While listening to Apeman on my way to work, I was actually thinking how I'd love to share this one but there's no way this is going to have a literary a reference and - Pop! - "I'll be your Tarzan, you'll be my Jane" and if ever there was a wish fulfilled, there it was.
Which calls to mind an interesting scene from back in the pre-Hays Code Days, with a kind of quaint naviete about it. There is a real balletic beauty to the scene and, for the curious, with a stunt double being used for Maureen O'Hara in the underwater scenes:
Of course, the Burroughs estate was notoriously vigilant over its copyright (just ask Philip Jose Farmer) and, sadly for them but happily for us, some of the books have slipped into the public domain. Here, in a variety of formats, is the first Tarzan novel, Tarzan the Apes, from Project Gutenberg.
That's certainly one side of Davies' apeman - perhaps this is the other (my mind seems to be leaping about a bit):
That's certainly one side of Davies' apeman - perhaps this is the other (my mind seems to be leaping about a bit):
In this scene, from the 1920, "Dr. Jekyll and and Mr. Hyde," John Barrymore does virtually the whole transformation without makeup (and, of course, without sound). His use of his hands, his hair, and eyes is quite remarkable to portray the Other apeman.
Finally, here are the Kinks, making like apemen:
Finally, here are the Kinks, making like apemen:
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Photo by Martin Fisch
one and all
faces of the Buddhas
cold tonight
Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue
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Don
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