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Movie Posters Found Under Floor May Bring Six Figures at Heritage Auctions
Sounds like someone got extremely lucky:
DALLAS—A trove of a 17 rare movie posters discovered under a linoleum floor in southern Pennsylvania may be worth more than $140,000 when they cross the block at public auction Nov. 21-22 in Dallas. The find holds lost pieces of Hollywood history – including five, never-before-seen posters such as Clark Gable’s first starring role and the Style D one sheet for Tarzan The Ape Man, which is expected to sell for more than $40,000 at Heritage Auctions.
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Tarzan Article in MoviePilot
An interesting read:
When the Disney classic Tarzan was released in 1999, it had the honor of being Disney’s most expensive animated feature to date, costing massive $130 million. But, despite all that money being poured into the film, BuzzFeed think they may have found one thing that Disney skimped on when creating the character of Tarzan: Facial hair.
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Armed Poachers Slaughtering Hundreds of Elephants in Congo
As Yahoo News reports:
Park rangers stand near the remains of three elephants that were killed by poachers in Garamba National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The eight suspected poachers stood under a tree, apparently unaware they were being tracked by 10 rangers from Congo’s Garamba National Park. But as the rangers approached, gunfire rang out from the tall grass nearby, where other heavily armed men were hidden. The dragnet swiftly turned into a desperate fight for survival.
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Lion numbers could be halved across Africa by 2035, study warns
A worrisome article in Yahoo News today:
Libreville (AFP) – Lion populations could be halved across much of the African continent within 20 years, with those in west Africa in danger of being wiped out due to hunting and humans’ increasing need for cultivated land, a new study says.
The 20-year study, to be published by the US Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) journal, sounds the alarm over the future of Africa’s estimated total of 20,000 of the big cats.
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Anniversary of “The Lost U-Boat” Novelette
Friendly PSA from our facebook fan Rick Barry:
On this day in 1917, ERB completed “The Lost U-Boat,” a novelette which became “The Land That Time Forgot,” part one of the Caspak trilogy. Today we are going to look at some illustrations inspired by the story.
Our final illustration is from the February, 1927 issue of “Amazing Stories,” which published the entire Caspak trilogy in three issues. This is Frank R. Paul’s illustration of a scene from Chapter 6, along with the associated excerpt from the text.
Thanks for the reminder, Rick!
Mars Depiction in Blockbuster Movies
Jeff Peterson wrote an excellent article about how movies portray the mystical Red Planet:
The Red Planet has been in the news a lot recently, with the one-two punch of a groundbreaking scientific discovery of water and a big-budget Hollywood movie starring Matt Damon.
Of course, people’s fascination with Earth’s next-door neighbor dates back millennia, and both the planet and the little men who may or may not inhabit it have been a major part of sci-fi movies in particular from, well, the very beginning of sci-fi movies.
Read more here: Review Journal
Today in 1912, Tarzan’s Legacy Began!
Another good reminder from ERB Fans
On this date in 1912, flush with the initial success of TARZAN OF THE APES in “All-Story,” Burroughs offered it to a local Chicago company to release as a book. The magazine had been published September 10, just over three weeks before he wrote the following to A. C. McClurg & Company:
“Herewith, magazine copy of a story, Tarzan of the Apes, which I submit for your consideration.
Read more here: ERB Fan Rick Barry’s Facebook post
Florida man hits $500,000 jackpot on penny machine at Beau Rivage
Somebody got incredibly lucky!
BILOXI — Matthew Manger of Sarasota, Fla., stops every October at the Beau Rivage Resort & Casino on his way to a trade show in Texas and this year it really paid off.
Friday at between 7:30 p.m. and 8 p.m., he bet the maximum $1.50 on the Tarzan Aristocrat Wide Area Progressive penny slot machine and turned it into $501,243.64.
Read more here: SunHerald
Photo COURTESY OF BEAU RIVAGE CASINO
George RR Martin on how we are Obsessed with Mars
A very interesting piece in The Guardian from the author of Game of Thrones himself:
Once upon a time there was a planet called Mars, a world of red sands, canals and endless adventure. I remember it well, for I went there often as a child. I come from a blue-collar, working-class background. My family never had much money. We lived in a federal housing project in Bayonne, New Jersey, never owned a car, never saw much of anywhere. The projects were on First Street, my school was on Fifth Street, and for most of my childhood those five blocks were my world.
Read the full article at The Guardian