Animator of Peanuts, Pinocchio, Porky Passes On

Bill Melendez helped one of the most expressive characters of all time get the point across, no actor's line necessary.

The Mexican-born animator wHO voiced Snoopy's howls and sighs and was responsible for bringing A Charlie Brown Christmas and oodles of other Peanuts specials to the small projection screen died Tuesday at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, according to his publicist. He was 91.

Melendez got his start at the Walt Disney Co. in 1938 and worked on such classics as Fantasia and Pinocchio. He moved to Warner Bros. in 1941 and brought to life a host of early classic pen-and-ink personalities, including Bugs, Daffy and Porky.

The artist met Peanuts creator Charles Schulz in 1959 while making a series of commercials for Ford utilizing the comic-strip giant's iconic characters, a coming together that proven serendipitous for both.

Forming his own company with collaborator Lee Mendelson, Melendez went on to produce, aim or revivify about 70 Peanuts TV specials, quadruplet films and hundreds of commercials.

Melendez divided an Oscar nod in 1971 for the music for A Boy Named Charlie Brown, and north Korean won six Emmy Awards. He is survived by his wife, Helen, two sons, six grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

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Artist: Katerine: mp3 download    Genre(s):  Pop Other     Discography:      Robots Apres Tout    Year: 2005    Tracks: 14      Live le 12 decembre    Year: 2005    Tracks: 1      L' Education Anglaise    Year: 1994    Tracks: 16 Along with perfomers like Dominique A. and Valerie LeMercier, singer/songwriter Philippe Katerine was among the leading of the 'minimalist variete' motion in French pop during the mid-1990s. Drawing on influences as diverse as Burt Bacharach and Michel Legrand to the Clash and the Buzzcocks, Katerine signed to the Rosebud label and debuted with the record record album Les Mariages Chinois; for the recap, L'Education Anglaise, he touched out from behind the microphone, allowing his child Bruno and girlfriend Anne to bundle vocal duties. A line up of quad EPs followed, on which Katerine returned to the head of his euphony; the EPs were subsequently gathered under the form of address Mes Mauvaises Frequentations.

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A large number of U.S. children live or will live with a "social sire," a man who is married to or cohabiting with the child's mother, but is not the biological fatherhood. A new study in the Journal of Marriage and Family examined differences in the parenting practices of quadruplet groups of fathers according to whether they were biologically related to a child and whether they were married to the child's mother. Researchers set up that marital social fathers exhibited equivalent or higher quality parenting behaviors than married and cohabiting biologic fathers.





Furthermore, whereas married and cohabiting biologic fathers displayed relatively similar quality parenting, the parenting practices of married social fathers were of higher quality than those of cohabiting social fathers. Married social fathers were more than engaged with children, took on more than shared responsibility in parenting, and were more sure by mothers to contract care of children.





Led by Lawrence M. Berger, PhD, MSW, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, participants were drawn from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a longitudinal study of children born in 20 gravid U.S. cities in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Sample children were mostly innate to single parents and had been followed from birth to approximately age five.





Analyses and regression results from interviews with mothers revealed that they perceived married social fathers to be engaged in comparatively high quality parenting practices with the five-year-old children. Most notably, social fathers exhibited significantly higher levels of cooperation in parenting than biological fathers.





"On the whole, our findings paint a picture that man and wife is a better predictor of parenting quality with regard to social fathers than biological fathers," the authors reason out. "Our study is relevant to agreement the quality of parental care that children receive from resident physician fathers across a range of

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Vick's Little Bro Bit by the Popo

It must run in the family. Cops say former Virginia Tech QB Marcus Vick led them on a wild goose chase.

According to Norfolk, Virg. police, a bike cop approached Vick -- Mikey's younger brother -- after he saw him arguing with a woman in a car early Friday morning. When he was asked to show his ID, cops say Vick hightailed it down the road.

After catching up with him, cops say Vick failed a field sobriety test. He's been charged with DUI, eluding police, reckless driving and driving on a suspended license.

His lady friend, Delicia Cordon of Miami, was charged with being drunk in public.



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The rocker cancelled his performance just minutes before he was due to take to the Main Stage at the music event, and was rushed to hospital in Nottingham, England.

Details have since emerged Kid Rock was suffering from stomach cramps and dehydration.

He was kept in hospital for observation overnight and released.

According to Britain's NME music magazine, Rock, real name Robert Ritchie, had attended a late night event at Central London's Whisky Mist nightclub prior to his scheduled performance.

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