Continuing in my series of interviews, I am happy to say that today I have an icon of the Silver and Small Screen. A guy that has a tail so short and furry that ladies just want to powder their nose with it. It is none other then Bugs Bunny!
Bugs has been kind enough to let me interview him about his career and life away from the big screen.
Being such a star, I do not think he really needs an introduction, but I have put one together anyway. So sit back, relax and enjoy.
Born in 1939, Stacy Indigo was the youngest of 5 brothers. Stacy dreamed of stardom. His chance finally came when Warner Brothers Studios gave him his big shot. The studio demanded he change his name as they did not see the world buying “Stacy Indigo” as a film star. Harry Warner chose to rename him “Bugs Bunny” after his amazingly long ears and impossibly fluffy tail. For 69 years he has been loved by millions. He will continue to be loved for many more to come.
Sy: Bugs. Thank you so much for allowing this interview.
BB: Yup. A pleasure Doc. *His eyes wander the surroundings*
Sy: Umm, it is Sy. My name is Sy.
BB: Sorry Doc.
Sy: SY! Not Doc. Geez. *thinks* I need to speak to my agent. Interviewing a 69 year old wanna be star Rabbit with alzheimer’s. Is this where my career has gone?
BB: *crunches a carrot* Neeeeeerr…whats up D..
Sy: Bugs. You have had a long and industrious career. Could it have been as possible without your co-stars? Elmer Fudd and Daffy Duck?
BB: *throws half eaten carrot at me* Co-stars? CO-STARS? It was all about me. It was always about me. I carried their sorry behinds through the years. Daffy had schizophrenia. He didn’t know one day to the next what his lines were, nor who was even saying them. And Fudd? A man with a speech impediment and couldn’t shoot a gun straight if his life depended on it! I had him fired 19 times through the years. Every single time he would come back pleading. It was pathetic. HE was pathetic.
Sy: So they were manufactured to help progress your career then? If you did not need them, why were they so instrumental in each episode you filmed?
BB: Instrumental? They were nothing to me. Bit players in my huge story. Full of their own importance. It was all about me. Did you ever see the cartoons called “Daffy” or “Elmer” and I had a bit part? Listen here Doc…
Sy: *interrupts* It is Sy. Not Doc. Could you please call me by my name.
BB: I will damn well call you what I want. I am Bugs Bunny and you can live with it. Understand?
Sy: *getting out of chair* That’s it. I am out of here. This guy is rude, obnoxious and can’t even get my name right. Bugs…sod off. You are a nothing anymore. I am going to expose you for what you really are.
Let me tell you what really happened during the making of this interview. Bugs arrived late. He demanded fresh carrots brought to his room every 9 minutes. 9 minutes? How was this ever going to happen! His other ludicrous demands included a 22 year old playboy bunny puff his tail on demand. His ears combed by a Chinese dwarf wearing a leprechaun outfit who was demanded to speak Russian every time she combed his ears. He drank too much. He even turned up half cut with floozies on both arms. He thinks he is Hugh Hefner but is about as hardcore as Peter Pan.
The real story is one of rags to riches to infamy. From his love of Honey Bunny, who spurned his ever increasing advances towards her, to someone whose whole family disowned him.
Honey Bunny, the actress who played his sidekick in so many episodes was uninterested in a relationship with Bugs. But Bugs was besotted. It is rumored that he had her boyfriend “taken care of” as a route straight to her by tugging the emotional strings of her now broken heart.
His carrot addiction was on par with the sad state of Winnie the Pooh which you would have read about in a previous interview.
Bugs was left single, lonely and had no family. They disowned him over a “Family incident” which the facts are not clear. Although rumors of henchmen, carrot delivery vans and a large vat of swarfega were mentioned in passing.
It is thought he is practically bankrupt and his ranch “BunnyLand” which he created to allow young bunnies to visit is to be repossessed very soon.
Is this the end for Bugs? I honestly could not see a way forward for him. Only time will tell if a once brilliant career can be rejuvenated.
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