(image via meerkat)
Aren't you sick of all the Africa buzz (The Corsair sips triple distilled Ugandan Waragi)? First there was African Dictator Chic, then adopted babies, blood diamonds, and on and on .... Now, those goddam South African Meerkats, not satified with their Discovery TV deal are branching out in 2 competing Hollywood documentaries (Exaggerated cough suggesting feigned detachment). Says the Old Gray Lady:
"Two well-financed documentary films about the foot-long, two-pound natives of South Africa’s Kalahari Desert have gone into production recently, promising just the kind of match that pitted a pair of Truman Capote movies against each other in the past 15 months.
"In September Discovery Films, along with Animal Planet, Oxford Scientific Films and the sales company Southern Star, began shooting an untitled documentary featuring some of the 'Whiskers' meerkat family of the 'Meerkat Manor' television series at home in their Kalahari colony.
"Not to be outdone, the Weinstein Company in New York, along with BBC Films and the BBC Natural History Unit, got busy in November with 'The Meerkats,' a documentary with its own take on the little diggers."
Look out Brangelina.
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