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...hirsute woman who falls in love with a light-in-the-shorts behavioral scientist, Nathan Bronfman (Tim Robbins). Bronfman is trying, with some success, to teach mice to eat with the correct salad fork (yes, really). When the lovers while hiking one day find a man raised as an ape, Bronfman switches his attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood's New Flavor | 4/29/2002 | See Source »

Although most songs on the soundtrack, by virtue of the talent of the contributors alone, conform to a base level of excellence, some tracks still manage to stand out. Redman and Gorrilaz put forth “Gorillaz On My Mind,” a playful track melding ape noises, Damon Albarn’s self-mocking “La-la-la-la”s off Blur’s “Charmless Man” and Redman’s charming lyrics like “Full of whiskey/ Looking for Lewinsky...

Author: By Crimson STAFF Writers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Music | 4/12/2002 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Gossip Guy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gossip Guy! | 4/5/2002 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Marcus L. Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The King of Pop Returns | 11/9/2001 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bit of A Comedown From "The Planet of the Apes" | 8/3/2001 | See Source »

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