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...made for $650,000, a significant figure at the time, high enough to require special pleading from Selznick with East Coast stockholders. It brought in $5,000,000 on the first release alone. And those were mid-Depression dollars. Think of it as the "Star Wars" of the '30s - a blockbuster. Boffo at the B.O., as Variety would...
Cooper (L) and Schoedsack (R) Thus "Kong" was born from Cooper-Schoedsack's own experience as documentary filmmakers, Willis O'Brien's test reels, a fairy tale plot line conceived by Hollywood veteran James Creelman and Schoedsack spouse Ruth Rose, and a naïve '30s view of the great ape as nature's ultimate killing machine. Like the dragons, the displaced ape would die in the city; even better, he would die on the just-completed Empire State Building, the ultimate expression of human technical achievement, and he would be killed by airplanes, the ultimate engine of destruction. Cooper...
...euphorically powerful, convincing us that we were capable of anything. And in many ways we were. We were all young, promising, on the verge of exciting careers in glamorous fields. There was Trey, an American magazine writer, like myself, in his 20s; Hiroko, a Japanese woman in her 30s who worked for a Tokyo woman's magazine; Delphine, an aspiring French model and Miki, an A. and R. man for a Japanese record label. When we would sit down together in my Nishi Azabu apartment to smoke the drug, our talk turned to grandiose plans and sure-fire schemes...
...sales of his recordings (including more No. 1 hits, by far, than either Elvis Presley or the Beatles had) were astronomical. He was Hollywood's biggest box-office draw for five consecutive years in the '30s, and if dollars are adjusted for inflation, he was the third biggest box-office draw in motion-picture history. He was also a dominant (perhaps the dominant) radio personality from the mid-'30s to the mid-'50s. Despite these accomplishments, almost no one (including TIME) gave Bing more than passing mention when all those "100 best of the century" lists were being cranked...
...bands ran amuck in the music press--as did disdain from other musicians, who saw the newcomers as rip-offs. But in January, Coldplay won three nominations for Brit Awards (the British Grammys), including Best British Group and Best British Album. Radiohead, whose members are in their early 30s and whose most recent album, Kid A, has met with massive critical acclaim and popular success, is up for those two awards as well. If Coldplay can steal just one Brit from Radiohead at the awards ceremony on Feb. 26, it will confirm its claim as the cute Radiohead alternative, instead...