Amen and amen. Maybe no one ever knew them in the first place
and this was their way for their cheap 20 minutes of fame.... ;^)



--- In faywray@yahoogroups.com, "Benny Drinnon" <bennydrinnon@...> wrote:
>
> And who remembers these critics today? - the living Fay Wray fan -
> -- In faywray@yahoogroups.com, "Beverly Anne" <isa48_17@> wrote:
> >
> > http://theeveningclass.blogspot.com/2006/12/film-criticism-
> blogathonphillip-
> > lopate.html
> >
> > An Exceprt from "Phllip Lopate: American Movie Critics: An
> Anthology from the Silents
> > Until Now"
> >
> > "Lopate then compared what Cecilia Ager had to say about King
> Kong. "Another writer of
> > the 1930s, Cecilia Ager, covered what was considered the woman's
> angle. She would write
> > movie criticism with a great emphasis on women's fashions, on
> women's parts. She was
> > really writing about the parts that women were assigned and the
> ways that they were
> > construed." He quoted Ager: "Despite all her experience with
> picture beasties, Fay Wray
> > can't seem to condition herself against the horrid old things.
> She's just as terrified at King
> > Kong, she screams quite as shrilly as if she couldn't remember from
> her past encounters
> > that she will surely be saved at the end. She won't learn, Miss
> Wray, she won't learn. All
> > that's come of her former run-ins with monsters is the overnight
> change of her hair from
> > black to blonde, but it doesn't help. The curious attraction she
> has for man-beast combos
> > is not to be denied by superficial hair-color transformation. It's
> made matters even worse
> > for her. Blonde, she looks even more the part of Beauty in the
> fable, Beauty and the Beast,
> > so what can the beast do but act good and beasty." (2006:79)
> >
> > ***VERY GOOD TO SEE YOU BACK UP STEVE...It seems some critics can
> only criticize
> > Our Lady Fay because she appeared in some (actually very few
> monster movies). They
> > have concentrated on only this aspect of the career of a serious
> and talented actress and
> > have her penalized for all cinema history as the blonde woman from
> K.K.
> >
> > Unfortunately for them, they have just helped immortalized her
> even more...
> >
>