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Comparisons with Jesus Christ are tiresome, but consider--Frank Champi. A poor boy from Everett, Frank was maligned by many. "Sure," they'd say, "Frank's good with a javelin, but so was Tarzan; and you wouldn't want Tarzan calling signals for Harvard." But Frank stuck to it, buoyed by a simple faith that there was a power higher than Nathan Pusey and the Crimson sports page combined. And so on that fateful day, Frank suited up as usual in Dillon Field House, dutifully applying Dr. Wood's Miracle Splinter Resister to the rear of his uniform. And Frank...
...Tarzan could do a lot of things -swing from vines, talk to jungle beasts and set Jane aquiver-but the one thing he could not do was execute the famous apeman yell. Speaking to a group of college students in Ontario, Onetime Swimming Champion Buster Crabbe admitted that his Tarzan cries in the movies had all been dubbed. So had those of another noted Tarzan, Johnny Weissmuller. "The studio had a recording of three voices," Crabbe explained, "one a soprano, one a baritone and the third a hog caller, who all yelled together...
Still shy of 30, the hero of this Gatling-gun novel has been a reporter, an on-camera TV newsman and an actor whose best-known performances were as Tarzan and a cowpoke on a foolish series called Six Guns Across Texas. John Lee Wallace, fed up with Hollywood, returns home to Dallas, leaving a vapor trail of dope and alcohol. He and his best buddy Buster plan to make "one good, true, fair thing"-a documentary film about the real Texas. The time is the late summer...
Floyd came by the idea because he saw the need to give black children their own hero to supplant those of his boyhood. As he puts it: "I got turned off of Tarzan because he was white and was always swinging out of trees and beating up black natives...
...Tarzan's New York Adventure. When Boy is kidnapped. Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller) and Jane head for the jungle of Manhattan to rescue him. 4:30. May 13. Chan...