Thanks leelords, I'll check in at the store as you said. I can't wait to order
the new
Collector's Edition of the DVD.

I'm not sure, and I don't want to pre-judge someone but I can't understand Naomi
Watt's
comments about not being able to film her blue-screen segments without having a
King
Kong proxy looking at her.

I can't imagine Fay Wray or any other capable actress not being able to imagine
acting if
there isn't a stand-in available. What kind of acting is this????

"One crucial aspect of filming remained very much the unknown for Naomi when we
met.
That was her blue screen filming of the scenes in which her character is
reacting with
Kong. "That was certainly one of my concerns when I was asked to do the picture,
`My god,
how do you create a love story when one half of it is not there?'"


Speaking about Fay Wray, Our Lady Fay, I just ran a search on Google on her on
the blog
section alone - there over 904 mentions of F.W. in private blogs alone....if
this continues,
she may surpass the entries of our favorite furry leading man.

Oh, there's no telling where this is going...it's marvelous....oh, how I wished
she would
have lived to see this day....









--- In faywray@yahoogroups.com, whistler <leelords@y...> wrote:
>
> I didn't think of coping this, I was channel surfing when I got to TMC the
airing just
started and it kept my attention glued. I am not sure but check at a later date
in TMC's
store, they might sell a copy, also watch for repeats, Cooper was an awesome
director in
his days well ahead.
> Sorry if this does not help, perhaps someone else.
> Happy Holidays,
>
> W
>
> Beverly Anne <isa48_17@y...> wrote:
> I missed everything not having TMC. Did someone get a copy of it?
> Where can I get a copy of the DVD??? Where ? The only thing I saw was a
> preview of the DVD and that one was in color...is that the one you people
> are talking about???
>
>
> --- In faywray@yahoogroups.com, whistler <leelords@y...> wrote:
> >
> > Yup! Sad that she is gone, quite a beauty even before Kong, Cooper was an
awesome
> guy, sorry I (or we) were born too late, Happy Holidays.
> >
> > whistler
> >
> > David Lewis <udtv@y...> wrote:
> > Did anyone catch her last night on TCM's docu on
> > Merian C. Cooper?
> >
> > Dave Lewis
> >
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> > > Topics in this digest:
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> > > 1. Re: Fay Wray and Peter Jackson
> > > From: "Beverly Anne" <isa48_17@y...>
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> > > Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 02:31:16 -0000
> > > From: "Beverly Anne" <isa48_17@y...>
> > > Subject: Re: Fay Wray and Peter Jackson
> > >
> > > Hey John,
> > > Glad you caught that article...I think it shows a
> > > lot more into possibly what may have been
> > > had Our Lady Fay lived a little longer to this
> > > December. Very interesting.
> > >
> > > I just spent this last week writing this article
> > > review of "kaba,Kaba Kong 1933-Myth or
> > > Classic? It was my way of mentioning The Fay Wray
> > > Pages and Steve's work in order
> > > to keep a real legendary classic, F.W., in the
> > > forefront always and forever!
> > > If anyone is interested, please go to....
> > >
> > >
> > > http://www.epinions.com/content_211658641028
> > >
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> > >
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> > >
> > > --- In faywray@yahoogroups.com, "John Weber"
> > > <oneders63@y...> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi!
> > > >
> > > > New KONG director Peter Jackson talks about
> > > meeting Fay in the
> > > > following article from SciFi.com:
> > > >
> > >
> > http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?category=0&id=33122
> > > >
> > > > The text of the article follows below, in case the
> > > above link doesn't
> > > > work.
> > > >
> > > > John Weber
> > > >
> > > > - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > > > Wray's Spirit Lives In KONG
> > > >
> > > > Peter Jackson, director of the upcoming King Kong
> > > remake, told SCI FI
> > > > Wire that original Kong actress Fay Wray offered
> > > current star Naomi
> > > > Watts valuable insights into the role, but sadly
> > > died before she
> > > > could appear in the remake herself. "Naomi does
> > > channel Fay Wray a
> > > > little bit, because she met Fay as well," Jackson
> > > said in a news
> > > > conference beamed by satellite from New Zealand in
> > > September. "We
> > > > organized a dinner, and Naomi and [Jackson's wife
> > > and co-writer] Fran
> > > > [Walsh] and I met with Fay, and we spent a
> > > fantastic evening with her
> > > > and asked her lots of questions ... about what it
> > > was like to act in
> > > > the '30s. Because, obviously, Ann Darrow, who's
> > > the character that
> > > > we're talking about, ... is an actress in the
> > > 1930s, and Naomi was
> > > > playing this role, and she had an opportunity to
> > > talk to Fay Wray."
> > > >
> > > > Watts plays actress Ann Darrow in Jackson's update
> > > of the 1933
> > > > classic SF movie, in which Wray played the same
> > > character. Jackson
> > > > added that they were less interested in what it
> > > was like to have
> > > > appeared in the original King Kong than they were
> > > in Wray's real life
> > > > as a Depression-era movie actress. "She was in
> > > something like 12 or
> > > > 13 movies in 1933," Jackson said. "She had a
> > > husband who sent her out
> > > > to work all the time, because her husband gambled
> > > and spent all the
> > > > money. ... But she was full of really interesting
> > > ... insights
> > > > into ... what that world was like. ... I just
> > > recognize little bits
> > > > of Fay in Naomi's performance, and I think that's
> > > deliberate."
> > > >
> > > > Jackson said that he also approached Wray to make
> > > a cameo appearance
> > > > herself in his King Kong. She refused, at least at
> > > first. "My
> > > > original ... hope was to have Fay saying the last
> > > line in the
> > > > film: 'Beauty killed the beast.' ... It's a line
> > > that happens when
> > > > Kong's body is lying on the street, and there's a
> > > crowd gathering
> > > > around at the end of the movie, and I was just
> > > going to cut to an old
> > > > lady as part of the crowd saying that line, and
> > > ... my hope was to
> > > > have Fay doing that. ... I met her several times,
> > > and she was first
> > > > all saying 'No. No.' ... I was hoping for a
> > > slightly more interesting
> > > > response. ... I met her three or four [more]
> > > times, and by the time I
> > > > met her for the ... last time, which was only
> > > about a month before
> > > > she died, she squeezed my hand, and she smiled,
> > > and she says: 'Never
> > > > say never. Never say never.' ... She was warming
> > > up to the idea. And
> > > > I think she would've probably done it. And we
> > > would have just gone to
> > > > her hotel in New York and ... put up a blue screen
> > > and shot a shot of
> > > > her. It would have been all very simple to do. And
> > > we were heading in
> > > > that direction. But, unfortunately, it wasn't to
> > > be."
> > > >
> > > > Wray died on Aug. 8, 2004, at the age of 96. King
> > > Kong, which is in
> > > > post-production, opens Dec. 14.
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