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King Kong
is back,this time in 360-degree 3-D,and hes something to behold. Billed the biggest 3-D attraction in the world,Universal Studios new King Kong feature planned its public debut on Thursday. Compared to the most recent version of King Kong directed by Peter Jackson and released in 2005,the new attraction designed by Weta Digital,the New Zealand studio,is louder and the effects,enough to make its two-minute film feel like a very long experience. It uses some techniques similar to the movie Avatar,but this time on 40-foot screens equivalent of 16 conventional movie screens arranged to create the sensation of being caught in a battle between Kong and a bunch of huge reptiles.
W S Merwin,
who has written more than 30 books of poetry,translation and prose over the course of six decades,has been named the 17th poet laureate. James H. Billington,the Congress librarian heard advice from writers and scholars before choosing Merwin to succeed Kay Ryan as the nations poet laureate. At 82,he is an undisputed master who has won just about every major award an American poet can,among them two Pulitzer Prizes.
Playboy Enterprises
filed a copyright infringement suit against rapper Drake who used material from the 1975 song Fallin in Love by Hamilton,Joe Frank and Reynolds. Playboy owns the songs rights. Drakes ( whose real name is Aubrey Graham) breakthrough single,Best I Ever Had,which went from a mixtape to a popular EP,didnt get to be the best all on its own. The suit was filed in a California federal court on June 25. Representatives for Playboy Enterprises,Drake and Universal had no comment.
