The life and career of the American cartoonist who created the Peanuts comic strip.The life and career of the American cartoonist who created the Peanuts comic strip.The life and career of the American cartoonist who created the Peanuts comic strip.
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- TriviaIn April 1960, the world first learned that "happiness is a warm puppy." Fewer people remember that in October of that year, Snoopy rejected another "warm-puppy" hug from Lucy, declaring that "My mother didn't raise me to be a heating pad." In October 1964, Linus hugged Snoopy and then asked "What's so happy about a warm puppy?"
- Quotes
Jules Feiffer: Sparky did everything. He never had an assistant. He never had anybody ruling pages, or doing his lettering, or any of that. I mean, that was his insistence on the art being his.
- ConnectionsReferences Citizen Kane (1941)
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Good Ol' Charles Schulz is a fine episode of "American Masters"
Just finished watching "Good Ol' Charles Schulz", an episode of the PBS series "American Masters". This celebrated cartoonist had long been a hero of mine because of the way he made universal the insecurities of everyday life by putting them in the leading character of his long-running comic strip "Peanuts", one round-headed kid named Charlie Brown. We follow Mr. Schulz as he grew up as the only child of Norwegian-immigrant parents who rarely spoke much or shown much affection, then through a courtship with a woman named Donna who became the inspiration for Charlie Brown's Little Red-Haired Girl crush, his first wife Joyce who became Lucy in the strip, his second wife Jeanne, and finally his cancer and death. We also get interviews with his children, some friends, some art instruction colleagues like one actually named Linus, fellow cartoonists Jules Feiffer and Lynn Johnston, and his partners in the animated Charlie Brown specials-Lee Mendelson and Bill Melendez. In between all of this, we are shown panels that illustrate some aspects of Charles Schulz' life that brought out some of the most profound humor in him. During the whole 90-minutes, one gets the feeling that despite his success, Mr. Schulz always wondered if he truly was loved by all the people that praised him or was it simply because of his fame. Hopefully, any mail he received after he announced his retirement shortly before he died in 2000 put any doubts he had to rest. This was a wonderful special that truly honored the life of Mr. Schulz. May "Peanuts", which has rerun his classic episodes for millions of readers for the last 7 years, always be in the hearts of anyone who's ever felt like Charlie Brown (which may be most of us!).
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- tavm
- Nov 3, 2007
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- Runtime1 hour 24 minutes
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- 1.78 : 1
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