Word: simianity
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Spartacus. Says Roddy McDowall, 1who played Cornelius in two of the movies and who plays the simian Spartacus in the upcoming one: "Now I know why monkeys hate people. When I get dressed up that way, everybody stares and points and yells, and you have no identity. You feel helpless...
Died. Bruce Cabot, 68, who saved Fay Wray from her simian captor in the 193 3 film classic King Kong; of lung cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif. Though he alternated between playing heroes and heavies during the early part of his 40-year film career, Cabot eventually settled down to a routine of bad-guy supporting roles in shoot...
...Simian Sex. Rare Galápagos tortoises were coaxed to mate at the San Diego Zoo after keepers provided enough sand for them to dig their own "nests," the only place they apparently consider suitable for lovemaking. The zoo's gorillas posed another problem. Like most humans, they do not like to be the objects of spectator sex, so zoo officials constructed private rooms at a cost of $7.000. Here, too, they are still hoping for success. Meanwhile the San Francisco Zoo's gorillas have produced two babies...
...only the day before yesterday that Lancaster's ivory grin and simian grace made him a star? No, it was 1947, the year of Burt Force with Brute Lancaster. Or was it Brute Force with Burt Lancaster? Hood and hero, buccaneer and intellectual, Lancaster played them all, sometimes simultaneously. His characterizations were usually as delicate as his incisors, but in such films as Birdman of Alcatraz and Elmer Gantry he was restrained and acute...
...practical advantages. Starting out unruly, it never looks worse growing out, needs nothing more than a trim every four months. For women who feel Pollyannaish with short hair, the hank at the neck lends reassurance if not beauty. And for those who want to go simian but are slightly squeamish, there is always Sassoon's new way out: the Veil, with a long thin screen of hair completely covering the face. Blinking, obviously, is a nono...