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He would architect a 30-foot animatronic King Kong that once stood at Universal Studios Hollywood, work with Steven Spielberg on the dinosaur figures for “Jurassic Park,” construct a constantly sinking ship at Las Vegas’ Treasure Island and build a flying UFO for the closing ceremonies of the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics.

The record closes with the epic eight-minute “Kong,” which Bridges wrote after director John Guillermin rejected his idea for an alternate ending to the 1976 “King Kong” remake, in which Bridges starred.

The song features the disco-inspired chorus “Do the King Kong, baby,” with actor Burgess Meredith simulating the historic Hindenburg disaster radio broadcast as he narrates the massive ape-machine’s fiery crash to the ground.

“I had my 36th birthday on ‘King Kong’ — I was still playing ingénues.

Brody has made some Hollywood genre films, from the horror film “Splice,” to the action movie, “Predators,” and the most recent remake of “King Kong.”