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...filmed for a fraction of a second at a time--was a revelation, the ultimate fantasy. If Kong appears jerky and slightly ridiculous to us, it must have seemed so to them--except they appreciated Kong's artificiality, they wanted to see the strings. A realistic 60-foot gorilla would have been a bit much for people who a mere 30 years before had dived out of their seats at the sight of a moving train on the screen, afraid it would run them over. Both the film-makers and the main characters were adventures--creating special effects...
...addiction of Willie B., the Atlanta gorilla [Jan. 22], should not surprise us. It merely lends credence to the widely held belief that television producers have lowered the intellectual content of their programming to the subhuman level...
Willie B. is a 450-lb. gorilla at the Atlanta Zoo. In December a Tennessee TV dealer heard about Willie B.'s lonely life as the zoo's only gorilla and gave him a TV set. Then, last week, someone stole the set mounted outside the cage...
Coury, playing guarded, projects RSO business for next year at 75% of 1978, but admits: "That's a lot." The Bee Gees are dishing up a new album in February that Coury predicts will be "a gorilla." There will be new albums from the small roster of 13 RSO acts, and a record package of Evita, a pop-top opera about Eva Peron that is S.R.O. in London. Al Coury has to love it all. "I don't love vacuum cleaners and underwear. But I love music, and I can sell it." And it will be sold. What comes...
...into view. The smell was overpowering, the sight unworldly. There were no marks of violence, no blood. Only a few bodies showed the gruesome signs of cyanide rictus. Outside there were three dead dogs, poisoned. Down the road in a large cage was 'Mr. Muggs,' the commune's pet gorilla. He had been shot. In a tree-shaded area was Jones' home, a three-room bungalow. Bodies were scattered through all three rooms, some on beds, others on the floor. The quiet was broken only by the meowing of a cat beyond the porch...