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http://movies.yahoo.com/news/ap/20041020/109830540000.html

'Godzilla' to Get Star on Fame Walk

Wednesday October 20 1:50 PM ET

Godzilla, the fire-breathing movie monster born in a nuclear accident, is joining Hollywood royalty with a star on the Walk of Fame.

A ceremony will honor the giant lizard in front of Hollywood Boulevard's famed Grauman's Chinese Theatre on Nov. 29, the world premiere of "Godzilla Final Wars," Toho Pictures Inc. President Shogo Tomiyama said Wednesday.

The movie, the 28th in the series, will mark 50 years since the genetically altered dinosaur emerged from the sea.

Featuring a showdown with 10 monsters, old and new, bashing through tiny sets of Paris, New York, Shanghai and Sydney, it will be the last time Godzilla played by an actor in a rubber suit stomps through miniaturized sets before retiring.

"This movie will surprise and delight everyone, from longtime fans to first-time viewers," Tomiyama told a news conference.

Known in Japan as "Gojira," from a combination of the words for gorilla and whale, the monster first appeared in director Ishiro Honda's 1954 black-and-white classic.

It was roused from its undersea lair by a hydrogen bomb test a story line that reflected fears of a nuclear holocaust after the United States tested an H-bomb at Bikini atoll in the early 1950s.

The actor in the rubber suit will be on hand for next month's ceremony, Tomiyama said.

Wonder if they'll get his hand and feet impressions in cement next? :lol :lol :lol

 

[teepo]

 

[El Papa]

Sweet! I love Godzilla, my favorite monster as a kid.

Known in Japan as "Gojira," from a combination of the words for gorilla and whale

What? Gojira is just the romanized form of Godzilla, where'd they get that gorilla/whale BS?

Godzilla /= Gorrwhalea

 

[Bebpo]

Sweet! I love Godzilla, my favorite monster as a kid.


What? Gojira is just the romanized form of Godzilla, where'd they get that gorilla/whale BS?

Godzilla /= Gorrwhalea

Gorilla = Gorilla,
Kujira = whale in Japanese

Thus Gojira = Gorilla + Whale.

 

[SteveMeister]

Sweet! I love Godzilla, my favorite monster as a kid.


What? Gojira is just the romanized form of Godzilla, where'd they get that gorilla/whale BS?

Godzilla /= Gorrwhalea

No, Godzilla is the americanized form of Gojira... as to the gorilla/whale stuff, I'm not so sure about the truth of that, although I have heard it before. But regardless, Gojira came first. and we Americans just turned that into "Godzilla"

 

[Shouta]

Godzilla > Gojira.

And yay! Godzilla on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. About damn time too.

 

[fennec fox]

No, Godzilla is the americanized form of Gojira... as to the gorilla/whale stuff, I'm not so sure about the truth of that, although I have heard it before. But regardless, Gojira came first. and we Americans just turned that into "Godzilla"

　What is your point? Yes, Gojira comes from gorilla and whale.

 

[SteveMeister]

?What is your point? Yes, Gojira comes from gorilla and whale.

Check again -- I was responding to El Papa who it seemed may have thought it was the other way around -- that "Gojira" came from "Godzilla".

 

[LakeEarth]

No love for Mothera

 

[Ripclawe]

No love for Mothera

PFFT TO YOU!

 

[FortNinety]

Christ, about fucking time!!!

 

[way more]

Isn't the star just a publicity stunt. It's mostly based on the fact that the star can afford the fee for the property. Well good for him, this puts Tom Cruise, the Bee Gees, Zasu Pitts, Pee Wee Herman, Cloris Leachman and Lassie in their place.