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With King Kong set to swing into 2,200 theaters and 17 countries, the great ape's publicity agents have been beating their drums with predictable frenzy. To celebrate the Paris opening, Paramount workers in Hollywood dismantled a 40-ft. Kong model used in the film, shipped it on trucks to New York, then by cargo jet to France. Last week while crowds gathered, the reassembled simian superstar lay in state halfway up the Champs-Elysées with all the grandeur of an embalmed potentate...
...early fall, when problems of vaccine supply and distribution became paramount, officials did not stress the need for a second dose. The assistant director of the national swine flu program, Dr. H. Bruce Dull, said after an October speech at the School of Public Health that he thought one injection would be adequate...
...this is swell for the producer; for Paramount, which put up $6 million in return for the U.S. distribution rights; and for the rest of the backers, mostly European bankers. But the really good news - assuming the last half of the picture is as exciting as the first - is that the movie lives up to its potential. King Kong looks to be a dream of a bopper...
...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 breaks his word) Says Paramount Boss Barry Diller: "Ever since Dino arrived on the scene, the major studios have had to be much more on their toes. Dino moves fast and makes all his own decisions-none of this corporate delay for him." If Kong hits big-in the Jaws category-De Laurentiis could make...
...played most of her big scenes with a thing, not an actor, and that sometimes she worked to no more than a mark on the wall where the ape would be in the finished picture, her accomplishment is considerable. "We've signed her for 700 years," says Paramount's Diller, exaggerating slightly. Lange, who for some time had led a wandering sort of existence as an art student, dancer and model, has invested some of her Kong salary in a home on Lake Nebagamon, Wis., where her parents now live. Just as Dwan stands on the brink...