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Author's family sues makers of steamy Tarzan film
From: The Independent - London
Date: 19960809
Author:LOUISE JURY
In these days of sophisticated mores, when the "Me Tarzan, you Jane" school of social etiquette is verging on the socially unacceptable, there are some people who still wish to defend the apeman's unblemished reputation.
In a bid to keep Tarzan's image "wholesome", the descendants of his creator, author Edgar Rice Burroughs, are suing the makers of a pornographic film and CD-Rom for vulgarising the jungle hero's image.
It cannot be denied that in the original 26 novels starring the Tarzan of the Apes character - and in the even more famous films - he strutted around skimpily dressed and was ...
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