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Tim Burton's simian sex scene too hot for censors 

Tuesday April 10, 2001
The Guardian

Tim Burton's remake of Planet Of The Apes has been censored. According to
reports, producers 20th Century Fox have quashed a scene involving a human
Mark Wahlberg and an apeish Helena Bonham Carter consummating their love.

Special effects guru Rick Baker, a veteran of the Star Wars saga, told the
US Daily News that Burton had: "Wanted to have sexual tension between [the
two]. Tim wanted her to be sexually attractive to [human] men." But when
the final cut is released in cinemas, viewers will see nothing more
bestial than a chaste kiss.

A Fox insider told the newspaper: "Fox thought American audiences would
recoil and that the movie would get an NC-17 rating. That would kill the
movie for kids." The studio continues to deny that it has wielded the axe
over Burton's simian-human sex sequences, but a "friend" of Bonham Carter
confirms that: "The scene was in there originally, but the studio freaked
out." The movie is scheduled for an August release in the UK.

 Guardian Unlimited  Guardian Newspapers Limited 2001 
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