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35 Years Ago: Why 'King Kong Lives' Died a Quick Box Office Death

'King Kong Lives,' the poorly received sequel to 1976's 'King Kong,' premiered on Dec. 19, 1986.

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Torch Song Trilogy movie review (1988)

"Torch Song Trilogy" opens with a closeup of Arnold, the hero, looking his very worst. He's backstage at the drag club where he works as a female impersonator, and he's halfway into his makeup. You can see every facial flaw of the male face underneath and the female face he's applying to the surface. Cigarette smoke drifts through the shot. You can almost smell the cold cream. He's talking about his life as a homosexual, and there are moments when his voice catches with emotion. We're touched that he's revealing himself so honestly. But then, of course, he breaks the spell with a throwaway one-liner. He breaks a lot of spells that way. This is a man who has used sarcasm and self-satire to build a wall around himself. One of the earliest scenes in the movie is a flashback to childhood when his mother surprises him on the floor of her closet where he is playing dressup with her high heels and her makeup. It is obvious that dressing like a woman is important to him, but later he turns that part of himself into a parody, as a drag queen who laughs first so that the joke is never on him. "Torch Song Trilogy" is basically a movie about a man who slowly becomes more comfortable with himself. As written and performed by Harvey Fierstein as a long-running stage hit, it was seen as a sort of nostalgic visit to the problems that gays had in the years before the horror of AIDS. The movie has more or less the same focus, but because it's a movie, it becomes more intimate and intense. It's about a man who was born gay and has known about himself from an early age and has accepted his homosexuality more easily than certain other facets of himself - such as fear of loneliness, insecurity about his appearance and paralyzing shyness. Homosexuality is not his problem - it is the arena for his problems. I'm glad they let Fierstein star in the movie himself. There might have been a temptation to go out and hire some established, bankable star who could win points for his courage in playing a gay (for example, Richard Burton and Rex Harrison in "Staircase"). That would have been phony from the outset, but it also would have denied us a look at this extraordinary individual with the deep, raspy voice and the exaggerated double takes and the face that looks handsome from some angles, goofy from others and ravaged when he has a hangover. I have not seen anyone quite like Fierstein in the movies, and the fact that he is a specific individual gives this material a charm and weight it might have lacked if an interchangeable actor had played the role. The movie is told in three major parts, with some moments in between. Arnold falls in love with Ed, a bisexual man (Brian Kerwin), who is not sure of his sexuality and certainly not sure of Arnold. Arnold loses Ed. Arnold falls in love with Alan (Matthew Broderick), and they love each other and try to build a life together. Alan is killed by gay-bashers. Devastated, Arnold falls into a deep depression, which is mostly offscreen; in the last part of the film, he is friends again with Ed, and he has adopted a gay teenager and sounds exactly like his mother when he talks to the kid. Written down starkly like that, the movie almost sounds like a formula of love and loss. But "Torch Song Trilogy" is seen in a lot of specific scenes, in moments like the one where Arnold wakes up before Ed in the morning, dashes into the bathroom to make himself look as good as possible, and then jumps back into bed a second before the alarm goes off. Or the moments in the alley outside the nightclub, where Arnold's friend, Bertha (Charles Pierce), also a drag queen, provides a few words of advice that come from a lifetime of experience. Or the painful scene in a gay bar where Arnold is so shy he can hardly bring himself to respond to Ed. A person emerges from these moments. There are some passages that don't work very well. The whole business of the adopted son feels unconvincing and tacked-on, and Eddie Castrodad plays the teenager like the precocious host of his own party. Another awkward scene involves a weekend in the country, with Arnold and Alan visiting Ed and his bride (Karen Young). Ed and Alan wind up in the hayloft (of all places), but I was never sure what the point of their infidelity was supposed to be. The movie's ending is a powerful, painful confrontation between Arnold and his mother (Anne Bancroft). I've had reservations about Bancroft in some of her recent performances, because she tends to go over the top, but here there is no reason to hold back. She is the demonstrative, emotional mother of a son who shares many of the same mannerisms, and I believed her in the role. I also believed Arnold when he finally told her exactly what he thought about his sexuality and her attitude toward it, and when he said, "There are two things I demand from the people in my life: love and respect." He could have been speaking for anybody.

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'I'm not bald and I'm not a freak': the strange legacy of Robin Williams's flop Jack

'I'm not bald and I'm not a freak': the strange legacy of Robin Williams's flop Jack
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Robin Williams' Jack Was Released in Theaters 25 Years Ago Today

Robin Williams' Jack Was Released in Theaters 25 Years Ago Today
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What's new to VOD and streaming this weekend; July 9-11

What's new to VOD and streaming this weekend; July 9-11
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17 defendants charged in drug trafficking probe targeting heroin and cocaine sales in Chicago

Chicago — A joint federal and local drug trafficking investigation has resulted in federal charges against 17 individuals for distributing or attempting to distribute heroin and cocaine in Chicago.
During the multi-year probe, dubbed "Operation Tragic Blow," law enforcement seized multiple kilograms of heroin and cocaine, including a 14-kilogram cocaine seizure in Chicago's Belmont Cragin neighborhood and a two-kilogram heroin seizure in a high-rise apartment building in Chicago's Buena Park neighborhood. The joint federal and local investigation, led by U.S. Homeland Security Investigations and the Chicago Police Department, utilized extensive undercover and covert surveillance operations to shut down the defendants' drug trafficking activities.

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Execs' Engine Revenue Scheme Inflated Books, Feds Say

The chief executive for an Illinois-based alternative energy engine maker and two other employees unlawfully inflated revenues through a scheme that caused company books to reflect money it hadn't yet collected, federal prosecutors asserted in a bench trial that began Monday.

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Execs' Engine Revenue Scheme Inflated Books, Feds Say

Execs' Engine Revenue Scheme Inflated Books, Feds Say
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Execs' Engine Revenue Scheme Inflated Books, Feds Say

Execs' Engine Revenue Scheme Inflated Books, Feds Say
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King Kong Lives (1986) - Awfully Good Movies

King Kong Lives (1986) - Awfully Good Movies
April 5, 2021 by:
With
Godzilla vs Kong now hitting theaters and HBO Max to bring the first phase of the Monsterverse to an epic close, Awfully Good Movies is turning its focus from the King of the Monsters to the King of Skull Island, as we revisit Kong's lowest point in his 88 years on the big and small screens...
King Kong Lives!
When the 1976
King Kong remake starring Jeff Bridges and Jessica Lange was met with huge box office and an Honorary Oscar for its special effects, famed producer Dino de Laurentiis was eager to find a way to have Kong survive his fall from atop the World Trade Center for a KONG sequel. But while the 1933 original got a sequel made in a mere nine months, the sequel for the 1976 KONG took an entire decade to make amidst a protracted legal battle over who owned the Kong franchise. And when Kong finally came back to life thanks to a mechanical heart transplant from a post-

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