ANOTHER ANOTHER 'PLANET OF THE APES' IN THE WORKS "…right now, in the halls of Fox, there is another new version of Planet of the Apes that has been kicking around for the last year. It's not a sequel to the Burton film, and it's not another remake of the original. To the general audience it's a prequel to Planet of the Apes, but for the initiated it's something totally different. It's a remake of Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. Yup. It's the story of Caesar, the ape who said no, the first ape with speech who started the events that led to a world where monkeys were on top and humans were dumb beasts."
The Utah-based purveyors of this Obama monkey doll (brilliantly named "The Sock Obama") say, in response to a barrage of criticism, that they, "perhaps, naively," felt that there was nothing wrong with portraying a black man, particularly one who has a pretty great shot of becoming the next president of the United States, as a monkey.
It's a slow holiday, a perfect time to debut our first (and possibly final) installment of Lookalike Showdown.
Does Fred Thompson look more like Dan Aykroyd as Judge Alvin Valkenheiser than Bono does a monkey wearing glasses? You decide.
• So many feathers in the wind when the monkey gets old enough to strangle! [Queerty]
• So many diamonds! [DListed]
• So many early mistakes! [HT]
• So many surgeries! [ICYDK]
• So many beautiful, color coordinated women! [INO]
• So many embarrassing situations fueled by alcohol! [Yeeeah]
• So many sadness! [CityRag]
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