Word: bonzo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Backs to the Wall. Many abstractionists go to Dr. Bontzolakis. not only because they are a franc a dozen in Paris but also because his wife paints (as Colette Bonzo), and her friends take their troubles to him. Madame Bontzolakis' work is strictly representational-flowery examples hang in her husband's office...
...Bonzo Goes to College (Universal-International) finds Bonzo, "the world's most educated chimp," enrolled at an institution of higher learning and winning the big football game for his alma mater as a razzle-dazzle quarterback. Bonzo* also caddies on a golf course, brushes his teeth (and then eats the toothpaste), takes a bubble bath and displays the finest of table manners while dining on mashed bananas, banana fritters and banana shortcake...
...sporadically amusing spoof, Bonzo Goes to College leans almost entirely for its laughs on the mugging of its sawed-off leading man. Looking something like a cross between Mickey Rooney and William Bendix in a porkpie hat, Eton jacket and long trousers and suspenders, Bonzo somehow manages to keep the show going without any visible assistance from writers, director and supporting cast...
...original Bonzo of the 1951 Bedtime jor Bonzo died in a zoo fire last year. The present Bonzo II also doubles as Tamba the Chimp in Columbia's Jungle Jim series...