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...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...
...last two club elections have not been dull. The 1966 ticket was unopposed, but a "gorilla" ran against Scott for vice-president. (The gorilla was disqualified because only homo sapiens are eligible for club membership.) Last year the "group" who had backed the gorilla reappeared; one of them called the club a farce, singing "We've Got Trouble Right Here in YR's" to the tune from The Music...
...currently co-producing and starring in The President's Analyst, but that, he allows, is just to satisfy the outer man. "We must be here for some reason, not just to make movies and lie in the sun. Man can't be finished. The cat is. The gorilla is. We must be here for a self-evolution, a development of the mind...