Word: apes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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JAMES MEIGS, editor in chief, Premiere magazine: "Tarzan the Ape Man [1981; 5]. I don't think six or seven minutes go by without Bo Derek getting her shirt wet, and it's still boring...
...moved back to the side for this version). The original 1954 Godzilla, wild and untamable, is physically different from the relatively benign creature that does battle with the triple-headed King Ghidorah in Destroy All Monsters (1968), from the oversize Japanese nationalist who takes on a visiting American ape in King Kong vs. Godzilla (1963) and from the wholesome environmentalist wrestling a mess of sludge in Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster (1972). Poor thing. With apologies to Sondheim: "First you're everyone's rough-hide scamp; then the other monster; then you're camp...
...Steve Jobs' Pixar, the folks who brought the world Toy Story in 1995. When DreamWorks moved the premiere of Prince of Egypt to December to keep it away from A Bug's Life, Disney announced it was moving Mighty Joe Young--a picture starring Bill Paxton and an ape--from this summer to Prince's new date. DreamWorks has its own computer-created insect feature, Antz, coming...
...news story also featured intentionally startling and disturbing "artist's renderings" of what human animal combinations might look like, including an image of one creature with a human face and ape-like body that looks out at us with a pained expression from behind the bars of a cage...
...single brand," Fireman said at February's Super Show, the industry's big trade fair. As Nike pulled away over the past couple of years, retailers began to up their swoosh orders. At the urging of retailers (they hate having any one brand dominate), competitors began to ape Nike's look. Says Fireman: "I don't think anybody had bad intentions, but we were fools to follow...