RAT Letters to Chuck Jones

["Adam" <kafclown@well.com>]

They are trying to collect 1 million letters for Chuck to publish a book 
about Chuck's effect on people...

If you don't know who Chuck Jones is, you should.  He's the animotor who
created Pepe Le Pew, Coyote and Roadrunner, and directed and drew some of
the best classic Warner Bros. cartoons (including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck,
and Foghorn Leghorn)  Basically, when it comes to comedy cartoons, he's the
man, a genius on the level of Chaplin, Picasso, and Hitchcock.

I think I've told this story before, but when Chuck came to visit us at
Clown College (in 1989, which was the first year he ever visited) he said
something that has really been on my mind for years as a way of doing my
work.  He said "You have two choices; you can walk through a funny door, or
you can walk through the door funny."

I later named my producing theatre company The Acme Clown Company in homage
to Chuck and his work, and especially his "door funny"

So if you are interested in writing, check it out!

Here's what their website is asking for:
>
> http://www.chuckjones.com/lettersfromtheheart/
> -----------------------------------------------
> Letters From the Heart
>
> We have started a project to compile letters written to Chuck.  Everywhere
> we go, we've heard stories of how people have been touched by Chuck and his
> work.  It seems that nearly everyone has a very personal message that they
> would love to convey to Chuck about how his work has somehow touched their
> lives.
>
> It is our goal to collect 1 million letters by February 14th (or
> thereabout), 2001.  Our intent is to compile and publish a book of as many
> letters as we can feasibly handle.  Perhaps it will come out in volumes.
>
> The letters certainly don't need to be any particular format or subject.
> Every person seems to have a different message that they would love to tell
> Chuck.
>
> When we have sat back, tried to figure the scope of how many people have
> been touched by Chuck's work, it is conservative to think that at least a
> billion people throughout history have in some way been moved by his genius.
>
> If one hundred people read this and then inspire two other people to
> participate and so on, it would take only about a dozen levels of
> inspiration to reach our goal of a million letters.
>
> We hope we'll inspire all of you to participate by this request.
>
> We would love to have the letters submitted electronically, but written
> messages are certainly welcome as well.
>
> We would ask that following your letter, you would add a sentence that
> reads: "I give my permission for this letter to be included in the Chuck
> Jones Letters from the Heart publication."
>
> I know many of you have already written letters and have told Chuck a number
> of times what he has meant to you, but we would ask that you do it one more
> time for this project.
>
> Thank you,
>
> The Jones Family