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Many years ago - 1975 - I was working as a young building engineer across the street from the then-being-constructed Sears Tower, here in Chicago. The night watchman was a fine guy by the name of Carmine Negro.
His life, as it was told to me during the wee hours of the night shift, was an interesting one. He had competed in the professional rodeo with some success, squired around a few beauties, worked in Hollywood as a stuntman and, prior to loosing his job, was a porter on the railroad.
It was his time in Hollywood that is part of this thread.
He told me, as he told others, and is disputed here, that he was the man-inside-the-suit for the original king Kong movie. However, as I remember, that he said "..only some parts of him were filmed" Would these have been utilized in the film? I have no way of knowing, but, like Mr. Greene, I believed him.
One of my favorite "old" films was "Thunder Road", starring Robert ("Heaven Knows Mr. Allison") Mitchum. Carmine claimed that in the final scene- the one where R. M.'s character ends up in a power transformer station - he was the stunt man who drove the souped-up Chevy(?) into the transformer, only bailing out at the last minute as was a standard technique at the time.
Carmine was interesting looking. I can't remember, but I do believe he had a very large white birthmark that covered much of his face.
Was Carmine's story line real?, or a complete fabrication?, or some where in between? I do not know for sure the answer, although the above life experiences seem like an odd group to simply fabricate from thin air. I like to think he was a quiet, dignified man (5' 5", maybe) who had some grand adventures. I was pleased to spend time in his company.
One last note: Carmine and I were on-duty that very early monday morning when an explosion in the below-street-level kitchen (a leak in the gas vault in the street) located directly across the street to the north from the Sears Tower, created merry havoc with the cross-timbers and steel columns at the construction site and blew cameras from the street level storefront into the 4th through 5th floors of the new construction. He remained cool through the whole process. Like I said a quiet, dignified guy.
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