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The first time I ever saw a machete was in a Tarzan movie. Not one of those with Ron Ely or Christopher Lambert as the ape man.

Jungle saviour, noble savage, or green superhero? Tarzan's many mythical faces come under the microscope at a Paris show complete with sounds of the forest, and the hero's distinctive cry.

By Nicholas Bagnall and Katie Owen Published: 5:52AM BST 14 Jun 2009 It is amazing what can be achieved by a chimp 'randomly prodding at the keyboard'. This autobiography of Tarzan's best buddy is really a scintillating debut novel, which skewers the celebrity memoir and gives a savage portrayal of 1930s and 1940s Hollywood.

ACAPULCO, MEXICO: It was a shootout straight from Hollywood in the former playground of its biggest stars: Masked and heavily armed Mexican soldiers battled outlaws holed up in a hillside mansion in a four-hour shootout that had tourists cowering in hotels nearby.