Word: apes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FRIDAY: Rodan (1956) and King Kong (1933). Back-to-back you get to see trillion-year-old bird monster terrorize Japan for about the 738th time and for the 738th time you can see the giant ape climb the world's third tallest building (fie, New York) and swat off biplanes like brushing off panhandlers. CH.56...
...were like banana peels to O'Neill; he always seems to be picking himself up after having slipped on some thought of Nietzsche's or Strindberg's or Freud's. He was addicted to dramatic stunts-drums in The Emperor Jones, mannequins in The Hairy Ape, masks in The Great God Brown. Something of a Broadway swell and a nifty dresser, he aspired to be a flashy man-about-words, a self-described poet, no less, and some of his highfalutin attempts along these lines make one cringe...
...Testament context. "Schmuck!" God addresses Adam as he prepares to oust him from the Garden of Eden. Adam himself, portrayed by Bob Dishy as the typical Brooklyn boy, has an endearing pose--hands holding his sides at rib level, elbows jutting directly out--that simultaneously recalls an ape-man and a street-corner adolescent. The angels of Mercy and Death find their modern Jewish counterparts in benevolent grandfatherly Lou Gilbert (with his receding halo of puffy, white hair) and rabbinically pessimistic Lou Polan...
Woody Allen should have taken a shot at Inside the Third Reich. Or even The Naked Ape. Dr. David Reuben's well-scrubbed almanac of sexual aid and comfort only affords Woody another opportunity to turn mating rites into mayhem. It was an opportunity he ought to have passed...
...loyal horde of fellow rats upon Willard, his misanthropic master. Willard ended, appropriately enough, with Willard's grisly demise, but Ben is back as busy as ever in this sleazy slice of horror for the pre-high school set. The basic conceit of both the rat and the ape pictures is that animals at worst are misunderstood and at best are infinitely preferable to humans. Ben pals around with a sickly kid named Danny who suf fers from a weak heart and, to judge by his actions in the movie, a weak head. Danny sticks up for Ben when...