Word: crew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this week's cover story on the making of the 1976 version of King Kong, Janos talked with Producer Dino de Laurentiis, Director John Guillermin and many members of the film's cast and crew of thousands. They were no difficulty. The hard job, literally, was making contact with Gorilla Mime Rick Baker, who stood in for the 40-ft. "audioanimatronic" Kong in scenes that were shot in miniature...
...ignores the spoken script, however, the movement of and non-verbal sounds issuing from the actors are fascinating. Director Kerry Konrad has blocked the episodes gracefully, and the crew of bodies (for they are more symbols than individuals) performs with relish and coordination. The multi-headed snake projects a refreshing sense of comic glee while outwitting Eve. Transitions between scenes pose bemusing riddles as the limp, floored torsos of the actors ease into new being. One puzzles over the nature of their metamorphoses, wondering if they are stirring into yawns or anguished gapes; labored breathing or sensual sighs; pained squirming...
Ford vigorously defended his quick and forceful use of the Marines, Air Force and Navy to rescue the U.S. container ship May ague z and her 40-man crew from the Cambodians in May 1975. On the eve of the debate, the General Accounting Office issued a report suggesting that the mission, which cost 41 American lives, was unnecessary because diplomatic efforts might have accomplished the same ends without bloodshed. The President angrily described the report's authors as "grandstand quarterbacks" and said, with considerable justification, that he would have been "criticized very, very severely for sitting back...
...report's release by the congressional watchdog agency seemed intended to help Carter, but he ducked the issue-probably wisely, because the rescue mission was highly popular. He faulted Ford only for not releasing all the information that he had about the incident immediately after the ship and crew were rescued. Said Carter: "The President has an obligation to tell the American people the truth and not wait 18 months later for the report to be issued." Actually, there was little in the report that had not already been disclosed by the Administration...
...candidate looks like a smalltown professor, vintage 1956: the haircut is modified crew, the clothes drab and slightly ill-fitting, the rhetoric sparing and precise. The other candidate actually is a professor, but with his practiced flamboyance, a wardrobe of elegant mismatches and a manner that oscillates from pixie to pedagogue and back within a 60-second monologue, he comes across more like a ripe character actor in search of his next role. The contrast is appropriate because rarely do voters get a chance to choose between candidates for the Senate-or any other office-who differ so clearly...