Tuesday, June 23, 2009  Pepe Le Pew  Three years ago on my
birthday I gave my opinion of Daffy Duck. For my birthday this
year I will blog about an often misunderstood character: Pepe Le
Pew (otherwise known as "that French skunk who's always trying
to fuck cats")  The original concept of the character came from
Mike Maltese. You see, in the 1930's and 40's there was a well
known French actor named Charles Boyer. He had scored a huge hit
with American audiences with his Pepe Le Moko character in the
movie Algiers (1938). Well, more specifically he scored a hit
with American women. With his deep voice and gentle charm it's
easy to see how these women could be won over by him. They liked
him a little TOO much actually. He was the kind of handsome and
charming actor that caused wives to nudge husbands, sisters to
nudge brothers, and girlfriends to nudge boyfriends and say "now
why can't you be more like that? See, he's a gentleman. He
wouldn't have yelled at my mother last Thanksgiving...." So, I
think the reaso