Reg Hartt

Johan Fichte, father of our education system, said, “It is impossible to erase the disobedience gene in people who have learned to think for them self.” “A great artist lets himself go. He is natural. He swims easily in the stream of his own temperament. He listens to himself, he respects himself. He has a deeper fund of strength to draw from than that arising from rational and logical knowledge. “The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper to shake the complacent killers of the world. He reminds the world of its dark ancestry, shows the world its present and points the way to its new birth. He is at once the product and the preceptor of his time….In a world terrified of change, he preaches revolution – the principle of life. He is an agitator, a disturber of the peace, quick, impatient, positive, restless and disquieting. He is the creative spirit of life working in the soul of men.”—Dr. Norman Bethune. The only sensible way to regard life is that it is a privilege we are willing to pay for.

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LIFE Magazine: Rick Baker was KING KONG (1976). He saved the movie. He made the movie.

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November 18, 2023

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A copy of this LIFE KING KONG magazine was given to me today. It’s pretty good but there is one glaring omission. No mention is made of Rick Baker without whom the 1976 remake would not have been possible. We do get a full page picture of the giant Kong prop built for the film which is very briefly seen in it and which for those few seconds just looks awful as far as I am concerned. We get a full page picture of Kong’s face. It’s clearly Rick Baker but no mention is made of him. Carlo Rambaldi is credited as the creator of the not so special special effects. The magic came from Rick Baker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYOdchmhbag , https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=823036612287612 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UNUNViGJPM , https://wikizilla.org/wiki/Rick_Baker , https://www.pulpanddagger.com/canuck/Kong_mask.html , https://www.denofgeek.com/…/the-struggles-of-king-kong-76/. I’m shouting out to LIFE that I expect better from them. Rick Baker is KING KONG 1976. Peter Elliott played KONG in KING KONG LIVES without the magic Rick Baker brought to the role.