Word: tarzans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...water," Vliet says. Because of their poor underwater vision, submerged gators are not so worrisome: "I assume that if I'm going to be attacked, the alligator will do it from the surface." Vliet has never been bitten, only "mouthed" once. Says he: "Gators get bad press. Tarzan movies did immeasurable harm to their image...
...shown of an elephant's trunk probing a zoo warden's crotch and an overly affectionate orangutan tweaking a newswoman's breast.. On a clip from Hollywood Squares, the late Paul Lynde replied to a question about what can make a monkey cry: "Learning that Tarzan swings both ways." This was hardly a blooper, and considering the double-entendres that Lynde regularly got away with, it is hard to imagine why this was censored in the first place...
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan just might salvage what remained of the jungle lord's reputation after John and Bo Derek turned Tarzan into a howler in 1981. This time out, when Tarzan, played by Newcomer Christopher Lambert, 25, discovers that he is the Earl of Greystoke, he doffs his loincloth and hightails it to England. When his adoptive dad Silverbeard also turns up ... Oh heck, Tarzan is a howler no matter how you cut it. At least this version puts him in some decent clothes...
...what truly keeps Goldman are the Heroes, people who transcend the crap, who can still impress and awe him the way Tarzan Finds a Son did when he was the only kid Highland Park, Illinois crazy enough to see the same movie twice. For various reasons, among his heroes are Oliver, Robert Wagner, Bob Woodward, Richard Attenborough, but most of all, Paul Newman...
...long and too often have Black people been made to feel ashamed of their roots among Africa's beautiful cultures because of these "Tarzan" depictions that have been hung over our heads by exploitative and unsensitive mediums such as the Lampoon. It has even gotten to the point where there are many Black people who just cannot stand to hear about their own past heritage in Africa because of all the belittling lies that we have been, and are still being told. And as these lies ruthlessly take away and sense of pride or respect that we as Black people...