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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19990625
Author:Roger Anderson

Now that the Disney folks have released a feature-length animated "Tarzan," your children probably will assume that the "ape man" - who was, as you know, created around the time of World War I by a failed businessman named Edgar Rice Burroughs - was dreamed up last year sometime by the same team responsible for "Mulan," "Pocahontas" and, of course, "The Lion King."

Fortunately, the little moppets have extremely old moms and dads to set them straight.

One Tarzan or another has been swinging through the trees, beating his chest, conspiring with chimps, pitching woo with Jane and talking to the ...

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