...managed to get away with.
Die, you young fool! What can you do without me?
You're a puppet, a piece of clay. You can't think, you can't move unless I direct it.
And when King Kong proved to be a box office smash even in the midst of the Great Depression,
RKO wasted no time rushing a sequel into production,
with Robert Armstrong reprising his role as master showman Carl Denham.
I wish I'd left him on his island.
Old Kong. I'm sure paying for what I did to you.
King Kong had taken years to create, with its intricate special effects
and painstaking frame-by-frame animation of the giant ape and various other monsters.
He finally made his debut in February of 1933.
But when he was a smash, the studio somehow managed to have the son of Kong ready in theaters by the end of that same year.
Skipper, believe it or not, there's a little Kong.
So you see, sequels have been with us almost as long as movies themselves.
Because Hollywood has always believed, as it still does today, that nothing succeeds like success.
See another great movie sequel Monday on TNT.
48 million Americans have two things in common, air conditioning and TNT.
So crank it up and let TNT sweat it out for you.
We will return to Dead End in a moment on TNT.
Sometimes a commanding officer is more dangerous than the enemy.
John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Fort Apache. Friday on TNT.
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August on TNT. Temperature 90-something and going up.
It's time to let somebody else take the heat, like the Cleveland Browns and the Minnesota Vikings in TNT's first preseason game.
Last year, these two pros in sudden death overtime.
They faked the field goal!
Let's see what happens in the heat.
TNT's NFL preseason begins here with the Vikings and the Browns. Sunday Nitro. Sunday at 8 on TNT.
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As tensions rise in the Persian Gulf, the world turns to CNN.
Critics say CNN cameras were everywhere and the effort was impressive.
CNN has video the others haven't been able to get.
CNN once again was an invaluable resource.
CNN coverage has been groundbreaking.
CNN demonstrating once again why it's been called the most influential television news organization on Earth.
For live, continuous coverage of the crisis in the Gulf, turn to CNN.
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You're not fully clean unless you're zestfully clean.
That's zestfully clean.
I'm so serious about work, being a great dad, even tennis.
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Spend a day in the precinct and you'll see the intensity that makes Detective Story one of our favorite movies.
Tonight on TNT.
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And now back to Dead End.
Another hot one on TNT.
We will return to Dead End in a moment on TNT.
The great granddaddy of modern cop dramas.
Take him away.
Detective story portrayed the grim realism of a New York City precinct.
I'm gonna put him in the electric chair where he belongs and pull a switch myself.
For weeks Kirk Douglas played out his role to live audiences just to develop the intensity.
You had a child by him.
Then you went to that butcher's schneider.
Everything I hate.
Kirk Douglas's gripping performance makes detective story one of our favorite movies.
Tonight on TNT.
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New Vanilla is so fine.
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Here's why all the people say.
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King Hussein meets with President Bush.
I'm Jonathan Mann at the CNN News Center in Cairo.
Join me with Bernard Shaw in Washington for the latest on the crisis in the Gulf.
A special report at 8 p.m. Eastern on CNN.
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The creators of the hit movie Parenthood strike again.
With Parenthood the TV series.
I just wish that before we had kids someone would have told me.
Told you what?
Anything.
From fatherly advice.
Your lawn looks like crap.
To grandma's wisdom.
Dad?
Dad?
Deserves to be.
Some things never change.
Hey, Dad, did you do these things?
Had you, didn't I?
Four generations of Parenthood fun.
I'm wet.
Coming to NBC.
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You think it's hot now?
Just wait till you see the beat the heat month movies on TNT.
The 1990 MTV Video Music Awards.
While the rest of the world is clicking into cable September 6th for the nation's hottest award show,
you could be sitting pretty in the place where it will all come together.
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Barth Gimble, a talk show host and a multi-talented entertainment juggernaut.
Anything you can do, I can do best.
Every night on Fernwood Tonight, Barth Gimble, joined by sidekick Jerry Hubbard,
and of course, bandleader Happy Kine and the Mirth Makers, host another half hour with music guests and totally uninhibited talk.
When a dog does get in heat, we can say that.
Barth Gimble on Fernwood Tonight, every night at 10.39, 30 Central on Nick at Night.
What will Barth say tonight?
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And now back to Dead End, another hot one on TNT.
Tonight, our favorite movies presents Kirk Douglas as a self-righteous detective being driven mad by the evil around him in Detective Story,
followed by Cornell Wilde as a persistent cop who faces a sadistic racketeer in The Big Combo.
Good hot stuff on TNT.
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Deep in the African wild, it begins with a brutal murder.
I sent a friend of mine here and she was murdered.
It leads to a dangerous mystery.
It explodes into a desperate conflict.
John Lithgow, Isabella Rossellini, James Earl Jones.
Together, they face Africa's deadliest predator.
Man, the Last Elephant, a TNT exclusive premiere Monday at 8 Eastern.
Teddy crams are here to stay New vanilla gets so fine
Cram snacks taste so cold this way I'm so glad they're mine
Here's why all the people say New vanilla is here to stay
Teddy crams vanilla Rock on vanilla, I say New vanilla is here to stay
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Sunday on TBS.
Attention all viewers.
Be on the lookout for Burt Reynolds, alias the Bandit.
He's wanted for stealing, uh, borrowing 400 cases of beer, driving darn fast, and abducting an Oscar-winning actress.
What we're dealing with here...
...is a complete lack of respect for the law.
Sally Freedom, Jackie Gleason, Smokey and the Bandit.
10.35 Eastern on TBS Sunday.
Dash cleans a smelly mess for less.
At 43, Connie Chung's done it all, except giving birth.
And this week's People features Connie and other after-40 Americans going for it.
Stars like Midler and Close and everyday housewives succeeding.
This week, beating the biological clock.
People, that's what we're all about.
The creators of the hit movie Parenthood strike again.
With Parenthood, the TV series.
I just wished that before we had kids, someone would have told me.
Told you what?
From fatherly advice...
Your lawn looks like crap.
...to grandma's wisdom.
Dad?
Dad?
Deserves to be.
Some things never change.
Dad, did you do great things?
Had you, didn't I?
Four generations of Parenthood fun.
I'm wet.
Coming to NBC.
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New Ritz Bits sandwiches with cheese and Ritz Bits sandwiches with peanut butter.
And now back to Dead End.
Another hot one on TNT.
Come on up.
Super ready.