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joseph barbera

DateThursday, December 21, 2006 at 07:08AM

He was born to Sicilian parents in Manhattan's Little Italy during the Great Depression. He was a failed banker, boxer and playwright. But his fertile imagination and deft drawing hand went on to create such timeless icons of American pop culture as The Flintstones, The Smurfs and Scooby Doo. Today's great Italian is Joseph Barbera.

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