Word: aping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...humor of Will Rogers-at least as it has been assembled and edited by Director Paul Shyre and Associate Producer Bryan Sterling. Though Rogers commented on daily events and the doings of petty men, he saw things in the larger perspective of man as the eternal presumptuous ape, full of folly, and pomposity and greed, yet strangely lovable. He forged a link between every human being by reminding us that for better or for worse, we are all stuck with our foolish, fumbling selves. Some of Rogers' humor has a peculiarly pertinent contemporaneity as when he chides the Federal...
...Bano, 27, marry Tyrone Power's daughter Romina, 18. The lovely bride kept an apprehensive eye on her mother, who had threatened not to attend the wedding. Power's widow, still spirited Linda Christian, 45, had referred to her singing son-in-law as "nothing but an ape with eyeglasses...
...opera films achieve theatrical effect by cinematic means. The Berlin Deutsche Oper's version of Hans Werner Henze's sardonic The Young Lord, for example, hits harder than would be possible in a stage production: In this grim fable, the citizens of a small town foolishly ape the eccentricities of what they believe to be a wealthy aristocrat; at the end they discover that the object of their idolatry is in fact a real ape. Stripped of pretense by the cruel joke, the people stare helplessly at the ape while the camera mercilessly moves from face to face...
Beneath the Planet of the Apes finds Astronaut James Franciscus searching frantically for Charlton Heston, who, it may be recalled, got hung up in a time warp in the original. Franciscus and Heston's girl friend (Linda Harrison) escape from the same simian world where humans are treated as lower animals and stumble onto an underground civilization of humanoid atom-bomb freaks. These thermonuclear trippers are about to launch civilization's last A-bomb against their ape rivals. Worse, they have Charlton Heston stashed in a cage so he cannot thwart their plan. Franciscus and Heston...
...there are some crities whom we can also easily fool, but what can you do?" Singer shrugged and continued. "Most people live according to a cliche. Although they fight cliches and the Establishment, they become Establishment themselves. It's almost in human nature that people imitate one another and ape one another. There are few original people, and they sometimes don't appear original because they don't try to appear original." Mrs. Singer tried to interest her husband in another piece of toast, but he declined...