Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Janos came upon Baker on a Paramount sound stage last week, the actor was still in full Pongidaean regalia: from hairy ape costume down to the special contact lenses he wore to simulate the smoky, mysterious eyes of a gorilla. "You need eye contact with a person you're interviewing," says Janos. "And those apelike eyes were chillingly disconcerting." He finally decided to talk with Baker after hours, when they could meet man to man, so to speak. Sighed Baker as his interviewer departed: "Now you know what it must have been like to be King Kong...
...South Africa will still control its security, its telecommunications and immigration. Forty-five percent of all Transkeians, and 80% of its adult males, will continue to work "abroad" in South Africa, which is just as well, because there are few jobs at home. After independence, the state's ruler, Paramount Chief Kaiser Matanzima, will ask South Africa to give the Transkei more land to ease overcrowding (together, the nine homelands have only 13% of South Africa's land area). Pretoria is expected to refuse, on the rather arch grounds that such a request would amount to interference by a foreign...
...western curiosity called Terror of Tiny Town, acted by midgets. After meeting persistent, not to say astounded resistance, Parker and Marshall had to put up more than $50,000 of their own money to get initial work on the movie under way. Various film-investment outfits and Paramount supplied the balance of the nearly $1.5 million budget, part of which was spent acquiring 100 gallons of synthetic cream and over 1,000 pies to fuel the action scenes...
...Paramount movie will be released at 1,000 theaters just before Christmas. Then Kong will go into rehearsal for the sequel, King Kong in Africa. By that time, perhaps, someone will have devised a Kong-size diaper...
...whitewashed cornflakes of the original. He spliced in stock avalanche footage, inserted some cretinous English dialogue (sample: "There's no food left ... What are we going to do?"), added a bombastic score, and cut the original by about one-third. The film is ignoble, demeaning hokum. Nevertheless, Paramount has spent $1 million to promote...