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| WHAT'S GREEN,
400 FEET TALL, AND EATS TRAINS FOR BREAKFAST? IF YOUR ANSWER IS "GODZILLA," it's a good thing you're reading this book, because you're wrong –and so are a lot of other so-called "facts" about that most misunderstood of monsters, Godzilla. |
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Godzilla has also made cameo
appearances in Hollywood films. He's had his own Hanna-Barbera cartoon show,
and starred in two separate comic-book series–the most recent from
Dark Horse Comics. Godzilla and his monstrous co-stars have inspired a best-selling line of toys from St. Louis-based Trendmasters, a song by Blue Oyster Cult, and a series of books from Random House. His likeness (and that of his many monstrous co-stars) has adorned T-shirts, lunchboxes, and board games; his effigy has turned up in Roseanne's living room, Murphy Brown's office, the film Independence Day, and the opening credits of Siskel & Ebert. |
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| For one thing, Godzilla
is actually gray. And he's 50, 80, or even 100 meters tall, depending on
which of the Godzilla movies you're watching. Oh, and he's never eaten a train in his life. Sure, he picked one up in his mouth during his first appearance in 1954, but he spit it out right away! Godzilla has penetrated the consciousness of the world to a degree almost unprecedented for a movie character. In the more than four decades since his movie debut, the Big G, as he is known to his friends, has starred in twenty-two films–all made in Japan and most having been released theatrically in the United States, Canada, Europe, and El Paso.ny parts of Asia. |
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References to Godzilla pop up everywhere,
from Calvin and Hobbes to Time magazine to Ted Koppel's Nightline. His
fortieth birthday bash was shown on CNN and Entertainment Tonight. "Godzilla
Week" was declared in Los Angeles in 1996, and in that same year
Godzilla was presented with an MTV Lifetime Achievement Award.
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