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The greatest and most famous classic adventure-fantasy (and part-horror) film of all time is King Kong (1933). Co-producers and directors Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack (both real-life adventurers and film documentarians) conceived of the low-budget story of a beautiful, plucky blonde woman (Fay Wray) and a frightening, gigantic, 50 foot ape-monster as a metaphoric re-telling of the archetypal Beauty and the Beast fable. [Fay Wray mistakenly believed that her RKO film co-star, 'the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood,' would be Cary Grant rather than the beast. Later in her life, she titled her autobiography "On the Other Hand" in memory of her squirming in Kong's grip.]

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Bill Graham’s first New Year’s Eve Bash was a legendary, all-night affair with additional bands dropping by to supplement the advertised fare, and this second Bash continued the tradition. The music played ’til dawn, sometimes falling on the deaf ears of the somnambulent, and Graham and his staff served breakfast to those who stayed the night. The Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane were at all the early New Year’s concerts, and the Dead made it an annual gig for years. The grey letters cascading through the woman’s hair are silver on the original print.

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Fairly standard story — Crawford is a “career gal” in love with her boss — the exquisitely dapper and gentlemanly Kruger — or, at least, she thinks she is until a shipboard romance with Argentinian rancher Gable gets in the way. The only gimmick here is the audience’s expectation that Kruger will go mad or seek some kind of revenge (you can even imagine Lon Chaney in the role), but he doesn’t. The chemistry between Gable and Crawford is the picture of passion, although they are not aided by the tepid dialogue (“the sun of love will always shine on us” and such stuff), and Kruger and Crawford present a believable picture of a marriage based on respect instead of love.

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This cinematic spectacle was released in both a national and an international version. The film stars internationally renowned actors such as the German Emil Jannings (Nero), the British Lilian Hall-Davis (Licia) and the Italian Elena Sangro (Popea). The aim was to live up to the success of the first 1912 screen version. Nevertheless, despite all these efforts, the audiences remained at large and instead of causing a revival of the Italian film industry, this film marked the end of the ´historical costume drama´ genre.

In December of 1966, Janis saw Otis Redding perform for the first time. She attended every performance that he gave that weekend at the Fillmore. An hour before the show, she’d be on the dance floor and would place herself in the middle, very close to the stage. While he sang, she watched, transfixed. She absorbed his motions, dwelled on his shouts, and in her imagination perhaps could hear her own voice in those corrugated rasps.

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