Wilfrid Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 Aged around 80. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lex Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 I didn't know he was still alive. (Copyright - Wilfrid) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wilfrid Posted December 28, 2011 Author Share Posted December 28, 2011 I actually did the math, and it is just possible that an 80 year old chimp was in the movies the Times says he was in - but he was a babe then. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lex Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 I found his early work to be more vital and compelling although Dr. Johnson would probably claim he was "chewing the scenery." In his later films Cheetah was just going through the motions. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fentona Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 Occasionally I love the NYT obituary page: She said Cheetah was soothed by Christian music and also enjoyed fingerpainting and football, though she was unsure if the chimpanzee had any favorite teams. “I couldn’t ask him that,” Ms. Cobb told The Tribune. “I’m not a chimp psychic.” Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rail Paul Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 Occasionally I love the NYT obituary page: She said Cheetah was soothed by Christian music and also enjoyed fingerpainting and football, though she was unsure if the chimpanzee had any favorite teams. “I couldn’t ask him that,” Ms. Cobb told The Tribune. “I’m not a chimp psychic.” I wonder if he'll be buried near Leo (the MGM Lion), or Rin Tin Tin and Lassie? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
g.johnson Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 Occasionally I love the NYT obituary page: She said Cheetah was soothed by Christian music and also enjoyed fingerpainting and football, though she was unsure if the chimpanzee had any favorite teams. “I couldn’t ask him that,” Ms. Cobb told The Tribune. “I’m not a chimp psychic.” I wonder if he'll be buried near Leo (the MGM Lion), or Rin Tin Tin and Lassie? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hollywood Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 I guess it's up to Bubbles to soldier on by himself. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Suzanne F Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 Occasionally I love the NYT obituary page: She said Cheetah was soothed by Christian music and also enjoyed fingerpainting and football, though she was unsure if the chimpanzee had any favorite teams. “I couldn’t ask him that,” Ms. Cobb told The Tribune. “I’m not a chimp psychic.” I wonder if he'll be buried near Leo (the MGM Lion), or Rin Tin Tin and Lassie? Mmmmm, bush meat. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rail Paul Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 Conspiracy theorists abound, with claims that this Cheetah didn't make the original movies, or wasn't even in the movies. 80 years old would be exceptionally old for a chimp. Other folks report the "real" movie star died in 1938... From the 1930s? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 If you play the third Tarzan movie backwards . . . . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stone Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 Few people know this, but Michael Jackson's "Thriller" is synchronized to play along with the sixth Tarzan movie, "Tarzan Goes All Apeshit." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
yvonne johnson Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 I'd forgotten that Mia Farrow is Maureen O'Sullivan's daughter. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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