Wednesday, 1 October 2008
Hail Cheeta!
I've written before about Hollywood's premier primate (though Robin Williams runs him close on body hair), Cheeta. His tell-all autobiography, Me Cheeta, is out soon, and the good news is that it has made the longlist for the Guardian First Book award. That's one small step for a chimp,one giant leap for chimpkind. And the excerpt promises well... Cheeta seems to be the most accomplished ape since Thomas Love Peacock's Sir Orang Haut-Ton. I hope we hear more from Cheeta, despite his advanced years and full diary. He is tuly a Hollywood great.
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One of the Hollywood stars who made it without having to resort to the casting couch, at least I assume he didn't, oh ,I don't know though. Brilliant movies, I used to swoon over Mia Farrow's mum.
ReplyDeleteNige, just a thought, that wouldn't have been the book Bryan refused to ghost, would it?
Day two of the be nice to Bill era..that time he showed us the huge flocks of starlings at dusk was one of televisions better moments. Richard, if your out there, I await your genuflections.
Well done Malty - heroic devotion to the Oddie cause. I'm sure Dick will be impressed...
ReplyDeleteLove the comparison to Robin Williams' body hair! I like a man with a hairy chest, but the hairy back is -- uck -- too simian....
ReplyDeleteWell, he is old enough to be Robin Williams' dad, and by all accounts he (Cheeta) put it about a bit. Elsewhere in the blogosphere Bryan is getting his boxers in a twist about a certain Swede on the Nobel team who has released a firestorm of abuse by badmouthing, across the board it would seem, US literature, judging it too insular for serious consideration. The mind (mine anyway) boggles at what this vodka drinking Norse would make of Me Cheeta.
ReplyDeleteOh I'm sure it would appeal to that famous Swedish sense of humour, Mahlerman. How he'd roar...
ReplyDeleteDarn. A quick look round local shops suggests that Oxford has no room for Sir Oran Haut-Ton, nor for anything else by Peacock. Typical. I see Borders here has also banished Marilynne Robinson's backlist in favour of lots of hardbacks of Home. Given the popularity of hardbacks these days and this a student town, they'll be lucky to sell two. Thank heavens for Amazon. I feel like a bracing swing through the trees, throwing fruit from a great height at nutty Swedes.
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