Gorilla Tales: My Life as a Professional Primate

Product Description Zoom Into Books Author Winner Indie Book Awards - Memoir Career Indie Book Award Finalist - Humor/Comedy Los Angeles Book Festival Honorable Mention I never intended to become a professional gorilla. It happened by accident, like the story of the starving artist whose cat spilled paint on his blank canvas. A wealthy man happens by and proclaims the artist a genius-- his paintings begin to sell and he goes on to become a world-famous artist. To a much lesser degree, this is what happened to me. Only my fame would be slower to arrive, and my canvas would be a $35,000 gorilla costume. Review "Gorilla Tales is a hilarious collection of stories that only a person that experienced a lifetime career as a professional ape could tell. A stranger (and funnier) than fiction world told by the ape master himself, Donald McLeod. Get the bizarre behind the scenes stories (from an ape's perspective) on the films Trading Places, Tanya's Island, and The Man with Two Brains just to name a few. Hold your breath, fasten your seatbelt this is wild boozy ride through the vivid memories of a master storyteller!" --Adam Meir, Actor, Director and Movement ArtistDonald McLeod's Gorilla Tales is the best read I've had in decades! It's an adventure from beginning to end. A fun and very unique story of one man's wildly adventurous life. I highly recommend it! --Craig Scott Lamb, Founder of the Ape Suit Cinema website About the Author Actor and professional mime, Don McLeod, writes unbelievable stories about his career as gorilla and other fantastic creatures. Famous for his role as the American Tourister gorilla and his appearance as the gorilla in the Eddie Murphy / Dan Aykrod / Jamie Lee Curtis movie, "Trading Places" and many other films, Don shares the trials and tribulations of traveling with his gorilla suit, awkward public situations, and much more. Entertaining and enlightening, this memoir gives the reader great respect for those actors who portray non-human characters in the movies!