Monday, June 27, 2005

100 Acre Wood in Mourning

Both Tigger and Piglet have died!

Well, the guys who provided the Disney voices of the Winnie the Pooh characters, anyway.

Here
Paul Winchell, the ventriloquist creator of the puppet Jerry Mahoney, who later became famous as the animated voice of Tigger, Winnie-the-Pooh's exuberant friend, died on Friday at his home in Moorpark, Calif. He was 82.
And here
John Fiedler, who played character roles in celebrated dramas on Broadway and in Hollywood but gained lasting fame among young audiences as the voice of Piglet in Walt Disney's Winnie-the-Pooh films, died on Saturday. He was 80.
As Pooh says, "Oh, bother."

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