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...like warriors who have become trophies of a head-shrinking tribe. Despite this diminution-despite faded prints and commercials perforating climactic scenes-old flicks remain more compelling than most of the shows that surround them. Films may go in one era and out the other, but even the flattest Tarzan epic or the corniest war saga offers a series of clues to history. Like a paleontologist reconstructing a Brontosaurus from a vertebra and two teeth, the patient late-show viewer can reconstruct some of the main currents of American thought...
...agent. When his mother presses him to finish his carrots, he mutters "it's clobberin' time" just like The Thing. When Dad takes over the set to watch football, he and his sister play Dating Game with her dolls. He doesn't climb trees; he watches Tarzan do it. At three, he spends five hours a week before the magic box. By the time he is twelve, he will devote 25 hours to weekly viewing, or more time than he will spend with his parents or in school or church...
...slinging grenades into a peasant's hut in Viet Nam. For pop-art fans, there was a cartoon drawing of Donald Duck, Superman and Foxy Fox representing three American oil companies fighting for petroleum rights in an underdeveloped country. Lovers of camp art could watch a carefully edited Tarzan film that illustrated Johnny Weissmuller's "white supremacy" over African tribesmen. And for the surrealist school, there was a likeness of a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lion that slowly turned into a growling Lyndon Johnson...
...sophistication, the "me Tarzan, you Jane" approach has no more chance than a minnow in a pool of piranhas. Two seniors have written a pamphlet with a "new fresh approach" telling a man how and where to find the girl of his desires...
...Judith Anderson and Helen Hayes. What is he doing playing opposite Adam West in Batman? Evans concedes that the TV scripts are sometimes "ridiculous" and the casts hardly top drawer. There are physical hazards, too. In Marrakesh, while filming / Spy, a street urchin stole his arch supports! On the Tarzan set in Mexico, his pants were singed in a fire, and he got cut and bruised clambering up a cliff...