According to Steven Spielberg, Chuck Jones' 1996 lifetime achievement Academy Award was "a way of everybody saying, 'Thanks for giving me more imagination than I ever would have had if it weren't for you.' "
Tonight at 8 p.m. on PBS's Great Performances, the artist behind such cartoon icons as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, The Roadrunner, Wile E. Coyote and Pepe Le Pew is saluted in Chuck Jones: Extreme And In-Betweens, A Life In Animation.
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