ME TARZAN ... YOU DISNEY; ANIMATION GIANT STRETCHES TECHNOLOGY TO MAKE A DIFFERENT BURROUGHS HERO.(L.A. LIFE)

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From: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date: 19990613
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Byline: Bob Strauss Daily News Film Writer

One of the best-known pop-culture creations of the 20th century has finally joined forces with the era's top pop-culture factory.

Tarzan - the jungle hero of 24 Edgar Rice Burroughs books, 47 live-action movies, TV shows, comics and other artifacts too numerous to mention - is now the subject of the Walt Disney Co.'s 37th fully animated feature film.

If this seems like a long-overdue natural, that's because it is.

``About three months ago, we got a letter that Burroughs wrote in 1936 to his son Jack, about a possible ...

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