Word: tarzans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rowdy Gaines, Olympic gold medal swimmer, on his movie- acting ambitions: "I would love to be Tarzan, but it would depend on who Jane...
...left. The rough-and-ready Yugoslavs squelched U.S. hopes in the final game when they tied the Americans 5-5 but won the championship because they had outscored their opponents by a wider margin. The U.S. silver was only the country's third medal since a pre-Tarzan Johnny Weissmuller led a U.S. team to a bronze in 1924. Said a disappointed Coach Monte Nitzkowski, who had been working with the team for seven years: "Those kids didn't have silver in their eyes. It was gold...
...Tarzan's Table Manners...
...trying to transcend the myth of Tarzan, Greystoke becomes more of a three-dimensional National Geographic version of life in the jungle. There are spectacular scenes of the jungle and of country estate life in Britain, to be sure, but there is something essential missing. The characters paradoxically become uninteresting as the actors painfully try to show that they are real people and not stereotypic replicas of the "me-Tarzan, you Jane" genre T. V. e-runs of the old Johnny Weismuller greats still beat Gresstoke--despite the scenery--because they feature a kind of spirit the remake Tacks...
Like Greystoke attempts at awakening new interest in Tarzan, The Bounty fails in its attempt to give a new perspective to the age-old tale of the mutiny on the Bounty. What results, unfortunately, is a disjointed series of scenes that interest us only for their beauty and spectacular cinematography while the plot gets lost along with the characters. But an epic needs a substantial drama to make it an epic, and by reducing the importance of the plot in The Bounty, the movie becomes a two-hour long montage of pretty pictures that would look better on postcards...