Badass Birthday
On this date, one hundred and 14 years ago (1912) in Spokane Washington, Chuck Jones was born.
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Now, a lot of people younger than me may not know who this is. But as a Gen Xers, I was a latchkey kid. When I got home from school, my parents wouldn't be home for about an hour. So I turned on the tv, turned on channel 5 (which then was an independent station, and remained so until sometime in the early 90s I think, when it was swallowed up by Fox Noise network), and enjoyed the cartoon reruns they replayed in the afternoon. Half an hour of Tom & Jerry. Half an hour of Bugs Bunny and his crew. etc, etc, etc.
And everytime on of those Bugs Bunny cartoon came on, "Directed by Chuck Jones" would appear on the screen. He worked for Warner Bros making shorts to air before movies, and these shorts were bunched together in groups of three and aired together in half hour increments. That's what I was watching.
Chuck Jones had a hand in creating Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Wile E. Coyote & the Roadrunner, Pepe le Pew, Marvin the Martian and Porky Pig. After leaving Warner Bros, he want to M&M and continued his career, working on the aforementioned Tom & Jerry. And he even had a hand in the animated tv special "How The Grinch Stole Christmas". Over the years, he was nominated for 10 Oscars and he won 4 of them!
He passed away in 2002 at the age of 89.
But anyone who can help create so many different iconic cartoon character surely is badass!
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