{"id":16,"date":"2004-08-10T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-10T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/?p=16"},"modified":"2017-09-11T20:30:03","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T03:30:03","slug":"look-at-the-golden-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"Look at the Golden Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case people haven&#8217;t heard already, the object of King Kong&#8217;s affections has gone to the Mann&#8217;s Chinese Theater in the sky.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Here are a few links:<\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">ABC News:\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/wire\/Entertainment\/ap20040810_167.html\">Actress Fay Wray of &#8216;King Kong&#8217; Fame Dies<\/a><br \/>\nNPR:\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/features\/feature.php?wfId=3841767\">Actress Fay Wray Dies at 96<\/a><br \/>\nSan Francisco Chronicle:\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2004\/08\/10\/WRAY.TMP\">Mick LaSalle on Fay Wray<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I saw the original 1933 <i>King Kong<\/i> just a few weeks ago, and inadvertently renewed my childhood crush on her all over again.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;d forgotten what a good actress she was, the way she expressed an ongoing struggle between tenacity and vulnerability.\u00c2\u00a0 For many years after, she had to reconcile herself to the shadow that <i>King Kong <\/i>cast over her career, and finally did so with charm and aplomb.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact she&#8217;d even become friends with director Peter Jackson when he took the reins of the <i>King Kong<\/i> remake.\u00c2\u00a0 She might not be here, but she&#8217;s radiant somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>A quick postscript:\u00c2\u00a0 I prefer to keep Afterhell as non-partisan as possible, but I had to throw this bit of synchronicity in.\u00c2\u00a0 While I was writing up this entry, the second hour of the <a href=\"http:\/\/209.208.176.243\/bin\/blogExcerpts.cfm?blogId=1&amp;prg=3\">Al Franken Show <\/a>started with a horror-oriented intro complete with John Carpenter&#8217;s theme for <i>Halloween<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh man, I hope they do that again when October 31 comes around!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case people haven&#8217;t heard already, the object of King Kong&#8217;s affections has gone to the Mann&#8217;s Chinese Theater in the sky.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Here are a few links: ABC News:\u00c2\u00a0 Actress Fay Wray of &#8216;King Kong&#8217; Fame Dies NPR:\u00c2\u00a0 Actress Fay Wray Dies at 96 San Francisco Chronicle:\u00c2\u00a0 Mick LaSalle on Fay Wray I saw the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,6,27],"tags":[42,41,43],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-offtopic","category-personal","tag-al-franken","tag-fay-wray","tag-memorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}