Word: gorillas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Which Way You Can (1980), and starred last year in the short-lived Mr. Smith television series. He and the huggable Fletcher met on the set of My Secret Friend, a TV movie to be aired on CBS this winter. In an unusual bit of crosscasting, he plays a gorilla. She plays a scientist who teaches him to communicate in sign language, which comes in handy when the primate is eventually befriended by a young deaf boy (portrayed by Sean Gerlis, 12, who is deaf in real life too). Fletcher figures there was no way to avoid being upstaged. Says...
...city's trains with her husband and thinks her new occupation can help the old. "Most women believe modeling is more feminine than patrolling the subways, so I'll be able to relate to them better," explains Sliwa. "You don't have to be a gorilla to defend yourself, and you don't have to be a Nerf-brain to be a model." Nor to figure out that a $2,000-a-day modeling fee can buy a lot of subway tokens...
...same: a ruthless, fearless, utterly amoral slug. Insert him in the chamber of a .45 and he will blast off into your enemies. Cross him and cross yourself; he will perform your last rites just for fun. His swaggering sense of invulnerability first earns him a role as gorilla soldier in the army of Frank Lopez (Robert Loggia), a car and drug dealer. In the class structure of Sunbelt crime, Frank is the middle-class middle man, tangling fatally with both the coke aristocracy of Bolivia and Tony, his proletarian successor. He has two things Tony wants: power...
...neck." The origins of tabloid astrology can be traced to the predictions of Astrampsychus (circa A.D. 350): "Gladness of mind shows that you will live abroad"; and Napoleon 's Book of Fate (circa 1860): "For a young woman to dream that she is embraced by a gorilla means that she will have one of the handsomest and wisest men for a suitor...
Western criticism only served to make the Kremlin more defiant. Soviet newspapers have run cartoons depicting Reagan as a blind cowboy and a bloody-fanged gorilla. Vitali Kobysh, a Kremlin information official, gave a five-minute TV commentary in which he said: "It is likely that no one will ever know details of the assassination of President John Kennedy or black civil rights fighter Martin Luther King, but everything is already known about the [airliner]." The outrageous implication was that U.S. secret services had staged all three tragedies and covered their tracks successfully in the Kennedy and King deaths...