"POTA : More than 40 SF/fantasy movies. If it's not set in a APE CHRONICLES courtroom or on a battlefield, it's not a Years On " serious movie (though POTA has it's International share of courtrooms and battlefields). by Jeff Krueger Ultimately any subject can make a PLANET OF THE APES good/great movie, if the script is up to "POTA was one of the 1968 films that the task and the people sheparding Fan Club made that year a turning point both that script can stay true to it. Second- for the increasing maturity of SF guessing the audience (will they [email protected] cinema and for it's popularity". laugh at the makeup?) is always a - - - "Encyclopedia of Science Fiction" PlanetOfTheApesFanClub.com problem. (Clute/Nicholls, 1993) Of course, not all good movies find their audience. I think the ones that Issue #45 So, what do we have to celebrate do usually deliver the goods as well after 40 years of the original "Planet as the content. 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And how the studio human it removes us a step and [email protected] that had to have it's arm twisted to shows how ridiculous our prejudices, international money orders / checks / make it has looked at it cynically for 4 dogmas and religious intolerances decades instead of allowing it to cash in US funds are. At the same time there's flourish creatively. something organic to the conflict because of the real world relationship All back issues of Ape Chronicles POTA showed science fiction and between apes and humans. The ape and Ape Crazy are still available fantasy could reach a wider audience element deflates our pretensions. with quality production value and There's a different texture than there Ape Chronicles is the bi-monthly imaginitive writing, just as rare movies would be if it were space aliens or magazine for the International like "Frankenstein", "King Kong", blobs from the sewer. POTA has Planet Of The Apes Fan Club "Forbidden Planet" and "The Day the always grabbed me in a unique way. formed to promote POTA Earth Stood Still" had done in the past. It took visionaries (like Arthur For those who just enjoy it for the All materials contained in Ape Chronicles Jacobs) to escort these to completion. "Take your stinking paws off me" are copyright 2009 of each writer and may Some might not see the distinction moments, that's fine, too. POTA not be copied without permission but those movies continue to enthrall delivers the goods. There's no audiences, not just because they had Some info reprinted from Internet Sites mandatory way to enjoy POTA. The such as Imdb.com and Wikipedia.org decent budgets or good FX. They had only thing that's obvious after 40 terrific scripts and ideas that had a years is that people have enjoyed it. point besides "get to the monster". What more can you ask of a movie? That's always been a problem for JAMES WHITMORE The Law and Mr. Jones, in the title role, with Conlan Carter as legal assistant C.E. Carruthers BIOGRAPHY and Janet De Gore as his secretary. The program www.imdb.com ran at the 10:30 Eastern half-hour slot on Friday. It was cancelled after one year but returned in April James Whitmore (October 1, 1921 – February 6, 1962 for thirteen additional episodes on Thursday 2009) was an American two-time Academy Award- to fill the half-hour vacated by the cancellation of nominated, Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning film the ABC sitcom Margie. actor. In 1963, Whitmore played Captain William Benteen He played the President of the Assembly in Planet in The Twilight Zone episode "On Thursday We Of The Apes (1968) Leave for Home". In 1967 he guest starred as a security guard in The Invaders episode, Quantity: Unknown. That same year, he appeared on an episode of ABC's Custer starring Wayne Maunder in the title role. In 1969, Whitmore played the leading character of Professor Woodruff in the TV series My Friend Tony, produced by NBC. Whitmore also made several memorable appearances on the classic ABC western The Big Valley starring Barbara Stanwyck during the second half of the 1960s. Whitmore appeared as General Oliver O. Howard in the 1975 TV movie I Will Fight No More Forever, based on the 1877 conflict between the United States Army and the Nez Percé tribe, led by Chief Joseph. In 1986, Whitmore voiced Mark Twain in Born as James Allen Whitmore, Jr. in White Plains, the first claymation film The Adventures of Mark New York, to Florence Belle (née Crane) and Twain. Whitmore's last major role was that of James Allen Whitmore, Sr., a park commission librarian Brooks Hatlen in the critically-acclaimed official, Whitmore attended Amherst Central High and Academy award-nominated 1994 Tim Robbins School in Snyder, New York, and spent his senior film The Shawshank Redemption. year at the Choate School (now Choate Rosemary Hall) in Connecticut. In 2002 Whitmore played a supporting role in The Majestic, a film that starred Jim Carrey. To a He went on to study at Yale University, where he younger generation, he was probably best known, was a member of Skull and Bones, and served in in addition to his role in Shawshank, as the the United States Marine Corps during World War commercial spokesman for Miracle-Gro plant food II. for many years. Following World War II, Whitmore appeared on Whitmore did extensive theatre work. He won a Broadway in the role of the Sergeant in Command Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Decision. MGM hired Whitmore on contract, but his Newcomer" in the Broadway production of role in the film adaptation was played by Van Command Decision (1948). He later won the title Johnson. Whitmore's first major picture was "King of the One Man Show" after appearing in the Battleground, in a role that was turned down by solo vehicles Will Rogers' USA (1970), Give 'em Spencer Tracy, and for which Whitmore was Hell, Harry! (1975) (repeating the role in the film nominated for the Academy Award for Best version, for which he was nominated for an Oscar) Supporting Actor. Other major films included The and as Theodore Roosevelt in Bully (1977) Asphalt Jungle, The Next Voice You Hear, Above although the latter production did not repeat the and Beyond, Kiss Me, Kate, Them!, Oklahoma!, success of the first two.