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Article: TALES OF LIFE IN A GORILLA SUIT.(L.A. LIFE)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- September 15, 1997
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Byline: Carol Bidwell Daily News Staff Writer
When you play a gorilla, life isn't always as much fun as a barrel of monkeys.
Take, for instance, actor Don McLeod's run-in with the Internal Revenue Service in 1991, when he listed his occupation as ``gorilla'' and wrote off as business expenses gorilla heads, a cannibal's cooking pot and 85 pounds of bananas.
He learned something about the IRS.
``They really don't have a sense of humor,'' McLeod said. ``But I had all my receipts and all the pictures we'd taken to show them. They got halfway through the audit and dropped it.''
Although cavorting like an ape for large amounts of ...