Word: barbera
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DIED. GEORGE SIDNEY, 85, self-effacing director of some of MGM's most famous musicals, including Annie Get Your Gun, Kiss Me Kate and Show Boat; of lymphoma; in Las Vegas. He was instrumental in founding the animation company Hanna-Barbera and directed 1945's Anchors Aweigh, in which the cartoon Jerry the Mouse danced alongside Gene Kelly...
...wood-paneled charm and all the best local cuisine, this restaurant offers a taste of how people have been eating in the Piedmont region for centuries. Both antipasti and desserts are rolled out from the kitchen to your table. Try the fowl for your main course. Add a local Barbera wine and your bill will come to under €40 a head...
Junior outside hitter Angela Barbera keyed the Cornell attack, posting 18 kills on her way to a .342 kill average tohelp wear down the Crimson...
...even nonaction fans will be wowed by the art. Creator Genndy Tartakovsky (Dexter's Laboratory) raids the history of illustration, art and cinema with the gusto of a kid playing in an attic. He gleefully cobbles past, present and future into a supercool fantasy of classical Japanese art, Hanna-Barbera, expressionism, anime, '60s film and '50s modernism, just for starters. (His dystopian future city looks like hell as designed by Charles and Ray Eames...
DIED. WILLIAM HANNA, 90, groundbreaking animator who, with partner Joseph Barbera, fathered such unforgettable characters as Scooby-Doo, Fred Flintstone, Tom and Jerry, and the Jetsons; in Los Angeles. In 1930, after losing a construction engineering job, Hanna started composing music for cartoons; by 1937 he had begun his partnership with Barbera. Hanna-Barbera's cartoon comedy won the team eight Emmys, including one for The Huckleberry Hound Show, the first given to an animated series...