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...died in 1950, and MGM. For $20,000 the studio bought the rights to the author's 1914 novel, plus permission to remake the film, on the condition that any remake adhere to the spirit of the first film. With Johnny Weissmuller as the displaced Lord Greystoke and Maureen O'Sullivan as his comely mate Jane, MGM's innocently sensuous 1932 film was a box office hit and spawned a swampful of sequels. The sequels were not covered by the 1931 agreement, but MGM's 1959 remake was, and so is the new Derek version, which...
...seems the Pontiff will be denied that opportunity. And generations of aging boys, who recall Maureen O'Sullivan's nude swimming scene in the 1934 Tarzan and His Mate, will be forced to make do with a little Bo peek. Meanwhile Hollywood is happy to have another scandale on its hands. "Well, well, well," drawled one director working on the MGM lot, " Junglegate.'' -By Richard Corliss. Reported by Dean Brelis/New York and Elaine Dutka/Los Angeles
...destructiveness. And somehow, when his words become deeds, the intrusion of maniac disorderliness on the slickly complacent world of these show people is extraordinarily harrowing. Michael Biehn, as the madman, combines a sort of mad innocence with creepiness very effectively, and there are good bits, as well, by Maureen Stapleton as Bacall's patiently put-upon secretary and by Hector Elizondo as a smart but slightly star-struck...
Among them are Bamford and Maureen Smales, a liberal Johannesburg couple with three small children. As the rioting spreads, they turn to July, the black man who has been their servant for 15 years. He piles them into a van and guides them to his ancestral village, nearly 400 miles away. This "crash from the suburb to the wilderness" takes three torturous days and nights to accomplish...
...Francesca Den Hartog and the Harvard women lacrosse team what it feels like to own an entire season. Undoubtedly, the spring of 1981 belonged to the laxwomen. With Den Hartog and fellow sophomore Maureen Finn each averaging more than four goals per game, the squad systematically rolled over its 17 regular-season opponents winning every contest until the semifinal round of the national tournament in State College, Pa. The laxwomen lost just one more game--the consolation round of the tournament--and concluded the season with a fourth-place national ranking...