Word: gorillas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...excited to have a chance to see Killer Kowalski and Haystack Calhoun, Gorilla Moonson and Baron von Sciclund in person. I thought it would be great. But now, being pushed and elbowed and jostled. I realized just how depressing it had been. Why didn't I think wrestling was fun anymore? Why couldn't I laugh...
King Kong--In which we learn that beauty killed the beast, not all those wooden airplanes buzzing the Empire State Building. Definitely one of your great gorilla pictures. At HILLES LIBRARY, tonight...
...speech; and its repertory, performed around the country, includes Renaissance commedia dell'arte, Moliere farces and group-created modern morality plays with so much bawdry that the actors have been arrested by local authorities for obscenity. At the festival, the troupe's musicians, who call themselves the "Gorilla Band," offered a blatantly sardonic, nose-thumbing rendition of favorite American songs like Yankee-Doodle The plays included an antiwar skit with the central image of a crutch topped by a meat grinder, a 15th century farce about the evils of the profit system and a puppet show featuring little...
...Spreading farms and logging operations have driven the survivors ever deeper into the rain forest; native hunters shoot the mothers and carry off the young orangutans for illegal sale to foreign zoos (price: as much as $4,000 apiece). To save this vanishing Asian cousin of Africa's gorilla and chimpanzee, Sabah state officials are seizing young orangutans from poachers and trying to retrain them for the wild...
...abrasive piece of science friction. But on the screen the story has been reduced from Swiftian satire to self-parody. The script is cluttered with man-monkey analogies, as crude as "Human see, human do," "I never met an ape I didn't like" and "he was a gorilla to remember." At one point, three of the simians simultaneously cover their eyes, ears and mouth. The best thing about the film results from Producer Arthur P. Jacobs' decision to allocate $1,000,000 for masks and costumes. The makeup boys have given him his money's worth...