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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rorschach in Reverse | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 20, 1952 | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 20, 1952 | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 20, 1952 | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

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