The Bite Magazine - Spring/Summer 2020 - Issue 27

bite award spotlight hairstyles for Madonna and worked on Pirates of the Caribbe- an 1, 2 and 3 creating the looks for Johnny Depp’s Jack Spar- row. “I wish I had a penny for every single Halloween wig that ever turned out after that film,” he joked. The late John Singleton, best known for directing Boyz n the Hood received a special John Singleton In-Memoriam honour presented by longtime friends and associates Craig Brewer, writer and director of Memphis along with the late di- rector, and Rob Smith, Associate Producer of Dolemite Is My Name. His daughter Justice Singleton was on hand to accept the award, given with love from the Guild whose members worked closely with Singleton on numerous projects. The young writer and director, Singleton’s oldest daughter, recalled how she would always see her father whose other directorship included Poetic Justice, Shaft, Baby Boy, 2 Fast 2 Furious, and Four Brothers in a hair and make-up trailer and never his own. She said it was there he would have his most truthful questions not just about the character of the story but about life. In closing, she thanked Andrea Jackson, Deborah Denson and others in hair and make-up who were not just her father’s friends, but his family. www.muahsawards.com