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54 • THE ARTISAN SPRING 2020 EXTENDED FAMILY NEWS Ellis "Sonny" Burman (1935-2020) Journeyman Make-up Artist From Tom Burman: My brother Ellis Burman Jr. hated the name Ellis, so my father nicknamed him Sonny. Growing up, I idolized him and tried to be like him. We both helped my father in his prop-making shop whenever he needed us. We made molds, cast, trimmed and painted the artifacts like tomahawks, war clubs, rifl es, pistols, swords and all kinds of cool stuff. Sonny joined the Marine Corps and served in Korea and then later in Viet Nam. During that time, I was an apprentice at Fox working under John Chambers on Planet of the Apes. Sonny had just gotten out of the hospital on convalescent leave and I invited him to come and visit me at Fox. He still had a couple of weeks left, so I asked John if we could give him a few days In Memoriam Journeyman make-up artist Adam Brandy has a second grandchild. Jackson Elliot Brandy was born on November 22, 2019, to Brandy's son Adam and his wife Scarlett. The newest family member weighed in at 8 pounds, 9 ounces and was 21 inches long. Reese Avery Childers was born January18, 2020. She is hair stylist Catherine Powell Childers' fi rst grandbaby. A gift from her son Matt. It's a second grandchild for Camille Henderson, journeyman make-up artist. Cyrus Atticus Moreno was born March 13, 2020, at 5:37 p.m. to her son Michael and his wife Marissa. Cyrus weighed 8 lb, 6 oz and was 21 inches long. Brittany and Tony Ingram's (Mom is a member) baby Willow Simone Ingram was born January 13, 2020, at 5:03 p.m. and weighed 7 lb, 10 oz Congratulations to journeyman hair stylist Aubrey Marie Lundgren and husband Scott Lundgren on the birth of their son Elwood "Woody" Townes Lungren. He was born November 20, 2019. Pandemic, Party of Two! On April 4, 2020, Local 706 hair stylist Josie Peng and actor/writer/director Tommy O'Rourke were married by their dear friend "Reverend" Sitara Falcon in a private ceremo- ny in the mountains of Malibu. of work since everyone at that time was working in our union. John hired him and he did body make-up on the humans in the cornfi eld. During the two weeks, he worked, he made more money than he would in six months in the Marines. He didn't reenlist again. He worked on Beneath the Planet of the Apes and later was able to land a staff job at CBS on All in the Family, The Carol Burnett Show, The Smothers Brothers Show and The Bill Cosby Show. Eventually, John Chambers and I formed a partnership with him and opened the fi rst independent make-up studio to serve not only our fi lm and television industry with prosthetics, but also undercover work helping the CIA perfecting their dis- guises. Sonny and I ended up buying John's interest out and a couple of years later, I bought out Sonny's interest. He would in turn, start his own company called Cosmekinetics. Sonny never thought of himself to be a good artist, but he was. He considered himself to be more of a lab technician, but I think his mechanical abilities were unprecedented for that time. Being brothers, we had so much fun together and we had our squab- bles, but I always loved him. It is hard to realize that he is gone.