Apemania is a Planet of the Apes re-enactment troupe making public, movie, and TV appearances recreating the characters from the films. Roy Ceballos, Brian Penikas, David Hoff and Rock Barney first assembled in the late 1970s as the Merry Monkeytime Players. Penikas, now a Hollywood make-up artist, reunited the team in the summer of 1996, together with some new members, and they have featured in private and industry parties, charity fund-raisers, promotions and trade shows, television news programs, talk shows, pilots and film cameos. Some of the higher-profile events have included a 30th Anniversary reunion and screening of Planet of the Apes by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills on August 27th, 1998, which coincided with the American Movie Classics and Fox T