The Wilmington News-Journal shares this gag from two patrons at the end of its review of “The Playhouse.” - “They say that Buster Keaton never laughs.” “All wrong. He’d have to laugh if he looked at his own pictures, wouldn’t he?”
🦧🐒 Though created for laughs, the kidnapping of Mowgli by the monkeys in Disney’s “The Jungle Book” has some dark ties to the original “Jungle Book” story by Rudyard Kipling. In the words of Kipling, this describes Mowgli’s kidnapping:
“The monkeys followed Baloo and Bagheera and Mowgli through the jungle very quietly till it was time for the midday nap. Mowgli fell asleep between the panther and the bear, resolving to have nothing to have no more with the Moneky-Folk.
The next thing Mowgli remembered was feeling hands on his legs and arms, and then a swash of branches in his face. Soon he was staring down through the swaying boughs as Baloo woke the jungle with his deep cries and Bagheera bounded up the trunk with every tooth bared. The monkeys howled with triumph and scuffled away to the upper branches where Bagheera dared not follow.
Two of the strongest monkeys caught Mowgli under the arms and swung off with him through the treetops. Sick and giddy as Mowgli was, he could not help enjoying the Wild rush, though the glimpses of the earth far down below frightened him. So, bounding and crashing and whooping and yelling, the monkeys swept along the tree roads with Mowgli their prisoner.” 🌴🐒🐵
Monkeying Around in the Air: A Guide to Safe Imaginary Flying
Aspiring pilots and daydreamers, tired of walking and driving? Strap on your imaginary wings and start monkeying around.
Escobar Monkeying Around
Are you tired of being confined to the earth’s surface? Do you dream of soaring through the sky like a bird, or better yet, a monkey? Well, fear not, because imaginary flying is here to save the day! With just a little imagination and a whole lot of monkeying around, you can experience the thrill of being airborne without ever leaving the ground. But before you take to…