Monday, December 29, 2014

Sitting Next to a Legend's Step-daughter




You never know who you might sit next to in the barber shop or beauty shop.

Not long ago in the beauty shop Anna talked to Leslie E. Stern, who, it turns out  is the step-daughter of Iwao  Takamoto.

Iwao Takamoto was well known as being one of the best known animation artist for Hanna-Barbera Productions.  He is known to have created a number of the characters that became household words.

Leslie was five years old when his mother married Iwao.  Iwao was the only father she knew.  She wrote a book LIVING WITH A LEGEND  about her formative years with a legend.  Adam gave the book as a birthday gift to Anna. 


We are looking forward to readying it. 

Maybe one time in the barber shop I sat next to Carl Barks, Disney's chief cartoonist before he died.  Who knows?


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