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"We made a star out of Arthur Jackson." said Crimson sophomore Sean Daffy.

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: Brown Upsets Men Cagers, 103-101 | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

Talk about your comebacks. This character was a star from the moment he was hatched in 1937. Through every comic humiliation that befell him -- whether getting vamped by a transvestite rabbit or fricasseed by an irate hunter -- he displayed the bravura resilience of a born loser. This master thespian could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Daffy's Back | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

Daffy was not real, of course -- just a sheaf of drawings flipped past the eye at 24 frames per second. But the comic artistry of such directors as Chuck Jones and Bob Clampett made Daffy and the other denizens of the Warner Bros. cartoon barnyard seem as vivid as Sly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Daffy's Back | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

GHOULS R US reads the legend on Daffy's office window. He's just the spook sleuth to help a comely se-duck-tress who needs some exorcise. There are homages aplenty to the old cartoons -- lascivious bulging eyes, deft wordplay (in pig Latin) and that bizarre sound effect that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Daffy's Back | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

Burt Reynolds and Molly Ringwald try for comebacks, but only Daffy Duck is back in style. -- Moviegoers chafe at the $7 ticket.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page January 18, 1988 Vol. 131 No. 3 | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

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