy of Sandy Berman; Berman had previously created dinosaur yells for a major theme park attraction, and loaned Yankovic the sound effects.[7] At 3:53 in length, the song is considerably shorter than the original, which clocks in at 7:21.[4][8] Largely, this is due to the fact that the middle section featured in the original—the so called "After the Loves of My Life" section[5]—is omitted from Yankovic's parody.[9][10]
The song itself recounts both the plot of the movie, and contains various in-jokes and references therein.[4] One line about lawyers—"A huge tyrannosaurus ate our lawyer/Well, I suppose that proves they're really not all bad"—was deliberately placed in the song to be ambiguous, as it could either be referring to lawyers or dinosaurs as being "not all bad".[4][11][12] The song also makes various pop culture references, alluding to the idea of an E ticket and Barney.[4]
Music video[edit]



 A claymation version of "Weird Al" Yankovic, surrounded by dinosaurs. The video was directed by Mark Osborne and Scott Nordlund, and completed in two months.
When it came time for a video for "Jurassic Park", Yankovic opted to use stop-motion and claymation; he joked during a Q&A that this was because "it's just too hard to find real live dinosaurs these days."[13] "Jurassic Park" was Yankovic's first video that was entirely animated—previous videos, such as "Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies" and "Dare to Be Stupid" had featured elements of animation.[1][14] The video was directed by Mark Osborne and Scott Nordlund.[15] Yankovic initially heard of the duo from Bill Manspeaker, the leader singer of the comedy rock band Green Jellÿ.[1] After being hired for the project, the two "basically turned a private residence in Los Angeles into a clay animation studio."[14] The two worked between July and August 1993, and slept in shifts, so that the final project would be ready for its release in October of 1993.[1][14] One critic noted that the music video seems to have been done in the style of Will Vinton's Dinosaurs! – A Fun-Filled Trip Back in Time![16] The video parodies scenes from, as well as the general plot of the 1993 movie, and contains a myriad of sight-gags—as is usual for Yankovic's videos—such as a claymation version of Steven Spielberg running from dinosaurs, Barney having his head ripped off, and a Velociraptor attempting to break down a door, only to realize it has a key.[17]
Release[edit]
Reception[edit]
"Jurassic Park" was released as the lead single from Yankovic's 1993 album Alapalooza. The single did not chart in the United States. However, the song was a sales success in Canada, and peaked at number 5 on the Canadian magazine The Record's single chart.[18] The video for "Jurassic Park" received light rotation on MTV. Yankovic later explained in an interview that "[MTV] played it a few times, and then just yanked it, because it wasn't really part of their sound."[19][20] However, the single was a success on The Box and they played it "incessantly".[19] Furthermore, in Canada, the song was a massive success on MuchMusic. Due to this, Alapalooza is Yankovic's best selling album in Canada, with over 200,000 units sold, according to Music Canada.[19] However, the video was played and remained popular on VH1 well after its release; it ranked within the Top 50 Most-Played Clips during the months of August and September of 1999, according to Billboard magazine.[21][22] The video for "Jurassic Park" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video at the 37th Grammy Awards,[23] but lost to the video for "Love Is Strong" by The Rolling Stones.[24] Nonetheless, it received attention in animation festivals worldwide for its use of claymation effects.[1]
Jimmy Webb was particularly pleased with the finished product. According to Yankovic, several times during different concerts in New York and Los Angeles that Yankovic was in attendance, Webb would start to perform the original, feign forgetting the words, and then invite Yankovic on stage to help him sing "Jurassic Park" instead. For a Christmas present one year, Webb even sent Yankovic a rubber dinosaur mask as a joke. Yankovic later noted that Webb "was the coolest".[2]
Reviews[edit]
Chris Hicks of the Deseret News called the single "absolutely hilarious", and rhetorically asked "who else would think of adapting that ridiculously popular movie's themes to new lyrics for Jimmy Webb's classic ditty 'MacArthur Park'?"[11] Hicks' felt that the song's funniest moments involved the jokes revolving around lawyers and the mention of Barney.[11] Amanda Cohen of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote that it combined "the schlock of the original song with schtick about the dinosaur movie" and proved that "Yankovic is as funny as ever".[25] Furthermore, she noted that it was evidence that "his voice improves with every new release".[25] In a review of the Spike and Mike's Festival of Animation, Arthur Salm called the piece a "knockout" and praised the humor, specifically highlighting the claymation cameo of Steve Spielberg and the "goofy velociraptor" from the opening of the video.[17]
Some critics felt that the song did not satirize the source material, but instead merely recounted the plot to Jurassic Park. Entertainment Weekly referred to the claymation video for the "Jurassic Park" as "clever but toothless".[26] The magazine argued that Yankovic's parody did not satirize the original material, but instead transposed new elements on top of them.[26] Rob Owen of Richmond Times-Dispatch wrote that the song "does nothing but recount the plot of the hit movie" and that "dinosaurs don't lend themselves to music".[27]
Track listing[edit]
CD single[28]1."Jurassic Park" – 3:53
2."Frank's 2000" TV" – 4:04
Promo single[29]1."Jurassic Park" – 3:53
Charts[edit]

Chart (1994)
Peak
 position


Canada The Record Singles Chart
5[18]

Credits and personnel[edit]
"Weird" Al Yankovic – vocals, background vocals, production, arrangement[4]
Jim West – guitar
Steve Jay – bass guitar
Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz – drums
Brad Buxer – keyboards, synthetic orchestration
Sandy Berman – dinosaur growls
Tony Papa – engineering
See also[edit]
List of singles by "Weird Al" Yankovic
List of songs by "Weird Al" Yankovic
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Hansen, Barret (1994). Permanent Record: Al in the Box (liner). California, United States: Scotti Brothers Records.
2.^ Jump up to: a b Yankovic, Alfred M. (April 1999). "'Ask Al' Q&As for April, 1999". The Official "Weird Al" Yankovic Web Site. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
3.Jump up ^ Yankovic, Alfred M. (December 2007). "Recording Dates". The Official "Weird Al" Yankovic Web Site. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
4.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Alapalooza (liner). "Weird Al" Yankovic. Scotti Brothers Records. 1993.
5.^ Jump up to: a b "Harris, Richard MacArthur Park – Phonograph Recording Contract". The Wrecking Crew. Retrieved April 18, 2012.
6.Jump up ^ "The Players". The Official "Weird Al" Yankovic Web Site. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
7.Jump up ^ Yankovic, Alfred M. (August 1999). "'Ask Al' Q&As for August, 1999". The Official "Weird Al" Yankovic Web Site. Retrieved June 23, 2010.
8.Jump up ^ A Tramp Shining (liner). Richard Harris. Dunhill Records. 1968.
9.Jump up ^ The 'Weird Al' Yankovic Anthology: Piano – Vocal – Guitar. Cherry Lane Music. July 1, 1996. ISBN 9781575600215.
10.Jump up ^ MacArthur Park (Sheet Music). Canopy Music. 1968. ASIN B000PI5W4Q.
11.^ Jump up to: a b c Hicks, Chris (November 28, 1993). "Weird Al's 'Jurassic' is Comedy Classic". Deseret News (Deseret News Publishing Company). Retrieved April 28, 2013. (subscription required)
12.Jump up ^ Yankovic, Alfred M. (December 1998). "'Ask Al' Q&As for December, 1998". The Official "Weird Al" Yankovic Web Site. Retrieved June 23, 2010.
13.Jump up ^ Yankovic, Alfred M. (September 1999). "'Ask Al' Q&As for September, 1999". The Official "Weird Al" Yankovic Web Site. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
14.^ Jump up to: a b c Yankovic, Alfred (2013), "Jurassic Park", 'Weird Al' Yankovic Official Limited Edition Trading Cards (Volcano Records) (50)
15.Jump up ^ Jay Levey, "Weird Al" Yankovic (2003) [2003]. 'Weird Al' Yankovic: The Ultimate Video Collection (Liner notes). Volcano Entertainment. 82876-53727-9.
16.Jump up ^ Hazen, Natalie. "For Nearly Three Decades...". Splitsider.com. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
17.^ Jump up to: a b Salm, Arthur (January 20, 1994). "Wallace, Gromit Return in Delightful Claymation". The San Diego Union-Tribune (MLIM Holdings). Retrieved April 28, 2013.
18.^ Jump up to: a b "Hits of the World". Billboard 106 (8). February 19, 1994. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
19.^ Jump up to: a b c Yankovic, Alfred M. (February 1995). Visions of Gray. Interview with Jeff Elbel. Retrieved June 23, 2010.
20.Jump up ^ Yankovic, Alfred M. (January 2000). "'Ask Al' Q&As for January, 2000". The Official "Weird Al" Yankovic Web Site. Retrieved June 23, 2010.
21.Jump up ^ "Video Monitor". Billboard 111 (34). Aug 21, 1999. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
22.Jump up ^ "Video Monitor". Billboard 111 (39). Sep 25, 1999. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
23.Jump up ^ "The 37th Grammy Nominations". Los Angeles Times (Tribune Company). January 6, 1995. p. 16. Retrieved June 14, 2012.
24.Jump up ^ "1994 Best Music Video, Short Form". Past Winners Search. National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. 1995. Retrieved June 14, 2012.
25.^ Jump up to: a b Cohen, Amanda (October 8, 1993). "Entertainment". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Block Communications). Retrieved April 28, 2013. (subscription required)
26.^ Jump up to: a b Kenny, Glenn (March 18, 1994). "Alapalooza Review". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved June 14, 2012.
27.Jump up ^ Owen, Rob (October 31, 1993). "'Weird Al's Latest Venture Into Parody is a Little Weak". Richmond Times-Dispatch (Berkshire Hathaway). Retrieved April 28, 2013. (subscription required)
28.Jump up ^ Jurassic Park CD single (liner notes). "Weird Al" Yankovic. California, USA: Scotti Bros. Records. 1993.
29.Jump up ^ Schwartz, Jon (December 11, 2008). "Jurassic Park". The Official "Weird Al" Yankovic Web Site. Retrieved June 23, 2010.


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Jurassic Park (song)
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"Jurassic Park"

Single by "Weird Al" Yankovic

from the album Alapalooza

B-side
"Frank's 2000" TV"
Released
October 1993
Format
CD, cassette
Recorded
July 16, 1993
Genre
Comedy rock
Length
3:53
Label
Scotti Brothers
Writer(s)
Jimmy Webb, Al Yankovic
Producer
"Weird Al" Yankovic
"Weird Al" Yankovic singles chronology

"Taco Grande"
 (1992) "Jurassic Park"
 (1993) "Bedrock Anthem"
 (1993)

"Jurassic Park" is a parody of Jimmy Webb's single "MacArthur Park" written and performed by "Weird Al" Yankovic; it was released both as a single and as part of Yankovic's Alapalooza album in October 1993. "Jurassic Park" was penned by Yankovic after he remembered the enjoyment he had when he combined a classic rock track with a recent movie topic with his 1985 song "Yoda". Yankovic decided to combine the plot of the recent movie Jurassic Park—a film about a park on a fictional island where geneticists have succeeded in cloning dinosaurs.
The song was paired with an elaborately animated music video, which was created by Mark Osborne and Scott Nordlund almost entirely via claymation. The video did not receive extensive play on MTV, although it was popular on The Box, VH1, and in Canada, where it was played on MuchMusic. The video, due to its animation, also later went on to be praised at various animation festivals worldwide.
"Jurassic Park" was met with mixed to positive reviews; while many reviewers enjoyed Yankovic's humor, others felt that the song did not satirize the source material, but instead merely recounted the plot to the movie. Webb himself was very pleased with the final result and has been known to sing the parody lyrics in concert. Although the single did not chart in the United States, it peaked at number 5 on the Canadian magazine The Record's single chart. The video was also nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video at the 37th Grammy Awards, although it did not win.


Contents  [hide]
1 Writing
2 Recording and lyrics
3 Music video
4 Release 4.1 Reception
4.2 Reviews
5 Track listing
6 Charts
7 Credits and personnel
8 See also
9 References

Writing[edit]
Yankovic was inspired to write the song after he heard the The Kinks' song "Lola" while driving in his car one day. He noted, "I was driving a rent-a-car through Florida when the song 'Lola' came on the radio, and it got me thinking about how much fun I had doing 'Yoda' [a song from 1985's Dare to Be Stupid] where I took a then-current topic and combined it with a classic rock tune."[1] He soon turned his attention to the film Jurassic Park—about a park on a fictional island, where geneticists have succeeded in cloning dinosaurs. The film is based on the 1989 novel of the same name by Michael Crichton—which had just come out and was already a blockbuster success. Yankovic decided to write a parody about the movie, and considered various songs that he could spoof. Eventually, he decided to parody the 1968 hit single "MacArthur Park", which was performed by Richard Harris. Yankovic approached the original song's writer, Jimmy Webb, who agreed to the idea.[1] In fact, Webb was so amused by the parody that he penned a letter to Yankovic stating "Well, this [the parody] oughta [sic] bury that song once and for all!"[2] In addition, Yankovic received permission from Crichton and director Steven Spielberg to produce the track.[1]
Recording and lyrics[edit]
Yankovic entered the studio to record "Jurassic Park" on July 16, 1993.[3] Backing Yankovic were Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz on drums, Steve Jay on bass, and Jim West on guitar.[4] "MacArthur Park" contained an actual orchestra complete with a strings section.[5] "Jurassic Park", however, features synth strings courtesy of keyboardist Brad Buxer, who programmed the section himself.[4][6] Intermixed during the interlude are various dinosaur sound effects courtesy of Sandy Berman; Berman had previously created dinosaur yells for a major theme park attraction, and loaned Yankovic the sound effects.[7] At 3:53 in length, the song is considerably shorter than the original, which clocks in at 7:21.[4][8] Largely, this is due to the fact that the middle section featured in the original—the so called "After the Loves of My Life" section[5]—is omitted from Yankovic's parody.[9][10]
The song itself recounts both the plot of the movie, and contains various in-jokes and references therein.[4] One line about lawyers—"A huge tyrannosaurus ate our lawyer/Well, I suppose that proves they're really not all bad"—was deliberately placed in the song to be ambiguous, as it could either be referring to lawyers or dinosaurs as being "not all bad".[4][11][12] The song also makes various pop culture references, alluding to the idea of an E ticket and Barney.[4]
Music video[edit]



 A claymation version of "Weird Al" Yankovic, surrounded by dinosaurs. The video was directed by Mark Osborne and Scott Nordlund, and completed in two months.
When it came time for a video for "Jurassic Park", Yankovic opted to use stop-motion and claymation; he joked during a Q&A that this was because "it's just too hard to find real live dinosaurs these days."[13] "Jurassic Park" was Yankovic's first video that was entirely animated—previous videos, such as "Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies" and "Dare to Be Stupid" had featured elements of animation.[1][14] The video was directed by Mark Osborne and Scott Nordlund.[15] Yankovic initially heard of the duo from Bill Manspeaker, the leader singer of the comedy rock band Green Jellÿ.[1] After being hired for the project, the two "basically turned a private residence in Los Angeles into a clay animation studio."[14] The two worked between July and August 1993, and slept in shifts, so that the final project would be ready for its release in October of 1993.[1][14] One critic noted that the music video seems to have been done in the style of Will Vinton's Dinosaurs! – A Fun-Filled Trip Back in Time![16] The video parodies scenes from, as well as the general plot of the 1993 movie, and contains a myriad of sight-gags—as is usual for Yankovic's videos—such as a claymation version of Steven Spielberg running from dinosaurs, Barney having his head ripped off, and a Velociraptor attempting to break down a door, only to realize it has a key.[17]
Release[edit]
Reception[edit]
"Jurassic Park" was released as the lead single from Yankovic's 1993 album Alapalooza. The single did not chart in the United States. However, the song was a sales success in Canada, and peaked at number 5 on the Canadian magazine The Record's single chart.[18] The video for "Jurassic Park" received light rotation on MTV. Yankovic later explained in an interview that "[MTV] played it a few times, and then just yanked it, because it wasn't really part of their sound."[19][20] However, the single was a success on The Box and they played it "incessantly".[19] Furthermore, in Canada, the song was a massive success on MuchMusic. Due to this, Alapalooza is Yankovic's best selling album in Canada, with over 200,000 units sold, according to Music Canada.[19] However, the video was played and remained popular on VH1 well after its release; it ranked within the Top 50 Most-Played Clips during the months of August and September of 1999, according to Billboard magazine.[21][22] The video for "Jurassic Park" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video at the 37th Grammy Awards,[23] but lost to the video for "Love Is Strong" by The Rolling Stones.[24] Nonetheless, it received attention in animation festivals worldwide for its use of claymation effects.[1]
Jimmy Webb was particularly pleased with the finished product. According to Yankovic, several times during different concerts in New York and Los Angeles that Yankovic was in attendance, Webb would start to perform the original, feign forgetting the words, and then invite Yankovic on stage to help him sing "Jurassic Park" instead. For a Christmas present one year, Webb even sent Yankovic a rubber dinosaur mask as a joke. Yankovic later noted that Webb "was the coolest".[2]
Reviews[edit]
Chris Hicks of the Deseret News called the single "absolutely hilarious", and rhetorically asked "who else would think of adapting that ridiculously popular movie's themes to new lyrics for Jimmy Webb's classic ditty 'MacArthur Park'?"[11] Hicks' felt that the song's funniest moments involved the jokes revolving around lawyers and the mention of Barney.[11] Amanda Cohen of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote that it combined "the schlock of the original song with schtick about the dinosaur movie" and proved that "Yankovic is as funny as ever".[25] Furthermore, she noted that it was evidence that "his voice improves with every new release".[25] In a review of the Spike and Mike's Festival of Animation, Arthur Salm called the piece a "knockout" and praised the humor, specifically highlighting the claymation cameo of Steve Spielberg and the "goofy velociraptor" from the opening of the video.[17]
Some critics felt that the song did not satirize the source material, but instead merely recounted the plot to Jurassic Park. Entertainment Weekly referred to the claymation video for the "Jurassic Park" as "clever but toothless".[26] The magazine argued that Yankovic's parody did not satirize the original material, but instead transposed new elements on top of them.[26] Rob Owen of Richmond Times-Dispatch wrote that the song "does nothing but recount the plot of the hit movie" and that "dinosaurs don't lend themselves to music".[27]
Track listing[edit]
CD single[28]1."Jurassic Park" – 3:53
2."Frank's 2000" TV" – 4:04
Promo single[29]1."Jurassic Park" – 3:53
Charts[edit]

Chart (1994)
Peak
 position


Canada The Record Singles Chart
5[18]

Credits and personnel[edit]
"Weird" Al Yankovic – vocals, background vocals, production, arrangement[4]
Jim West – guitar
Steve Jay – bass guitar
Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz – drums
Brad Buxer – keyboards, synthetic orchestration
Sandy Berman – dinosaur growls
Tony Papa – engineering
See also[edit]
List of singles by "Weird Al" Yankovic
List of songs by "Weird Al" Yankovic
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Hansen, Barret (1994). Permanent Record: Al in the Box (liner). California, United States: Scotti Brothers Records.
2.^ Jump up to: a b Yankovic, Alfred M. (April 1999). "'Ask Al' Q&As for April, 1999". The Official "Weird Al" Yankovic Web Site. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
3.Jump up ^ Yankovic, Alfred M. (December 2007). "Recording Dates". The Official "Weird Al" Yankovic Web Site. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
4.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Alapalooza (liner). "Weird Al" Yankovic. Scotti Brothers Records. 1993.
5.^ Jump up to: a b "Harris, Richard MacArthur Park – Phonograph Recording Contract". The Wrecking Crew. Retrieved April 18, 2012.
6.Jump up ^ "The Players". The Official "Weird Al" Yankovic Web Site. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
7.Jump up ^ Yankovic, Alfred M. (August 1999). "'Ask Al' Q&As for August, 1999". The Official "Weird Al" Yankovic Web Site. Retrieved June 23, 2010.
8.Jump up ^ A Tramp Shining (liner). Richard Harris. Dunhill Records. 1968.
9.Jump up ^ The 'Weird Al' Yankovic Anthology: Piano – Vocal – Guitar. Cherry Lane Music. July 1, 1996. ISBN 9781575600215.
10.Jump up ^ MacArthur Park (Sheet Music). Canopy Music. 1968. ASIN B000PI5W4Q.
11.^ Jump up to: a b c Hicks, Chris (November 28, 1993). "Weird Al's 'Jurassic' is Comedy Classic". Deseret News (Deseret News Publishing Company). Retrieved April 28, 2013. (subscription required)
12.Jump up ^ Yankovic, Alfred M. (December 1998). "'Ask Al' Q&As for December, 1998". The Official "Weird Al" Yankovic Web Site. Retrieved June 23, 2010.
13.Jump up ^ Yankovic, Alfred M. (September 1999). "'Ask Al' Q&As for September, 1999". The Official "Weird Al" Yankovic Web Site. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
14.^ Jump up to: a b c Yankovic, Alfred (2013), "Jurassic Park", 'Weird Al' Yankovic Official Limited Edition Trading Cards (Volcano Records) (50)
15.Jump up ^ Jay Levey, "Weird Al" Yankovic (2003) [2003]. 'Weird Al' Yankovic: The Ultimate Video Collection (Liner notes). Volcano Entertainment. 82876-53727-9.
16.Jump up ^ Hazen, Natalie. "For Nearly Three Decades...". Splitsider.com. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
17.^ Jump up to: a b Salm, Arthur (January 20, 1994). "Wallace, Gromit Return in Delightful Claymation". The San Diego Union-Tribune (MLIM Holdings). Retrieved April 28, 2013.
18.^ Jump up to: a b "Hits of the World". Billboard 106 (8). February 19, 1994. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
19.^ Jump up to: a b c Yankovic, Alfred M. (February 1995). Visions of Gray. Interview with Jeff Elbel. Retrieved June 23, 2010.
20.Jump up ^ Yankovic, Alfred M. (January 2000). "'Ask Al' Q&As for January, 2000". The Official "Weird Al" Yankovic Web Site. Retrieved June 23, 2010.
21.Jump up ^ "Video Monitor". Billboard 111 (34). Aug 21, 1999. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
22.Jump up ^ "Video Monitor". Billboard 111 (39). Sep 25, 1999. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
23.Jump up ^ "The 37th Grammy Nominations". Los Angeles Times (Tribune Company). January 6, 1995. p. 16. Retrieved June 14, 2012.
24.Jump up ^ "1994 Best Music Video, Short Form". Past Winners Search. National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. 1995. Retrieved June 14, 2012.
25.^ Jump up to: a b Cohen, Amanda (October 8, 1993). "Entertainment". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Block Communications). Retrieved April 28, 2013. (subscription required)
26.^ Jump up to: a b Kenny, Glenn (March 18, 1994). "Alapalooza Review". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved June 14, 2012.
27.Jump up ^ Owen, Rob (October 31, 1993). "'Weird Al's Latest Venture Into Parody is a Little Weak". Richmond Times-Dispatch (Berkshire Hathaway). Retrieved April 28, 2013. (subscription required)
28.Jump up ^ Jurassic Park CD single (liner notes). "Weird Al" Yankovic. California, USA: Scotti Bros. Records. 1993.
29.Jump up ^ Schwartz, Jon (December 11, 2008). "Jurassic Park". The Official "Weird Al" Yankovic Web Site. Retrieved June 23, 2010.


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