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Semite Sam, a fairly recent one, was the hardest to devise. Sam, a Western roughneck, is only two feet tall, and because he is tiny, Blanc made the mistake of giving him a soft. Western drawl. Finally, after weeks of doing “Sam” quietly in the shower and on his way to and from work, he leaned out the window of his car one day and yelled at an obnoxious driver in the loudest Yosemite-Sam voice he could command. “It turned out to be just the ticket,” he says. “Volume was what Sam needed.” Of all his characters, and Blanc lapses into them on cue as one of his chores as panelist with Johnny Mer¬ cer and Bobby Troup on Mtisical Chairs, he says Bugs Bunny is his favorite. “Bugs,” he maintains, “does things everyone wants to do, but re¬ presses. When he kicks little old ladies and then says, ‘Ain’t I a stinker,’ that’s me.” Pepe Le Pew, however, is the only one who gets fan mail— all of it from women beguiled by the seductive quality of his Con¬ tinental overtones. In spite of the fact that Mel’s best work remains invisible, he is generally recognized wherever he goes, thanks to television. Believing that he was anonymous, though, has led him into some interesting situations. Once he struck up a conversation, in character, with a talking parrot at Catalina Is¬ land zoo and was squelched by the parrot, who glared at him and re¬ marked; “Oh, a wise guy, huh?” “I felt terrible,” Mel says, “until I found out it was part of his act.” All cartoon eharaeterc copyright Warner Broi. Cartoonc, Inc. he speaks out for Sylvester