The following article appeared in today's New York Times. The Empire
State Building now has a well deserved tribute to our lovely Lady Fay
and her appearance in "King Kong" and movie history.

John Weber

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September 22, 2005
"The Giant Ape Climbed Here. And She Was Why."
By SHADI RAHIMI

It is a silent tribute to the beauty who screamed her way to fame in
the clutches of a giant gorilla in love, created by a fan who
collected stacks of movie memorabilia.

A permanent exhibit featuring "King Kong" movie posters and
photographs of the film's star, Fay Wray, is on display on the ground
floor of the Empire State Building - a place that the actress once
wrote "belongs to me, or is it vice versa?"

Miss Wray, who stood atop the building for the last time several
months before she died at 96 in 2004, appeared in about 100 movies.
But she was remembered best for screeching and writhing in the
powerful grip of King Kong in 1933.

Two display windows, designed by a property manager and "King Kong"
fan, Justin Clayton, 50, commemorate the link between the actress and
the building.

For Samuel Renonoly, a 33-year-old tourist from Liège, Belgium,
the
old movie posters brought back the excitement of seeing "King Kong"
as a 9-year-old living in Congo. "There were lots of gorillas
everywhere, and I wanted to see a bigger one," he said.

After hearing last week that she had been hired as an intern at City
Guide magazine, on the 24th floor of the building, Dez Burstein, 21,
said she bought a shirt bearing a 1930's "King Kong" poster.

Stopping at the display, tucked in a nook around the corner from the
escalators, Ms. Burstein gazed at a portrait of Miss Wray as the
damsel-in-distress Ann Darrow, with tousled hair and a tattered
robe. "She was just so beautiful," she said.

Mr. Clayton, who said he befriended Miss Wray in 2003 and spent many
weekends with her watching her old movies, said he chose the "most
dramatic and attractive" of his hundreds of articles of memorabilia
for the display.

"Now she is forever enshrined in this legendary building that she
helped make famous, and vice versa," he said.