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...cartoons, starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and a dozen other barnyard thespians, were the star attractions of countless children's Saturday afternoons--and internal lives. But Chuck Jones' Warner Bros. cartoons were more than kid stuff, as we realized long before their creator's death last week, at 89, of congestive heart failure. "We weren't making them for kids or for adults," he often said. "We were making them for ourselves." And, a grateful viewer has to say, for the best part of ourselves...
Kids knew this stuff was funny. Connoisseurs now know it was great. But to studio heads Jack and Harry Warner, the work of Chuck & Co. was just filler. Jones swore that the Warners believed his unit was making Mickey Mouse cartoons--"and when they found out we didn't, they shut it down." This was in 1962; after a quarter-century directing terrific, profitable, studio-defining films, Jones was earning all of $37,500 a year...
...dangerous regimes [NATION, Feb. 11]. Is Bush nuts? It's one thing to go after the Sept. 11 terrorists and their ideological kin, but I am not willing to be part of the war he seems to be envisioning. This type of inflammatory rhetoric is the kind of stuff one would expect from Third World dictators. The President is putting us all at risk. JOANNE BOYD Albany...
...prepare--and to try food they might not otherwise touch--if they have had a hand (ideally, well scrubbed) in making it. "Cooking is so much fun," says Letty Langton, 6, of St. Augustine, Fla. "I get to cook with my mom and dad. I like mixing up stuff and tasting...
...minister and 10 of her closest friends--but not her husband of 21 years. She was "disappointed" that he wouldn't take part, but she says, "I saw a window of opportunity for healing, and I didn't want to rush through it in pain and all the stuff that happens in a divorce." At the ceremony, the minister spoke about why marriages end; friends expressed what they felt about the divorce; and guests read the part supposed to be spoken by her husband. After, Swanson says, "I felt more free of the weight of divorce...