The producer of over-the-top movie spectacles died at age 91. He's responsible for good movies (Manhunter), bad movies (Dune), and King Kong Lives, the mind-bogglingly bizarre sequel to the 1976 giant-gorilla-on-the-World-Trade-Center remake of King Kong:
It feels like a certain kind of old Hollywood movie has died with De Laurentiis. He was responsible for the kind of quirky blockbuster that allowed for (often vapid) self-expression in the middle of all that big-budget schlock. It would take at least 200 Jerry Bruckheimers to make a single Dino De Laurentiis.