Word: chimp
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...animal probably shared the forest with apes and monkeys and, like them, spent some time up in the trees. It may have walked upright, which apes rarely do for very long at a stretch. But at a casual glance, it would have seemed to our eyes like just another chimp...
DIED. FRED DE CORDOVA, 90, producer of the Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson; in Los Angeles. Before starting at the Tonight Show, De Cordova produced TV programs for George Burns and the Smothers Brothers, among others, and directed the 1951 chimp comedy Bedtime for Bonzo, co-starring Ronald Reagan. A frequent target of Carson's on-air jokes, De Cordova called his job "the best in television...
...Omen A Scottish safari-park chimp pickpocketed a warden's cell phone and was detected only when he began placing shrieking prank calls to staff members...
...much like apes - and even more so when angry or otherwise aroused - was a clear improvement on Schaffner?s stiffly human-aping overlords. Led by Tim Roth?s manic and maniacal (if slightly hammy) turn as General Thade and Helena Bonham Carter's incredible suffusing of her liberal-princess chimp with a warm and sexy glow, the hairy actors rule this movie. And of course Burton?s choice of Rick Baker as makeup man made it all impressively realistic...
...Davidson, meanwhile, is just on a long hitch doing monkey research for the Air Force. He?s vaguely rebellious in a Keanu Reaves kind of way, complaining about monkeys doing mens? jobs (a nod to "The Right Stuff") and zipping off in his space pod to save his favorite chimp, Pericles. But he couldn?t be less interested in the implied philosophical musings that come with the movie - and distinguished it from the mass of movies before or since - and on screen they suffer from lack of nourishment. (Wahlberg does manage a few good lines about how nutty this planet...