Article: Tarzan gets a Gallic makeover; Tarzan of the jungle swings on ; Eclectic museum show gives Burroughs's hero a touch of French elan

Michael Kimmelman
International Herald Tribune
08-07-2009
Tarzan gets a Gallic makeover; Tarzan of the jungle swings on ; Eclectic museum show gives Burroughs's hero a touch of French elan
Byline: Michael Kimmelman
Section: A Critic's Notebook
Type: News

Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs's famous ape man, is the subject of a summer show here that mixes old comics and film clips with children's action figures, a stuffed crocodile and the female robot from "Metropolis" (don't ask).

Last week, it was announced in Britain that "Me Cheeta," the comic "autobiography" of Tarzan's now-septuagenarian sidekick, had been nominated for the Man Booker Prize. Leave it to the French, meanwhile, to resuscitate ...

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