Everything new is old again: Peter Jackson's eight-legged freak
Question: I'm confused: I keep hearing people talk about the "spider sequence" in King Kong, but I don't remember any spiders in the old movie. Is it something that was added for the new version and, if so, what exactly is it?
Answer: The legendary "spider pit" sequence was shot for the original King Kong (1933) and, like several other scenes, was later trimmed. Most of the excisions, including a scene in which Kong curiously peels off some of Ann Darrow's (Fay Wray) clothes, as well as several violent scenes (including a moment when he grinds a Skull Island villager into the ground and another involving a sleeping woman he plucks from her high-rise bedroom window and then carelessly drops to her death when he realizes she's not Ann), were done when Kong was re-released in 1938, and then
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"I'm officially calling life unfair," teen sleuth Veronica Mars (Kristen Bell) moaned after her dad lost a tight race for sheriff this month. And has she even seen the ratings? Talk about unfair.
Ironically, the two shows having the best sophomore seasons air opposite each other: the popular Lost and the equally fine but underwatched Veronica Mars (Wednesdays at 9 pm/ET on UPN). As the show's tiny but rabid fan base will tell you, this one actually gives you answers to its mysteries.
Mars' payoffs come in many ways: in the clever blend of heart-stopping whodunit and heartfelt teen soap, in the witty dialogue for characters young and adult, and in the biting depiction of class and racial tensions among the haves and have-nots of N
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