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SUIT AIMS TO BAR TARZAN PORNO MOVIE.(Spotlight)

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From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
Date: 19960818
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Byline: Carol Vinzant Reuter

NEW YORK -- Tarzan may wear a loincloth and live with a woman in the jungle, but the descendants of his creator have filed a lawsuit against makers of pornographic films to keep his image ``wholesome.''

The company owned by the family of author Edgar Rice Burroughs filed suit in federal court in Manhattan against the makers of a pornographic movie and CD-ROM called Jungle Heat.

The complaint says the ``Jungle Heat film is nothing more than a lewd, vulgar and highly offensive film that depicts the Tarzan and Jane characters engaged in ...

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