Chongo here. We had a wake at Duffy's Bar last night for poor Charlie the Smokin' Chimp. There was not a dry eye in the house. Everybody lit up one in his honor at midnight and the place was blue with smoke. The thing that really hurts my heart is that Charlie had to spend his whole life cooped up in a zoo, held prisoner, and gawked at by dumb human rubes who would toss him a cigarette now and then. What an injustice! Still, you can see in the film that Charlie's spirit was not broken and he found ways to enjoy his incarceration and walk tall and proud. Charlie will not be forgotten.

- Chongo