KING KONG, TAKE YOUR HANDS OFF OUR LITTLE AURY!

Today, The Grangers and The Grandma have continued their formation in English. They have studied the Imperative, and they have played the hanger.

After their lesson, they have gone to visit the Empire State Building, where Aury Granger has met a new friend, King Kong, and the family has created a plan to rescue her from his hands.

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King Kong is a fictional giant monster resembling a gorilla, who has appeared in various media since 1933.

He has been dubbed The Eighth Wonder of the World, a phrase commonly used within the franchise.

His first appearance was in the novelization of the 1933 film King Kong from RKO Pictures, with the film premiering a little over two months later. Upon its initial release and subsequent re-releases.

A sequel quickly followed that same year with The Son of Kong, featuring Little Kong. Toho produced King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) featuring a giant Kong battling Toho's Godzilla and King Kong Escapes (1967), a film loosely based on Rankin/Bass' The King Kong Show (1966-1969). 

In 1976, Dino De Laurentiis produced a modern remake of the original film directed by John Guillermin.

A sequel, King Kong Lives, followed a decade later featuring a Lady Kong. Another remake of the original, this time set in 1933, was released in 2005 by filmmaker Peter Jackson.

Kong: Skull Island (2017), set in 1973, is part of Legendary Entertainment's MonsterVerse, which began with Legendary's reboot of Godzilla in 2014. A sequel, Godzilla vs. Kong, once again pitting the characters against one another, was released in March 2021.

The character of King Kong has become one of the world's most famous movie icons, having inspired a number of sequels, remakes, spin-offs, imitators, parodies, cartoons, books, comics, video games, theme park rides, and a stage play.

King Kong has also crossed over into other franchises such as Planet of the Apes, and encountered characters from other franchises in crossover media, such as the Toho movie monster Godzilla, as well as pulp characters Doc Savage and Tarzan. His role in the different narratives varies, ranging from a rampaging monster to a tragic antihero.

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 No chains will ever hold that.

Captain Englehorn, King Kong

THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING, REMEMBERING KING KONG

Today, The Grandma has visited the Empire State Building to remember one of her favourite stories, King Kong.

The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

The building was designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and built from 1930 to 1931. Its name is derived from Empire State, the nickname of the state of New York. The building has a roof height of 380 m and stands a total of 443.2 m tall, including its antenna.

The Empire State Building stood as the world's tallest building until the construction of the World Trade Center in 1970; following the later's collapse in 2001, the Empire State Building was again the city's tallest skyscraper until 2012.

As of 2020, the building is the seventh-tallest building in New York City, the ninth-tallest completed skyscraper in the United States, the 49th-tallest in the world, and the sixth-tallest freestanding structure in the Americas.

The site of the Empire State Building, in Midtown South on the west side of Fifth Avenue between West 33rd and 34th Streets, was developed in 1893 as the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. 

In 1929, Empire State Inc. acquired the site and devised plans for a skyscraper there. The design for the Empire State Building was changed fifteen times until it was ensured to be the world's tallest building.

Construction started on March 17, 1930, and the building opened thirteen and a half months afterward on May 1, 1931. Despite favorable publicity related to the building's construction, because of the Great Depression and World War II, its owners did not make a profit until the early 1950s.

The building's Art Deco architecture, height, and observation decks have made it a popular attraction. Around four million tourists from around the world annually visit the building's 86th- and 102nd-floor observatories; an additional indoor observatory on the 80th floor opened in 2019. 

The Empire State Building is an American cultural icon: it has been featured in more than 250 TV shows and movies since the film King Kong was released in 1933.

The building's size has become the global standard of reference to describe the height and length of other structures. A symbol of New York City, the building has been named as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers. It was ranked first on the American Institute of Architects' List of America's Favorite Architecture in 2007.

Additionally, the Empire State Building and its ground-floor interior were designated city landmarks by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1980, and were added to the National Register of Historic Places as a National Historic Landmark in 1986.

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King Kong is a 1933 American pre-Code adventure fantasy horror monster film directed and produced by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack. 

The screenplay by James Ashmore Creelman and Ruth Rose was developed from an idea conceived by Cooper and Edgar Wallace. It stars Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong and Bruce Cabot, and tells the story of a giant ape dubbed Kong who attempts to possess a beautiful young woman. It features stop-motion animation by Willis O'Brien and a music score by Max Steiner. It is the first entry in the King Kong franchise.

King Kong opened in New York City on March 2, 1933, to rave reviews, and has since been ranked by Rotten Tomatoes as the greatest horror film of all time and the fifty-sixth greatest film of all time.

In 1991, it was deemed culturally, historically and aesthetically significant by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. 

A sequel, titled Son of Kong, was fast-tracked and released the same year, with several more films made in the following decades, including two remakes which were made in 1976 and 2005 respectively, and a reboot in 2017. 

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 Well, the Empire State was about 40' high in the studio.
King Kong was a little model about 2' high,
and the scenery that he worked in was in proportion to his size.

Fay Wray

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The Beans on the top of the Empire State

Today, The Beans have lived an intensive day. The family is still in New York City enjoying the city and its sights and working to improve their English. 

They have talked about the Adverbs of Frequency and the Prepositions of Place and Direction.

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Firstly, the family has been involved in a terrible scandal when a local newspaper has accused them of being the main suspects of the fire in Trump's Tower. Without time to call the best lawyers, the family has demonstrated that if you work together you have more possibilities of success and they have been preparing their alibis. After being interrogated by the Metropolitan Police, all of them have returned to the hotel free of charges and without any doubt about their innocence. It's always better to have a good relationship with the Police.

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Next, The Beans have decided to visit the Empire State, a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, the building has a roof height of 380 m and stands a total of 443.2 m tall, including its antenna.

Eli Bond-Bean and King Kong

The site of the Empire State Building, located on the west side of Fifth Avenue between West 33rd and 34th Streets, was originally part of an early 18th century farm. In the late 1820s, it came into the possession of the prominent Astor family, with John Jacob Astor's descendants building the Waldorf–Astoria Hotel on the site in the 1890s. By the 1920s, the family had sold the outdated hotel and the site indirectly ended up under the ownership of Empire State Inc., a business venture that included businessman John J. Raskob and former New York governor Al Smith. 

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The original design of the Empire State Building was a for a 50-story office building. However, after fifteen revisions, the final design was for a 86-story building, with an airship mast on top. This ensured it would be the world's tallest building, beating the Chrysler Building and 40 Wall Street, two other Manhattan skyscrapers under construction at the time that were also vying for that distinction.

The Beans and their rescue plan

When they were leaving the building, they have been astonished to see that Eli Bond-Bean was on the top of it kidnapped by King Kong. Quickly, they have thought a rescue plan to liberate Eli from King Kong's hands. The plan has been a total success.

Then, the family has decided to go to the zoo and talk with the bosses about a King Kong's adoption. They had got another point here. The zookeepers have never thought about this possibility but they have accepted The Beans' proposal.

The Prospect Park Zoo is a 4.9 ha zoo located off Flatbush Avenue on the eastern side of Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York City. Its precursor, the Menagerie, opened in 1890. The present facility first opened as a city zoo on July 3, 1935, and was part of a larger revitalization program of city parks, playgrounds and zoos initiated in 1934 by Parks Commissioner Robert Moses. It was built, in large part, through Civil Works Administration and Works Project Administration (WPA) labour and funding.

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The Beans with Barbra in her apartment

Finally, the family was exhausted. They have lived too many emotions in a day. The Grandma has received an incredible phone call.  

Barbra Streisand was on the other side of the line and she has invited all the family to a private concert in her apartment to relax and charge batteries.

Hold the line, Barbra! I'm going to talk with my family about your invitation. 

Barbra? Are you there? It's an enormous pleasure for us to come to your home and assist to your private concert. Taking profit of your trust, I would like to listen to "If you go way". 

See you later, my friend.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, 

and that's an alibi for my ignorance. 

Will Rogers

012, EMERGENCY SERVICE: HOW CAN I HELP YOU?

Paula Bond and King Kong in NYC

Today, The Bonds are still in Washington. They are practising some vocabulary about justice and Social English about requesting and offering. 

They are very interested in creating good compositions, this is the reason because of they are working with the connectors.

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Paula Bond is with the family again after spending some days in the Empire State with King Kong, her new friend from Skull Island. 

After talking about sugar and its benefits in our lives, remembering Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his famous character Sherlock Holmes, the family are learning how to use their twitter accounts.

Jaume Bond and his new friend

After that, The Grandma is talking about Romanesque Art in the exile around the world because of the war and she is explaining a story about Roman superstitions.

Finally, Jaume Bond is explaining his experience face to face with a hurt bird which reborn after phoning to emergency services and The Grandma is remembering some beautiful songs of Leonard Cohen and Barbara.

Tomorrow, the family is meeting Fox Mulder and Dana Scully in the FBI Headquarters. Together, they're going to investigate voodoo practices and how to prevent them.

May you need some needles...

 No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

Bob Dylan

MERCHE: NORWEGIAN PRAGMATISM

Merche Addams

Merche is The Addams' teenager. She was born in Trondheim (Norway) during her parents’ holidays. Norway is a beautiful country very famous for its cod, its fjords and for being the country home of Edvard Munch, the famous painter. 

Merche's talkative and extroverted. She’s studying fashion because she wants to be a great tailor in her near future. Her parents (Jorge and Rocío) are open mind people who want the best for her and allow her choosing her own future.

Travelling to NYC has been always a dream for Merche because of the meaning of this great city in the fashion’s world and its influence in the world’s trend. 

Since the moment The Addams Family arrived to NYC, Merche was very active trying to capture all the environment of the city and enjoy it. One of her favourite hobbies is climbing, because of this, she didn’t doubt of going up the Empire State Building where, surprisingly, she found a famous New Yorker, King Kong, which has decided to leave his place in the Bronx’ Zoo to go out and enjoy the city, too. 

Everybody knows that Merche loves animals and it was a matter of time that she connected with King Kong. After the authorities convinced him to return to the zoo, Merche promised him that she was going to do her best for adopting him.

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D'er mange ǿksarhogg, som eiki skal fella.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Norwegian Proverb

NEW YORK: THE ADDAMS, KING KONG & RICHARD CASTLE

The Addams visit New York, The USA

The Addams Family is still spending some days in New York. After recovering of the last traumatic experience about Naiara’s disappearance, The Addams have decided to follow with their agendas although they’ve changed some plans. They were going to leave NYC on Wednesday, but they've decided to do it next Monday, because The Grandma has suffered a great nostalgic attack and she wants to go to visit San Francisco and rememorize her hippie’s years and the American folk music of the 60’s and 70’s in the University of Berkeley (California) where she shared unforgettable experiences and great moments.

For one hand, Naiara is recovering of her hard experience and Merche is working hard to adopt King Kong, her last new friend. The rest of the family is enjoying every moment of this trip and they have taken profit about Naiara’s return to immortalize this travel in a fantastic photo.

For other hand, The Grandma is meeting with Richard Castle, the famous writer, tomorrow morning. She has a huge interest in asking him some secrets about his job to help Daniel, the Addam’s writer, who is in the beginning of his career.

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Rejection isn't failure.
Failure is giving up.
Everybody gets rejected. 
It's how you handle it that determines where you'll end up. 

Richard Castle