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...accounts, their collaboration on the 1966 network cartoon "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" was amiably collaborative. Smartly elaborated from the book by Geisel, beautifully directed by Jones and designed by Maurice Noble, the 25-min. film delighted audiences and became a holiday standard. "The Grinch" and the ineffable "Horton Hears a Who," which the same team produced four years later, It had an educational function as well: it taught kids that there was a higher form of animation than the cheap, stilted stuff they'd been exposed to on the many Hanna-Barbera series. Here was character created through line...
...Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68. The Grinch Who Stole The Kegs took the field as part of the Harvard band’s halftime show, wielding a whooping stick that he unleashed on an effigy of Yale’s mascot, Handsome Dan. The comedic show of school spirit was enough to spare him the wrath of the student section—well, that and the fact that Lewis’ cameo went largely undetected by the punch-drunk masses who had found other ways to get their buzz...
...actor who played Timmy, a doll that miraculously came to life, on the NBC soap opera Passions; during heart surgery; in San Diego. Born with a rare disease that stunted his heart, Evans also had roles on Ally McBeal and in Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas...
...Jones, a tall, genial charmer who sported the goatee and floppy bow tie of a small-town art teacher, had plenty of career left. He reunited with Geisel and directed two Dr. Seuss half-hours, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! and Horton Hears a Who! He wrote two delightful memoirs, Chuck Amuck and Chuck Reducks. And for a 1985 Museum of Modern Art tribute to Warner Bros. animation, he drew new Bugses and Daffys on the Manhattan museum's walls--a tacit acknowledgment from the world of high culture that this cartoon man was a significant creator of modern...
BEST HOLLYWOOD CITIZEN Ron Howard has made millions for the industry, with films like Splash, Apollo 13 and How the Grinch Stole Christmas, but has never even been nominated for an Oscar. This year, with A Beautiful Mind, Opie finally gets some respect from the Academy: a Best Director nomination. Call it his Lifetime Achievement Award...