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Howard has a vested interest, but he thinks Joe Gould is the kind of role that could earn Giamatti an Oscar. At the very least, it's fine territory on which to build the next act of his career. As Gould, unlike such gigs as Limbo,the slave-trading orangutan in Planet of the Apes, or Kenny (Pig Vomit) Rushton in Private Parts, Giamatti gets to play more than just one exquisitely sweaty comic note. Howard thinks people are only now waking up to Giamatti's ability. "I so loved him as Pig Vomit, and that, balanced with the detail...
...laid-back, cheeky, happy and sly. But disconcertingly, many also appear profoundly depressed and fearful, and no wonder. They are orphans, rescued from poachers. One of the subjects, a young gorilla named Pumbu (pictured above right), saw her parents killed for bush meat. Another, a sad-eyed Indonesian orangutan called Bonny (shown left), lost her mother and was sold as a pet. Mollison hopes that "Face to Face" will raise awareness of the plight of apes. He need not worry. If anything could encourage us to make common cause with our simian cousins, it would be these unforgettable images...
...know that humans and apes are virtually identical genetically. But if you find that scientific fact hard to accept on an emotional level, the work of James Mollison may help. For four years the English photographer traveled the world, making close-up portraits of gorillas, chimps and orangutans. The result is one of the most detailed and revealing visual studies ever made of the great apes. "Face to Face," an exhibition of 30 of these striking portraits, goes on display at London's Natural History Museum from May 28 to Sept. 18. Each over 6 ft. [1.8 m] tall...
...pictures and looks forward to doing big parts in small pictures. Ever reliable, never anyone's idea of a movie star, he has soldiered for Steven Spielberg in Saving Private Ryan, played a character known as Pig Vomit in the Howard Stern biopic Private Parts and portrayed a cowardly orangutan in the remake of Planet of the Apes. So when he was approached to play Harvey Pekar in American Splendor, it seemed to be just business as usual--except that Pekar, the notably depressive writer of comic books about his grim life and glum times, was also going...
Knott, who obtained her Ph.D. at Harvard in 1999, currently researches the evolutionary implications of two types of males in orangutan society...