Congo News

The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival had grown up by 1989. The annual celebration of music, food and culture exploded from an audience of about 350 at its founding in 1970 to an estimated 260,000 in 1989, an attendance record since surpassed by a wide margin.

Musician, boxer and lawyer are some of the hobbies and jobs that British actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje has pursued.

Aside from producing such iconic franchises as Indiana Jones and Back to the Future , Hollywood hotshot Frank Marshall has also tried his hand at directing with films like Congo and Arachnophobia .

The film "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" opened Aug. 5 in the U.S. The film, directed by Rupert Wyatt , is a prequel to "Planet of the Apes" set in the present day, when man's experiments with genetic engineering lead to the development of superintelligent apes.

Rumor has it that this week the apes will rise . So in honor of our primate cousins and their varied achievements on film, Movieline will honor one great movie ape/monkey/chimp each day who embodies an admirable quality found in monkeykind.