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...already appeared in six movies. Since then he has brightened 22 more with his surf's-up amiability and his bursts of flummoxed intensity. He has played a Texas teenager (The Last Picture Show) and a down-on-his-heels boxer (Fat City), second-string to a big ape (the 1976 King Kong), a gentle lover and a sick slasher (he was both in Jagged Edge). "I like to mix it up as much as possible," says Bridges. "It lowers my boredom level...
...demi-centenarian ape and his best friend, the man in the yellow hat, are the stars of a popular opus that has been delighting children of all ages--but mostly those under eight--since its creation. Presumably, the man in the yellow hat, who found George in a jungle, turned 50 simultaneously...
...characters are the invention of the husband and wife team H.A. and Margret Rey, who penned the ape's first adventure in 1938 in France, where they lived in exile after fleeing Nazi Germany...
...primitive racial harassment. Decisions by both the Justice Department and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission had already upheld Rochon's claims of humiliating pranks that began when he was assigned in 1983 to the FBI office in Omaha. A photograph of his children was defaced by pasting an ape's head over the face of his son. Invitations to office functions with the words "Don't come" written across them were placed in his mail slot along with other demeaning messages...
...century of efforts to quantify physiological differences between the races has yielded plenty of anthropological mumbo jumbo. In the early days of Darwinism, some European scholars suggested that the major races had each descended from a different species of ape: Caucasians from chimpanzees, the most intelligent nonhuman primates; Orientals from orangutans; and Negroes from gorillas, the biggest and blackest...