Word: monkeyism
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...Monkey Business which has just concluded a special one-day run at the Brattle was not the Marx Brothers movie of the same name which Halliday and Harvey thought they were buying, but an entirely different film about a chimpanzee who discovers a chemical formula that makes Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers act like ten-year-olds...
...This Monkey Business is no great shakes as a work of art, except for an exquisite moment when Miss Rogers drops a goldfish down Charles Coburn's pants. There is a lot of running around and yelling, some funny, some not; Coburn sits on a pie, and squirts water in various directions; Marilyn Monroe, impersonating a blonde secretary, tells Grant, "Mr. Oxley's been complaining about my punctuation, so I've been careful to get here before nine"; the thing ends with Grant and Miss Rogers in a snugly marital clinch...
...Monkey Business is notable for the nostalgic look it gives us at the Old Marilyn Monroe, who gives a somnambulistic performance in the style we once knew so well. In a distended sweater, Miss Monroe is an object of considerably more interest than she held for the observers in the children's section of the RKO Eighty-Sixth Street when Monkey Business was new. Miss Monroe and her sweater are not in The Mystery of Picasso and The Red Balloon, which are designed to appeal to higher faculties, and which re-open at the Brattle today...
...minutes, a Navy patrol plane found the capsule bouncing on a rough sea, and in two hours after launch, the destroyer Borie picked it out of the water Opening the capsule itself was no problem but Monkey Sam had to stay in his inner package for four hours more, because Bone's officers did not dare tamper with its mysterious workings and high seas prevented transfer of the package to the task force's mother ship. Finally, guided by radioed instructions, the Borie's men gingerly opened the package. They found Sam the monkey "alive and kicking...
...flight of Monkey Sam was not momentous; it was merely one of the minor but essential steps that must be taken before a rocket climbs into space carrying an astronaut (scheduled for late 1961).But it proved that if anything goes wrong on the early upward leg of such a flight, man can bail out and live...