)At the time of its release, it was rumored that Sinatra""s alleged Mafia ties (plus the help of his beautiful wife Ava Gardner) pressured tyrannical Columbia head Harry Cohn to relent and offer he part of Maggio to Sinatra instead of Eli Wallach.It would be a difficult task - "They""re a Chinese military contractor.We have no pull, no details....From a thief""s point-of-view, this is worst-case scenario" - all the security guards were privately-contracted members, formerly of the People""s Liberation Army, and access to the impenetrable lab was only by private elevator (activated solely by persons inside the lab).After drawing a sketch of brain components on the blackboard, Dr.Frankenstein asked for questions from the students, and one persistent student (Danny Goldman) rose and asked:I have one question, Dr Frankenstein." Hasslein described the testimony of the apes, about how they had acquired the power of intelligent speech and soon became Earth""s master race.The treatment was based upon Connell""s 1922Century Magazinestory titledA Reputation(collected inApes and Angels).