Word: tarzanitis
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Tropical rains flooded the mock-up Indian village, and bats and bird-sized moths flung themselves into the klieg lights. It was the Brazilian location of Tarzan and the Big River, and ex-National Football League Linebacker Mike Henry, the 14th Tarzan since the film series began in 1918, stood shivering in his thatched hut. Then, girding his loincloth, he swung wildly at a mosquito (thus marring his body makeup) and grumbled: "I took this job on to find out if the movie people really had fun. Now that I know, I'm getting the hell...
...grunt about the weather. Next morning the papers smirkingly conjectured, "Maybe Mike Henry doesn't like women." Then, even faithful chimpanzee Cheetah turned on him. Filming a scene where they were supposed to kiss, the chimp suddenly sank his teeth into Mike. It took 18 stitches to reattach Tarzan's jaw, and three days and nights of "monkey fever" delirium before he regained consciousness...
...scheduled wrestling scene with a leopard. "It was chained to a tree," explained Rafer, "and it was ripping the bark right off with its claws. I told the director: 'You get yourself another boy.' " Johnson was not the only recalcitrant actor. On the day Tarzan returned to the set, he was directed to ambush three Indian extras. Mike out-Tarzaned his thirteen predecessors, played it like a red-dogging linebacker, taking out all three with one thumping shoulder block. Two got up. The third was out cold, and when he was revived, refused at any price to make...
...down, people move indoors, and High Camp begins to resemble a cross between a sophisticated coffeehouse and a stylish supper club. At 7 p.m., Gushing kicks off the evening's entertainment with an oldtime movie, ranging from the ragged but worthy (Maltese Falcon) to the strictly high camp (Tarzan...
Married. Lana Turner, 44, still well-knit Hollywood Sweater Girl (Love Has Many Faces); and Robert Eaton, 34, Hollywood businessman; he for the third time, she for the sixth (her others: Bandleader Artie Shaw, Restaurateur Stephen Crane, Tin Millionaire Bob Topping, Movie Tarzan Lex Barker, Rancher Fred May); in Arlington...