Word: orangutan
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...good--we got some love interest, got some degeneracy, got some people bearing up pluckily under their miserable socioeconomic lot. We also have satisfyingly gory brawls and a bravura performance from Rourke, who shambles around like an elfin orangutan, with a voice that's a demented cross between Edward G. Robinson and Don Corleone...
...nearby, his colleagues determined the skull's age. Its pedigree was trickier. It has the structure of a late australopithecine: wide palate, huge rear molars, enormous cheekbones and a pronounced crest of bone running along the top of the skull. But other features -- a for- ward-thrusting muzzle, an orangutan-size brain and an apelike jaw structure -- are primitive. Leakey believes this mosaic suggests, as he has argued for years, that Johanson is wrong and that his reconstruction of afarensis is actually based on two different species. And, Leakey says, the new fossil, labeled WT 17000, resembles one of them...
...each of whom he refers to as "my dog Spot." Wayne Greenstein, 32, and Brother Marc, 34, whose family owns Coronet juvenile furniture in Westbury, N.Y., have appeared in commercials since 1980. One of their popular spots features the Greensteins sitting in baby cribs and musing about a "talking orangutan." Customers routinely barge into Coronet demanding to see the TV stars, and trendy Manhattan nightclubs such as Danceteria, Chuckles and the Comic Strip have hired them to perform the orangutan skit onstage. Chortles Wayne: "We've become cult figures...
...between species. Last December, after what Bailey called "months of agonizing," the Loma Linda institutional review board gave him preliminary approval to implant a baboon heart in a human infant. The final go-ahead came just two days before Baby Fae's surgery. "There is evidence that the chimpanzee, orangutan or gorilla may be a better donor," Bailey noted last week, "but they are either an endangered species or don't procreate well in captivity...
...finally met Mr. Right," muses Actress Louise Fletcher, 48. "I was really amazed at his work discipline. When the director told him to hit his mark, he was right there." Fletcher's co-star is obviously a seasoned pro; indeed, C.J. the orangutan, 13, has charmed moviegoers as the swinging simian in Clint Eastwood's Any 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...