Around 17:00 in a documentary on the great Warner Brothers animator Chuck Jones, the ubiquitous Leonard Maltin benignly opines "When Bugs Bunny came along in the forties, and really developed in the forties, he was really the anti-Mickey Mouse -- because he was everything Mickey Mouse wasn't: Irreverent. A wise guy. Not middle American at all buy New Yorkese, and he had a pugnacious nature that was perfectly suited as it turns out to the times." And coincidentally voiced by Mel Blanc of Russian Jew parentage, while Mickey was voiced by Disney himself plus one Jimmy McDonald.
It's a small thing, cartoon characters -- but small things can point to large realities. Other names in the credits for this documentary include Wechsler, Kanfer, Feuerbach, Hepler, Bostwick, Kligeman, Esther Pardo, Gould, Fishel, Chomowicz, Ebert, Freberg, Goldberg, Groening, GOdlberg, Mayer, Previn, Minkoff, Spielberg, Adleman, Feltenstein, Firestone, Frankel, Green, Gross, Levy, Lipschutz, Mendelson, Moss, Rosner, Segal, Singer, Steiner, Smilow, Ringel, Schulman.
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