Day By Day© by Chris Muir.Wednesday, May 25, 2005
I'm back! Hope y'all saved me some dessert. No, wait. Wrong group. Anyway, there's a lot going on tonight, so I'll keep the items brief for your reading pleasure.
The voice of Tony the Tiger has been silenced. Thurl Ravenscroft (what a cool name!) passed away Sunday at the age of 91. But that's not all he did:
The voice of Tony the Tiger has been silenced. Thurl Ravenscroft (what a cool name!) passed away Sunday at the age of 91. But that's not all he did:
Ravenscroft also did voices for the animated films "Cinderella," "The Jungle Book," "Mary Poppins," "Alice in Wonderland," "Lady and the Tramp" and many others.Quite a career history, yet he'll always be known for one word: "Grrrrreat!"
After military service during World War II, he returned to Hollywood, where he sang with the Mellomen, a group that performed with Frank Sinatra, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Elvis Presley.
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