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...tradition of guitar music. I'm not having hip-hop at Glastonbury. It's wrong." Gallagher obviously missed previous years' sets from De La Soul, Cypress Hill and the Roots. And while Jay-Z plays on Saturday night, on the other stages Massive Attack, The Ethiopiques, Gilbert O' Sullivan, Simian Mobile Disco and Cansei de Ser Sexy barely wield a guitar between them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does the Glastonbury Fest Still Rock? | 6/26/2008 | See Source »

...Smith, whose career spanned a vigorous half-century and who's still around at 86, gave Dustin Hoffman his simian, centenarian face in Little Big Man, puffed Brando's cheeks in The Godfatherand turned 13-year-old Linda Blair into a puking, head-swiveling demon in The Exorcist. Imagine any of these films without Pierce's or Smith's contributions, and your mindscreen plays a much more ordinary movie. No sleepless night for the kids, either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stan Winston: Monster Magician | 6/16/2008 | See Source »

...only member of his species in a world ruled by monkeys. Heston had caught a cold on the shoot, but director Franklin Schaffner insisted they keep filming, because the new gruffness in the star's voice lent a desperate urgency to his lines, from his first words to the simian overlords ("Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!") to his final curse of Planet Earth ("God damn you all to hell!"). Since we've established that Heston was a deity, he could as easily have said, "I damn you all to hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Appreciation: Charlton Heston | 4/6/2008 | See Source »

...Simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), a lentivirus, is commonly found in primates, according to O’Neil...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Monkey Gene May Give Viral Protection | 3/14/2008 | See Source »

...year, because he had promised he would. "I meant what I said and I said what I meant: An elephant's faithful one hundred percent." This time, his mission is even more perilous. He must fend off the agnostic scorn of prime jungle bureaucrat Jane Kangaroo and her simian minions the Wickersham brothers. Kangaroo charges a "black-bottomed eagle" to fly the speck to a remote spot and dump it in a giant field of clover, where Horton would have to overcome tremendous odds just to locate it. Actually, the Who-ville speck would be quite safe in that field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Horton Hears a Who!: Rated G for Glorious | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

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