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Cartoon directors are kids at heart, and the Warner aces (Jones, Avery, Friz Freleng, Bob Clampett) were brilliant kids, all in their 20s or early 30s, when they created Porky, Daffy and Bugs. Freleng was the anchor, making crisp vaudeville comedies. Clampett bent his stories and pummeled his characters into...
"The Wild Hare," the first cartoon to star Bugs Bunny, shows the rabbit's evolution. Even in this earliest specimen, though, the style and substance of the Bugs and Elmer cartoons are clearly defined: Bugs takes to cross dressing to fool the wily hunter. "Duck! Rabbit! Duck!" was made years...
One of the selections even exhibits distinct elements of post-modernism. If Pirandello's play Six Characters in Search of An Author is meta-theater, then "Duck Amuck" is the first meta-cartoon. Daffy is denied scenery, erased, and put through all sorts of animated torture until he demands to...
That's a pretty accurate assessment of a movie that drips with so many plugs for products that the characters joke about it in the script. The film, which links Michael Jordan with Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and the rest of the Looney Tunes stable, has generated more than 200...
There are the requisite inside jokes involving butt kissing (Daffy plants a smooch on his own ducktail, to which the WB logo has been affixed) and Disney dissing (when Daffy suggests that the good guys' squad should be called the Ducks, Bugs ripostes, "What kind of a Mickey Mouse organization...