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Jules Feiffer, Cartoonist, Playwright and Screenwriter, Dies at 95
Jules Feiffer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist who also wrote occasionally for the stage and screen, has died. He was 95.
Jules Feiffer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist who also wrote occasionally for the stage and screen, including Mike Nichols’ film “Carnal Knowledge” and Robert Altman’s “Popeye,” died on Jan. 17 at his home in upstate New York. After Paramount lost the bidding war to make an “Annie” feature adaptation, the studio cast about for another comicbook property that could be transformed into a bigscreen musical comedy and hit upon “Popeye.” Feiffer, a cartoonist who had also written screenplays and thus seemed like an ideal to write the script, was commissioned to do so. The final 1980 film, directed by Robert Altman and starring Robin Williams and Shelley Duvall, performed decently at the box office but was not a blockbuster and was perceived as a flop; critically it was a middling success.
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