British
Opera Singer Joins King Kong
Source:
The Dominion Post
Saturday, August 14, 2004
The Dominion Post has learned
that British opera singer-turned-actor
has joined Peter Jackson's
King Kong,
which starts shooting in Wellington
next month.
Lobo Chan, who has sung in British productions of "Turandot," "La Boheme," "The Marriage of Figaro," and in BBC dramas including Sweet and Sour, will play a character called Choy.
What Choy will do in the film is still to be announced, says the trade, but in the original 1933 film, and its sequel, Asian American actor Victor Wong played a ship's cook.
Lobo Chan, who has sung in British productions of "Turandot," "La Boheme," "The Marriage of Figaro," and in BBC dramas including Sweet and Sour, will play a character called Choy.
What Choy will do in the film is still to be announced, says the trade, but in the original 1933 film, and its sequel, Asian American actor Victor Wong played a ship's cook.
King Kong Actress
Fay Wray Dies
Source:
Associated Press
Monday, August 9, 2004
Fay
Wray, who won everlasting
fame as the damsel held
atop the Empire State
Building by the giant ape
in the 1933 film classic
King Kong, has died,
according to the
Associated Press.
She was 96.
Wray died Sunday at her Manhattan apartment, said Rick McKay, a friend and director of the last film she appeared in. There was no official cause of death.
"She just kind of drifted off quietly as if she was going to sleep," said McKay, director of the documentary Broadway: The Golden Age. "She just kind of gave out."
Read more about Wray's career by clicking here
Wray died Sunday at her Manhattan apartment, said Rick McKay, a friend and director of the last film she appeared in. There was no official cause of death.
"She just kind of drifted off quietly as if she was going to sleep," said McKay, director of the documentary Broadway: The Golden Age. "She just kind of gave out."
Read more about Wray's career by clicking here