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BEASTS AND BEAUTIES.(King Kong)(Memoirs of a Geisha)(Movie Review)

The New Yorker

| December 19, 2005 | Denby, David | COPYRIGHT 2005 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

The big guy is back: the same chocolate-doughnut nose, seriously mashed, as if he'd been sleeping face down in the jungle for decades; the matted hair, worn natural as always; the eyes both fierce and plaintive; the heavy-limbed body, though it's stronger than before, and quicker, too. He swings his weight easily, hanging from promontories and thick vines, but he's definitely a wrestler by temperament, taking on three allosaurs--or whatever they are--at once, and flinging them about as if they were barroom thugs. King Kong never really went away. The most familiar of pop-myth creatures, he just seemed, for some reason, to be hiding from us since his last appearance, in ...

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