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SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) -- Brenda Joyce, a movie actress who played Jane in five "Tarzan" films, has died. She was 92.

in Paris has a new exhibition looking at Tarzan's popularity and influence almost a century after the character was first created. The two-dozen Tarzan novels by American author Edgar Rice Burroughs are not much read any more, but the character remains famous worldwide through television, films and comics. The Musee du Quai Branly is an important centre for the study of the arts and cultures of Africa, Asia and the Pacific, so an exhibition about a fictional Brit created by an American might seem an odd choice.In fact the museum's head, Stephane Martin, insists the Tarzan phenomenon is well worth...

Could Cheeta the chimp, the famous performing primate who's said to have starred alongside Johnny Weissmuller in the Tarzan films and Rex Harrison in Dr. Doolittle, be an impostor?It's a story whose plot resembles a 1930s screwball comedy, but author R.D. Rosen says it's true: Cheeta the chimp, said to be the oldest nonhuman primate in the world at 76, is not who he claims to be. (Or rather, he's not who his deceased trainer, Tony Gentry, claimed he was.) In 2007, Rosen set out to write a book about Cheeta: his abduction from the wilds of his native Liberia;...

Cheeta the chimp, star of a dozen "Tarzan" movies in the 1930s and 1940s, celebrated his 74th birthday with sugar-free cake. Although healthy and active, Cheeta is diabetic. "He had a good time. The party went real good," said keeper Dan Westfall, operator of the primate sanctuary Creative Habitats and Enrichment for Endangered and Threatened Apes - or CHEETA. Representatives from a Spanish film festival also showed up for Sunday's party to present Cheeta with the first award of his career - an International Comedy Film Festival of Peniscola prize. Cheeta has been recognized by the Guinness Book of World...

From golden sunrise to the West By Kelly Milner rep7@wyomingnews.com Published in the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle CHEYENNE - Frankie Jones hoped a speaker Saturday helped put Tarzan to rest. "The only concept most people have of Africa is a white man swinging on a tree to save the black people," Jones said. "Every time I see it, it makes me fighting mad." Jones is a member of the Love and Charity Club Inc. that sponsored a Black History Month event Saturday called "Looking Back and Moving Forward." The Rev. Clinton Lewis was the speaker for the service, which was held at...

Tarzan's Escaped Tiger Eludes Capture POSTED: 5:23 pm EDT July 12, 2004 UPDATED: 7:56 am EDT July 13, 2004 LOXAHATCHEE, Fla. -- A 6-year-old tiger eluded capture Tuesday after escaping a day earlier from the residence of an actor who played Tarzan, even though officials said the cat had only roamed about 200 yards from his home. Deputy sheriffs and state game officials set up a perimeter around a search area that was a half-mile wide and 2 1/2-miles long, and started beating the bush again at daybreak, said Willie Puz, spokesman for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission....

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - NBC has made changes to its Tuesday and Thursday schedules to make room for the new midseason comedy "The Tracy Morgan Show," while ABC and the WB network have bid farewell to "L.A. Dragnet" and "Tarzan," respectively. Meanwhile, NBC has cut back the order for its sophomore series "American Dreams" from 22 to 18 episodes. In other scheduling news, CBS has announced that it will replace the first part of its canceled four-hour miniseries "The Reagans" on Nov. 16 with a rerun of a two-episode arc of "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (news - Y! TV)."...

United States authorities said today they had suspended a US immigration judge after a newspaper reported he referred to himself as Tarzan during court proceedings for an African political asylum seeker named Jane. The Boston Herald reported that at the start of the proceedings in June, US Immigration Judge Thomas Ragno told the woman: "Jane, come here. Me Tarzan." Ragno, who presides over an immigration court in Boston, then "laughed and talked about how funny the Tarzan cartoons were", the Herald said, quoting an affidavit signed by Jane's doctor. The Executive Office for Immigration Review, a division of the US...

Twenty years ago today, Hal Foster passed on. A Canadian, Foster charmed and captivated kids and adults with his drawing and storytelling. in 1957, the National Cartoonists Society awarded their annual Reuben (designed by Rube Goldberg). Foster was best known for 'Tarzan' and, of course 'Prince Valiant'. Harold Foster, selfportrait "That strong, proud Prince of Thule was the kind of man I'd like to have been." -- Hal Foster