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...spectacularly expansive. Where once the Big Guy had just a handful of prehistoric creatures to deal with, he now has herds of them. But Jackson's other improvements are ludicrous, most notably the fate of poor Ann Darrow, the actress who becomes Kong's victim/love object. In the original, Fay Wray came to sympathize with the beast. But Watts plays Ann as a seductress, consciously leading the big lug on. Suffice it to say that King Kong has lost its divine innocence. And our response to the ape's doom, once touched by authentic tragedy, is now marked by relief...
...from Hambleton's gardens, changes with the seasons to incorporate game, wild mushrooms and truffles. The hostelry, perched on a slope leading down to Rutland Water, the largest man-made lake in Western Europe, has won a raft of hospitality awards, not least for its relaxed yet flawless service. "Fay ce que voudras" (Do as you like) reads an inscription in medieval French above the entrance. The exhortation was incised in Victorian times but reflects proprietor Tim Hart's service philosophy. Hart converted the 1881 Gothic and mock Tudor stone mansion from a hunting lodge to a hotel 25 years...
...Fay Malissa Philadelphia
...Mountain Hawks gave up a first down to the Bulldogs before forcing Yale’s Jeff Mroz into three straight incompletions to end the game.With starting quarterback Mark Borda out with a leg injury, Lehigh sophomore Sedale Threatt threw a three-yard touchdown pass to Greg Fay with 4:42 remaining and tossed the two-point conversion pass to Pete Morelli to tie the game.Yale (2-3) had a chance to win the game at the end of regulation, but Mroz was picked off in the endzone by defensive back Julian Ahye to send the game into overtime.Borda threw...
...talking GM here, the world's largest automaker--Kerkorian practically wrote the how-to book on such tactics. In the late '70s he loaded up on shares of Columbia Pictures, then turned into such a litigious nightmare that Columbia bought his stake for a 50% premium, a settlement that Fay Vincent, then CEO of Columbia, called "greenmail" (a characterization disputed by a Kerkorian spokesman). In the '90s Kerkorian was at the center of a gear-grinding saga with Chrysler. After buying a big stake and standing by for a few years, he launched a hostile takeover bid with Lee Iacocca...