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...other tag team match, Tarzan Tyler and Crazy Luke Graham faced Gorilla Monsoon and Victory Riverra. Victor's older brother. Mountain, was a fine wrestler in his day, and Victor has carried on the great tradition. Crazy Luke was tattled by the crowd's insistent chants of "Crazy Luke", but he managed to take the first fall, with a little help from his friend. This match was hard fouth, and it took 20 minutes for the first fall. The good guys triumphed in the end, and took the next two falls...

Author: By Michael Ryan, | Title: Wrestlers Have Forgotten That Old Sporting Spirit | 11/19/1971 | See Source »

...what he wanted to do with his time. He proceeded without worrying about What The Kids Would Do With Film. Nor was he interested in making some film about Attitudes and Relationships, or The Question of Authority and-or Democracy In The Classroom. "(I) really wanted to make a Tarzan film," he said. As it turned out, the movie was "Son of the Hawk," the story of a mysterious hawk-faced intruder who terrorizes a junior high school and turns the students and principal green. "Son of the Hawk" was not a very "responsible" lesson in film-making, but Herndon...

Author: By Christopher Ma, | Title: Back to School | 9/30/1971 | See Source »

...eccentrics)-such as the white-Australia policy, the treatment of the country's 180,000 aborigines, Viet Nam, abortion, the status of women-are discussed widely. An embryonic Women's Lib movement based in Sydney has just published the first issue of its newsletter Mejane, named for Tarzan's overly protected mate. Says Daryl Jackson, a young Melbourne architect who has worked and studied in the U.S.: "On all of these issues there is now what might be called a viable quorum. A few years ago there were not enough people concerned with them even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Australia: She'll Be Right, Mate--Maybe | 5/24/1971 | See Source »

...climax of Gebel-Williams' act comes when his favorite Bengal tiger leaps onto the back of an elephant. The trainer follows, scrambling up the elephant, straddling the tiger and saluting the audience like a manic, peroxided Tarzan. It took two years for him to teach elephant and tiger to cooperate. He had them sleep close together. Later, he took them for walks. Even now, the elephant wears thick padding on his neck during the stunt: Gebel-Williams has been unable to squelch the tiger's instinct to gnaw a hole into the neck of his "victim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Big Cat with Big Cats | 5/24/1971 | See Source »

...reputation was made on tightly-structured dissections of American folk heroes in such films as The Maltese Falcon, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and The Asphalt Jungle, he was not adverse to filming the seemingly frivolous African Queen, accused at the time of having some of the characteristics of Tarzan movies...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Books Saints and Sycophants | 1/21/1971 | See Source »

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