Perhaps surprisingly, the man who wrote "Planet of the Apes" also wrote "The Bridge on the River Kwai". He was a Frenchman called Pierre Boulle who had actually been a POW in a camp similar to that portrayed in the book, and later the film.
I know nothing about "The Planet of The Apes" except that Raquel Welch starred in one of the films and so looked it up to see if in fact Roseanne Barr was in fact making some deeply satirical observation, which has been overlooked in the subsequent furore. Sadly, it seems not.
If only she'd tweeted that Valerie Jarrett was the child of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Bridge on the River Kwai instead, she's have saved an awful lot of people a lot of money.
As I doubt Roseanne went down very big in Japan, in any case.
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