Word: aping
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...last lecture before heading off to Cancun for vacation, was somehow left with the idea that Wrangham was encouraging baboon-human crossbreeding. Felix is currently being held in a small cell near the Cancun Zoo primate house as confused prosecutors attempt to figure out exactly which statutes prohibit ape-raping...
Invincible comes then as a welcome relief for sore ears. Today’s popstars grew up on Jackson, and even today slavishly imitate him and ape the onstage actions of his glory days. Jackson’s recent albums, such as Blood on the Dance Floor, sounded less like Jackson and more like an imitator, a wanna-be vainly trying to recapture that old magic...
Among the things I learned about "Planet of the Apes" director Tim Burton from the A&E "Biography" that aired Tuesday in the midst of "Biography Goes Ape Week": His childhood hero was Vincent Price. Most of the cast of "Beetlejuice" initially wanted nothing to do with the film. (Good instinct, in my opinion.) "Edward Scissorhands" was basically a relating of Burton growing up in the Hollywood uber-burb of Burbank...
...trio (always a bad sign) responsible for the new POTA?s blueprint had to have a different ape start the simian civilization, apparently just so the little fella could return for a truly ludicrous deux-ex-machina moment in the middle of the grand battle for planetary control - and so Davidson can borrow the pod and still get back home to wifey in time for dinner with the Feldmans. And the fact that home isn?t what he remembered is the kind of out-of-left-field "surprise" ending that gets mystery writers beat up at Ellery Queen conventions...
...still turn out for Time Burton?s next movie - he?s still one of the only big-time directors around who holds out the promise of something different. And like I said, it?s still a pretty good movie. But while the 1968 "Planet of the Apes" succeeded in spite of its shortcomings - mostly technical, some tonal - Burton seemed mostly interested in shoring up his predecessors? weak points rather than aiming for the stars with the movie?s inherent potential for intelligence and at least surface profundity. And the original "Planet of the Apes" was too, well, original to deserve...