Word: aping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appear all that natural to Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., corporate guardian of Tarzan's good name. An R-rated Tarzan, the Ape Man? One produced by and starring the sexiest number in "10,"and directed by her husband John? Convinced that the film would besmirch the jungle lord's reputation, the Burroughs estate went to court. Last week in Manhattan, Federal Judge Henry Werker previewed the film and re-viewed two earlier MGM versions of Burroughs' first Tarzan novel. His "suggestion": that MGM cut four sequences displaying Bo in various stages of undress. According to John Derek...
...innocently sensuous 1932 film was a box office hit and spawned a swampful of sequels. The sequels were not covered by the 1931 agreement, but MGM's 1959 remake was, and so is the new Derek version, which co-stars Miles O'Keeffe as the Ape...
...womanhood. Exquisite tension, indeed. Elsewhere, a man numbed by tragedy climbs out of himself by scaling an Alp. The purpose: to recapture his humanity "in a crucible of high drama." Humanity sinks in Letters from the "Samantha, " in which the captain of a British sailing vessel rescues a reddish ape from the Indian Ocean but throws it back when the sad, manlike creature disrupts ship's business. The captain insists that the ape had no meaning and his fate no moral significance. The reader should have no trouble getting the author's drift: when the freight must...
...controversial but successful former head of Columbia, to run the movie operation. So far this year, MGM has started eight films, compared with a total of 15 for Columbia, Disney, Paramount and Fox combined. Begelman has also announced that he will be developing 51 films. These include Tarzan, the Ape Man starring Bo Derek, John Steinbeck's Cannery Row with Nick Nolle, and American Rhapsody with Punk Rocker Deborah Harry...
...colossus. Careful dating of her remains showed that she had antedated Homo sapiens (who appeared 100,000 years ago) by some 3.5 million years. More important, the evidence she left behind showed that she walked on two legs, not on all fours. Lucy clearly was not an ape. And while she might not have been human...