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...Rollins closed out the performance with another calypso, the West Indian folksong "Don't Stop the Carnival." Rollins seemed to feed off the energy of the crowd, playfully examining the entire range of his tenor saxophone, conjuring the highest altissimo wails and lowest foghorn blares. He then paused, while the band played on, to restate some of his environmental qualms. "We gotta live easy on the planet," Rollins implored. "Stop driving all those SUVs." Perhaps realizing that he could touch his audience much more powerfully with his horn than with his words, he finally sighed and said, "Y'all understand...
...Foghorn Leghorn...
...tunes from the further reaches of the great American songbook. On ballads, Bey's voice can have a humanizing tightness, a vulnerability that draws a listener in. But when the tempo quickens he can really belt it out: the New York Times aptly dubbed him a "hard-bop foghorn...
...through computer graphics, and Tatopoulos' creature shop was twice the size of Jurassic Park's. But Godzilla isn't his old self: gone, for example, are his trademark maple-leaf dorsal spines, now a forest of thorns. All that really remains is the Godzillic roar, pitched higher than a foghorn but just as resonant, sort of like a herd of elephants on methamphetamines. And that's by default. A whole audio team was given the task of duplicating the sound but couldn't. And so Devlin and Emmerich simply picked up the beast's original "yell" from Toho's sound...
...sorry that your review of new animation and cartoon books [SHOW BUSINESS, May 19] failed to mention my father Robert McKimson, who was with Warner Bros. Cartoons studio as an animator and director from 1931 until it closed in 1963. He directed 175 cartoons and created the Tasmanian Devil, Foghorn Leghorn, Sylvester Jr. and the original Speedy Gonzales. He was nominated for two Academy Awards and was credited in 1944 by the Library of Congress as the author-artist of Bugs Bunny. The books you covered in this article did little to expose the artistic talent that was part...