"in the soon-to-be-shot ""Gone with the Wind"", but he has also stolen the heart of Jessica. Investigating the affair, Eddie Valiant, Toon protector, finds himself up to his fedora in murder and Hollywood corruption. The book is neither a sequel nor a prequel to ""Who Censored Roger Rabbit?"" or the film adaptation by Disney. It is a spin-off story with the same characters, just different situations. Roger and Jessica both make small cameo appearances. In ""Who Wacked Roger Rabbit?"", the third novel in Gary K. Wolf's acclaimed ""Roger Rabbit/Toontown"" series, hard-boiled gumshoe Eddie Valiant lands a plum job as Gary"
"Who Framed Roger Rabbit Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 American live-action/animated comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis, produced by Frank Marshall and Robert Watts, and written by Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman. The film is based on Gary K. Wolf's 1981 novel ""Who Censored Roger Rabbit?"". The film stars Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Charles Fleischer, Stubby Kaye, and Joanna Cassidy. Combining live-action and animation, the film is set in Hollywood during the late 1940s, where cartoon characters and people co-exist. The story follows Eddie Valiant, a private detective who must exonerate ""Toon"" (i.e. cartoon character) Roger Rabbit,"
"disappears before he can ask him if he still has a chance to change his ways. Willie the Giant makes a brief cameo in the 1988 film ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"" on a poster in a movie theater in Toontown. Willie is also a minor recurring character in the ""Mickey Mouse Clubhouse"" children's series. Here, he is friends with Mickey. He still lives in the sky, only this time in a giant farm house. Ortensia is Oswald the Lucky Rabbit's wife. She appeared in the Oswald shorts starting with The Banker's Daughter, replacing Oswald's former love interest, a much more"
"southern California until 2010, and owns an interest in movie developer Lonetree Entertainment in Los Angeles. Roger also renovated the famous Seelbach Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky, and built a luxury condominium building there, known as 1400 Willow. His family owned Davis Tire Company in Louisville. In 1968, Davis married actress Jaclyn Smith. After a long separation, they divorced in 1978. During his second marriage to Ohio native Suzanne Irwin (Emerson), Roger became a first-time father to a daughter Margaret in 1981. The family resided at Spring Station, Louisville, Kentucky's oldest home, built in 1791. After a divorce in 1983, Davis"
"Sébastien Dhavernas Sébastien Dhavernas (born 19 January 1950) is a Canadian actor. Dhavernas was born in Montreal, Quebec. He is the husband of actress Michèle Deslauriers and the father of actress Caroline Dhavernas and voice actress Gabrielle Dhavernas. He completed his classical studies at Collège Stanislas, did a year in Sociology at McGill University, and subsequently attended the Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Montréal. In addition to acting, Dhavernas has done French-language voice overdubbing, attaining some fame as the voice of Roger Rabbit in the French-language version of the film ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"". In 1989, he urged the government of"
"prior to Barry Levinson's official involvement. It was Spielberg who convinced screenwriter Ronald Bass to make the character of Raymond Babbitt as an autistic savant. Spielberg dropped out as he was obligated to direct ""Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"". Spielberg regrets not directing ""Rain Man"". In 1989, Spielberg discussed with J.J. Abrams the possibilites of making a sequel to the successful ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"" feature film. The sequel's plot would have been Roger Rabbit, Baby Herman, and Richie Davenport traveling west to seek Roger's mother, in the process meeting Jessica Krupnick (Roger's future wife), a struggling Hollywood actress."
"was also made into a 1952 animated short by Walt Disney, directed by Wilfred Jackson and narrated by Sterling Holloway. It has also been released as an audio book. The apartments and skyscrapers from the Disney adaptation of ""The Little House"" make a cameo appearance in ""Toontown"" in ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"". The story centers on a house built at the top of a small hill, far out in the country, who is delighted when a newlywed couple choose her for a home. However, the house feels lonely at night and wonders what it might be like to have other"
"""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"" (1988), as well as ""Monster House"" (2006), and the television series ""The Simpsons"" and ""King of the Hill"". In addition to film, Turner has worked in the theatre, and has been nominated for the Tony Award twice for her Broadway roles as Maggie in ""Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"" and as Martha in ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"" Turner has also taught acting classes at New York University. Turner was born June 19, 1954, in Springfield, Missouri, the daughter of Patsy (née Magee 1923–2015) and Allen Richard Turner, a U.S. Foreign Service officer who grew"
"mother's ring back, so he can pass it on to his daughter, Margaret, or bury it with his mother. Roger insists that Jane keep it. Some catered food is delivered that Roger didn't order; it turns out to be from Bob Benson. Don arrives at the funeral drunk. As Roger starts addressing the guests, his first wife Mona (Margaret's mother) shows up along with her current husband, which irritates Roger. At the same time, one of Roger's mother's elderly friends cuts him off and demands to deliver the first eulogy, which Roger obliges. As the woman speaks about Roger's mother's"
"Roger, but after Adam and Roger talked to her, she gave in and agreed to marry him with them marrying in the spring of 1976 with only Adam and Bert in attendance. Adam and Barbara's marriage though suffered through all of this, and they ended up getting a divorce when Barbara's ""migraines"" became too much and she blurted how angry she was at Roger and as to why (Chrissy's true parentage that Adam didn't know about up to that point.) During Rita Stapleton's trial and just before Roger made his last minute confession of their one-night stand in Waco, Roger"
"unknown assailant (later revealed as Judge Doom) dropped a piano on them. Eddie survived with a broken arm, but Teddy was killed. The incident soured him on the idea of working for Toons, his business suffered greatly, and he became an alcoholic. Eddie began living in the office he and Teddy had shared and left Teddy's desk as a memorial to him, refusing to dust it or let anyone sit in its chair. In 1947, R.K. Maroon, head of the Maroon Cartoons studio, hires Valiant to photograph Jessica Rabbit, Roger's wife; she is literally ""playing pattycake"" with Marvin Acme, owner"
"the Los Angeles area in the film ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"". He is voiced in all appearances by Charles Fleischer. In the original story, ""Who Censored Roger Rabbit?"", a different character named Bennie is an insect who deals in second-hand items at the junkyard. The character was expanded for the movie, as an anthropomorphized colorful yellow Volkswagen Beetle-style taxi cab. The Toon Patrol is a group of five anthropomorphic animated tailless weasels who serve as henchmen to Judge Doom in ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"". They serve as the secondary antagonists of the film. In the film, the Toon Patrol comprises"
"the man's fate by abandoning him in the jungle with the wild beasts. Gorman later pretends to be surprised at hearing that the man had been eaten by tigers. Both Gorman and his wife Evelyn (Kathleen Burke) then return to America aboard a ship packed with captured animals he intends to add to his collection at a major zoo. On the ship, Evelyn starts to develop promiscuous relations with Roger Hewitt (John Lodge), which she makes little effort to hide from her husband. Naturally, the murderously jealous Gorman takes notice. So once back in the States, he begins to plot"
"a feature-length film. In 1994 Rogers guest-starred in season one, episode ""The War Prayer"", of the science fiction TV series ""Babylon 5"". He has done voice-over work representing restaurant chain Outback Steakhouse, Foster's Lager, Reebok, Epson and others. He voiced 'Jake the kangaroo mouse"" in ""The Rescuers Down Under"", and gave his voice to the video game ""Mad Max"". Since 2010, Rogers has starred on the soap opera web series ""The Bay"" as Lex Martin. Rogers has been married to Teresa Parkerson since 21 May 1995. They have two children: daughter Sara Jane (born 25 August 1992) and son Cale"
"in June 1981, Rita left town for good. In 1977, the character Nurse Katie Parker was introduced around the same time that Roger's first wife (and longtime Bauer friend) Nurse Peggy Scott Dilman Fletcher Thorpe (still played by Fran Myers) left town with her teenage son Billy Fletcher, after learning about the tryst Roger had had with Rita. (Peggy and Myers though did make a return to the show from November 1978 to November 1979 when she came for Ed and Rita's wedding and stayed on staff at Cedars while others were busy with several other activities.) Kind natured, though"
"positive reviews, and was nominated for multiple awards, including four Amanda Awards and a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The film is the highest-grossing Norwegian film of all time. Roger Brown (Aksel Hennie), Norway's most successful headhunter, supports his lavish lifestyle by stealing paintings from his clients; his partner, Ove (), works at a surveillance company and deactivates security at the victims' homes, allowing Roger to swap the art for a counterfeit. Asked to dinner by his mistress, Lotte (Julie Ølgaard), Roger declines and ends their relationship. Roger's wife and art gallery owner, Diana (Synnøve Macody Lund), introduces"
"Roger Rabbit Roger Rabbit is a fictional animated anthropomorphic rabbit character. The character first appeared in author Gary K. Wolf's 1981 novel, ""Who Censored Roger Rabbit?"" In the book, Roger is a second-banana in popular comic strip, ""Baby Herman"". Roger hires private detective Eddie Valiant to investigate why his employers, the DeGreasy Brothers, have reneged on their promise to give Roger his own strip. When Roger is found murdered in his home, Valiant sets out to look for the killer, with the help of Roger's ""dopple"" (in the book, comic characters can construct physical copies of themselves using their minds"
"wife Angeline had a daughter named Lulu. She died as an infant. Connor interpreted the baby's death as God's punishment for marrying Angeline, who was not Catholic. Angeline had secretly begun receiving Catholic education and was planning to surprise Connor by getting baptized on the day that Lulu would have turned a year old. The couple later adopted a girl named Cecelia from a Catholic orphanage in New York City. Roger and Angeline Connor lived in Waterbury, Connecticut, for many years, even while Roger played in New York. Every winter, a banquet was held in Waterbury in Connor's honor. Near"
"rabbits. The couple has three children. The eldest is Lindesfarne Dewclaw, an English hedgehog daughter Kevin adopted during his first marriage. The second eldest child is Rudy, Kell's son from her first marriage to a fox. Rudy, a talented artist, once challenged Kevin for the position of alpha male, unable to accept a rabbit as head of the household and as his stepfather. He has since matured and has come to terms with the marriage. The youngest child is Coney, a carnivorous rabbit and their only child by birth. Although only five years old, she is a capable hunter, though"
"his lifetime but would return to the estate when he died. Rogers left his father's home when he was twenty. He found work in a Cleveland, Ohio machine shop, working for twenty five cents an hour. He wanted to become an engineer and aspired to complete his education in Oxford, England. Rogers eventually went to Hollywood to study camera technique. There he partnered with Harold McCracken to produce pictures. His first film was a comedy concerning nudism. He was estranged from his wife, the former Miss Virginia Lincoln, a physician's daughter from Cleveland. The couple were married in 1929. At"
"accordingly and staggered up to bed at half-past nine... more drunk than anyone I've ever seen in my life."" As was sometimes the custom of the 1950s, Rogers was nominally the secretary as well as the captain of Somerset, though the secretarial duties appear to have been undertaken by a succession of retired military gentlemen. The arrangement would have allowed Rogers to draw a salary while maintaining his amateur status. Rogers became a member of the London Stock Exchange and a partner in Keith, Bayley & Rigg, stockbrokers. In 1951 he married Margaret Helen Findlay, who died in 2001. They"
"story is about how Roger met Jessica, his future wife. Wolf has stated the film is currently wending its way through Disney. In November 2016, while promoting his latest film ""Allied"", in England, Zemeckis stated that the sequel ""moves the story of Roger and Jessica Rabbit into the next few years of period film, moving on from film noir to the world of the 1950s"". He also stated that the sequel would feature a ""digital Bob Hoskins"", as Eddie Valiant would return in ""ghost form"". While the director went on to state that the script is ""terrific"" and the film"
"the lawsuit. Wolf won the decision in July 2005, receiving between $180,000 and $400,000 in damages. Gary K. Wolf Gary K. Wolf (born January 24, 1941) is an American author. He is best known as the author of ""Who Censored Roger Rabbit?"" (1981), which was adapted into the hit feature-length film ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"" (1988). Wolf was born on January 24, 1941. He grew up in Earlville, Illinois, the son of Ed and Hattie Wolf. His father owned the town’s pool hall and later had an upholstering business, while his mother worked in the school cafeteria. As an only"
"Roger Dodger (film) Roger Dodger is a 2002 American comedy-drama that explores the relationship between men, women, and sex. Directed by Dylan Kidd and starring Campbell Scott, Jesse Eisenberg, Isabella Rossellini, Elizabeth Berkley and Jennifer Beals. The film follows Roger Swanson (Scott) and his nephew (Eisenberg) during a night on the town in search of sex. After cynical New York advertising copywriter Roger Swanson (Campbell Scott) is dumped by his on-again/off-again girlfriend, Joyce (Isabella Rossellini) — who is also his boss — his painful workday is further complicated by the unexpected arrival of his 16-year-old nephew, Nick (Jesse Eisenberg). After"
"wife, Rebecca (Naomi Watts). As Yoder is pulling a rescued sheep from the river, he happens upon two men cutting a fence where the rest of the flock are stabled, henchmen of ruthless cattle baron Fergus Hunter (John Noble). An argument ensues between Yoder and the henchmen about whether or not the land is ""open range"" or ""legally homesteaded"". Using the rope still tied around his waist from rescuing the stray sheep, Yoder winds up being dragged several feet by his horse, until he finally manages to cut himself free with a small knife. He angrily insists to Fergus Hunter"
"that last for only a few days). The book and character were later reenvisioned in Disney's hit 1988 live-action/animated film ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"". In the film version, Roger is a cartoon character in Hollywood during the Golden age of American animation. The various toons live in a Los Angeles enclave known as ""Toontown"", and act out animated shorts in the same way human actors act out feature films. Roger is framed for the murder of a famous Hollywood film producer and owner of Toontown, and he seeks out Valiant to help clear his name. In the film, the voice"
"While recuperating from heart surgery, Rabbit recognizes one of the nurses, Annabelle Byer, as the young woman he believes is his illegitimate daughter by his old girlfriend, Ruth. He becomes friendly with her but decides not to identify himself as her possible father. Around this time, his long-term mistress Thelma Harrison (wife of his high-school nemesis Ron) dies of lupus. Ron confronts Harry at Thelma's funeral, but the men later reconcile while playing golf. Harry also sees Cindy Murkett at the funeral, a woman he had sexually obsessed over 10 years ago, and is saddened to see she has become"
"of her teenage ""brother"" Tommy (actually her son Tom Fox, Jr.). This deception continued through her divorce from Butts in 1946 and her development as a cowgirl co-star to Roy Rogers at Republic Studios. Evans married Roy Rogers on New Year's Eve 1947 at the Flying L Ranch in Davis, Oklahoma, where they had earlier filmed the movie ""Home in Oklahoma"". Art and Mary Jo Rush were best man and matron of honor. The marriage was Rogers' third and Evans' fourth but was successful; the two were a team on- and off-screen from 1946 until Rogers' death in 1998. Shortly"
"Roger Rabbit short films The ""Roger Rabbit"" shorts are a series of animated short films produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation from 1989 to 1993. The anthology features Roger Rabbit, the animated protagonist from ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"", being enlisted the task of caring for Baby Herman while his mother is absent, resulting in a plot defined by slapstick humor and visual gags. Each short concludes with a sequence involving live action and animation, where the characters interact with live action human beings, akin to the 1988 film. These were filmed from 1988 to 1993. Charles Fleischer, Kathleen Turner, Lou"
"spinning around. Afterward, his mood swings violently, especially in an aggressive manner. In the book, he is depicted as a six-foot-tall rabbit with white fur on his stomach and brown fur everywhere else. He is a second banana comic strip character who hires gruff alcoholic private eye, Eddie Valiant, to find out why his employers, the owners of a cartoon syndicate called the DeGreasy Brothers, refuse to give him his own comic strip or to sell his contract to another studio. This has Valiant interrogating several suspects, starting with Roger's co-star, Baby Herman, then talking to Roger's ex-wife, Jessica Rabbit,"
"rabbit, and his wife Kell Dewclaw, a wolf. They met in a web forum for carnivores, where Kevin was ""lurking"". They began to fall in love, but it was not until they met each other in person that Kell discovered Kevin was a rabbit. The relationship they developed online leads them to continue dating and eventually marry, despite knowing that they would be outcasts from the rest of society. Originally, Kevin worked as a system operator on a herbivore web forum, although he later became the co-owner of his own internet service provider, ""Hare-Link"". Kell worked for ""Herd-Thinners"", a company"
"their relationship. Mona later remarries, which angers Roger at his mother's memorial service when she brings her new husband Bruce, to the event. Roger and Mona have a daughter, Margaret, who is spoiled and demanding. She marries a very suitable young man, Brooks Hargrove, of the same class and social set into which she was raised. The wedding is inadvertently scheduled for November 23, 1963, the day after President John F. Kennedy is assassinated. Margaret then has a son, Ellery, and periodically sees her father to ask for money. However, as the 1960s wear on, Margaret ""turns on, tunes in,"
"Roger discovers that Pongo likes Perdy. Her owner, Anita Campbell-Green falls in love with Roger when they meet. They both fall into the lake as a result of their dogs chasing each other, but they return to Roger's home and Anita accepts his proposal. They get married along with Perdy and Pongo. Anita works as a fashion designer at the House of de Vil. Her boss, the pampered and very glamorous Cruella de Vil, has a deep passion for fur, going so far as to have a taxidermist, Mr Skinner, skin a white tiger at the London Zoo to make"