Ultimate Dolph

Andy Warhol with Grace Jones, Christopher Makos, Antonio Lopez, Tina Chow, Dolph Lundgren and others at the opening of Antonio's exhibition at Parsons School of Design in New York City on February 3, 1983.

Andy documented the event in his diary:
"Went to Antonio's show at Parsons with Jon (cab $4). It was really crowded and I got mobbed for autographs, and I was signing away, and Grace Jones was refusing to sign autographs, telling the girls and boys to get lost, but then when she saw me signing so much, I think she got embarrassed, so she came over and explained that her public liked it better when she treated them that way. I couldn't believe her.
Then to the Keith Haring opening (cab $4). It was on the Lower East Side, at the Fun Gallery, it's called. So we walked into the place and there's Rene Ricard, and he's screaming, 'Oh my God! From the sixties to the eighties and I'm still seeing you everywhere!' And I said how could he have said all those awful things about me in the Edie book and he said that I should have seen it before they cut it.
And Keith's show looked good, it was his pictures hanging on a background of his pictures. Like my Whitney retrospective show was—all hung on top of my Cow wallpaper. We left there and Chris and Peter wanted to go to the Coach House, naturally, because it was the most expensive place."

Jamesflavell wrote:Here's the link: https://collection.powerhouse.com.au/object/605792

I also found a copy of the photo on another site - which labelled the event as being in New York in 1982. However, Sydney seems more likely, given the timing, and how youthful DL looks in the shot - more an image we would associate with his time in Australia than the one he cultivated on arrival in the USA (in 1983??)

Introduced as “a true genius of makeup artistry,” Michael Westmore — whose five-decade résumé includes a record 45 Emmy noms and ranges from the breathtaking beauty of Elizabeth Taylor to the bloody Rocky series and the Romulans in multiple Star Trek series — received the group’s Vanguard Award.

He did what Armin Sherman described as the “groundbreaking and shockingly realistic” makeup for Robert De Niro’s Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull, but the Movie Academy had yet to establish a regular Oscar for hair and makeup. “It is said that Raging Bull prompted the Academy to finally recognize the makeup and hair artistry with its own award,” Sherman said.

The first Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling was presented the following year, to An American Werewolf in London.

Dolph Lundgren, who played Drago in Rocky IV and met Westmore while working on Masters of the Universe, came out to present the award in a surprise move. A video clip offered tributes from some of Westmore’s subjects: Sylvester Stallone, William Shatner and Mask star Eric Stoltz.

“My whole career has been so wonderful,” Westmore said from the stage. “My family has been so supportive of me, and everyone in my family has been doing something in showbiz.” That would be his wife Marion Bergeson Westmore — whom he called “the Mother of Star Trek” — daughters McKenzie Westmore and Michele Westmore Meeks, son Michael Westmore II and brother of Marvin Westmore.

He also said his grandfather was Winston Churchill’s barber in 1900 and later became the father of continuity in motion pictures circa 1917, leading to every studio having a hair and makeup department.

Jox wrote:Dolph presented Life Achievement Award to legendary make-up artist Michael Westmore (ROCKY, RAGING BULL, and MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE...) at Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild Awards:
https://twitter.com/DigitalLA/status/17 ... 64/video/3
https://deadline.com/2024/02/makeup-art ... 235827851/

Photos:
https://www.gettyimages.ca/photos/dolph ... 20lundgren