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Lit Prizes Are Monkey Business

August 29, 2008

“Ageing chimp’s own story on list for Guardian first book prize,” sez today’s Guardian. (Haven’t the Brits learned how to spell “aging” yet? Honestly.)

Me Cheeta: the Autobiography is billed as the true story of Cheeta the Chimp, star of Hollywood blockbusters, told “in his own words”. The book documents the life and times of a chimpanzee who has outlived all his co-stars from the 1939 film “Tarzan” to reach the ripe old age of 75. He withdrew from the limelight in 1964 after biting his “Doctor Dolittle” co-star Rex Harrison, and has retired to an old chimps’ home in Palm Springs, California.

Well, I’d have been tempted to bite Rex Harrison too.

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