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...Japanese-American animator who created the canine cartoon sleuth Scooby-Doo; in Los Angeles. Interned with his family in California during World War II, Takamoto first learned illustration from his fellow detainees. After the war, he apprenticed at Walt Disney Studios, where he worked on films that included Cinderella and Peter Pan. In 1961 he joined Hanna-Barbera, where he designed characters for Scooby-Doo (whose name Takamoto took from a scat line in the Frank Sinatra song Strangers in the Night) as well as for TV cartoons, including The Flintstones and The Jetsons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jan. 22, 2007 | 1/11/2007 | See Source »

...prizes to three who would be Academy winners (Philip Seymour Hoffman in Capote as best actor, Reese Witherspoon in Walk the Line as best actress, and Ang Lee for directing Brokeback Mountain) and three that didn't win but were nominated (Brokeback Mountain as best film, Paul Giamatti in Cinderella Man for supporting actor and Catherine Keener in Capote for supporting actress). Of the L.A. critics' prizes, two went to eventual Oscar winners and the other four to Oscar nominees. Et cetera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do Movie Critics Matter? | 12/12/2006 | See Source »

Hilary R. Cloos ’96 trots along rural New York and Connecticut county roads, looking for her Cinderella. For the past 10 years, Cloos has spent her days trimming, fitting, and polishing—working hours on end to craft the perfect slipper. When she’s done, the armored hoof is ready for showtime.Cloos, a former Harvard physics concentrator and equestrian team captain, is known in eastern New York as a farrier. Laymen often call her a blacksmith, but while blacksmiths forge iron into many shapes and forms, farriers devote their lives to fitting shoes...

Author: By Daniela Nemerenco, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Horses’ ‘Fairy’ Godmother | 12/11/2006 | See Source »

...seemed beyond conversation: ailing, 80, a member of old uppercrust Argentine high society. She could not have been more unlike my 20-year-old, Asian-American, middle-class self. This woman hobnobbed with European royalty and dined with Pavarotti in her day; I grew up pretending to be royalty (Cinderella) and dining on Publix chicken nuggets...

Author: By Grace Tiao | Title: Lost in Translation | 10/3/2006 | See Source »

...From Ella to Cinderella...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Defense of June Allyson | 7/11/2006 | See Source »

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