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...while he was still a student at the National Film and Television School in London. Initially, Gromit was envisioned as a cat, but underwent a transformation when Park realized “a dog was just easier to make.” Park relished his new creations: Wallace, an inventor whose light bulbs are always a little dim, and Gromit, his faithful companion, whose silence belies his ingenuity. Park liked that the situation was “almost like a role reversal, with the dog being the smart one and the man being the stupid one.” Though...
...Sitcom with a Message As our Milestone of actor Bob Denver noted [Sept. 19], he played the role of Gilligan in the popular 1960s TV comedy Gilligan's Island. Ten years ago, we profiled the creator of the show, Sherwood Schwartz, in a piece called "The Inventor of Bad TV." Here's an excerpt from that story [March...
...Featherstone, a 1996 Ig Nobel recipient and inventor of the plastic pink flamingo, appeared on stage with his wife and black poodle—all dressed in black suits adorned with hand painted pink flamingos in the shape of the infinity symbol...
...first full-length feature starring the titular team. Their initial appearances in a series of celebrated short films in the ’90s have amassed a fan base that adores their wry, unmistakably British humor. The formula is straightforward but enchanting. Wallace is the bald, big-grinned inventor with a different job in every film but two constant passions: wacky, necessarily unnecessary contraptions and a good hunk of cheese. Gromit is his resourceful mutt, who becomes a mute Watson to Wallace’s Sherlock Holmes whenever a mystery arises...
...Moog in our Lives Robert Moog, inventor of the Moog synthesizer, which produces electronically generated sound [MILESTONES, Sept. 5], could be called the Einstein of electronic music. The Beatles used the Moog in their Abbey Road album, and the synthesizer figures prominently in the score of the film A Clockwork Orange. In a March 7, 1969, story, we described the workings of the Moog: "The electronic synthesizer that bears [Moog's] name?a 4-ft.[1.25-m]-long contraption that looks like the control panel of a jet airliner with an organ keyboard grafted onto...