Word: orangutan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...potential Oscar caliber. Watto growls and connives with the swagger of a con man who's not as smart as he thinks. Sebulba, Anakin's rival in the Podrace, walks on his hands and throttles rivals with his feet. "George said, 'Think of a spider crossed with an orangutan crossed with a sloth,'" recalls Rob Coleman, the film's animation director. Coleman would pester Lucas for backstory on obscure creatures like Sebulba, "but I've never been able to stump him. He marinates in this world...
...American Ice Manufacturers Association. He personally hatched an ostrich egg by sitting on it for 19 days, 4 hrs. and 32 min., on behalf of the 1947 movie The Egg and I. For producer David Merrick, whose Broadway show The Matchmaker needed a little extra coverage, he dressed an orangutan in a chauffeur's suit and set the creature at the wheel of a specially rigged taxi. With Moran steering from the back, the two set off down Broadway with the legend I'M ON MY WAY TO THE MATCHMAKER! blazoned on the car. There was a traffic accident...
...first episode of Phil Donahue's pioneering talk show, and continued to file lawsuits, all at a near pathological level of pugnacity, for 32 years. Not all atheists feel the need to criticize, let alone mock, religion. But O'Hair reputedly toppled bingo tables in churches. Watching a female orangutan on television, she snipped, "The Virgin just made another appearance." The public responded in kind. In 1964 LIFE magazine headlined her as "the most hated woman in America," a title she burnished as a badge of honor. Long after it passed on to Jane Fonda (and issues like atheism took...
...FRANCISCO--Violet the orangutan is on the pill. King L'ear the bison was rendered harmless with a bovine vasectomy And Maxine the cougar is using a Norplant-style implant...