Happy Birthday, Fay Wray!

[Dave Monroe]

No matter what the IMDB says ...

http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0942039/

http://www.shillpages.com/faywray/fwmain.shtml

But do see ...

Fay Wray look, 57; Fay Wray, 57, 179, 275; "You will
have the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood,"
179; "headlights burning like the eyes of" 247; "the
black scapeape we cast down like Lucifer," 275;
Mitchell Prettyplace book about, 275; "the Fist of the
Ape," 277; "orangutan on wheels," 282; taking a shit,
368; "The figures darkened and deformed, resembling
apes" 483; "a troupe of performing chimpanzees" 496;
"on the tit with no motor skills," 578; "Negroid
apes," 586; "that sacrificial ape," 664; "a gigantic
black ape," 688; Carl Denham, 689; poem based on King
Kong, 689

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/alpha/k.html

"Everyone's equal. Same chances of getting hit. Equal
in the eyes of the rocket."

To which she gives him her Fay Wray look, eyes round
as can be, red mouth about to open in a scream, till
he has to laugh. "Oh, stop." (p.57) 

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/extra/wray.html
   
   To insist on the miraculous is to deny to the
machine at least some of its claims on us, to assert
the limited wish that living things, earthly and
otherwise, may on occasion become Bad and Big enough
to take part in transcendent doings. By this theory,
for example, King Kong (?-1933) becomes your classic
Luddite saint. The final dialogue in the movie, you
recall, goes, "Well, the airplanes got him." "No. . .
it was Beauty killed the Beast." In which we again
encounter the same Snovian Disjunction, only
different, between the human and the technological.

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_luddite.html

http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/luddite.html

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