monsterbaker wrote:

The thinking on publishing photos way before the movie was they were afraid that some one would shoot a bad photo of the make up and put it on the net , as we were filming a lot of locations and someone already snuck some shots of Benny without make-up. So they figured that it would be better to put out some good shots of the make-up before bad ones surfaced.

Interesting answer, Rick. Kind of a shame, a real sign of the times, that you have to worry about the danger of your work getting photographed without permission and then spread across the world via the internet.

Reminds me of when folks were trying to get photos of the mechanical sharks from JAWS prior to the release of the film, only in 1974 they didn't have the internet to worry about.

Different times we live in now.