Artist: Miyagi
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
Tai Chi
Year: 2002
Tracks: 9
Thursday 19 June 2008
Tuesday 10 June 2008
Cartoon Inspiration Wife Dies
The woman who inspired the matriarch in the beloved FAMILY CIRCUS comic strip has died. She was 82.
Thelma Keane, the wife of acclaimed cartoonist Bil Keane, died on Friday (23May08) at her home in Paradise Valley, Arizona after a five-year battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Keane began drawing the long-running cartoon in 1960 and based the Mommy character on his wife Thelma. The comic is printed in nearly 1,500 publications worldwide.
The pair met during World War II when he was stationed in Brisbane, Australia, from which Thelma was a native. They married in 1948 and moved to Keane's hometown of Philadelphia. They had five children.
Thelma acted as Keane's business manager and battled for her husband to become one of the first syndicated newspaper cartoonists to win back all rights to his published drawings.
Keane remembers his wife fondly, saying, "The losing of Thel is a heartbreaking thing for me.
"However, it makes me realise how important she was to my worldly success, and I know where she is now, I feel that she's still helping me and probably giving me the inspirations you can only get from an angel in heaven."
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Wednesday 4 June 2008
Former Critic Frank Rich To Help Develop Shows For HBO
New York Times Op-Ed columnist Frank Rich is becoming a "creative consultant" to HBO to participate in the development of new programs. Rich has been a film and TV critic for Time and a theater critic for the New York Times from 1980-1994. Rich told the Times today (Thursday) that his role at HBO will be "to bring ideas, to vet ideas, everything from comedies to documentaries to docudramas."
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