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  Gorilla - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gorillas are divided into two species and (under debate as of 2006) either four or five subspecies.
Gorillas have a facial structure which is described as prognathous, that is, their mandible protrudes further out than the maxilla.
Gorilla suits are an eternally popular gag costume, appearing in large numbers of TV shows since the 1950s.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gorilla   (1642 words)

  
 The Nairobi Trio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the middle sat the "head gorilla," always played by Kovacs (with a cigar, of course), conducting with a baton or (sometimes) a banana.
It would be almost impossible to describe the action in words, but the basic schtick involves the gorilla with the mallets, who repeatedly uses the center gorilla's (Kovacs') head as a drum at the end of every phrase, punctuating a sharp "ba-da-BUM" bongo riff.
Ultimately staring him down, he is eventually distracted by the third gorilla (who heretofore has been an innocent bystander...er..."bysitter") for one final konk, moving him to smash a prop vase over the percussionist's head.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Nairobi_Trio   (492 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Ideas / The men in the gorilla suits
Guys in gorilla suits have long been a film staple, used most frequently by comedy teams as a lowbrow literalization of the beast within.
Rumor has it that, like The Gorilla, Little Joe was clutching a note as he fled, only his was a $10 bill and he was heading not to Lexington but for the Fung Wah bus in Chinatown.
Maybe the 300-pounder was eager to leave behind a city where sportscasters compare inner-city students to gorillas, and return to his birthplace in the Bronx.
www.boston.com /news/globe/ideas/articles/2003/10/26/the_men_in_the_gorilla_suits   (476 words)

  
 Gorillas in the Georgia Mountain Mist
Gorilla Haven is being designed to support an individual or a group of gorillas within a highly secured living area on several acres, centrally located within their 275 acre valley, rimmed with ridges and a mountain.
She is the gorilla that inspired the character of Amy the ASL sign language gorilla in the movie, Congo.
Gorilla Haven will provide a setting as close to their natural environment as possible, only these gorillas will be located in the temperate climate of the mountain highlands of North Georgia.
www.theblueridgehighlander.com /magazine/gorillas/dewars.html   (2736 words)

  
 Active.com | Denver Gorilla Run   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Denver Gorilla Run is a charity fun run with a difference.
Everyone who takes part wears a full gorilla costume - from fluffy head to furry toe - and helps raise funds for the Mountain Gorilla Conservation Fund, the international charity working to save the world's last remaining mountain   gorillas and keeping Dian Fossey’s dream alive for the past 21 years.
Gorilla suits are yours to keep just in time for Halloween.
www.active.com /event_detail.cfm?event_id=1301954   (89 words)

  
 gorilla suits
This is a gorilla suit from the TV programme Hi-De-Hi.
Gorilla suits and latex-The rise and fall of El Mucho.
This is the story of an embrace: the story of Koko the gorilla, or as she describes herself, "the fine animal gorilla," and Dr. Penny Patterson....(Continue Reading)
www.jolietpages.com /gorilla-suits.html   (420 words)

  
 Sideshow World, Sideshow Performers from around the world.
The light is on the back of the chamber where the gorilla is standing.
When the gorilla walks forward, he is out of the light, slides the glass back and comes up to the bars.
When Todd (as the gorilla) walked forward, the gaff was pushed to one side.
www.sideshowworld.com /atG2Glass.html   (387 words)

  
 Scotsman.com News - Scotland - Gorillas in our midst as charity run beats a path to the Capital
For around 400 runners, all clad in gorilla suits, are to take part in Edinburgh's first Great Gorilla Run.
She was brutally killed by an unknown attacker in a cabin in 1987.
As part of their £100 entrance fee, runners are handed a full-size gorilla suit which they must wear for the course of the seven- kilometre race on July 16.
news.scotsman.com /scotland.cfm?id=857502006   (767 words)

  
 Movie Review - Buddy
Her love of animals earned her the reputation of an eccentric when she adopted a sickly infant gorilla from the local zoo where he undoubtedly would have died.
The baby gorilla was animatronic and the teen and adult gorilla's were humans in gorilla suits.
In another scene, the chimps, Joe and Maggie, are seated at the kitchen table when Trudy walks in with the baby gorilla in her arms.
www.ahafilm.info /movies/moviereviews.phtml?fid=6908   (809 words)

  
 The Dispatch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
They told him they had no work, but their gorilla died yesterday, and if he was really desperate for a job, he could suit up and pretend to be the gorilla.
Some of us climb into gorilla suits of self-righteousness, adopting a holier-than-thou attitude and thinking we have the truth and are thus allowed to judge others who are not up to our standards.
But far more commonly, we climb into the gorilla suit of worldliness, embracing a lifestyle that makes us appear to be the same as those who are not Christians.
www.gilroydispatch.com /printer/article.asp?c=169912   (717 words)

  
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Gorillas on the Piste is an unmissable (and hilarious) charity challenge for skiers and snow-boarders everywhere.
Gorillas on the Piste will be take place at Xscape Castleford (near Leeds) on Saturday 12th June 2004.
In addition, The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund requires that participants are 4'10" tall (that's about 1.5 meters) or over as the gorilla suits are one size only and may become unsafe on shorter participants.
www.ifyouski.com /news/newsarticle/?ObjectID=7015515   (778 words)

  
 Charlotte Costume Maker Gets Last Laugh With Story About Patterson Bigfoot Film
Although a giant in his field, the tale of one of his gorilla suits is generating buzz outside the amusement industry and has some Bigfoot believers stomping mad.
The suits were in demand because of the popular carnival trick in which a woman morphed into a crazed gorilla and sent patrons screaming from fair tents.
By then, his white gorilla suit appeared in the James Bond movie "Diamonds Are Forever." His masks were used in the movie "Point Break," starring Keanu Reeves.
www.rense.com /general52/suit.htm   (981 words)

  
 Cryptozoology.com
During the game, without warning, a guy in a gorilla suit walked onto the court and continued to wonder around the action, in plain sight, for a substatial time period.
All of the participants were completely unaware of the guy in the suit, and some even accused those conducting the experiment of superimposing the image.
In fact, the gorilla was in about every scene of the show, but they never pointed him out until the very end and you don't notice.
www.cryptozoology.com /forum/topic_view_thread.php?tid=2&pid=263595   (1201 words)

  
 Interview Page 2
He didn't know they had done this until he saw the movie; when he did, he said he was in shock because all of a sudden the movie would jump from a shot of him in his gorilla suit to a shot of a quite different-looking chimp.
His gorilla face was perfectly mobile, it could do the expressions that were needed.
Rick Baker, the makeup and special effects artist (Schlock, Greystoke, Gorillas in the Mist, Mighty Joe Young), always had a fascination for gorillas, and he even said when he was a kid, "Someday I hope to create the ultimate gorilla suit" -- that was his dream.
gammillustrations.bizland.com /monsterkid1/id16.html   (930 words)

  
 The Road Less Traveled: Men in Gorilla Suits and Other Swedish Lessons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The sidekick is always dressed up in a gorilla suit.
Instead, Bolibompa seems to be a small window into the wonder of a child's imagination and the magic of the natural world.
And the simplicity of a pratfall by a man in a gorilla suit, hopping over the naked bottoms of several Swedish men, delights us all.
www.talesmag.com /tales/road/gorilla.html   (817 words)

  
 gorillas.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
It's grown so fast and runners love it, because it combines the unique challenge of running in a full gorilla suit with one of the most important environmental causes in the world today.
If you love running, and agree that gorilla's are amazing creatures, the next few moments are your opportunity to take part in a fantastic event, and help save the last 700 mountain Gorilla's before every last one is gone.
Since the first Great Gorilla Run in 2003 over 2,000 runners have donned their gorilla suits with pride and walked, ran or jogged the 7K City of London route which goes past such London sights as Tower Bridge, The Lord Mayors Building and The Tate Modern.
www.gorillas.org /articles/?id=22   (894 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Gorillas in the Mist: Video: Michael Apted,Sigourney Weaver,Bryan Brown,Julie Harris,John Omirah ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Gorillas in the Mist will please those who savor Sigourney Weaver's Amazonian fervor and the pure fire of her physical and spiritual passion--and harbor a slightly misanthropic fondness for liaisons between beauties and beasts.
Fossey observed the gorillas for 18 years in the Ruhengeri province when she was brutally murdered in her hut on December 27, 1985.
The gorilla suits used in movies up to this time had obvious anatomical differences from real gorillas; for instance, the wearer's real eyes were seen, forcing modification to the face.
www.amazon.com /Gorillas-in-Mist-Michael-Apted/dp/6301256999   (2725 words)

  
 Gorilla Etiquette
Gorillas learn how to behave properly by living in social groups, where other gorillas can "teach" them what is acceptable and not-acceptable behaviors - from a gorilla's point of view!
Some zoo gorillas are upset and stressed by it and display aberrant (abnormal or unusual) behaviors, which is of great concern to their zoo keepers.
Gorillas in zoos are very smart and most are so very bored with dumb human beings acting like idiots trying to get their attention.
www.gorilla-haven.org /ghetiquette.htm   (649 words)

  
 AsianWeek.com
He built gorilla suits and played gorillas in numerous movies from the 1920s to the 1940s.
Before Gemora, the standard practice was to just haphazardly put together a gorilla suit and hire some actor to put it on and pretend to be a gorilla.
He would try to incorporate what he saw from the subtlest facial expressions to the way the gorilla might move when it was angry or happy or randy.
news.asianweek.com /news/view_article.html?article_id=8b618c65cb73f5a32a3a1f93affabe33   (898 words)

  
 Come Here Often? And by the Way, Did You Happen to Notice That Gorilla? - New York Times
I’m referring, of course, to the 1999 video known (to those in the know) as the “opaque gorilla video,” which is used in numerous studies of how people fail to see what is right in front of them.
In the middle of the video a woman (scientific reports have specified the gender of the hidden human) in a gorilla suit walks calmly through the group, stops briefly to pound her chest — although not in a very noticeable way — and then continues walking out of the video frame.
Once their blood alcohol is up to 0.04 — half what many states allow for driving — they watch a really short video, 25 seconds of the “opaque gorilla” original, and are told to count the number of times the white team passes the basketball back and forth to one another.
www.nytimes.com /2006/07/11/science/11side.html?ex=1310270400&en=9e229d3a3acaf8f5&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss   (879 words)

  
 The Denver Gorilla Run
For first-time gorillas this fee covers the cost of your costume (which you can keep afterwards), race adminstration and a small donation to the charity.
The suits are a bit snug and “one size fits all” fitting up to 6' ft 1”in with a 50-inch chest.
The gorilla suits are available for pick-up anytime during normal office hours.
www.denvergorillarun.com /faq.html   (478 words)

  
 Darren & Tara's Great Gorilla Run fundraising & info page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The premise was both simple and inspired: 650 runners donned gorilla suits and ran or walked a 7km circuit (starting and finishing at the London Underwriting Centre in Mincing Lane), and collected money from their sponsors on completion.
Each runner had paid a £100 entry fee (which covered the cost of the costume and admin, plus a £50 donation to the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund), and was allowed to keep their suit afterwards.
The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund has been working for more than 30 years to save the mountain gorillas - giving financial support to teams of anti-poacher rangers, supporting reforest-ation projects, and providing sustainable resources to communities who might otherwise encroach on the animals’ habitat.
www.scuzz.com /gorillas/run2003.html   (1086 words)

  
 Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey (1988)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Tagline: In a land of beauty, wonder and danger, she would follow a dream, fall in love and risk her life to save the mountain gorillas from extinction.
And boy does she finish wrapped in the core of the Mountain Gorillas chance of survival.
Dian Faces love, war, and poachers and beats them of one by one as her courage and determination prevails, she is truly an icon, a lady to be remembered.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0095243   (468 words)

  
 The Daily Monkey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
National Gorilla Suit Day, which mysteriously falls on January 31 of each year, is perhaps the important holiday of the year.
Every National Gorilla Suit Day, people of all shapes and colors around the world get their gorilla suits out of the closet, put them on and go door-to-door.
Just make sure all the marchers are wearing gorilla suits and that all the balloons are giant, inflatable gorillas.
mrbiggs.com /dailymonkey/dm_02.html   (96 words)

  
 ->KBOB-TV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
I was impressed with a lot of the gorilla suits I saw...though there was one guy in a stretched-out marmoset costume who wasn't fooling anyone.
I also managed to drop by a terrific Gorilla Suit Party where we played a few rounds of Bobbing For Bananas and a couple of kissing games that were no fun because we were all wearing gorilla masks.
We also watched a science-fiction movie about a guy in a gorilla suit who lands on a planet where everyone is Charlton Heston.
home.earthlink.net /~namor/Blog/gorilla3.html   (188 words)

  
 ->KBOB-TV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Around half failed to spot a woman dressed in a gorilla suit who walked slowly across the scene for nine seconds, even though this hairy interloper had passed between the players and stopped to face the camera and thump her chest.
However, if people were simply asked to view the tape, they noticed the gorilla easily.
The effect is so striking that some of them refused to accept they were looking at the same tape and thought that it was a different version of the video, one edited to include the ape.
home.earthlink.net /~namor/Blog/gorilla2.html   (160 words)

  
 Ski Club of Great Britain
Gorillas on the Piste is an unmissable (and hilarious) charity challenge for skiers and snowboarders.
The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund is looking for 100 fun-loving skiers and boarders who are willing to dress in full gorilla-get-up to complete (between them) 100 miles of real snow piste in just 1 hour.
In addition, The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund requires that participants are at least 4��" tall (that’s about 1.5 meters) as the gorilla suits are one size only and may become unsafe on shorter participants.
www.skiclub.co.uk /skiclub/news/item.asp?intCategoryID=1&intItemID=2114   (777 words)

  
 Brad the Gorilla
He did recently win a chunk of change at the pub, and it is only fitting that he and all his buddies get to wear stunning garb.
At the last minute, there were some snags* in the filming of the scene, and one of the regular actors decided to dress up in a gorilla suit.
Western Lowland Gorilla, not to be confused with gorilla gorilla diehli, the Cross River Gorilla).
bradthegorilla.blogspot.com   (1538 words)

  
 The Austin Chronicle Screens: Chimp-Suit Maker: Questions for Norman Tempia
And we chose her because her height was perfect, she was small-boned, and had a really shallow eye orbit.
He's just good at movement, he's really physically fit, which is a big requirement of having someone in a suit.
NT: There's a person in the suit and two external people to actually puppeteer the face – it takes a team of three to four performers.
www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2005-08-05/screens_feature5.html   (819 words)

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