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Cheetah: Not-so-true Hollywood stories

  December 30, 2011

The aged chimpanzee that died in Florida this week might or might not have been Cheetah, the simian sidekick from “Tarzan, the Ape Man.’’ But even if the truth couldn’t match the lore - could a chimp really live until 80? - it’s probably fitting. For while the Tarzan films are no one’s idea of deep, cerebral cinema, they perfectly exemplify a certain type of Hollywood filmmaking.

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