Acting: The Job So Easy, A Monkey Can Do It!
· This orangutan know exactly what the acting game is all about: Just chillin’ out, taking each audition as it comes, and stripping when required. [YouTube]
· Gasp! The Idol finale is underway, and apparently the vote “wasn’t even close.” Could Dial Idol’s prediction of a runaway David Cook victory be accurate? [AP, Dial Idol]
· It’s hard enough dragging yourself into the office every day without having to gaze out of Madonna’s ladyparts. [Racked]
· Not pregnant? Don’t like ice cream? Afraid of Tori Spelling? Well here’s what you missed at today’s Baskin Robbins Bump Day festivities. [D-listed]
· The latest Get Smart movie gets Mel Brooks’s stamp of approval. The Nude Bomb? Not so much. [LAT]
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What would possibly make Levis think this is acceptable? It’s not funny. It’s stupid. And shameful. Orangutans are critically endangered and could be extinct in the wild in less than ten years at the current rate of deforestation in Indonesia.
Hey Levis– If you’re reading this, I have a challenge for you: Why don’t you help save the orangutans instead of exploiting them? Visit redapes.org and learn how you can help…
Orangutans and other great apes should not be used in advertising. Not only is it demeaning for such an intelligent and sentient creature, it is widely known that these “ape actors” have usually been taken from their mothers at a young age (this orangutan would still have been with its mother in the wild at its age.) Furthermore, to get a strong animal like this to act and do as they are told requires either excessive force or denial of food, or both. Finally, this orangutan will soon be at an age where he is unmanageable and no longer cute. What happens to him then? As orangutans can live to 60 or more years, who is to look after him after his acting career is over?
It is morally reprehensible to use apes in this way.
Find out how you can help orangutans: http://www.savetheorangutan.co.uk (partner of http://www.redapes.org)
By being dumb enough to exploit a great ape to sell jeans, Levis has contributed to the erosion of the public’s conscience towards animal welfare. I’d like to take a pair of Levis and ram it down the throat of whoever agreed to market this trashy video. Then i’ll video him running around like an ape trying to fish it out. You guys suck.
Here we are in the year 2008, and unless one has been locked in a concrete bunker for the past 20 years the public in general do not find this form of advertising entertaining. As a member of 2 Orangutan Orginisations in Australia this makes me sad to think why, as humans do we have the moral and ethical right to destroy their homeland kill the mothers, have them used for prostitution in logging camps, have their heads used as “centre peices” on fruit platters, now this?