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There have been flops, of course, like The Valachi Papers, but with Serpico and, Death Wish De Laurentiis has made killings as well as an admirable reputation as a man who is as good as his word if he makes a verbal commitment (and a bad enemy to someone who...
It was doubtless the appeal to his gaming instinct that caused him to enter into negotiations with RKO for rights to remake the original while rounding up a portion of his financing. Then in June 1975 Universal released Jaws. It was a picture about a giant creature, and it started...
Eyeball to eyeball, Dino blinked briefly by proposing that he join forces with Universal to make the picture. "But they want their script. She is just a remake of Kong, set in the 1930s. I say, 'No, we gotta do the picture in modern day only. I do mine...
Most of the action sequences, in which audiences see Kong rampaging around his jungle habitat or tearing around New York, were done by a man in a monkey suit. He is Rick Baker, 25, a makeup man responsible for, among other things, aging Cicely Tyson to 100-plus in television...
Possibly the most remarkable piece of Kongcraft, however, is the giant arms employed mainly to pick up and caress Jessica Lange, 27, the model-turned-actress who plays his inamorata, Dwan. The hands are 6 ft. across and the arms weigh 1,650 Ibs. each. They were designed and built...