Hollywood's first scream queen has passed away:
NEW YORK - Fay Wray tried twice to wrestle free from a giant gorilla's grip. Once onscreen in the 1933 classic "King Kong" and then again in the years that followed when she yearned to shake the ape's prestigious shadow.
"I used to resent `King Kong,'" she said in a 1963 interview. "But now I don't fight it anymore. I realize that it is a classic, and I am pleased to be associated with it."
30 years. That sounds about right for certain actors to acknowledge genre work with which they'd previously avoided being associated (e.g. The Shatner). Too bad Alec Guinness didn't live longer.
And they're still waiting on Harrison Ford.
Pity Wray's death will get about 1/10 the coverage of a coked-up one-hit wonder who burned women with crack pipes and was directly responsible for unleashing Eddie Murphy's "Party All the Time" upon an unsuspecting world.
Damn, Party All the Time. What is wrong with you? Now I have that song in my head and it won't go away. You diabolical fiend!! Must ... bang ... head ... against ... cubicle.
Actually, whilst a deplorable Human type bean, his music was a tad more important than "one hit wonder" status. And, hey, in the pantheon of pop culture Eddie Murphys status as a pop muscian is in a direct reverse ratio as the number of people who actually remember "Party All The Time."
HEH, direct reverse whatever.
Here is a fairly interesting take on Ric James' life and career
What ever happened to Fay Wray?
(She got f--ked by a 40-foot ape!)
/RHPS reference :-)
don't sell Rick James short....he also delivered the heinous Mary Jane Girls to the same unsuspecting world.