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New York Times
12-03-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Eric Bauza Voices Bugs Bunny and More Looney Tunes Greats
'We all want to be like Bugs, but we're all really Daffy,' said the voice actor Eric Bauza with a hearty laugh during a recent interview in Los Angeles. For the past five years, the Canadian performer, 45, has played both the clever rabbit and the hyperactive duck. He has won two Children's & Family Emmy Awards for voicing these pair, as well as other characters, in the series 'Looney Tunes Cartoons' and 'Bugs Bunny Builders.' Video transcript 'Eh ... What's up, doc?' Eh ... What's up, doc? 'Eh ... What's up, doc?' Over the years he's also summoned Sylvester, Tweety, Foghorn Leghorn and Elmer Fudd. In the director Peter Browngardt's 'The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie' (in theaters March 14), Bauza voices both Daffy Duck and Porky Pig. Distributed by Ketchup Entertainment, the first fully-animated original feature starring these characters to get a theatrical release is a zany, hand drawn, sci-fi romp in which buddies Daffy and Porky must defeat a malicious alien invader. Sitting in a meeting room at the Garland Hotel in North Hollywood, and wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with Wilma Flintstone (Hanna-Barbera's 'The Flintstones' is among his favorite classic cartoons), Bauza recalled first watching 'Looney Tunes' on Saturday mornings growing up in Scarborough, Ontario. The wacky violence and daring humor of those cartoons enticed a young Bauza. As he recounted one of his favorite 'Looney Tunes' shorts, 'Long-Haired Hare,' in which Bugs Bunny torments an opera singer, Bauza seamlessly shifted into singing in the voice of the famed animated wise guy, 'Music hater and a rabbit hater too, apparently,' he recited. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. Already a subscriber? Log in. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
The Independent
27-02-2025
- The Independent
Drug gang used flights from France to drop £4m worth of cocaine in English countryside
Members of a gang involved in airdropping millions of pounds worth of cocaine into the British countryside are facing prison over the importation of illegal drugs. Cocaine worth an estimated £4.2m was later discovered at a car wash in Hertfordshire and a house in Loughton, Essex. An investigation led by the Eastern Region Special Operations Unit (ERSOU) found the gang liaised with contacts abroad to bring in the drugs, with flights leaving from the Cherbourg area of northern France. The planes would intentionally avoid radar systems and disable transponders that alert other pilots of their whereabouts, police said. Four members of the group have now been convicted, after Loughton man Tomas Bauza, 44, on Tuesday at St Albans Crown Court was found guilty following a trial. Detective Inspector Daniel Barker, from ERSOU's ROCU, said: 'It's clear that this group had put significant thought and planning into how they could best bring class A drugs into the UK, and they went to great lengths in attempting to hide their illicit activities. 'However, the tenacity of ERSOU's investigators let to our teams uncovering vast amounts of evidence implicating each member of the OCG, and we were able to stop a significant amount of cocaine entering our communities.' Police were made aware of at least three flights to southern England before immediately returning to France. Each time, either Rolandas Bauza, 47, from the same address in Loughton, or associate Martynas Piecia, 37, of Thaxted, drove to the same location to wait to collect the parcels. Bishop's Stortford man Arjan Lisaj, 33, who worked at the car wash, was arrested in September 2024 alongside Bauza and Piecia a short distance from the business in Spellbrook, Hertfordshire. The three men pleaded guilty to being involved in the importation and supply of controlled drugs into the UK. Officers found two blocks of cocaine in the car wash office, while Rolandas was found to be carrying £37,000 in cash. Tomas was arrested at a raid of the Bauza brothers' home, where police also uncovered 54g of cocaine in the loft, and evidence the property had been used as a cannabis factory. Detective Inspector Barker said police worked closely with other UK police forces and agencies abroad 'to ensure that those involved in serious criminality such as this are apprehended and brought to justice.' All four men are due to be sentenced at St Albans Crown Court on Monday, 4 August.
BBC News
27-02-2025
- BBC News
Hertfordshire and Essex gang convicted over £4.1m drugs drop
A gang found to have flown from France to drop parcels of cocaine into the British countryside has been convicted of drugs worth an estimated £4.2m was later discovered at a car wash in Hertfordshire - and a house in Loughton, investigation led by the Eastern Region Special Operations Unit (ERSOU) found that the gang liaised with contacts abroad to drop the packages in Insp Daniel Barker, of ERSOU, said the group "had put significant thought and planning into how they could best bring Class A drugs into the UK". Three men pleaded guilty to being concerned in the importation and supply of controlled drugs into the UK. On Tuesday, a fourth man, Tomas Bauza, 44, was found guilty of supplying drugs but cleared of importation during a trial at St Albans Crown Court. ERSOU said the flights, leaving from the Cherbourg area of northern France, would avoid radar systems and disable transponders which revealed their whereabouts to other at least three occasions, flights were made to southern England before immediately returning to France, "dangerously" entering UK airspace without the required documents, ERSOU time, either Rolandas Bauza, 47, or Martynas Piecia, 37, drove to the same location to collect the Bauza brothers, both of Colson Road in Loughton, Essex, travelled to Dorset a few days earlier to explore potential drop sites, the investigation found. 'Great lengths' A fourth man, 33-year-old Arjan Lisaj of Barrells Down Road in Bishop's Stortford, worked at a car wash in Spellbrook that was being used as a front for criminal activity, investigators was arrested near the car wash in September 2024, alongside Piecia and Rolandas Bauza. Officers found two blocks of cocaine in the car wash office, while Rolandas was found to be carrying £37,000 in cash. Tomas was arrested at a raid of the Bauza brothers' home, which also uncovered 54g of cocaine in the loft and evidence the property had been used as a cannabis of Holst Lane in Thaxted, Essex, is due to be sentenced along with the other three men on 4 August. Det Insp Barker said the group "went to great lengths in attempting to hide their illicit activities"."However, the tenacity of ERSOU's investigators let to our teams uncovering vast amounts of evidence implicating each member, and we were able to stop a significant amount of cocaine entering our communities."We work closely with UK police forces and partner agencies abroad to ensure that those involved in serious criminality such as this are apprehended and brought to justice," he said. Follow Essex news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
