Word: dinos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...must pronounce a blessing on Dino de Laurentiis for allowing an old Kongophile the chance to view the second coming of the King...
Listening to Dino de Laurentiis, one gets the distinct impression that this master of sensationalistic tripe would re-make Michelangelo's David and build it 500 ft. tall if he thought there were a buck to be made. The late Willis O'Brien, who expressively animated the original King Kong, must be turning in his grave...
...plus in television's Miss Jane Pittman. "Slightly dippy about gorillas," admits Baker, he began making great ape costumes as a kind of hobby long before he signed on to create Kong's face and form for De Laurentiis. Baker was pressed into service subito when Dino's son Federico, 21, who has screen credit as executive producer, advertised in the Hollywood trade papers for "a tall, well-built black man" to play the monkey. The ad infuriated civil rights groups and created the film's major publicity gaffe. At that point, Baker slipped into...
...values match the special effects. Kong's South Seas habitat was a remote spot in the Hawaiian Islands-where a honeymoon couple went to sleep on the beach one night, convinced they were removed from all worldly intrusions. They were awakened, alas, at dawn by the arrival of Dino's minions in four helicopters...
Perhaps the most successful of Dino's last-minute improvisations was the casting of Jessica Lange in the old Fay Wray role. Streisand almost signed on, then backed away. Cher would have been acceptable, but was visibly pregnant when production started. Then began a search for an unknown, which followed another mythical pattern: the fashion model flown out from Manhattan for a test; a first meeting with an unimpressed producer; the discovery by the director that she had one of those faces the camera loves; the producer's quick reversal of opinion; a hasty contract signing...