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["Bill Geschwind" <geschwin AT email.unc.edu>]

This may be the first time I have ever admitted this publicly, but I
spent one summer in college (summer of '85) working at Showbiz Pizza
Place in Greensboro (since then acquired by Chuck-E-Cheese), and they
had an obese bear as a mascot, and I got to wear the bear suit a few
times. Wearing that thing I was about 2-3 times as big around as normal,
had a hard plastic nose about 1.5 ft long, which had a battery operated
fan on the inside, and I had feet that were about 2 ft. long. As soon as
I would step out into the dining room I would get mobbed by dozens of 5
- 10 year olds, and I had to be careful not to look down at them, since
if I did, I would whack them in the head pretty hard with that hard
plastic nose (which made a clunking sound that sounded pretty painful),
and when I walked between tables, I had to be very careful not to brush
off everything from the tables on both sides due to the girth of the
suit. The eye holes on that suit were tiny, so I could hardly see
anything - I had better vision out of the nostrils than the eyes anyway,
but no peripheral vision whatsoever - and since the suit was made
entirely of heavy, artificial fur, it was monstrously hot in there, and
it smelled like a gym locker. At the end of the summer the place got
bought out by Chuck-E-Cheese, and the bear suit got replaced by a mouse
suit. My manager wanted me to wear it as well, but after trying it on
once it turns out I was way too tall for it, which was a HUGE relief!
Ever since I have had nothing but respect for those people wearing
mascot costumes in ballparks, fairs, parades, etc., as well as gorilla
suits. It's much harder than it looks!

- Bill


-----Original Message-----
From: internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Beth
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 8:33 AM
To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/";
Subject: RE: [internetworkers] 6 great gorilla suit movies

For gorilla-suit classics like "The Beast That Killed Women"...

http://uttertrash.net/aprmovies5.htm

And if anyone is interested in making a new gorilla movie, I will gladly
wear the suit. I am a trained professional. I once had a temp job as the
Pilsbury Dough Boy. Seriously.

Beth
http://navel.blogspot.com




Paul Jones <pjones AT metalab.unc.edu> wrote:

>On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Bill Geschwind wrote:
>
>+If I remember correctly, the original Pink Panther movie (with Peter
>+Sellers as Inspector Clouseau) from the early 1960s featured a man in
a
>+gorilla suit. Towards the end of the movie there is a chaotic car
chase
>+scene which has the man in the gorilla suit driving a small
convertible
>+back and forth through the main square in a small European town.
>
>yes mah ole buddy andy ihnatko http://www.cwob.com/ writes:
>
>Don't forget these four.
>
>TRADING PLACES, the Dan Ackroyd/Eddie Murphy movie in which a man in a
>very, very good gorilla suit and a man in a very, very bad gorilla suit
>are crucial to the resolution of Act 4; features lots of hot,
>man-in-gorilla-suit-playing-amorous-gorilla on
>man-in-gorilla-suit-playing-panicky-man-in-gorilla-suit action.
>
>THE PINK PANTHER, which features burglars in gorilla suits -- one
played
>by Robert Wagner -- zipping around the narrow streets of the Paris
suburbs
>in tiny little convertibles, hopelessly lost, making their getaway.
Bonus
>points for use of the classic Town Drunk Who Calmly Concludes That He's
>Just Hallucinating All Of This.
>
>AFRICA SCREAMS, the best Abbott and Costello movie, judged through the
>prism of Bad Gorilla Suit scenes;
>
>BELA LUGOSI MEETS A BROOKLYN GORILLA, and if the presence of a
junkie-era
>Bela Lugosi isn't enough of a tip-off about the level of the
production,
>it also stars Sammy Petrillo, known to history "The Jerry Lewis you
hired
>if you couldn't afford to hire Jerry Lewis."
>
>
>
>
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