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  • http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/entertainment/118812004.htm Skinny Naomi Watts Concerned Fay Wray December 20, 2005, 6:40:20 FAY WRAY CONCERNED ABOUT 'SKINNY' NAOMI WATTS Late actress FAY WRAY was unsure about NAOMI WATTS taking on her character in the new movie remake of KING KONG - because she found her "a little too skinny". Wray, who passed away last year (04), starred in the original 1933 giant ape movie as heroine ANN DARROW, and met briefly with Watts before filming began on the new PETER JACKSON version. But Wray's daughter VICTORIA RISKIN admits her mother was concerned about the star's weight. She says, "They had dinner together with Peter and his wife. My mother told me she thought Naomi was a lovely person... though maybe too skinny. She thought that would be all right." And Riskin was thrilled by the way director Jackson approached the project. She adds, "I've seen the original probably a dozen times. There was a little moment where Naomi read her lines when they're getting on the ship, and the lines were exactly as they were in the first film. "Overall, I think Naomi's performance had the same intelligence, charm and pluck that my mother had."
  • http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/Artists/W/Watts_Naomi/2005/12/11/1348771.html Naomi Watts takes over for Fay Wray Before her death in 2004, the original scream queen of King Kong gave Naomi Watts her blessing By JIM SLOTEK -- Toronto Sun NEW YORK -- If you're set to play King Kong's latest girlfriend, it's not the most auspicious beginning to have Fay Wray scream at you -- and we don't mean in terror. But that's how it went when Naomi met Fay -- Naomi Watts being the leading lady in Peter Jackson's big, noisy $200-million homage to the 1933 classic. "Meeting Fay was wonderful. And at 96, her humour was still right there," Watts says of dinner with the famous screamer. "Peter introduced me to her as 'the new Ann Darrow.' And she looked at me and said (shouting) YOU'RE NOT ANN DARROW, I AM! I'M ANN DARROW! "We had a nice dinner and chitchatted, and at the end of the night we dropped her off and all kissed and hugged and she whispered in my ear , 'Ann Darrow's in good hands.' Those were some great parting words because it felt like she was giving me permission. I was given the baton." The Canadian-born film legend died a few months later in August, 2004. And though she remained "concerned about living up to this iconic part," Watts did make a case for her own screaming recently, when she broke a window with a shriek. "I was asked to scream on a live TV show and we were on a hotel balcony and they had a hot light on a window going through to me on the balcony. So I think the combination of my scream and the heat from the lamp created some weird vibration and it literally cracked from floor to ceiling. I've never been able to do it again." The irony is that in this King Kong, the ape and Ann Darrow get the screaming over with in fairly short order and become fast friends. The actress even makes him laugh with vaudeville dance moves (like its predecessor, the movie follows a film crew's adventure from Depression era New York to mysterious Skull Island). "You've got two desperate beings," Watts says. "Kong is desperately lonely and hasn't had companionship for years, and (Darrow) suffers from the same thing only in a very different way from her tough life in New York." So it's a love story, a triangle in fact, given that she has a human love interest too, in playwright Jack Driscoll (Adrien Brody). "Someone said to me, if those two were welded into one, it would definitely be the perfect man. Adrien is the wordsmith and Kong has all the soul, and the power as well." She stops and laughs at her own analogy. "You just have to go there," she says. In fact, the soulful monkey eyes she stared into throughout filming belonged to Andy Serkis. The actor who "created" Lord Of The Rings' Gollum via "motion capture" CG, took that to the next level by providing the template for Kong, down to the tiniest facial movement. "Andy and I had very good chemistry. There were times we'd fall down laughing going, 'What are we doing? He was always up in this big tractor thing and that was my eyeline. But I'm supposed to fit in the palm of his hand for when he was doing motion capture, so we gave him Barbies and dressed them up and that was me." One aspect she couldn't empathize with was having to be rescued. "I was raised by a woman who's a complete survivor and she taught my brother and me how to do it ourselves," Watts says. Her father, Peter Watts, a sound engineer for Pink Floyd, died when Naomi was young. And her mother Miv kept the family on the move before they settled in Australia. Watts credits that example for helping her stick it out for years in Hollywood before breaking in Mulholland Drive, The Ring and 21 Grams (for which she earned an Oscar nom). "That's why I loved that Ann Darrow is a survivor. When we meet her she's at an absolute low point, resorting to stealing food. I can identify with struggle. Maybe not to that degree, but I know what it is to struggle."
  • http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.asp?j=165327550&p=y653z8z56&n =165328310 Stars shine for monster premiere 08/12/2005 - 20:43:58 The premiere of the epic movie King Kong roared into town tonight. English born Naomi Watts, who played the heroine Ann Darrow was among the stars who attended the glittering event in London's Leicester Square. Peter Jackson, the director of the big ace movie, who has slimmed down to a shadow of his former self, said making a new version of his dream film had been hard work. The exhausted looking Lord of the Rings director, after promoting his movie in New York to Berlin and then London added: "I'm relieved it's all over. The crowds here are great, this is such a great city". But he said making the film, which inspired him to become a director when he watched it in his childhood had been "a dream". Jerry Hall's arrival with her two daughters model Elizabeth and Georgia May provided the night's glamour highlight. Naomi Watts, who was wearing a midnight blue Christian Lacroix dress, said: "I met Fay Wray (the original 1933 King Kong heroine) before doing the film and it really moved me so she said she approved of me in the part". The blonde actress, who although born in England, grew up in Australia and is thought to have attended tonight's event with some of her family said: "Unfortunately I'm only going to be here for about six seconds so I'm not going to have much time for a holiday, it's freezing". Jamie Bell, 19, who went back to school after his Billy Elliot success and in recent years re-launched his film career said: "Playing the ship's lookout Jimmy has been brilliant. "It was an amazing experience. "Peter cared about these characters so much, it was a fantastic thing, and we were all part of one family". Andy Serkis, who brought Gollum to the screen in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, doubled for the computerised Kong. The British star said of the two roles: "I loved them both. Over the last 4-5 years I've become particularly attached to Gollum because he's so devious and schizophrenic and represents a part of my personality. "Kong is more honest and represents another part of my personality. But I don't want to be typecast". Adrien Brody, who also stars in the film said: "This has been a personal dream of Peter's and its amazing that he fulfilled it". Oscar winning director Jackson was given complete creative control of his new $200m film, which is reported to have gone another $28m over budget. Fans flocked to tonight's premiere, at the Odeon, Leicester Square, but unlike the New York event there was no giant gorilla on display.
  • Richie wrote: > Dustbunny wrote: > that ALL gorillas have pot bellies > go see this POS I just watched the original again and never realized how freaking gorgeous FW was. MC Keeper of Giovanni Ribisi!
  • Dustbunny wrote: > On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 13:53:07 -0800, Rick in Oz wrote > (in article ): > get his obsession w/remaking a silly movie about a giant ape. Gorilla. > Whatever. =================== not to mention that ALL gorillas have pot bellies maybe the kiddies will go see this POS give me Fay Wray any day btw
  • "Kris Baker" If you watch the original "King Kong" with Faye Wray, you'll see a brief > scene of Faye topless. > In Kong, Fay Wray is topless for about 0.5 seconds. If you blink before it happens you miss the whole thing, and we are talking a fuzzy shot with her about 30 feet away, not a nice big close-up chest-first into the camera.
  • http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/story/338821p-289317c.html This year's fall and winter movie season looks fantastic. That doesn't mean it's going to be particularly good, just that there are so many ... fantasies. There are children's fantasies like "Zathura" and "The Chronicles of Narnia"; gravity-defying fantasies like "The Legend of Zorro" and "Aeon Flux"; the animated fantasies "Chicken Little," "Tim Burton's Corpse Bride" and "Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-rabbit"; sci-fi adventures "Serenity," "Doom" and "A Sound of Thunder"; the fourth Harry Potter movie, and Peter Jackson's remake of the ultimate fantasy-adventure, "King Kong." We begin our preview at the end of August, but the string of fantasies gets an early start on Friday with Terry Gilliam's galloping "The Brothers Grimm," which has more references to classic fairy tale characters than all the other coming fantasies combined. Some analysts may attribute the rash of fantasy films to the escapism that comes with war, and that may play a role. But it seems just as likely that fantasy reigns because the ability to create incredible images today makes the genre irresistible to storytellers. The trailers for all of the above movies are linked on the Web sites www.apple.com/trailers and www.imdb.com. Take a look and you'll agree: They look fantastic. Fall/winter is also Oscar season, and there are plenty of potential contenders. The high-profile films with awards ambitions include Steven Spielberg's "Munich," a drama based on the search for the planners of the assault on Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games; Rob Marshall's "Memoirs of a Geisha," based on Arthur Golden's acclaimed novel about a woman who spends her life in the high art of pleasing, and Terrence Malick's "The New World," an epic account of the first Virginia colony and the meeting of John Smith and Pocahontas. Recent Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski returns with a new version of Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist," and Marc Forster'>Marc Forster ("Finding Neverland") turns to drama with "Stay," the story of a psychiatrist's efforts to stop a patient from carrying out a suicide threat. Two Broadway musicals make the transition to the screen. Susan Stroman, who directed "The Producers" on stage, handles the film adaptation as well, while Chris Columbus directs "Rent." A few laughs Comedies abound. Among them are: "Rumor Has It," starring Jennifer Aniston as a female version of "The Graduate's" Benjamin Braddock; "The Man," a buddy film featuring unlikely chemistry between Samuel L. Jackson and Eugene Levy; "The Weather Man," starring Nicolas Cage'>Nicolas Cage'>Nicolas Cage'>Nicolas Cage as a TV weather guy who wears his bad forecasts on his shoulders, and a pair of old-fashioned family films about families that are too big - "Yours, Mine, and Ours" and "Cheaper by the Dozen 2." The following schedule may have changed by the time the ink was dry on this newspaper. But the great majority of films listed are locked in to those dates. Every New Film AUG. 31 The Constant Gardener Brazil's Fernando Meirelles ("City of God") directs Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz in an adaptation of John LeCarre's thriller about a British diplomat rousted from his Nairobi garden to investigate the murder of his activist wife. Games of Love and Chance Abdel Kechiche directs the Cesar-winning drama about a group of French students coming of age in a political pressure cooker of a French project. William Eggleston in the Real World Director Michael Almereyada followed the 65-year-old avant garde photographer, musician, draftsman and videographer across country for this intimate documentary portrait. SEPT. 2 The Underclassman Action-comedy starring Nick Cannon ("Drumline") as a young L.A. detective who goes undercover at a posh prep school to break up a stolen car ring. Directed by Marcos Siega ("Pretty Persuasion"). A Sound of Thunder Edward Burns, Ben Kingsley'>Ben Kingsley and Catherine McCormack star in an adaptation of a Ray Bradbury story about a group of people who travel back to the dinosaur era and cause a chain reaction that alters the future to which they return. Directed by Peter Hyams ("Timecop"). The Transporter 2 Jason Statham returns as Frank Martin, a man who delivers anonymous packages to anonymous clients, no questions asked. Inevitably, the packages get him into trouble, this time with a gun-toting blonde (Amber Valletta). SEPT. 7 Touch the Sound Documentary about symphony percussionist Evelyn Glennie, a child prodigy from Scotland who lost her hearing at age 12 but didn't miss a beat. At 40, she's still performing. SEPT. 9 The Exorcism of Emily Rose Laura Linney plays a lawyer defending a priest (Tom Wilkinson) accused of murder after his exorcism of a possessed woman leaves her dead. With Campbell Scott. The Man Comedy of mistaken identity starring Samuel L. Jackson as a special agent whose search for his partner's killer leads him to a dorky salesman (Eugene Levy). Directed by Les Mayfield ("Encino Man"). Curandero "Sin City's" Robert Rodriguez wrote the for this horror movie about a man caught up in black magic in Mexico City. Director Eduardo Rodriguez is apparently no relation. An Unfinished Life Lasse Hallstr=F6m's sentimental drama brings the unlikely pairing of uptight rancher Robert Redford and emotional single mom Jennifer Lopez. Don't expect sparks, though: he's a grieving father, and she's the woman who married, and then accidentally killed, his son. Can her preteen daughter unite them, or will she become just another wedge in their long-simmering enmity? More important, will Lopez benefit from a boost in her lukewarm screen career, or has the shelf-life on this much delayed movie already expired? Steal Me A 15-year-old boy abandoned by his mother befriends another boy his age and moves in with his family, soon developing a crush on both his friend's mother and the sexy older woman living next door. Keane Lodge Kerrigan ("Claire Dolan") directs Damian Lewis ("Dreamcatcher") in a psychological drama about a man haunted by the disappearance of his 6-year-old daughter at Manhattan's Port Authority Bus Terminal - or was it all in his head? The Outsiders - The Complete Novel Francis Coppola's elongated version of his 1983 adaptation of the S.E. Hinton novel. The DVD goes on sale immediately after the release. Cote d'Azur French comedy about a family whose seaside vacation gets a little foamy when the couple's daughter takes up with a biker and their son drifts off with his best friend, who is secretly in love with him. Walking on the Sky A group of six New York friends have to wrestle with the new dynamics in their relationships when another member of their circle kills himself and leaves behind a revealing diary. Directed by and starring New York native Carl T. Evans. Green Street Hooligans Elijah Wood plays a wrongly expelled Harvard student who moves to London, where he is instantly drawn into the violent subculture of soccer hooliganism. With Charlie Hunnam, Claire Forlani. Music From the Inside Out Daniel Anker documentary weaving together a mosaic of the stories, ideas and experiences of the 105 members of the Philadelphia Orchestra, a musical institution that hasn't participated in a film since "Fantasia." Answering the Call Documentary honoring the people who answered emergency calls on 9/11. SEPT. 14 The Future of Food Documentary about genetically engineered products that have become part of the U.S. food chain - whether they're good for us or not. Directed by Deborah Koons Garcia, widow of Jerry Garcia. SEPT. 16 Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang Big-fee action screenwriter Shane Black ("Lethal Weapon") makes his directing debut with his own about a New York actor (Robert Downey, Jr.) who impersonates a detective and gets himself in all sorts of trouble. With Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan. Lord of War Nicolas Cage'>Nicolas Cage'>Nicolas Cage'>Nicolas Cage is an international gun dealer in Andrew Niccol's topical black comedy, which co-stars Ethan Hawke as an Interpol agent intent on bringing him down. With Donald Sutherland, Ian Holm, Jared Leto. Just Like Heaven "Mean Girls"' Mark Waters directs Mark Ruffalo and Reese Witherspoon in a romantic fantasy about a young man and the spirit of a comatose doctor who fall in love while sharing an apartment. Once they're over their, uh, dimensional differences, the race is on to keep her body from being taken off life support. Proof Last time director John Madden and Gwyneth Paltrow worked together, she landed herself an Oscar. Though more erudite and intimate than "Shakespeare in Love," Madden's adaptation of David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning play might just catch the eyes of Academy's voters, too. Reprising a role she has already tackled on the London stage, Paltrow plays an overwhelmed young woman rapidly losing her grip after the death of her father (Anthony Hopkins), a brilliant math professor. Hovering around the edges are her concerned support system: brainy admirer Jake Gyllenhaal'>Jake Gyllenhaal and coldly practical sister Hope Davis. The Woods Psychological horror film about the students of an all-girl boarding school who begin to go missing in the surrounding woods. Patricia Clarkson is the headmistress and Agnes Bruckner'>Agnes Bruckner is the new student caught up in the mystery. Separate Lies It's been a while since we were faced with the sight of middle-class Brits keeping a stiff upper lip while suppressing dangerous secrets. Fortunately, Emily Watson and Tom Wilkinson are always willing to suffer stoically for our entertainment. "Gosford Park" screenwriter Julian Fellowes makes his directorial debut, while Watson and Wilkinson play a long-married couple who are still quite happy together (aside from the passionate affair and possible homicide she's hiding). Venom Jim Gillespie ("I Know What You Did Last Summer") directs another teens-in-trouble horror picture, this one involving voodoo in the bayous of Louisiana. With Agnes Bruckner'>Agnes Bruckner (poor thing), Bijou Phillips. The Libertine Johnny Depp takes on the role of notorious 17th-century poet, derelict and debaucher John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester and grand embarrassment of Charles II (John Malkovich). Samantha Morton is the actress who comes under Wilmot's shaky tutelage. Adapted from his play by Stephen Jeffreys and directed by first-timer Laurence Dunmore. Tim Burton's Corpse Bride Another day, another Johnny Depp-Tim Burton collaboration. Not that we're feeling cavalier about it: These two have given us some of the most unusual movies in recent years. Since Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and "James and the Giant Peach" are among them, we have high hopes for this latest stop-motion animated fantasy, which is based on an old Russian folk tale about a young groom (voiced by Depp) who inadvertently finds himself with two wives (he could do worse than Helena Bonham Carter'>Helena Bonham Carter and Emily Watson). Thumbsucker Offbeat comedy about a 17-year-old boy whose infantile habit of sucking his thumb makes him the subject of ridicule and isolation even in his own home. But the people trying to help him kick the habit are even stranger. With Tilda Swinton, Vincent D'Onofrio, Keanu Reeves, Vince Vaughn. It's the first feature directed by Mike Mills, maker of the well-received short "Paperboys." Everything Is Illuminated Actor Liev Schreiber makes his writing and directing debut with his adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's darkly comic best seller about a young American Jew who travels to Russia to find the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. With Elijah Wood. One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern Documentary about the 1972 presidential campaign and political humiliation of the idealistic former South Dakota senator. Cry Wolf A high-school prank turns lethal when classmates listed on a joke Web site as the next victims of a serial killer start turning up dead. With Julian Morris, Lindy Booth, Jon Bon Jovi. Hard Goodbyes: My Father Greek drama about a lonely boy who has to rely on his imagination when the father with whom he'd shared a passion for outer space does not come home. The Thing About My Folks Paul Reiser wrote this film and co-stars in it with Peter Falk as a son and father rediscovering the bond between them on a cross-country trip in a restored '36 Ford. Directed by Raymond De Felitta ("Two Family House"). The Weeping Meadow The first film in a planned trilogy by Greek master Theo Angelopoulos follows a pair of refugee children as they come of age in the small Greek village they are brought to after the Russian Revolution. SEPT. 23 A History of Violence With echoes of Alfred Hitchcock's "wrong man" theme and Sam Peckinpah's "Straw Dogs," David Cronenberg's latest film stars Viggo Mortensen as a small-town family man whose celebrated heroism in thwarting and killing two thugs in his diner draws gangsters to town. The one with the deformed face (Ed Harris) claims he knew the hero years before and he has come for some payback. Despite his denials, Mortensen's character ends up having to fight violence with violence. With Maria Bello, William Hurt. Oliver Twist If ever there were a story that suited Roman Polanski's dark sensibilities, it's Charles Dickens' classic saga of an orphan whose fate falls and rises at the mercy of others. The screenplay was written by Ronald Harwood, Polanski's partner on their Oscar-winning "Pianist," so it is always possible that this artistically acclaimed pair aims to entertain adults and youngsters alike, while simultaneously approaching the Academy with a respectful request: "May we have some more?" With Barney Clark as Oliver, Ben Kingsley'>Ben Kingsley as Fagin and Jamie Foreman as Bill Sykes. Flightplan In her first starring role in three years, Jodie Foster plays a recently widowed woman whose 6-year-old daughter disappears in the middle of a trans-continental flight from Berlin to New York. Since no one else on the plane remembers seeing the girl, they question whether she was there only in her mother's mind. Daltry Calhoun Johnny Knoxville returns to his hometown as a roustabout and would-be golf magnate whose ex-wife (Elizabeth Banks) throws a twist into his life by dropping their 14-year-old daughter at his door. Roll Bounce Nick Cannon, Bow Wow and Mike Epps star for "The Best Man" director Malcolm D. Lee in this comedy-drama about a group of hip-hop roller skaters preparing for a competition on the other side of 1970s Chicago. Dear Wendy Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg, two of the founders of the Danish film collective Dogme 95, team up as writer (von Trier) and director (Vinterberg) of this parable about America's contradictory gun culture. It follows a group of teenage outcasts in a fictional mining town who form a secret club known as "The Dandies." Their purpose - to love and admire guns but never use them on anybody - soon goes out the window. Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D Tom Hanks produced and narrates this 3-D IMAX film that re-creates for the audience what the 12 astronauts who have walked on the moon experienced. Into the Fire Drama about a troubled NYPD harbor cop who freezes during a rescue attempt of a drowning woman and tries to make peace with his conscience and the victim's identical twin. With Sean Patrick Flanery and Melina Kanakaredes from TV's "Providence." Dorian Blues Coming-out story about a young man who, on the cusp of moving to New York, begins showing his preference for men, much to the dismay of his right-wing father and his jock brother. 7 Dias Mexican film about a U2 super fan determined to raise the half-million dollars it would cost to bring the band to his country. Dirty Love Jenny McCarthy wrote this comedy and co-stars in it with Carmen Electra. It's about a jilted woman who sees a psychic to find out where she should search for true love. Occupation: Dreamland Documentary focusing on the men of the 82nd Airborne in Iraq and on the Army's recruitment tactics. SEPT. 28 Forty Shades of Blue Rip Torn plays a legendary (and doesn't he know it) Memphis music producer whose comfy existence is shaken when his young Russian trophy wife (Dina Korzun) falls in love with his estranged son. SEPT. 30 Capote The estimable Philip Seymour Hoffman plays the late novelist and social gadfly Truman Capote. It's not a conventional biopic, but an account of the writer's research for "In Cold Blood," his classic "nonfiction novel" about the murders of a Kansas farm family and the subsequent trials and executions of their killers. Catherine Keener is Harper Lee, Capote's young associate (and future author of "To Kill a Mockingbird") and Clifton Collins Jr. plays the killer Perry Smith, with whom Capote developed a strong relationship. Bennett Miller is the first-time director. The Greatest Game Ever Played Shia LaBeouf ("Holes") stars for director Bill Paxton in the dramatization of 20-year-old American amateur golfer Francis Ouimet's legendary victory at the 1913 U.S. Open in Brookline, Mass. Stephen Dillane plays Harry Vardon, the cocky British champion who was humbled before the golfing world. Into the Blue "Blue Crush" director John Stockwell goes back to the water for this thriller about a group of buff young divers who find a fortune in the cargo bay of a sunken airplane and make the mistake of keeping it. With Paul Walker and Jessica Alba. MirrorMask British fantasy about a 15-year-old circus entertainer whose guilt over her mother's illness sends her into an alternative universe of contrasting light and dark kingdoms. Serenity Feature-length finale to Joss Whedon's 13-episode sci-fi TV series "Firefly," about a group of adventurers aboard a space transporter 500 years in the future. Here, Capt. Mal Reynolds (Nathan Fillion) and his crew are being chased by the galaxy-ruling Alliance, which wants to reclaim the telepathic fugitive River (Summer Glau) traveling with them. Little Manhattan Mark Levin, a story editor for "The Wonder Years," makes his directing debut with this tale of first love between two 12-year-olds. The War Within Drama about a Pakistani engineering student who is mistaken for a terrorist and placed in confinement. The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio Julianne Moore is a mother of 10 helping her luckless husband (Woody Harrelson) make ends meet by entering - and winning - jingles contests in the 1950s. Adapted from the memoir of Terry Ryan, whose mother did such things. Going Shopping Henry Jaglom directs his wife, Victoria Foyt, in a story about a clothing boutique owner's wild experiences during a Mother's Day weekend sale. OCT. 5 The Squid and the Whale Noah Baumbach, son of former Village Voice film critic Georgia Brown, wrote and directs a loosely autobiographical drama about two brothers dealing with their parents' divorce in 1980s Brooklyn. With Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney. OCT. 7 Goodnight, and Good Luck This drama, directed by George Clooney, is built around the public fight between legendary broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow (David Strathairn) and Sen. Joseph McCarthy. In the 1950s, McCarthy was the most visible member of the witch-hunting House UnAmerican Activities Committee, which destroyed the careers of innocent people from all walks of life by associating them with Communists. Murrow led the reaction to McCarthy and got labeled a Communist for his trouble. CBS News stuck with Murrow despite the pressure, and McCarthy's power began to fade. Clooney co-stars as CBS news producer Fred Friendly and Frank Langella plays the corporation's chief, William Paley. In Her Shoes Curtis Hanson ("L.A. Confidential") goes all soft on us with this story about two estranged sisters (Cameron Diaz and Toni Collette) who are reconciled by the grandmother (Shirley MacLaine) they never knew they had. Two for the Money Matthew McConaughey is a former college football star whose track record for handicapping sporting events draws him into the world of high stakes gambling, where nothing short of his life will be at stake. With Al Pacino as the betting agency mogul who comes to rely on and dominate him. Directed by D.J. Caruso ("The Salton Sea"). The Gospel An R&B star (Clifton Powell) faces a spiritual crisis when he returns home on learning of the illness of his father, a church bishop, and his boyhood rival's plans to take over the church. With Omar Gooding. Before the Fall German drama about a young boxing prospect whose repulsion over Nazi atrocities sets him against the biggest opponent of all. Waiting An "American Pie"-style comedy about the crude and rude employees of a restaurant whose name - Shenanigans - describes their behavior. With Ryan Reynolds, Anna Faris, Justin Long. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-rabbit What are the odds we'd have two stop-motion movies to look forward to this season? (Strangely enough, Helena Bonham Carter'>Helena Bonham Carter lends her voice to both.) Already the subject of three Oscar-nominated shorts, inventor Wallace and his dog Gromit make their feature debut in a comedy about a mysterious monster who's destroying the garden plots of an English village. Naturally, it's up to our intrepid heroes to stop him. "Chicken Run," the last import from the inspired minds at Aardman Animation, was a surprise smash. Wallace and Gromit deserve nothing less. Dandelion A coming of age story about a 16-year-old boy and how his search for his identity is connected with the various forms of love that are missing from his life. OCT. 12 Henri Langlois: Phantom of the Cinematheque Documentary about the film archivist who inspired French New Wave directors Godard, Truffaut, Rohmer and Chabrol. OCT. 14 Nine Lives Rodrigo Garcia directs a series of nine vignettes about women getting on with their lives in Los Angeles. Each segment is done as a single 10-minute take. With Sissy Spacek, Robin Wright Penn, Glenn Close and Holly Hunter. Elizabethtown Orlando Bloom is an industrial designer hit with three pieces of devastating news: his girlfriend (Jessica Biel) is breaking up with him; he has lost his job because of a disastrous mistake, and his father has died. On the plus side, he meets an irrepressible flight attendant (Kirsten Dunst) traveling to his father's funeral in Kentucky and realizes that his life may get better - if it doesn't get worse. Written and directed by Cameron Crowe ("Almost Famous"). North Country Oscar-winner Charlize Theron'>Charlize Theron ("Monster") stars in a fictionalized account of the landmark 1984 sexual harassment case involving a woman working in the Minnesota mining industry and her male co-workers. With Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson. Directed by Niki Caro ("Whale Rider"). Domino Keira Knightley'>Keira Knightley assumes the title role in Tony Scott's highly exaggerated account of the adventures of British actor Laurence Harvey's daughter, who turned her back on a modeling and potential acting career to become a bounty hunter; she died at age 35 in June. With Mena Suvari, Mickey Rourke. Where the Truth Lies Atom Egoyan ("The Sweet Hereafter") adapts Rupert Holmes' novel about a young journalist (Alison Lohman) probing for the truth of a 15-year-old scandal that destroyed the careers of a revered showbiz duo (Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth). The Fog Rupert Wainwright ("Stigmata") directs the remake of John Carpenter's 1980 horror film about the ghosts of long-buried lepers who rise on a dense fog surrounding a coastal California town. Selma Blair and Maggie Grace are among the terrorized. Loggerheads Three interwoven stories about a young gay man (Kip Pardue), his biological mother (Bonnie Hunt) and his adoptive parents (Chris Sarandon and Tess Harper). Innocent Voices Based on screenwriter Oscar Torres' childhood experience, this is the story of a 12-year-old boy who is automatically enlisted in the army in 1980s El Salvador. Directed by Luis Mandoki ("Message in a Bottle"). OCT. 19 Ushpizin Drama about the daily lives of ultra-Orthodox Jews learning, living and loving in modern-day Israel. OCT. 21 Shopgirl Steve Martin'>Steve Martin adapted his slight novella and co-stars with Claire Danes in a story about a salesclerk at a Beverly Hills department store who gets involved with a middle-age sugar daddy. Barely Legal Three high-school sophomores try to make a porno movie in their basement while their parents are at work. The results are disastrous, especially when a school bully wants to participate in the film. Stay Marc Forster'>Marc Forster ("Finding Neverland," "Monster's Ball") directs Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts'>Naomi Watts in a thriller about a psychiatrist's nightmarish effort to prevent a patient from carrying out his threat to kill himself in three days. Kids in America At fictional Booker High in Brooklyn, a group of politically active students joins forces with a fired teacher on a film documenting their campaign against the repressive school principal. Dreamer A "Seabiscuit"-like "underhorse" story about a filly who breaks her leg and is nursed back to health by her trainer (Kurt Russell) at the insistence of his daughter (Dakota Fanning). The horse then returns to the track to try and win the Breeder's Cup. After Innocence Documentary about the reentry into society of seven men released from prison after DNA evidence proved they were innocent of the crimes for which they were sent away for decades. Protocols of Zion Documentary filmmaker Marc Levin takes his camera to the streets of New York to learn from passing anti-Semites why they hate Jews. Doom The Rock stars in Andrzej Bartkowiak's feature version of the super-hot '90s video game about Marines taking on invading monsters on their base on a moon of Mars in the year 2145. Innocence This Belgian-French film is based on an 1888 Gothic novella about young girls growing up in a subterranean boarding school beneath an isolated wood. The Ordeal Belgian psychological drama about a singer who ends up in a creepy, out-of-the-way motel after his car breaks down in the night. Derailed Adapted from James Siegel's heralded first novel, this thriller stars Clive Owen and Jennifer Aniston as illicit Manhattan lovers trying to outwit a violent blackmailer who is much smarter than they are. With Vincent Cassel, Melissa George, RZA, Tom Conti, Xzibit, Giancarlo Esposito. White King, Red Rubber, Black Death Documentary about the brutality of a jungle gulag created by Belgium's King Leopold II in the colonial Congo in 1885. OCT. 26 Ballets Russes Documentary about the famed ballet company, which is about to celebrate its 100th anniversary. OCT. 28 The Legend of Zorro The sequel to the 1998 "Mask of Zorro" traces how Antonio Banderas' Don Alejandro is forced to put on the mask and take up the sword several years after marrying the lovely Elena (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and having a son. The boy is now 10 and unaware of dad's outlaw fame, but he will soon learn as the mark of Zorro begins appearing anew on the landscape and on the bodies of baddies in Old California. Returning director is Martin Campbell. Prime What's a girl (Uma Thurman) to do when she learns that the psychotherapist to whom she's told the most intimate details of her sex life is her boyfriend's mother? For that matter, what's the shrink to do? A comedy by writer-director Ben Younger. Three ... Extremes A pan-Asian sampler of 30-minute horror shorts from China's Fruit Chan, Japan's Takashi Miike and South Korea's Chan-wook Park. The Dying Gaul A grieving gay screenwriter (Peter Sarsgaard) has a shot at selling his about his relationship with his late lover and agent, but there's a Faustian catch: He has to change it to a heterosexual relationship. With Patricia Clarkson, Campbell Scott. Craig Lucas (writer of "Long Time Companion") directs his own . Saw II The serial killer known as Jigsaw returns to terrorize eight more strangers with his murderous game playing in the sequel to last year's Halloween hit. Paradise Now A drama about two Palestinian boyhood friends spending their last day together before going off on suicide bombing missions in Tel Aviv. The Weather Man Nicolas Cage'>Nicolas Cage'>Nicolas Cage'>Nicolas Cage is a Chicago TV weatherman, family man and neurotic whose decision to take a job in New York puts all of his roles at risk in this offbeat comedy. With Hope Davis, Michael Caine. Directed by Gore Verbinski ("Pirates of the Caribbean"). Blackmail Boy A blackmail scheme leads to murder in a small Greek town. NOV. 4 Jarhead Jake Gyllenhaal'>Jake Gyllenhaal is a young Marine forced to grow up fast during Desert Storm. Based on former Marine Anthony Swofford's 2003 best-seller. With Jamie Foxx, Lucas Black. Directed by Sam Mendes ("American Beauty"). NY Doll This documentary about the late Arthur Kane, bassist with the New York Dolls, centers on the notorious glam-punk band's 2004 reunion. The Matador In writer-director Richard Shepard's black comedy, Pierce Brosnan plays an international hit man who, on assignment in Mexico City, befriends, then enlists, a woebegone businessman (Greg Kinnear) as a partner in crime. With Hope Davis, Philip Baker Hall. Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story British comedy actor Steve Coogan ("24 Hour Party People") plays the title character in Michael Winterbottom's audacious adaptation of Laurence Sterne's 1759 novel "Tristram Shandy," about an egocentric country gentleman sharing his views with readers, when not digressing about his family. Chicken Little This non-Pixar CGI cartoon from Disney stars Zach Braff as the voice of Chicken Little, a vigilant sky watcher who proves he isn't always wrong when he says "the sky is falling." Joan Cusack, Don Knotts, Fred Willard and Amy Sedaris also lend their voices. The Family Stone A romantic comedy about a family that circles the wagons when Ben Stone (Luke Wilson) brings home an uptight woman (Claire Danes) he intends to marry. Facing a cold reception, she calls in her sister (Sarah Jessica Parker) for support, then things get really bad. Summer Storm German coming-out story about a camping trip during which one of two best friends discovers he wants more than friendship. NOV. 9 The New World Terrence Malick ("The Thin Red Line") wrote and directed this historical epic about the arrival of British colonists on the coast of North America and their conflicts with the natives they found there. It's the story of John Smith, Pocahontas and John Rolfe, and of the teenage Pocahontas' role in saving the white colonists from her tribe's warriors, and of her subsequent trip to England. Colin Farrell plays Smith, Christian Bale is Rolfe and 15-year-old German-born Q'Orianka Kilcher, partly descended from native South Americans, is Pocahontas. Pulse Remake of a Japanese horror film about a computer virus or supernatural force that turns viewers into suicidal depressives. With Kristen Bell (from TV's "Veronica Mars"). The Swenkas In South Africa, flamboyant, stylish - and straight - blue-collar Zulu men replace their overalls with colorful designer suits to compete in fashion shows of their own making, in a ritual called "swanking." NOV. 11 Bee Season Fans of Myla Goldberg's best seller ought to be happy with the team behind this adaptation: Directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel did a nice job exploring family tensions in "The Deep End." And if any actor can handle the story's spiritual twists and turns, it's surely the Dalai Lama's No. 1 fan, Richard Gere. He plays a theology professor convinced his young daughter (Flora Cross) has a divine connection to another plane. Meanwhile, his teenage son (Max Minghella) and mentally ill wife (Juliette Binoche) are floundering right here on Earth. Take My Eyes Acclaimed Spanish drama about a woman who takes her son and leaves the abusive husband she still loves. Ellie Parker In this low-budget indie comedy, which originated as a 2001 short film project, Naomi Watts'>Naomi Watts plays what she once was, an Australian actress trying to get traction in Hollywood. With Chevy Chase as her manager and writer-director Scott Coffey as her boyfriend. Get Rich or Die Tryin' Taking its cue from "8 Mile," this urban drama is a loosely autobiographical tale about an inner-city thief and drug dealer who leaves prison determined to become a rap star. He's played by - and inspired by - Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson. The director is Jim Sheridan ("In America"). Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic The raw standup comic expounds on politics, race, sex and religion. Cape of Good Hope South African drama about three women whose lives intersect at an animal rescue shelter, to their lasting good. Zathura Less a sequel to 1995's "Jumanji" than another wild game. In this one, directed by Jon Favreau ("Elf"), two young brothers find a space adventure board game in the attic of their California bungalow and are soon hoist - house and all - into the galaxy. Tim Robbins plays their befuddled father. The screenplay by David Koepp and John Kamps was based, like "Jumanji" and "Polar Express," on a book by Chris Van Allsburg. NOV. 16 The Syrian Bride Israeli filmmaker Eran Riklis' drama about a Syrian woman who, in her bridal outfit, is steps away from crossing the border into Israel to meet her groom when politics stops her in her tracks. NOV. 18 Walk the Line James Mangold ("Identity") directs Joaquin Phoenix in this Johnny Cash biopic. Reese Witherspoon plays his wife, June Carter. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire In the fourth part of the series, Harry, Ron and Hermione face down Voldemort's Death Eaters. There have been some grumblings that Mike Newell, the director of "Four Weddings and a Funeral," will not stay true to the daringly dark tone set by his predecessor, Alfonso Cuar=F3n. As Dumbledore tells Harry, "We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy." Here's hoping Newell chose wisely. Pride & Prejudice A new adaptation of Jane Austen's novel about the five Bennet sisters in Georgian England. Keira Knightley'>Keira Knightley is Elizabeth, the most self-determined of the girls, and Matthew MacFadyen is Darcy, the snob whom love will tame. Breakfast on Pluto Director Neil Jordan ("The Crying Game") takes up with another transvestite character in his adaptation of Pat McCabe's novel about an Irish cabaret singer and prostitute who is wrongly accused of planting a bomb in a 1970s London club. With Cillian Murphy ("Red Eye") and Liam Neeson. Wolf Creek Australian horror movie about three young people who follow their spring break with a trip to the outback, where somebody intends to have fun at their expense. NOV. 21 The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things A Southern Gothic movie about a boy learning about the seedy sides of the world while on the road with his impulsive young mother (played by actress-director Asia Argento). With cameos by Winona Ryder, Marilyn Manson and Peter Fonda, among others. NOV. 23 Syriana George Clooney stars in the biographical drama of Robert Baer, a 20-year veteran of the CIA, who worked undercover studying terrorists in the Middle East and became fed up with the growing weakness of the agency and the cozy relationship between the oil-hungry West and a certain government (hint: Saudi Arabia). With Matt Damon, Amanda Peet. Written and directed by Stephen Gaghan. Rent Chris Columbus, director of the first two Harry Potter movies, helms the screen version of Jonathan Larson's Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning rock opera about a group of bohemians struggling with life in the East Village. It stars Rosario Dawson, Taye Diggs and several members of the original Broadway cast. The Ice Harvest "Groundhog Day's" Harold Ramis directs John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton in a comedy about two guys who embezzle $2 million from corrupt Wichita businessmen and are set to make a clean Christmas Eve getaway until an ice storm arrives. Yours, Mine and Ours Dennis Quaid and Rene Russo take over for Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball in the remake of the 1968 comedy about a man with 8 kids who marries a woman with 10. The White Countess The final Merchant-Ivory production (Ismail Merchant died in May) is set in late-1930s Shanghai, where a blind, disillusioned American diplomat (Ralph Fiennes) is making a careful study of the decadent city's rankest bars with the idea of building the perfect dive. Natasha Richardson plays the Russian taxi dancer who catches the diplomat's eye and is recruited as the centerpiece of the club. Dying For Dolly After saving a mafioso's life, a young African-American (R&B star Usher) is rewarded with a job in the mob and puts it in jeopardy by falling in love with the boss' daughter. With Chazz Palminteri, Emmanuelle Chriqui. NOV. 30 The Boys of Baraka Documentary about the experience of a group of Baltimore 12-year-olds sent to an experimental boarding school in Kenya. DEC. 2 Transamerica "Desperate Housewives'" Felicity Huffman plays a pre-op he-to-she transsexual whose plans for the life-changing surgery are disrupted by the discovery of a son (Kevin Zegers) fathered 20 years before. Aeon Flux Charlize Theron'>Charlize Theron has the title role in this adaptation of the cult MTV action series about a physically agile heroine working as a rebel operative in a walled city run by scientists 400 years in the future. With Frances McDormand, Sophie Okonedo. Be Here to Love Me Documentary about the late, hard-living songwriter Townes Van Zandt, with appearances by fans Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett, Steve Earle and Kris Kristofferson. The Kid and I California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger makes his first post-inauguration movie appearance in a comedy about a 17-year-old boy with cerebral palsy whose wealthy father (Joe Mantegna) decides to grant his wish by financing an action movie for him to star in. First Descent A documentary about snowboarding. DEC. 9 Memoirs of a Geisha Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li and Michelle Yeoh, three of the most beautiful Asian actresses, star in the adaptation of Arthur Golden's epic novel about a peasant girl who is sold by her father to a geisha house in 1920s Japan. As she flowers into adulthood, she becomes the most desired geisha in the popular Gion district, and learns not only the nuances of her profession but about human nature. With Ken Watanabe. The director is "Chicago" Oscar nominee Rob Marshall. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe What, you thought there was room for only one series of CGI-heavy epics made in New Zealand from an Oxford don's quasi-religious, mythical stories of good and evil ? Whether "Shrek" director Andrew Adamson can do as well by C.S. Lewis as Peter Jackson did by J.R.R. Tolkien remains to be seen, but this tale of four children who discover the land of Narnia and fight the evil white witch (Tilda Swinton) holds even more box-office promise. While "The Lord of the Rings" had three parts, "Narnia" has seven. Brokeback Mountain Ang Lee ("Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon") directs Jake Gyllenhaal'>Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger in an adaptation of Annie Proulx's short story about two ranch hands who - to their great surprise - fall in love in 1963 Wyoming. With Michelle Williams. DEC. 14 King Kong Why, you ask, do we need another version of the 1933 classic? Because the 1976 remake with Jessica Lange was awful and the special effects in the black-and-white original are a bit too rudimentary for today's audiences. Besides, Peter Jackson, hot off the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, was willing to do it. Unlike the '76 movie, Jackson's film is faithful to the Depression period and to the original story. Naomi Watts'>Naomi Watts is in for Fay Wray as heroine Ann Darrow, Jack Black is obsessed filmmaker Carl Denham, and Oscar-winner Adrien Brody ("The Pianist") plays Watts' love interest, Jack Driscoll. Andy Serkis, who did the body-motion performance for the computer-animated Gollum in "Rings," does the same for Kong and also gets a role of his own, as Lumpy the Cook. The Grace Lee Project An Asian-American documentary filmmaker with the extremely common name of Grace Lee sets out to learn what she can about other Grace Lees current and past, and comes to some conclusions about Asian stereotypes. DEC. 16 All the King's Men Sean Penn stars in Steven Zaillian's new version of Robert Penn Warren's 1946 Pulitzer Prize-winning political satire about a populist Southern governor (a thinly-veiled Huey Long) who becomes intoxicated with power. A 1949 adaptation directed by Robert Rossen won Oscars for Best Picture and Best Actor (Broderick Crawford). Jude Law is Jack Burden, the journalist who unwittingly aids the cause of Penn's Willie Stark, and Kate Winslet is Anne Stanton, the governor's niece and Jack's girlfriend. The Promise Chen Kaige ("Farewell My Concubine") directs this romantic fantasy about a royal concubine in love with a slave. DEC. 21 The Producers: The Movie Musical At last, the film version of the stage musical of Mel Brooks' 1968 film arrives! Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick reprise their roles of Max Bialy=ADstock and Leo Bloom. The only actors not from the Broadway production are Uma Thurman, as Swedish secretary Ulla, and Will Ferrell, as retro Nazi Franz Liebkind. Susan Stroman, director of the stage hit, makes her film-directing debut, a stint that prompted rumors that Brooks stepped in to direct some of the nonmusical scenes. The film was shot in the new Steiner Studios in Brooklyn. Fun With Dick and Jane The year's umpteenth remake stars Jim Carrey and T=E9a Leoni in the roles played by George Segal and Jane Fonda in a 1977 comedy about a quiet suburban couple who moonlight as hooded robbers. Cheaper By the Dozen 2 Steve Martin'>Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt return for the sequel to the 2003 remake of a 1950 comedy about a couple with an oversized brood. Here, the Bakers find themselves in competition with a family of eight children while on vacation. With Eugene Levy. DEC. 23 Munich Steven Spielberg follows "War of the Worlds" with a true story about a squad of Israeli secret agents assigned to track down and kill the terrorists who engineered the plot against Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics in Munich. Eleven members of the Israeli Olympic team were killed along with all of their Palestinian captors in a failed rescue mission. Eric Bana plays the Mossad agent in charge of the post-Munich search. With Daniel Craig and Geoffrey Rush. The Ringer Black comedy (you may prefer the word "sick") starring Johnny Knoxville as a nonhandicapped athlete who infiltrates the Special Olympics with hopes of dethroning the champion. Hard Candy When a 32-year-old man brings home a 14-year-old girl he met on the Internet, things don't go as well as he'd hoped. With Patrick Wilson and Ellen Page. Cach=E9 A TV book critic (Daniel Auteuil) and his wife (Juliette Binoche) have their lives turned upside-down by an increasingly intimate and anonymously sent stream of videos and drawings depicting the family in alarming situations. When the Sea Rises French film starring Yolande Moreau as a married actress and mother whose out-of-town tour with her one-woman show is spiced up by her impetuous romance with a parade float conductor. DEC. 25 Casanova What happens when the legendary seducer meets a Venetian beauty immune to his charms? Why, he falls in love. With Heath Ledger, Sienna Miller. Directed by Lasse Hallstr=F6m. Rumor Has It Rob Reiner is back in "When Harry Met Sally ..." country with this romantic comedy about a young woman (Jennifer Aniston) who puts off her engagement (to Mark Ruffalo) when she discovers that her grandmother (Shirley MacLaine) was the inspiration for Mrs. Robinson in "The Graduate." When she meets an older man (Kevin Costner) who has slept with both her mother and her grandmother, she begins to believe she is reliving the experiences of Dustin Hoffman's Benjamin Braddock. Match Point Woody Allen abandons Manhattan to direct this English tragicomedy about a former tennis pro who has an affair with the former girlfriend of his wife's brother. With Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Scarlett Johansson, Emily Mortimer. It was acclaimed at the Cannes Film Festival in May. Mrs. Henderson Presents Judi Dench stars in the biographical story of a society matron who bought an old London theater with hopes of drawing back audiences that had been lured away by talking pictures. Her roaring success was an all-nude revue. With Christopher Guest, Bob Hoskins. Directed by Stephen Frears. Hoodwinked CGI-animated spoof of "Little Red Riding Hood," involving cops sent from the animal world to investigate disturbances at Granny's house. Voices of Andy Dick, Sally Struthers, David Ogden Stiers. DEC. 28 My Name Was Sabina Spielrein Documentary about a Russian Jewish woman who became Carl Jung's first patient in 1904, then began a long correspondence with Sigmund Freud and ended up a renowned psychoanalyst in her own right. DEC. 31 In the Land of Women After being dumped by his actress girlfriend, a young Hollywood screenwriter (Adam Brody) goes home to Michigan to ease his pain and spend time with his grandmother (Olympia Dukakis). While there, he starts up a relationship with a family across the street that will change all of their lives. With Meg Ryan, Kristen Stewart. Compiled and written by Jack Mathews and Elizabeth Weitzman
  • 100% Isento De Toxinas wrote: > "Rick in Oz" wrote in message news:... al n for ed ing > with Jeff Bridges he climbed on the WTC. I'd like to see Da Kong climb Trump Tower. Maybe he could stick his fist in through the penthouse windows and grab that gerbil off the Donald's head.
  • "Rick in Oz" wrote in message news:... > http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/2005/06/30/1111405-ap.html > Peter Jackson's mammoth update of King Kong in early December. > Pictures Vice Chairman Marc Shmuger said Wednesday. He was in Wellington for > meetings with Jackson. The original 1933 movie starring Fay Wray featured > New York's Empire State Building, the skyscraper that massive gorilla King > Kong scaled while holding tight to Wray. > What current NYC skyscraper will Kong climb this time? Last time out with Jeff Bridges he climbed on the WTC. André
  • http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/2005/06/30/1111405-ap.html NY to host premiere of 'King Kong' WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - New York will host the world premiere of Peter Jackson's mammoth update of King Kong in early December. The premiere will be held ahead of the movie's Dec. 14 release, Universal Pictures Vice Chairman Marc Shmuger said Wednesday. He was in Wellington for meetings with Jackson. The original 1933 movie starring Fay Wray featured New York's Empire State Building, the skyscraper that massive gorilla King Kong scaled while holding tight to Wray. Shmuger said the premiere was an opportunity for New York "to welcome Kong back." "New York is very excited about the opportunity and the city is one of our partners on the film," he said. "They are lending extensive resources to really make the return of Kong to New York an official event." Jackson's film stars Naomi Watts, Adrien Brody and Jack Black. Andy Serkis provides the body motions for Kong.
  • http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/2005/06/03/1069768.html Walk of Fame inductee: Fay Wray By JIM SLOTEK -- Toronto Sun Don't you hate when you think you've got a date with Clark Gable, and it turns out to be with a gorilla? In 1932, Fay Wray had her chain yanked by a friend, producer Merian C. Cooper, when he told her he had a movie in mind for her "starring the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood." "Well, naturally, I thought of Clark Gable," Wray told TV interviewer Hugh Downs in a 1963 interview. "And when the came I was absolutely appalled! I thought it was a practical joke. "I really didn't have much appetite for doing it, except that I did admire these two people (Cooper and production partner Ernest B. Schoedsack), and I realized that it did have at least some scope and imagination. It had dimension above anything else that had been tried in movies." The Canadian-born ingenue -- who is being inducted posthumously Sunday into Canada's Walk Of Fame -- took a chance on her blind date and ended up being stuck to him for life. The actress, who died last year at age 96, is forever associated with King Kong and remembered for scene after scene of endless screaming as the "beauty that killed the beast." "I just imagined I was four miles from help," she said of her predicament in Kong's mitt atop the Empire State Building. "And well ... you'd scream too if you just imagined that situation with that monster up there!" As Ann Darrow, the "eye candy" in an expedition to trap a legendary giant jungle ape, she set the template for distressed damsels to come -- even as the movie broke new ground with its dark realism and effects by legendary animator Willis O'Brien that brought the "Eighth Wonder Of The World" to life. But before Kong, Wray was already an old hand at tribulation and distress. In the '90s she wrote a play called The Meadowlark about her troubled family's move from Cardston, Alta., to Salt Lake City, Utah. "My parents were not getting along. My mother was quite intolerant. She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town," she told the online suspense magazine Scarlet Steet in 1998. Eventually, the couple split and the mother moved to California with their children (one of them a mentally ill son who ended up committing suicide). There it fell to camera-friendly teenage daughter Vina Fay to support the family. She was obviously charismatic. While still a teenager, Wray was chosen one of "13 Starlets To Watch" by an association of movie advertisers, and auteur Erich von Stroheim cast her as the lead in her breakthrough film The Wedding March after one audition (he is said to have begun calling her by the character's name, "Mitzi," halfway through the audition). Wray claimed in later interviews to have had an unreciprocated crush on von Stroheim, but otherwise found herself attracted to writers -- not entirely happily. Her first husband, John Monk Saunders, with whom she had a daughter, was the writer of the silent classic Wings. He was a drug addict who managed to burn through all their money (they made $1 million between them in the first few years of their marriage). Sinclair Lewis wrote her passionate love poems. And she dodged a bullet by not marrying longtime boyfriend Clifford Odets (Hitchcock's Notorious), judging by revelations of abuse of his wife Luise Rainer and girlfriend Frances Farmer. Her second husband, Robert Riskin (with whom she had two children), was the author of It Happened One Night and Mr. Deeds Goes To Town. That marriage saw her "retire" from acting -- her post-Kong stereotyping having landed her in unfulfilling screamfests such as The Vampire Bat, Dr. X and Mystery Of The Wax Museum. "It was horror film after horror film, a series of about five, and I didn't care for them," she said. In the '50s, however, Riskin had a stroke and medical bills drained their finances, forcing her to return to acting in movies such as Tammy And The Bachelor and some TV (including an episode of Perry Mason, where she was appalled to discover fellow Canadian Raymond Burr read his lines on-camera). Her last husband, Dr. Sandy Rothenberg, died in 1991. And Fay Wray held true to her retirement this time around, notably turning down the part of the aged Rose in Titanic, a role that would garner Gloria Stuart an Oscar nomination. Through her various challenges, she remained by accounts vivacious and upbeat. "I find it unacceptable when people blame Hollywood for the things that happened to them," she once said. "Films are wonderful. I've had a beautiful life because of films." As for her hairy leading man, she came to love him too. "Every time I'd pass the Empire State Building, I say a little prayer," she'd say. "A good friend of mine died up there."
  • The long climb to the top March 21, 2005 Out of the trackie daks ... Naomi Watts in Sydney. Photo: Fiona Morris Eight years of struggle taught Naomi Watts how to hold on to success when it arrived, writes Garry Maddox. From years of demoralising rejections to stardom. From obscurity to the Oscars. From being just another Australian struggling in Los Angeles to the lead in Peter Jackson's King Kong. Naomi Watts knows more than most about the distance from the pavement to the penthouse in Hollywood. In Sydney for the premiere of The Ring 2 on the weekend, the actress who emerged in Flirting and the miniseries Brides of Christ insists that not much has changed since she reached the top floor via the stairs rather than the express lift. "Yes, I can get a designer to send me a nice dress," she says. "I can get an appointment without too much notice, or a table. "But in my day-to-day life, when I go out and about, nobody really recognises me. I just think I look really different and I don't have anyone fussing over me. "I go to the supermarket by myself and do my own thing. And I go in my trackie daks with wet hair or scruffy hair or whatever." Watts's success is all about persistence. She struggled for eight years, working occasionally on low-profile films and TV shows, before her breakthrough in Mulholland Drive at age 32. Since then has come commercial success with the horror movie The Ring, an Oscar nomination for 21 Grams, a shift into producing her own films and the iconic Fay Wray role in King Kong, which is filming in New Zealand. The trackie daks must have been in the wash over the weekend. Sitting with her feet tucked beneath her in a hotel chair, the stylish Watts seems relatively shy for a star. But the scars from all those rejections are still obvious. "It got to the point where every now and again I'd work but it wasn't the work that I wanted to do and it wasn't as often as I wanted," she says. "It was diminishing doing all these constant auditions and getting knocked back and feeling like I had something to give but people telling me I was not enough. "I just thought, 'Maybe I'm not cut out for this and maybe it's time for me to own that and accept that and stop reaching for something that's unrealistic'." Watts admits she often lost confidence during that period. "It was very hard to believe in myself at that point because when you're wounded you believe someone else so much easier than you believe yourself. "So when they start saying you're not funny or you're too intense or you're too this or too that, you think, 'Yeah, I probably am and I've got nothing to give or nothing to share'." It now makes perfect sense that she wasn't being hired, she says. "I wasn't ready, I think. I had more to learn about myself. "Maybe less in my late 20s but in my early 20s, if I'd achieved some of the success I've been experiencing lately, I don't think I would have held onto it. I had more to learn about myself and therefore I wouldn't have made the right decisions." One decision that took some pondering was whether to make the sequel to The Ring without the director of the original US film in the series, Gore Verbinski. Hideo Nakata, who made the Japanese movies on which the Hollywood versions were based, took over. Watts again plays a journalist haunted by a cursed videotape, opposite fellow Australian Simon Baker from The Guardian. "We all know there are very few occasions when the sequel has surpassed the first one or even matched it," she says. "Hideo Nakata made such perfect sense. Once the was in great shape, I couldn't see a reason not to do it." Watts has loved making King Kong with Jackson. "There are lots of people shaking me and poking at me and pushing and pulling. It's hands down the most physical piece I've ever done, but it's been fun." But playing such a famous role has caused the odd palpitation. "I've had moments of complete utter panic when you're up on the Empire State Building filming something that's been done so beautifully and you think, 'What if I can't do this?' "This is such a great moment in cinema. This has been done so well. You get fearful of that." After King Kong comes another film Watts will produce. The Painted Veil, based on a W.Somerset Maugham novella, will be directed by Praise's John Curran, who also directed her in We Don't Live Here Any More. Despite playing down her success, it has brought at least one change in Watts's life. "I just bought a house," she says. "In LA. I want to buy in Sydney but I can't afford it. Who can?" From Sunny Oz, Rick :) Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
  • lili2@aol.com (Lili2) wrote in message news:... > LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - King Kong might have Naomi Watts in the palm > of his hand. > The Australian actress, famed for her role in David Lynch's "Mulholland Dr.," > has emerged as the top contender to star in Universal Pictures' "King Kong" for > filmmaker Peter Jackson. Watts would play Ann Darrow, an American actress who > makes a living performing in Broadway song and dance shows in Depression-era > New York. > The role was immortalized by Fay Wray (news) in the original 1933 classic and > re-created by Jessica Lange (news) in the 1976 remake. > No deal is in place, but an offer has been made, sources said. Jackson and > Watts were in London late last month in what was described as "a meeting among > friends." Sources also said that Jackson, who is still working on "The Lord of > the Rings: The Return of the King," is expected to start writing the "King > Kong" in November and plans to shoot next summer. Watts next appears in > Focus Features' "21 Grams," which opens Nov. 14. > Reuters/Hollywood Reporter Here we go again, another remake of a really great film. Wasn't the 1976 version bad enough? I could see a continuation of the story like Son of Kong made the following year after the original. Generally I hate to see remakes because they miss the whatever it was that made the original a great film.
  • "Thanatos" wrote in message news:atropos-5602CE.21455318032008@news.giganews.com... > In article > , > TranslucentAmoebae wrote: possession"http://www.tmz.com/2008/03/11/mary-ann-busted-with-mary-jane/ responsibility"http://www.tmz.com/2008/03/12/it-wasnt-mary-anns-mary-jane/ > difference? He can't tell you...too drunk.
  • in article BB88FAB0.88C6C%StrokerChic@earthlink.net, Predatory Rock Chick at StrokerChic@earthlink.net wrote on 9/13/03 5:47 PM: > WebCrab: > revealing -- but the clichéd essays breathlessly-presented re: Le Leni are > just puttin' THIS gal to sleep.... > Hugs, > Janice, who was hopin' the Male Nurse To Geriatric Divas had a personal tale > to tell re: LR -- comme the ones re: Ginger Rogers, Fay Wray et al. My issue with the whole breathless adoration session was the blithe supposition that the main problem of "Le Leni"'s legacy was that she merely happened to work under the wrong fascistic regime. There were a few more problems with her art, however "stunning" it may have been. Though I see where a point is being made about her talent, it has a faint whiff of Le Pen's infamous line about the Gas chambers of the Holocaust being a "point of detail". It's just an inconvenient "detail" of Riefenstahl's talent that it was, however inadvertantly or not, used to promulgate the Nazi regime and what it underpinned. The resonance of her effort proved to be evidence of its success as an ideological tool. She is accountable in the end for that as well as being credited with her achievements. I don't deny there were some "pretty" and powerful images within her opus to Aryan power. and Eisenstein was no choirboy either.
  • http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/2005/01/23/909032.html Adrien Brody lands dream role By KEVIN WILLIAMSON -- Calgary Sun Actor Adrien Brody arrives to the screening of the film "The Jacket" during the Sundance Film Festival in park City, Utah, Sunday, Jan. 23, 2005 . (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian) PARK CITY, Utah -- In the psychological thriller The Jacket, Adrien Brody plays a man caged, bound and stuffed into the corpse drawer of a hospital morgue. Brody the actor can relate. Since winning the Academy Award for The Pianist, he's wriggled free of the suffocating career confines that can come with sudden fame and clout. Instead of headlining high-concept blockbusters, he's taken on supporting roles in films such as last year's The Village. Hardly what you'd expect from a gifted performer with the quirky confidence to kiss Halle Berry as he accepted his Oscar. Or a rising star who probably could have inked a lucrative deal for the comic-book movie of his choosing. "It's a conscious decision to follow my heart and not follow a business strategy," he says while discussing The Jacket at this year's Sundance Film Festival. "I've done everything for the right reasons. I don't like the (garbage) that comes with being a celebrity and the personal part of that. What I want is to not change who I am just because a lot more is accessible to me ... It's important to try and continue to do good work and excel and do bigger projects, but only if the roles are interesting." In The Jacket, due for release in the spring, Brody stars as Jack Starks, a Gulf War veteran who after being unjustly convicted of a crime, is committed to a state institution for the criminally insane. Once there, he is subjected to mind-altering experiments that send him on a non-linear, mind-bender -- from past to present to future and back again. The darkly-intense film also stars Keira Knightley as Starks' potential saviour, and Jennifer Jason Leigh and Kris Kristofferson as dubious doctors. To prepare for the part, the native New Yorker spent hours in a sensory deprivation chamber. Think that's dedication? Brody -- who admits to starving himself for The Pianist -- also underwent a rigorous diet-and-exercise regiment to physically capture "the tremendous stress and institutional food" Starks would experience daily. "It was a very challenging role and I like challenging roles," he says. "I've played some interesting characters (in the time since the Oscar). The character in The Village was very liberating. I made that decision without my representatives even reading the because I promised (director M. Night Shyamalan) that I wouldn't show it to anyone because he's very secretive. I made that decision on my own. There was no group to guide me. I wasn't going to play it safe or wait for the leading man (part). Then I ended up getting the sort of wonderful, iconic role I've always wanted to play, which is the role in King Kong." Ah, yes. King Kong. Due in December, the epic is Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson's retelling of the classic adventure about a group of renegades who stumble upon the giant titular ape and bring it back alive to New York City. Brody stars alongside Jack Black and, in the role made famous by Fay Wray, Naomi Watts. Needless to say, it's a lot bigger -- and likely a bit more commercial -- than anything else Brody's done. "I can't say much, nor should I. I'm sure there'll be plenty of time to talk about it. I'll probably be talking about it for a year." Brody did, however, reveal his character, Jack Driscoll, is a playwright who ends up falling for -- and then trying to save -- the starlet Watts plays. Brody returns to the New Zealand set of the $150-million US opus this week, right after he announces this year's Oscar nominations tomorrow. "I'm not excited to be getting up that early, but I am excited to be part of it ... It's more personal than a whole awards ceremony." Maybe so, but he's unlikely to be locking lips with anyone like he did with Berry in that aforementioned Oscar moment for the ages. It's one that, not surprisingly, he says he's still reminded of. "I get a lot of (comments). I get a lot of them," he says with a laugh, then adding with an understated smile, "it was fun." From Sunny Oz, Rick :) Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
  • http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.asp?j=68756908&p=68757z8z&n=6 8757379 Star Wars opening 'best special effect' 09/01/2005 - 10:42:41 The opening scene from Star Wars has been voted the best special effect in cinema history. The first glimpse of the colossal Imperial Star Destroyer still has film fans awe-struck nearly 30 years after it was first seen. The 1977 classic beat competition from state-of-the-art modern movies including The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Matrix. In a galaxy far, far away, a rebel ship races into the distance pursued by blasts of gun fire. Then its pursuer comes into view - a ship so vast that it took moviegoers' breath away when the film first hit the big screen. It topped a poll conducted by SFX magazine to find the greatest ever special effect. "Star Wars winning the best special effects sequence ever shows just how significant the film is to movie fans," said SFX editor Dave Golder. "Even now, nothing beats the feeling you get when you see this huge flying spaceship coming across the screen - which is breathtakingly enormous. "It was the Big Bang of modern special effects, redefining the way space ships should look on the big screen." Most of the special effects in the top 10 were from older films. The climax of 1933 classic King Kong, in which the giant ape climbs the Empire State Building with Fay Wray, was second. Third was the gruesome moment in The Thing (1982) in which a severed head sprouts spider's legs. The skeleton fight sequence from 1963 film Jason and the Argonauts - ground-breaking in its day - was fourth. Arnold Schwarzenegger's shift-shaping nemesis T-1000 from Terminator 2: Judgment Day, played by Robert Patrick, came fifth, followed by the Krell machinery in 1956 hit Forbidden Planet. Gollum from Lord of the Rings, the computer-generated character based on British actor Andy Serkis, was seventh. The Matrix "bullet time" effect, in which time appears to slow, came eighth. Ninth was the famous scene in which an Alien bursts out of John Hurt's chest. The most recent film to make the list was last year's Spider-Man 2, in which Spidey fought evil Doc Ock aboard a speeding train. The predominance of older films comes as no surprise to Golder. "I'm not at all surprised that film fans are rejecting the modern reliance on CGI (computer-generated imagery) for special effects," he said. "Film fans aren't against progress and there are many occasions in films like Jurassic Park and Lord of the Rings where CGI really gives a new dimension you just couldn't bring with traditional methods. "On the other hand, there is nothing as satisfying in seeing a film with a massive special effects bill like the recent Van Helsing being thrashed by a 70-year-old stuffed gorilla." :: The February issue of SFX magazine is on sale from January 19. Top 10 Special Effects: 1 Star Wars - opening shot (1977) 2 King Kong - climax (1933) 3 The Thing - spider head (1982) 4 Jason and the Argonauts - the skeletons (1963) 5 Terminator 2: Judgment Day - the T-1000 (1991) 6 Forbidden Planet - Krell machinery (1956) 7 The Lord of the Rings trilogy - Gollum (2001-2003) 8 The Matrix - bullet-time (1999) 9 Alien - chest burster (1979) 10 Spider-Man 2 - train fight (2004) From Sunny Oz, Rick :) Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
  • http://entertainment.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4459,10653239%255E10431 %255E%255Enbv,00.html Star screams Wray's praise September 03, 2004 AUSTRALIAN actor Naomi Watts said yesterday she has a tough act to follow when she plays the hero in a remake of the 1933 classic King Kong. Watts will play Ann Darrow, the role made famous by legend Fay Wray, whose career was forever remembered for her screams in the grasp of a giant gorilla atop New York's Empire State Building. The English-born Watts met Wray just before she died last month, aged 96. "Those are big shoes to fill. She did a wonderful job," Watts said. "Going back and seeing the movie several times and seeing what she did - it's quite beautiful." Watts was optimistic the role would not leave her typecast, as Wray was. "I've done quite a lot of different work before this movie and hopefully people won't suddenly see me as only this role," she said. The remake of the 1933 movie, also called King Kong, is being directed by Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson. Watts appeared with co-stars Adrien Brody and Jack Black in New Zealand, ahead of filming which begins on Monday. Jackson said he did not expect his actors to copy the characters of the original film, promising to update the original black-and-white production. "At the end of the day it's about gorillas, it's about dinosaurs and lost islands," he said. "Our King Kong is very battered, he's very ancient, he's the last of his particular race. "He has never felt a single bit of empathy for a living creature in his life." Jackson said the movie's characters would be changed, adapted and even melded together. He said it would be shot in 35mm film, not digital, and not in 3-D. Herald Sun From Sunny Oz, Rick :) Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
  • http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=638&ncid=579&e=2&u=/nm/200 40902/en_nm/film_kingkong_dc By Melanie Carroll WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Oscar-winning director Peter Jackson will relive a childhood dream when he starts filming a remake of the 1933 classic "King Kong" in his Wellington hometown next week. Speaking to reporters Thursday at his studio in the New Zealand capital, the "Lord of The Rings" director said his first attempt to film "King Kong" was as a youngster. It involved a Super 8 camera and a cardboard model of the Empire State Building. "It's great to be able to finally get the film made. It's a film which I've loved ever since I was a child. It really inspired me to want to become a film-maker," he said. A screaming, vine-swinging special effects extravaganza, Jackson's "King Kong" will also be a character-driven psychological study of a monster -- and, of course, a love story. Jackson says he will pay homage to the original, which starred Fay Wray, who died on August 8 aged 96, and retain the "mystery and romance of a bygone era." However, the characters -- including Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts), Carl Denham (Jack Black) and Jack Driscoll (Adrien Brody) -- will not be carbon copies of those in the original film. "To put modern political beliefs onto something that was made in 1933 is obviously putting a spin on it that doesn't really exist. It was a product of its time," he said. "We're really just attempting to make a wonderful, mysterious adventure film ... it's about gorillas, it's about dinosaurs, and lost islands, and this relationship." Watts said she accepted the part without seeing the script. "This story is very simplistic and very human, so that's why I'm here," she said. Jackson already had in mind Brody and Watts to play their characters, but decided on Black during the social whirl at the Academy Awards in February, when he won three Oscars for his final installment of the "Rings" trilogy, "The Return of the King." "THAT'S STUPID" Black said he had wanted to work on a Jackson film after seeing the "Rings" films. "I remember thinking while I was watching The Lord of The Rings: 'man, I've got to get an audition for whatever he does next'," Black said. "Then I thought that's just stupid. Everybody's going to want to be in his next film, better to just put it out of your mind." "Then I got the call to come in and talk with them about 'King Kong' -- you wait your whole life to get a call like that." Andy Serkis, who was the human model and voice of the computer-generated Gollum in two of the "Rings" movies, will do the same for the giant gorilla, as well as have a "live" role of a cook. Black, who stars in folk-rock comedy act Tenacious D, and Brody both said they planned to play a lot of music in between filming in Wellington. Jackson, who suffers seasickness, will use a number of land-based studio lots to film scenes, including those featuring the tramp steamer Venturer, which brings the giant ape to "civilization." Special effects will be done by New Zealand-based Weta Digital and Weta Workshops, which won Oscars for their "Lord of the Rings" creations. Hollywood turned down Jackson's previous "King Kong" pitch before his overwhelming success with the ambitious Rings trilogy. "The Return of the King," created Oscar history by winning all 11 categories in which it was nominated. "King Kong" is reported to be likely to cost as much as US$130 million to make. Jackson spent $300 million making the three Rings films, which have grossed about $3 billion worldwide. Universal Studios is due to release "King Kong" worldwide on December 14, 2005. Reuters/VNU
  • http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/08/31/1093915293404.html?oneclick=true Jackson's stars go ape By Tom Cardy August 31, 2004 - 4:12PM The big three Hollywood stars of Peter Jackson's $NZ200 million King Kong are already in awe of the project before the cameras roll next month. Oscar-winner Adrien Brody, Australian actress Naomi Watts and comic actor Jack Black, now in Wellington rehearsing and having camera tests for costumes and make-up, have toured Jackson's studios as he prepares to shoot his ambitious remake of the 1933 classic. They have for the first time also seen detailed drawings and computer-animated story boards that depict what Jackson and co-writers Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens have envisaged. "It's like the Ming Dynasty over here," said Black, best known for Shallow Hal with Gwyneth Paltrow and The School of Rock, who will play film-maker Carl Denham. "I think it's going to be gorgeous. I've seen the story board and if the movie is half as good as what the pictures I've seen look like it could be the greatest film of all time," Black said. He described the tour, which included special effects houses Weta Workshop and Weta Digital as "unbelievable". Brody, who won the best actor Oscar for The Pianist, said Jackson had already brought to life his "tremendous vision" by showing him several computer-animated moving story boards. "They are not only incredibly helpful to see what he's going to bring to it, they are remarkably full of emotion. The film will obviously have more depth than those, but they are pretty powerful already. It's amazing." Brody, whose latest film The Village opens this week, said he was also impressed by Jackson's Miramar studios. "The facilities here are incredible. I didn't expect it. I didn't know what I expected, but he's created a studio and post-production house that rivals anything elsewhere. "He's managed to incorporate this incredible creative force with this business sense of keeping the work here and employing all these people. "He has got an army of people behind him that really support him. That's nice to be a part of." Watts, who will play Ann Darrow, the role played by Fay Wray in the original, said she knew Jackson would keep a few of his ideas for King Kong up his sleeve till the stars arrived in Wellington. "Slowly, one by one, they are becoming more clear and it's very impressive. There's so much going on. When you walk around the studios and Weta Workshop you see the detail and the immense sizes of what is about to happen. "It's like nothing I've experienced before, that's for sure. There's a lot of genius at work," she said. The three, here for six months, have houses near each other in Miramar with views out to Wellington Harbour. "I've got a stunning view of Karaka Bay. I definitely have the best view in all of Wellington, but then I drove along the shoreline and the bay looks even nicer from sea level," Black said. Suddenly conscious that it may have sounded like a pat reply for any visitor, he quickly added: "And every time I look out the window I weep uncontrollably at the beauty . . ." Watts, nominated for the best actress Oscar this year for 21 Grams, has not visited New Zealand before. "It's really beautiful. I too share the same incredible view that Jack does, but I think mine's slightly better than his." Brody, who plays adventurer Jack Driscoll, said: "I don't know Wellington well enough and it's early. But I'm really happy to be here." The Dominion Post From Sunny Oz, Rick :) Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
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  • Fay Wray will always be remembered as the shrieking, blond Beauty who "killed" the Beast in King Kong (1933), which is a mixed blessing. Without the classic monster movie, Wray's career might be forgotten today. On the other hand (a phrase she used as the title of her 1989 autobiography), her Kong notoriety overshadows her fine work in Erich von Stroheim's The Wedding March. Raised in Los Angeles, Wray by age 16 was working in low-budget movies. She appeared in Hal Roach comedy shorts and was leading lady to Western stars Hoot Gibson (in 1923's The Man in the Saddle and Art Acord (in 1926's Lazy Lightning but was largely dissatisfied with her screen work until she was signed by producer Pat Powers for The Wedding March in 1926. Von Stroheim's production went over schedule and over budget, and Powers sold the picture-and Wray's contract-to Paramount. Even in its truncated form, The Wedding March (finally released in 1928) was a masterful film that showcased Wray's virginal beauty. Paramount's The Street of Sin (1927) offered Wray an opportunity to work with German star Emil Jannings and Swedish director Mauritz Stiller. She appeared in The Legion of the Condemned (1927) with Gary Cooper for director William Wellman, and also costarred in Josef von Sternberg's first talkie, Thunderbolt (1929). The Four Feathers (1929) was an odd hybrid production that combined semidocumentary footage directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest Schoedsack with studio footage helmed by German émigré Lothar Mendes, but it gave Wray her first opportunity to work with the team that would create King Kong When she joined the cast of Kong the protracted schedule allowed her to work on several other movies concurrently, especially thrillers and horror films, including a pair of Technicolor thrillers, Doctor X (1932) and The Mystery of the Wax Museum The Vampire Bat (both 1933), and particularly The Most Dangerous Game (1932), which was directed by Schoedsack (with actor Irving Pichel) and shot on the Kong jungle sets at night. Other films from this period include Dirigible, The Unholy Garden (both 1930), One Sunday Afternoon and The Bowery (both 1933). By the time King Kong finally reached the screen in 1933, Wray was firmly established as the talkie's first "scream queen," a persona she did her best to dispel in subsequent assignments. She acted in prestige pictures such as Affairs of Cellini, Viva Villa!, The Richest Girl in the World and The Captain Hates the Sea (all 1934), but those films, as well as later programmers in which she toiled, did very little for her career. Divorced from screenwriter John Monk Saunders in 1939, Wray married screenwriter Robert Riskin in 1942 and retired from the screen. In the 1950s she returned to character parts in The Cobweb, Queen Bee (both 1955), Rock, Pretty Baby (1956), Tammy and the Bachelor (1957), and her last feature, Dragstrip Riot (1958). Her autobiography, "On the Other Hand" (1989) reveals that Wray had a life much more interesting than the characters she played.
  • "At the premiere of 'King Kong' I wasn't too impressed. I thought there was too much screaming...I didn't realise then that King Kong and I were going to be together for the rest of our lives, and longer..."
  • In January 2003, a 95 year-old Fay Wray was awarded the "Legend in Film" Award at the Palm Beach International Film Festival W_hen she appeared there in person to celebrate Rick McKay's film "Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There," which she also appeared in. In addition to her honor, McKay's film was honored with the Audience Award "Best Documentary" of the festival by unanimous vote. Adrien Brody and Robert Evans won awards in addition to Wray and McKay at the same festival.
  • Attended the 70th Anniversary Academy Awards, during the show the audience was shown a clip of Fay Wray and her performance in King Kong.
  • Still drives a car in her nineties.
  • Perhaps best known as the girl held in the hand of King Kong (1933).
  • She is "almost" a vegetarian and always sticks to her rule not to eat late at night. She wakes up long before sunrise and spends a lot of time writing.
  • Miss Wray had a daughter, Susan, by her first marriage and two children, Robert and Vicky, by her second marriage.
  • Made a special appearance at the 70th Anniversary Academy Awards in 1998. Billy Crystal described her as the, "The Legendary Fay Wray."
  • Referenced in the 1998 song "Are You Jimmy Ray?" by Jimmy Ray
  • She was born Vina Fay Wray near Cardston, Alberta, Canada on September 15, 1907. Fay was from a large family that included five other siblings. She moved to Arizona W_hen she was still small in order for her father to find better work than what was offered in Alberta. After moving again to California, her parents divorced which put the rest of the family under hard times. Being in entertainment rich Los Angeles, there was ample opportunity to take advantage of the chances that might come her way in the entertainment industry. At the age of 16, Fay played her first role in a motion picture, albeit a small one. The film was GASOLINE LOVE in 1923. The film was neither a hit nor was it a launching vehicle for her career. It would be two more years before she ever got another chance. When it did come it was another lackluster film called THE COAST PATROL. The only thing it did for Fay was give her a slightly more prominent role than the film two years earlier. Four more films followed in 1926 and her career had finally left the ground. She was noticed to the extent that the Western Association of Motion Pictures chose her as one of thirteen starlets most likely to succeed in film. After three films in 1927, the following year would solidify Fay as an actress to be reckoned with. She played the lead, Mitzi Schrammell in the hit, THE WEDDING MARCH. She had made the successful transition into the "talkie" era when most performers services were no longer needed because of the sound of their voices on film. By 1933, Fay was to appear in eleven films such as THE BIG BRAIN, THE VAMPIRE BAT, and ANN CARVER'S PROFESSION. But it was another film which would place her in a role that is remembered to this day. That year she played Ann Darrow in the now classic KING KONG. After that one Fay would come by more and better roles, but she is best remembered for that one performance. The movie wound up being named one of the 100 greatest films of all time by the American Film Institute in 1998. She continued her pace in films, making eleven films again in 1934. Films that year which were added to her filmography was ONCE TO EVERY WOMAN, VIVA VILLA!, and BULLDOG JACK. Her career was now beginning the proverbial backward slide. Movie roles were coming fewer and fewer with new stars on the horizon. Now it was Fay's services which were being curtailed. Her 11 year marriage to John Saunders ended in a painful divorce. After NOT A LADIES MAN in 1942, Fay would not be in another film until 1953's TREASURE OF THE GOLDEN CONDOR. The films she appeared in during the latter 50's were not much to write home about. Several were some of the weakest ever projected. Her last performance before the cameras was a made for television movie called GIDEON'S TRUMPET. Today, at 91, Fay is still very active and even drives her own car. She was and is an excellent actress who never was given a chance to live up to her potential especially after being cast in a number of horror films in the 30s. Given the right role, Fay could have had her star up alongside the great actresses of the day. No matter. She remains a bright star from cinema's golden era.
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