December 28, 2011
THERE HAVE BEEN FEW BETTER MOMENTS IN TV...:
Tarzan co-star Cheetah dies at Palm Harbor sanctuary (JOSH POLTILOVE, 12/27/11, The Tampa Tribune)
Cheetah the chimpanzee, who acted in classic Tarzan movies in the early 1930s, died of kidney failure Saturday at Suncoast Primate Sanctuary in Palm Harbor, a sanctuary spokeswoman said.Cheetah was roughly 80 years old, loved fingerpainting and football and was soothed by nondenominational Christian music, said Debbie Cobb, the sanctuary's outreach director.
...than when 77 year old Maureen O'Sullivan explained to David Letterman that you could see the chain on Cheetah's leg in studio publicity photos of the Tarzan cast because otherwise he'd try sexually assaulting Johnny Weissmuller.
Posted by Orrin Judd at December 28, 2011 6:37 AM
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