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...because of the visual style. It would be capricious to declare that a planet on which apes are superior to men must be the sun-baked, post-apocalyptic desertscape in Franklin J. Schaffner?s original. The planet on which Mark Wahlberg crashes is dark, moody and marshy - in fact, it?s alarmingly similar to the one in "Empire Strikes Back," in which men are ruled by wrinkled green Jedi instructors - and that?s OK. Dark and moody is Burton?s thing, and he does it well; take what...
...Burton?s "reimagining" did score one outright coup. The insight that apes, if they did indeed take over a planet, would still behave very much like apes - and even more so when angry or otherwise aroused - was a clear improvement on Schaffner?s stiffly human-aping overlords. Led by Tim Roth?s manic and maniacal (if slightly hammy) turn as General Thade and Helena Bonham Carter's incredible suffusing of her liberal-princess chimp with a warm and sexy glow, the hairy actors rule this movie. And of course Burton?s choice of Rick Baker as makeup man made...
...misconception about hepatitis B is that only drug users or prostitutes contract it. While it is true that most adults become infected through sex or exposure to contaminated needles, perhaps a third of all cases cannot clearly be linked to such causes. "Nature isn't tidy," says Dr. William Schaffner of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. "We had a case of two people who only worked together. One had hepatitis B, though he didn't know it, and the other didn't. On a single occasion, they drank from the same Coke. It happened at just the right time...
...that I object to your being a bastard, don't get me wrong there. It's your being such a stupid bastard." So said Lee Tracy to Cliff Robertson in The Best Man (1964), Franklin J. Schaffner's classy political nail-biter about pre-nomination maneuvering...
George Karl (2) Nordstrom in the tailored look Seattle SuperSonics of Hart, Schaffner & Marx and the executive attire of Joseph Abboud...