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...camera; Kong on the Empire State Building defying the planes that are coming to kill him. There were pictures of the giant mechanical head and hand of Kong. There was an illustration showing a section of the Empire State sloped like a ski ramp, with a man in a gorilla suit climbing while photographed from directly above. The graphic had been taken from a movie magazine that was getting out some prerelease publicity; like the facts in most movie magazines, it was incorrect. There was never a man in an ape suit in any part of the film, as "Famous...
...reading has its consolations. "Profiles" is a treasurehouse of old American invective. A veteran senator, instructing an incoming freshman, catalogues his colleagues as they walk down the Senate aisle: "The jackal; the vulture; the sheep-killing dog; the gorilla; the crocodile...
...MOUNTAIN GORILLA Weight: 200 lbs. to 400+ lbs. From: Africa Secret Weapon: Intimidating nostrils...
...Decrease in the gorilla population in one of the safer sections of the war-torn park, from 245 to 130 in four years...
...Covina, on that day in 1960 when Baker caused panic by covering a neighbor boy with a fake third-degree burn. "I realized it was a pretty sick thing to do," he says. That's when little Rick turned his attention to primates. "Because of King Kong, the gorilla was the perfect Hollywood monster. I really felt it was something that I could do. So I started on this quest at a very early age." And that's how Rick Baker ended up on his very own planet...