Go Ape For A Day
"They’re the movies of the century," said Spencer Karagiannis, who goes to East Meadow Junior High.
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Go Ape For A Day
CREEM’s former Editor, Dave Marsh, recently joined the ranks of Long Island’s newspaper journalists as Newsday’s Pop Music Critic. Here’s his report from a Long Island Drive-in that sponsored an Ape-athon, like many theatres around the country, showing the Planet of the Apes series and introducing the fifth and final movie Battle for the Planet of the Apes.
"They’re the movies of the century," said Spencer Karagiannis, who goes to East Meadow Junior High. And Mark Levine, a member of the “Apes” cult which is growing nationally, told me, quite seriously, “I think it’s going to happen, too... After all, apes created men, so why should it stop there?” Levine, who works at the „drive-in, said he and all of his friends had seen the previous Ape movies three times.
Despite the rather liberal interpretation of Darwinism involved in Levine’s assessment, the Apes series is part of a larger body of movies. (That’s movies, as in popcorn, not film, as in expresso.)