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“Herr Meets Hare,” is included in its entirety in “Wartime.” Another, “Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips,” is shown in partial clips, along with the Popeye cartoon “Scrap the Japs.” ...
(1942), features a minstrel show; “Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips” (1944), he fights caricature Japanese soldiers; “Herr Meets Hare” (1945), stereotypes Germans; “Hiawatha’s Rabbit Hunt ...
As we celebrate the 80th anniversary of the release of “A Wild Hare,” the first animated short starring Bugs Bunny, the question arises: How Jewish was the sassy, anti-authoritarian rabbit?
Looney Tunes will take the Hollywood Bowl by storm in July as the beloved film-and-live-orchestra concert Bugs Bunny at the ...
Credit: Warner Bros Today marks the 85th anniversary of Bugs Bunny, one of animation’s most iconic characters and star of many cartoons, movies. comics and video games. With his sly grin ...
A statue of the iconic Bugs Bunny, located in Leicester Square, in London, UK. (Photo credit: Shutterstock.com/Chris Dorney) “Eh, what’s up, Doc?” Well, today ...
Bugs Bunny was conceived at Leon Schlesinger’s animation unit at Warner Brothers studios, noted Britannica.com. The creative unit boasted a variety of top names in animation, including Tex Avery ...
Don’t be misled by those earlier rabbits. On Sept. 10, 1940, Variety ran a brief item about the “new character Bugs Bunny” that WB was booking into Fox West Coast theaters. Bugs’ name ...
MeTV Toons, the recently-launched free all-classic cartoon channel, will premiere a new one-hour special about Bugs Bunny titled Hare’s to Bugs! A Bugs Bunny Celebration on Saturday, July 27 ...