One of the many tricks Van Smith employed to get the actors in John Waters’ films to look like crud was to have them eat a bag of potato chips and then photograph them in direct sunlight. Smith, who designed the makeup for the first six Waters films and the costumes for all of them, died December 5 of a heart attack at home in Marianna, Florida. He was 61. Known as “an artist and a terrorist” (which collide stunningly in the face of Divine), Smith met Waters in the mid-’60s while at the Maryland Institute College of Art and they bonded over shared interests in art, film, and LSD. (Read this)