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Jock Brandis & The Full Belly Project
Struck by the bleeding hands of women shelling peanuts in Africa, Jock Brandis developed an inexpensive device to help.
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Bill Melendez 1916-2008
Jose Cuauhtemoc Melendez, known to many as Bill Melendez was an animator, director and producers of motion pictures. Best known for his work on such classics as Peanuts and Bambi, Melendez will be remembered as a world-class animator, accomplished filmmaker and a multi-Emmy Award winner. He passed away at the age of 91 in Santa Monica, California. Jose Cuauhtemoc Melendez, known to many as Bill Melendez was an animator, director and producers of motion pictures. Best known for hi... more
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"Peanuts" animator Bill Melendez dies
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Bill Melendez, best known for bringing the Peanuts characters to life with such classics as "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown," died Tuesday at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica. He was 91.
Melendez, the only animator permitted by Charles M. Schulz to work with the Peanuts characters, earned eight Emmy Awards, 17 Emmy nominations, one Oscar nomination and two Peabody Awards. He began his career at Disney and Warner Bros., working on classic characters at those studios, and spent more than 70 years in the entertainment industry.
In 1948, the Mexican native left Warner Bros. and for more than a decade served as a director and producer on more than 1,000 commercials and films for United Productions of America, Playhouse Pictures and John Sutherland Prods.
It was at UPA that Melendez started doing work for the New York-based J. Walter Thompson ad agency, whose clients included Ford. The carmaker expressed interest in using the Peanuts characters to sell its cars on TV, and in 1959 Melendez prepared his animation work and showed it to Peanuts creator Schulz.
Melendez went on to bring Charlie Brown and his pals to the screen in more than 63 half-hour specials, five one-hour specials, four feature films and more than 372 commercials. In addition to perennial favorites "A Charlie Brown Christmas" (1965) and "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" (1966), Melendez produced the Oscar-nominated "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" (1971), "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" (1973), "She's a Good Skate, Charlie Brown" (1980) and "You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown" (1975). He also provided the voices for Snoopy and Woodstock through the years.
Melendez also animated TV specials "Garfield on the Town," "Cathy," "Babar Comes to America" and "The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe," among others. He shared an Emmy in 1987 for outstanding animated program with three others for "Cathy."
His last credit was as a producer for the 2006 TV special "He's A Bully, Charlie Brown." LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Bill Melendez, best known for bringing the Peanuts characters to life with such classics as "A... more -
'Peanuts' animator Bill Melendez dies
Bill Melendez, the Mexican-born American character animator, film director, and film producer, best known for the 'Peanuts' animated specials and feature films, has passed away.
Melendez was the only animator allowed by Charles Shultz to work with his characters. He earned 8 Emmys and 2 Peabody Awards. Not to mention 17 Emmy nominations and 2 Oscar noms. He also holds the distinction as being the only adult voice actor in any of the Peanuts films, as the voice of Snoopy.
He was 91. Bill Melendez, the Mexican-born American character animator, film director, and film producer, best known for the 'Peanuts' ... more -
Seattle Mariners open peanut-free parts of stadium, no peanuts allowed!
Buy me some peanuts and cracker jack, hold the peanuts, someone's allergic! The Seattle Mariners open a peanut-free section in the ballpark. Buy me some peanuts and cracker jack, hold the peanuts, someone's allergic! The Seattle Mariners open a peanut-free section in t... more
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Funny how? Funny ha ha?
Mashup of goodfellas and peanuts - sadly for commercial reasons. Also, sadly seems to be in perfect sync at times, and woefully not at others.
d Mashup of goodfellas and peanuts - sadly for commercial reasons. Also, sadly seems to be in perfect sync at times, and woefully not at... more -
This peanut looks like a duck
Yesterday I discovered manbabies.com, and today I find This Peanut Looks Like a Duck. I am forever awed by the scope of the interwebs.
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Bully tries to poison student with peanuts
An eighth-grader was charged with wanton endangerment after allegedly putting crumbled peanut butter cookies in the lunchbox of another student with a severe allergy to peanuts.
The allergic student, also an eighth-grader, did not eat the cookies and did not suffer a reaction.
Fayette County public schools spokeswoman Lisa Deffendall said the incident occurred Thursday on the Morton Middle School running track, where students had gone to eat lunch and enjoy the warm weather.
As the students neared the end of their lunchtime, a student was seen putting the crumbled cookies in the allergic student's lunchbox, she said.
It was well known the other student suffered from severe peanut allergies, Deffendall said. There was no known history of problems between the two 13-year-old students, she said. An eighth-grader was charged with wanton endangerment after allegedly putting crumbled peanut butter cookies in the lunchbox of anothe... more -
What if Charles Schultz had created the Watchmen?
This is a wonderfully inspired speculation on what it might have looked like if one of the greatest comic books--nay, one of the great pieces of modern literature--had been illustrated by the guy who gave us "Peanuts."
Not sure who I like best, but Snoopy as Rorschach is pretty rad. This is a wonderfully inspired speculation on what it might have looked like if one of the greatest comic books--nay, one of the great... more -
Wu-Tang clan meets the Peanuts
The best crossover since Scooby Doo meets Sonny and Cher "RZA, GZA, Method Man meet Snoopy, Lucy, and Linus."
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The Appropriate Genius
Five-hundred million people around the world rely on the peanut as their primary food source. Over four billion hours each year are spent by woman and children hand shelling peanuts in Africa alone. Hand shelling nets a villager in Mali, West Africa about ten pounds of nuts per day, producing little more than arthritis. A simple appropriate technology, the “universal nut sheller,” will allow that same villager to shell three-quarters of a ton of nuts in the same time, transforming the time spent chasing a daily meal into opportunities to address the educational, health and economic issues in their lives.
The Appropriate Genius tells the story of Jock Brandis and his efforts to combat hunger and extreme poverty. On a trip to Mali, Jock had an opportunity to speak with a village woman who was shelling peanuts by hand. That brief encounter in 2000 resulted in a breakthrough low-tech device that can change the lives of people in developing nations around the world. What began as a repair to an outdated village irrigation system evolved into a synergistic approach to an invention that world-renowned agricultural experts agree has become the “holy grail” of sustainable agriculture. Five-hundred million people around the world rely on the peanut as their primary food source. Over four billion hours each year are sp... more -
Charlie Brown Finally Has His Day
In this Super Bowl ad for Coca-Cola Charlie Brown finally wins at something. Sweet retribution for all of us "Blockheads" in life. In this Super Bowl ad for Coca-Cola Charlie Brown finally wins at something. Sweet retribution for all of us "Blockheads" in... more
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Pop Waffle does A Charlie Brown Christmas
"Christmas time is here..." See all your favorite pop culture icons in a very special holiday video!
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Linus explains the REAL meaning of Christmas
The ending they didn't want you to see...
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Scientist develops process for allergen-free peanuts
An agricultural researcher at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University has developed a simple process to make allergen-free peanuts. The new process believed to be a first for food science could provide relief to millions of peanut allergy sufferers, and be an enormous boon to the entire peanut industry. An agricultural researcher at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University has developed a simple process to make allerg... more
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Peanuts - by Charles Bukowski
Finally - a version for the rest of us... - Wouldn't show this to my children for entirely different reasons than the Charles Schultz version... Finally - a version for the rest of us... - Wouldn't show this to my children for entirely different reasons than the Charles Sch... more
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