Word: dinos
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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...
...knows most of them to be--generally hungover, self-deluding, myth-gobbling and over-rated. So the real question remains: why choose this metaphor in the first place? Maybe Altman just wanted to give his real actors an improvising hey-dey. Or perhaps he meant only to provoke Dino De Laurentis, his producer. But in a day when far more pretensious films produce far less needed results, a hot-foot for De Laurentis almost seems justification in itself...
After a troublesome nine-month gestation, King Kong is alive and well and going through toilet training in Hollywood. The 40-ft. star of Dino De Laurentiis' $22 million ape epic made his public debut at MGM's back lot and, considering that his innards are almost as complex as those of a Polaris missile, the king showed surprisingly few kinks. (The ape whose death was staged last June at Manhattan's World Trade Center for the film's final scene was a Styrofoam stand...
Buffalo Bill and the Indians. After seeing his bomb, it's not difficult to see why Dino de Laurentis pulled Altman off the Ragtime project. Altman is best at presenting little stories, but he has this awful tendency to cast himself as the grand philosophe. In Buffalo Bill, the oracle has come down from the mountain to tell us that we have lied to ourselves about our history and that we mistreated the Indians. How interesting. At the Cheri III, in Boston...
...Producer Dino De Laurentiis had a monkey on his back last week-and a whole jungle of would-be actors on his hands. Preparing to shoot the closing scenes in his new version of King Kong, the film maker placed a newspaper ad requesting unpaid volunteers for a crowd scene at the foot of Manhattan's World Trade Center. Instead of the 5,000 people expected, nearly four times that number showed up to see Kong bleed Karo syrup and breathe his last. ("A mob of paid extras is one thing," said a nervous production chief, "but this...