Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780007278633
ISBN: 0007278632
Label: Fourth Estate Ltd
Manufacturer: Fourth Estate Ltd
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: October 01, 2008
Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd
Sales Rank: 1524
Studio: Fourth Estate Ltd

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Rating: - Me Cheeted
The idea seemed great - it was probably a breeze to pitch it to the publisher - but I was only a few chapters in when I realised that in practice it was a joke stretched too far. I stuck with it, full of hope, but that impression didn't change. I'm prepared to believe that the gossip and the scandal and the whole background is well based and well researched, but placing it all in this kind of a fantastical, satirical framework seriously undermines the reality at the expense of the over-extended ... Read More

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Rating: - Satire with a Message
Cheeta, the star of eleven feature films with the best Tarzan there ever will be, Johnny Weissmuller, tells us what it was like in Hollywood during the Golden Age.

While Me Cheeta is hilariously, laugh-out-loud funny in many sequences, there is a serious message under the chuckles; he was removed from his native habitat, along with thousands of other animals over the years, for the sole purpose of entertaining humans (in a particularly frightening episode, he is almost sent to a lab). ... Read More

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Rating: - Me Very Impressed!
This is that rarity, a work of genius that's also accessible in all the right ways: hilarious, touching, cutting, thought-provoking and beautifully written, breathtakingly so at times. But fear not: the romance is constantly sauced with the simian hero's outrageous, turd-slinging wise-cracks and put-downs. Cheeta speaks in a lovely blend of street wisdom and naïve poetry that makes you want to listen to him for much longer than the book lasts. And his racy, piquant subject matter is utterly intriguing! ... Read More

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Rating: - Scurrilous gossip and a glimpse of a long gone Hollywood
An autobiography by an acting chimp, does on the surface, seem like a ridiculous concept. Have no fear though; this is not what it seems!

It is a beautifully crafted, funny, cathartic, sleazy and gossipy look at 30's Hollywood in the form of a memoir. Me Cheeta has been fantastically ghost written by an author of some considerable talent, blessed with biting wit and an endless catalogue of sleaze on Cheeta's co stars of the day

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