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5 In Bright Lights The Winnipeg Art Gallery holds in trust the world's largest public collection of contemporary Inuit art, including close to 14,000 works of sculpture, prints, drawings and textiles. Winnipegger Charles Thorson, who began his career as an illustrator for Eaton's, spent much of his spare time at a local cafe flirting with a young waitress named Kristen. In 1934, Charlie left for Los Angeles where his talent for character design landed him positions at Disney Studios and Warner Brothers. At Disney, his inspiration for Snow White was based on Kristen, the cafe waitress and then at WB he created Elmer Fudd and designed and named Bugs Bunny.

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