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Producer Dino De Laurentiis had a monkey on his back last week-and a whole jungle of would-be actors on his hands. Preparing to shoot the closing scenes in his new version of King Kong, the film maker placed a newspaper ad requesting unpaid volunteers for a crowd scene at the foot of Manhattan's World Trade Center. Instead of the 5,000 people expected, nearly four times that number showed up to see Kong bleed Karo syrup and breathe his last. ("A mob of paid extras is one thing," said a nervous production chief, "but this...
Finally, there was the Olmec monkey trinket that the prosecution said had been given to her by S.L.A. Member Willie Wolfe. It was found in her purse when she was arrested-a fact that led jurors to wonder about her claim that Wolfe had raped her and that she could not stand him. "I believe she really did love Willie Wolfe," said a woman juror...
...apparently neglected to get the ape off the drawing board. All of the 40-ft. mechanical Kong he has so far is a pair of mighty arms that cost $450,000 and have developed on-camera arteriosclerosis. The producer has rushed over so many Italian technicians to get the monkey off his back that pasta is outselling pastrami at the studio commissary. Director John Guillermin (Towering Inferno) is about out of scenes he can shoot without his star, and the production is reportedly closing down for three weeks. The cost of Kong may be horrendous. When Paramount solicited prices...
Browning attacked Patty's credibility-a key issue-by dangling in front of the jury a small, stone figurine of a monkey. Patty was carrying the object in her purse on the day she was arrested last September. The prosecution claimed it was a gift from S.L.A. Member William Wolfe, who was killed during the shootout with police in Los Angeles. "She couldn't stand Willie Wolfe," said Browning, but she carried that stone with her to the day she was arrested. "Yet there is the little stone face that can't say anything but, I submit...
...also very complex, requiring agression and patience, attack and watch-fulness, all in equal doses. A collection of Go proverbs exists that rivals a text of religious sayings: "There is death in the hane;" "Play at the head of two stones;" and 'The monkey's jump is worth eight points," for example...