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1. Maria Montez -- Universal Pictures
   Maria Montez was a Dominican-born motion picture actress who gained fame and popularity in the 1940s as an exotic beauty starring in a series of filmed-in-Technicolor costume adventure films. Her screen image was that of a hot-blooded Latin seductress, dressed in fanciful costumes and sparkling jewels. She became so identified with these adventure epics that she became known as "The Queen of Technicolor." Over her career, Montez appeared in 26 films, 21 of which were made in North America and five in Europe.
2. Apes -- Humans
   Planet of the Apes - Highly evolved society of talking apes on the sci-fi adventure PLANET OF THE APES/CBS/1974. When a time-warping spaceship carrying astronauts Alan Virdon (Ron Harper) and Pete Burke (James Naughton) from the year 1988 landed on this futuristic landscape of A.D. 3085, a chimpanzee named Galen befriended and protected the astronauts from enslavement by his fellow creatures who saw "man" as an evil threat to their current world. He later fled with the earthmen after accidentally killing an ape leader who was trying to kill the astronauts. At this point the program became a futuristic version of THE FUGITIVE with a group of angry apes in hot pursuit espousing the sentiments "The only good human is a dead human." Galen (played by Roddy McDowall) spoke the English language and walked upright as did the rest of his simian kind (an atomic holocaust destroyed most of mankind but evolved the apes on planet Earth to a higher form of life). Other monkey character included Urko the ape (Mark Lenard), a military leader and Zaius (Booth Colman), an orangutan politician. The TV series is based on the novel Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle which spawned the motion picture Planet of the Apes (1968) starring Charlton Heston (on which the TV series is based), the sequels Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1969), Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972), Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973) as well as the animated Saturday morning cartoon RETURN TO THE PLANET OF THE APES/NBC/1975-76 and the remake motion picture Planet of the Apes (2001) starring Mark Wahlberg.
3. Scopes Trial -- John Scopes
   THE GREAT AMERICAN SHOWOn Friday, July 10, 1925, the Scopes Trial was slated to begin. As the press and spectators thronged the courthouse, they encountered Joe Mendi, the trained chimpanzee; Deck Carter, "Bible Champion of the World;" and Lewis Levi Johnson Marshall, "Absolute Ruler of the Entire World, Without Military, Naval or Other Physical Force."
4. Richard Gere -- Aids Awareness
   Richard Gere is a peace activist like Mahatma Gandhi. Richard Gere traveled to India last week to throw his fame behind AIDS Awareness and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, PETA. Talk about preaching to the converted. In India, which has over a billion people, the Hindu people idolize the cows as sacred beings. It is illegal to kill or injure a cow. The cow is the Divine Symbol of Mother Earth giving freely milk, cheese, butter, dung for fertilizer and dung smoke a powerful anti pollutant and never asking for anything in return.
5. Rene Russo -- De Niro
   EVENT: John Antioco, Blockbuster Chairman and CEO, and actress Rene Russo will celebrate the company's debut on the New York Stock Exchange by ringing the opening bell to commence trading. Richard A. Grasso, NYSE Chairman and CEO, will join them on the bell platform. In addition to the bell ringing, Blockbuster Inc. will host a street event outside the New York Stock Exchange on Broad Street. The event will consist of 5,000 video boxes used to create a "blue and yellow" brick road, 12-foot-high inflatable letters that will spell BLOCKBUSTER(R), and celebrity lookalikes that will be available to sign autographs and pose for pictures. Celebrity lookalikes will include Whoopi Goldberg, Cher, Charlie Chaplin, Humphrey Bogart, Jodie Foster, Robert DeNiro, Danny DeVito, Joe Pesci and the Marx Brothers. COMPANY DESCRIPTION: Blockbuster Inc. (NYSE: BBI), headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is the world's leading retailer of portable home videos, DVDs and video games with approximately 6,500 Blockbuster stores in the United States and 26 other countries.
6. Gorillas -- Western Africa
   Gorillas are large, quiet, gentle apes that can be found in Africa. Although gorillas are sometimes portrayed as out of control, they are in fact vegetarians. Because of unbelievable reduction in habitat, these beautiful primates are in great danger of going extinct.
7. Danny Boyle -- Trainspotting Boyle
   Boyle followed up Trainspotting in 1997 with another Hodge-Macdonald-McGregor collaboration, A Life Less Ordinary. A romantic comedy featuring karaoke and a pair of ferocious angels (Holly Hunter and Delroy Lindo), it starred McGregor and Cameron Diaz as mismatched lovers at odds with the law and each other. Despite the anticipation surrounding the film, it met with heavily mixed reviews and virtually dissipated at the box office. That same year, Boyle served as executive producer for Twin Town, a surprisingly popular Welsh film that featured much of the rough-edged humor of Boyle's previous work.
8. Cameroon -- Central African
   The Cameroon national football team, nicknamed Lions Indomptables (Indomitable Lions), is the national team of Cameroon and is controlled by the Fédération Camerounaise de Football. It is one of Africa's most successful sides, as Cameroon was the first African team to reach the quarterfinals of the World Cup, in 1990, losing to England in extra time. They have ... won 4 African Nations Cups, as well as the gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
9. Johnny Weissmuller -- Johnny Sheffield
   Jungle hero Johnny Weissmuller moved from MGM to RKO for his next six swinging action sagas. First, "Tarzan Triumphs" (1943) over Nazis who attempt to conquer a lost civilization; the search for a plant that will yield a malaria serum leads Tarzan and Boy (Johnny Sheffield) back into conflict with German agents, in "Tarzan's Desert Mystery" (1943); Tarzan and Jane (Brenda Joyce) help defend a female tribe from some nosy archeologists, in "Tarzan and the Amazons" (1945); a bizarre African cult must contend with an angry ape man when they attack Jane and Boy, in "Tarzan and the Leopard Woman" (1946); the jungle king goes up against poachers out to repopulate a zoo, in "Tarzan and the Huntress" (1947); and Weissmuller plays Tarzan for the last time in "Tarzan and the Mermaids" (1948), rescuing a young girl from a pearl trader posing as a tribal god. 7 1/4 hrs. total on three discs. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, Spanish, French.
10. Tarzan -- Tarzan The Ape Man
    The very first Tarzan film in 1918 was entitled TARZAN THE APE MAN, and starred Elmo Lincoln. He would go on to portray the Ape Man in two sequels, primarily very broad adaptations of the novels. Over the next 10 years, Tarzan was played by a handful of actors in a total of nine silent films, the most notable being James Pierce in 1927's TARZAN & THE GOLDEN LION.

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