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
Eleanor Holm to the "New York Times". This sensational divorce trial was called "the war of the Roses" and is the subject of a chapter in Louis Nizer's book "My Life in Court." Several months later, she married Thomas Whalen, an oil-drilling executive. In 1966, Holm was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame. She died of renal disease in Miami, Florida, on January 31, 2004 at the age of 90. Holm is portrayed by Heidi O'Rourke in the 1975 film "Funny Lady". A protagonist based on Eleanor Holm, with the fictionalized name Eleanor Emerson, appears in the 2012 novel "Flight