Clyde KILLED, brutally beaten for eating doughnuts! NOT JOKING!
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CULTEGUY — 17 years ago(October 24, 2008 12:43 AM)
The poster above may have meant the original clyde, and I don't know about the facts confusing the timeline, but I was a kid when the film came out and it's true that he was killed by this moron. Mind you, it happened after the film completed filming, but I had seen news reports, and there were some protests by animal rights people justly.
I'm not to sure as to the reason (the dounut theory,) but if the OP Isn't correct, then that has to be considered an urban ledgend, because that's exactly what my brother told me in the early 80s.
The reason I remember it all these years later is because I was really young when I saw the first one, liked it, but that story screwed up my watching this movie. I mean, animal death in a comedy, WTF. -
Peannuts66965538 — 17 years ago(November 27, 2008 10:58 AM)
heres what i read,
"Any Which Way You Can:" The Death of Clyde
The orangutan name Clyde was born in a zoo but, in 1982, he became "surplus" when the zoo began a new program of orangutan breeding. Until the early 1980's, many zoos had maintained both Sumatran and Borneo orangutans and had interbred them. But when zoos became more purist about breeding, older hybrid orangutans were not suitable for Species Survival Programs (zoo programs to breed endangered species in captivity and to keep them genetically sound.) Clyde, a hybrid, did not fit in with the zoo's plans for the future. He and two other orangutans - CJ and Bubba - were about to find new careers in "show business."
Clint Eastwood had already starred in one film - "Any Which Way But Loose" - with an orangutan co-star trained by Las Vegas animal trainer Bobby Berosini. When a new Eastwood movie was announced, the largest supplier of animals for Hollywood films won the contract. The company did not own an orangutan so its owner scanned the industry papers for zoo surplus and found Clyde.
Clyde became the "star" of "Any Which Way You Can." But, what most of Clyde's fans did not know was that Clyde barely survived the making of the film. In fact, he had been dead for nearly six months by the time he gained fame through the movie. The assistant to Gentle Jungle's head trainer told the media that the trainer beat Clyde to make him docile during the filming. He told reporters that one day before filming, the trainer ordered him and another trainer to help him take Clyde to an isolated spot because he wanted to "have a little talk with him."2 When Clyde became inattentive, the trainer repeatedly beat him with a cane and an ax handle. Clyde tried protecting himself with his arms and rolling in a circle, trying to avoid the blows which were ultimately fatal. He died of cardiac arrest a month after the beating. -
tpupkin — 16 years ago(December 29, 2009 01:19 PM)
Until the early 1980's, many zoos had maintained both Sumatran and Borneo orangutans and had interbred them.
But when zoos became more purist about breeding, older hybrid orangutans were not suitable for Species Survival Programs
(zoo programs to breed endangered species in captivity and to keep them genetically sound.) Clyde, a hybrid, did not fit in with the zoo's plans for the future.
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Randy-144 — 14 years ago(March 03, 2012 05:03 PM)
Here is a link to a bunch of comments from 2004 on the matter of whether or not "Clyde" was beaten.
http://www.clinteastwood.org/forums/index.php?board=3;action=printpage ;threadid=2573
One comment says that Bobby Berosini worked on the first movie,
Every Which Way But Loose
, but not on
Any Which Way You Can
.