Alien (film) caused an usher to faint. In the following scene, Ash's head is placed on a table and re-activated; for portions of this scene, an animatronic head was made using a face cast of the actor, Ian Holm. However, the latex of the head shrank while curing and the result was not entirely convincing. For the bulk of the scene, Holm knelt under the table with his head coming up through a hole. Milk, caviar, pasta, fiber optics, and glass marbles were combined to form the android's innards. Giger made several conceptual paintings of the adult Alien before settling on the
Steve Holm Steve Holm Stephen Robert Holm (born October 21, 1979) is a former American professional baseball catcher and the current head coach of the Illinois State University baseball team. Holm attended Sacramento's McClatchy High School, where he played shortstop. He earned 3rd Team All-American honors as a shortstop for Oral Roberts University in 2000. Holm was drafted by the Giants in the 17th round in . He beat Eliezer Alfonzo and Guillermo Rodríguez to earn a position on the major-league roster in spring training, but got sent down for Eliezer Alfonzo on July 1, 2008. He got re-called on July 23,