Dan Richter on Playing the Ape in ‘2001’, Life With John and Yoko

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2001 vs. Planet of the Apes
Published 4/23/2008 by Christopher Campbell at SpoutBlog
... receiving a special award for make-up — consider someone associated with that production may have stolen from or attempted to sabotage the ape wardrobe of Kubrick’s film. In a Vulture blog interview with 2001 ape performer and choreographer Dan Richter, the former mime implies something to that affect: ...

"It's been axiomatic that documentaries are incapable of presenting the entire truth since the Lumière brothers..."
Published 4/23/2008 by Alison Willmore at IFC: Indie Eye
...        —Dan Richter on playing the ape with the bone at the beginning of "2001: A Space Odyssey," at New York ...

Get Your Hands Off Stanley Kubrick's Prosthesis, You Damned Dirty Ape [Monkey Business]
Published 4/24/2008 by STV at Defamer
... A startling revelation from the '60s emerged this week when Dan Richter, who played the contemplative ape in the prologue of 2001: A Space Odyssey, acknowledged a top-level, primate-swiping security breach on Stanley Kubrick's set. It all started with the embittered recollection of losing a special 1968 Make-Up Oscar to Planet of the Apes — and then, like a slo-mo bone in the prehistoric sky, the conspiracy theories flew: ...

The view: Expelled makes monkeys of us all
Published 4/25/2008 by Danny Leigh at Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog - film
... ), it's looking increasingly like the true believers might finally have found their very own Michael Moore. Lord help us. Elsewhere this week, it can surely only be cosmic coincidence that as American movie-goers line up to throw rocks at evolution, New York Magazine's Vulture Blog featured a fascinating interview with Dan Richter , the mime who played the proto-human ape " ...