Man Unsettled By Word Choice In Obituary

“Eve Brent, a veteran character actress whose most recognizable role was Jane to Gordon Scott’s Tarzan, died on Aug. 27 in Sun Valley, Calif. She was 81…. Ms. Brent rebooted the character of Jane, Tarzan’s civilized love interest, in the 1958 films ‘Tarzan and the Trappers’ and ‘Tarzan’s Fight for Life,’ after Jane was left out of the two previous Tarzan movies.”
 — Okay, I have accepted the word “reboot” in its modern sense of “we are all out of original ideas so we’re going to try to wring some more cash out of this old one,” but it is kind of jarring to see it applied to the actions of an earlier era. I guess that’s the way language works!