Word: aping
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...ramp, with a man in a gorilla suit climbing while photographed from directly above. The graphic had been taken from a movie magazine that was getting out some prerelease publicity; like the facts in most movie magazines, it was incorrect. There was never a man in an ape suit in any part of the film, as "Famous Monsters" pointed out. (That technique had to wait for "Godzilla...
...Darrow (Fay Wray), for "love interest." Natives on island make sacrifices to local god, figure the blonde would work better than one of the local maidens. Kidnap blonde, tie her up on altar on other side of huge wall, call on the god. God turns out to be giant ape who feels immediate love interest and grabs the blonde. Expedition pursues them into the jungle, where all die from various prehistoric perils (giant spiders, for instance) except for Jack (Bruce Cabot), blonde's boyfriend, and Denham (Robert Armstrong), the filmmaker. Jack continues pursuit; Denham heads back for help...
...hard to believe, but his first thought was to transport a film crew and a great ape to Komodo Island and somehow get the ape to fight a lizard on film. There were some logistical problems (I wonder what they could have been?) and the plan never got off the ground. A couple years later Cooper was asked by newly appointed RKO studio head David O. Selznick to compile an inventory of every piece of film in the library. Cooper came across some sequences from an unfinished stop-action animation film called "Creation," the pet project of animator Willis...
...search for the next supertenors accents fears within the classical record industry that its efforts to ape the pop world might bring disasters of operatic proportions. For record bosses the result could be, as the famous aria from Puccini's Turandot has it, Nessun dorma: nobody sleeps...
...impulse to hear stories and tell them will always be with us. It's as prehistoric as that ape-man. Life, after all, is a story. It provides us with an instinctive appetite for all the other stories we come upon or create, from the fairy tales at the beginning of our days to the obituary at the end. Children always plead, "Tell it to me again." Here are six people who do just that, in ways you never imagined...