Koko's Early Movies

It is Erev Hag (Pesach) in Kever Benjamin city and no one is harassing me with angry phone calls demanding why I did not finish the project promised a week ago. I'll spend these rare minutes in pleasurable review of Koko's first movies. Since her debut fighting off airplanes from the top of the Empire State Building, her carreer have been unstoppable. Yet Koko is unhappy because she thinks of herself as a talented Shakespearan actress whose her first success (as a ferocious over-sexed male gorilla) condemned her to always play the same "type". Oversexed she was and is, for sure, but vapid blondes have nothing to fear (or expect) from her. In fact, the hundreds of gorilla B films (watch Nabonga!) that followed her King Kong success left her allergic to blondes as well as very wealthy.

I empathized with Koko from first sight. Watching these old films I see why this was fated: Koko, the Talking Gorilla, with perfect English diction and one-in-a-million histrionic talent, made her millions without ever been allowed to say so much as a word on screen. I too was forced by circumstances to play the square engineer without a chance to publish my witty, mordant satires and to give lectures on my theoretical math elucubrations. We both are rather successful in life, but playing roles that deep down we despise. Like that great actor, singer and dancer who was forced by the rude Pretorian Guard to accept the hated job of Emperor of Rome (and the world), I shall depart saying "What an artist the world is losing in me!"