Weird. Totally weird. Last night the family was tired. Everyone went to bed early and I was wide awake. I flipped through the pay channels and saw that Reality Bites was on and about to start. It's a Gen X movie starring Winona Ryder back when she was a starlet with a future. A young Ben Stiller is also involved as is Jeanine Garafolo and Ethan "I have....a little....GIRL" Hawke. I decided to watch it even though I have "The Good Shepherd" DVR'd and ready to watch. I've seen it before, maybe even twice, but not in a long time and I remember really liking it, with the exception of Hawke singing the Violent Femmes near the end. In the movie, if you know it, Ryder goes to Stiller's office and breaks his collectible statue of Dr. Zaius - the orange ape with the high IQ from Planet of the Apes. When Tim Burton remade the movie (which was terrible) the only bright spot was Paul Giamatti playing Zaius....which reminds me, if you aren't watching John Adams starring Giamatti on HBO - you are missing out....bigtime. So, I saw Zaius last night. I wake up today, come downstairs, and the news is running the Charlton "...from my cold dead fingers" Heston obituary piece over and over..... Every time they show a clip from Planet of the Apes, you guessed it, Dr. Zaius is front and center. Weird. I go years without ever thinking about a movie character and then BAM! I get a double dose in the span of 7 hours.
2 comments:
They just posted someone's question about Heston's condition in last week's Parade magazine. Here's a sad thing - I knew looking at your Zaius pic that it wasn't the right one from the movie. The guy shown is actually the one from the TV show version (remember that?). The original Zaius was played by the same guy who played Samantha's dad on Bewitched.
wow. nice catch, still a bell.
i wouldnt go around bragging about that, though ;)
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