Steven Gaydos Executive VP of ContentLifelong addiction to Looney Tunes and their imaginary characters and real creators is not required to enjoy journalist Jaime Weinman’s “Anvils, Mallets & Dynamite: The Unauthorized Biography of Looney Tunes,” but it will help the reader stay engaged when the tome becomes, shall we say, a bit academic.Any “serious” accounting of that place once known as “Termite Terrace” on the Warner lot is immediately courting danger when the imaginary subjects of your scholarship are known as “Bugs,” “Daffy,” “Porky,” et al and the “real” people have such names as “Tex,” “Chuck” and “Friz.”Detailing the creative origins of “that Oscar-winning rabbit, Bugs Bunny,” as Warner Bros.
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