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...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...
...happy. He coolly divides women tennis players into four categories. In Class A, of course, are the stars. He wishes he designed for Evert, but notes, "Anybody can dress a sugarplum fairy. The challenge is Margaret Court. She walks like the Queen of Sheba, but she plays like a gorilla. I have to bring out the Queen of Sheba...
...cuffs, please-at least not on the suit being tailored for Hollywood's newest screen giant. He is, after all, a 40-ft. mechanical gorilla named King Kong, and after months of appalling technical problems, he is almost out of the woods and onto the sets of Producer Dino De Laurentiis' monster movie. While the $3 million Kong endured some final tinkering on his hydraulic hands last week, workers began fitting his horsehair covering onto a wood-and-Styrofoam standin. Once the suit is transferred to the star, the unnaked ape will team up with Actors Jeff Bridges...
...Section 18 rowdy climbed the ladder behind the old scoreboard and disappeared from sight for a few minutes. He reappeared over the top of the scoreboard in a gorilla suit and climbed to the ceiling, to an appreciative crowd...
Evening its Ivy record at 2-2, Harvard proved about as graceful on the damp astroturf of Franklin Field as a gorilla on roller skates. The Crimson was simply unable to maintain any consistency on offense, before two second-half defensive lapses proved to be its undoing...