What do Ben Bernanke, Zhang Xin, Kim Jong-un and Bugs Bunny have in common?

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The animated pre-credit sequence, featuring Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny, was written and directed by Chuck Jones, who made some of the greatest Warners cartoons.

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The Earl of Hines (as Bugs Bunny referred to him in a 1955 cartoon) is a much more proactive pianist-leader than his fellow royals Duke Ellington and Count Basie.

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Six Flags, while it had Bugs Bunny World, never bothered to exploit its ability to license newer Warner Bros. franchises Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings to jazz up its rides.

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There are days when I get nostalgic for the corrosive edge of the Bugs Bunny cartoons (that said, when I actually re-watched them not long ago I was alarmed to find the characters shooting one another in the face).

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' Bugs Bunny and Tweety characters.

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Artists like the late Mel Blanc, the "Man of a Thousand Voices" -- who brought Bugs Bunny, Tweety Bird and Daffy Duck to life -- made successful careers out of their ability to voice multiple characters, often in the same film.

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In any case, it was just as easy to enjoy it as a grown-up, in the same way that when you now look at Looney Tunes starring a knowing Bugs Bunny or Daffy Duck, you realize that their creators wrote them as much for their own amusement, chock full of double entendres, as for children's.

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