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Saturday 3 OctOber 2020
Good grief! 'Peanuts' celebrates 70th anniversary with art

By MARK KENNEDY co-sponsored by Peanuts
AP Entertainment Writer Worldwide and the Foun-
NEW YORK (AP) — The virus dation for Hospital Art.
pandemic won't stop Char- They hope the custom mu-
lie Brown, Snoopy or the rals bring a smile to worried
"Peanuts" gang from mark- families.
ing an important birthday "Art is always very thera-
and they're hoping to raise peutic," Viswanathan said.
the spirits of sick kids while "Any child who comes —
they celebrate. even if a child comes for a
The beloved comic cel- regular check-up — it's al-
ebrates its 70th anniversary ways a slightly scary event
this week with new lesson and I think it helps patients
plans, the announcement feel a sense of normalcy."
of a new TV show and a Jeannie Schulz, the widow
philanthropic push that in- of the comic strip's creator,
cludes donating "Peanuts" Charles Schulz, said the
murals for kids to paint initiative hopes to lower
in 70 children's hospitals the fear level in hospitals:
around the globe, from "If you can have a little bit
Brooklyn to Brazil. "When of levity — a little smile —
kids see the familiar face of we know that lowers your
Snoopy, they feel like they Kerrin McCarthy, 14, paints a panel of a "Peanuts" mural that will be placed in the outpatient blood pressure. It's almost
are at home watching the pediatric floor of One Brooklyn Health at Brookdale Hospital, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020, in the Brooklyn as good as patting a dog."
cartoon," said Dr. Kusum borough of New York. Associated Press How each hospital deploys
Viswanathan, who heads the murals has been left to
the pediatrics department have been sent to par- The initiative is being wel- even just painting some- the local administrators.
at Brookdale University ticipating hospitals in six comed at the CHOC Chil- thing like this at bedside is Brookdale let lots of chil-
Hospital Medical Center in pieces, along with smocks, dren's Hospital in Orange, going to really truly mean dren paint them in its audi-
New York. "I think it'll really brushes and paints in 13 California, where the virus something, especially dur- torium, while the California
help in positive coping and colors. Children and hospi- pandemic has shut down ing this time," said Amber hospital wants to give one
distraction. It makes the tal staffers are encouraged the playrooms and cut Chavez, the special pro- panel each to four patients
environment very comfort- to paint the easy-to-follow back on starry, well-wishing grams coordinator. and two nurses. The hope
able, as opposed to being templates, a diversion that visitors, like baseball star The finished murals show is the finished murals will of-
very stiff and professional." gains even more impor- Mike Trout. an image of Snoopy and fer children a chance to
The 4-foot-8-inch wide by tance during coronavirus "There's really nothing to Woodstock sharing a laugh leave a permanent mark
4-foot-1-inch high murals restrictions. look forward to so I thought atop his red doghouse. It's on the facility.
"They could come to
James Bond film ‘No Time To Die’ pushed again, to 2021 the hospital for their next
check-up and see their
By LINDSEY BAHR made similar decisions over mural is out there and
AP Film Writer the past few weeks. they provided the painting
The release of the James Cinemas remain closed in maybe for the head or the
Bond film "No Time to Die" New York and Los Angeles, stomach or whatever part
has been delayed again, two of North America's big- of Snoopy that they did,"
this time to 2021, because gest markets. Viswanathan said.
of the effects of COVID-19 Ticket sales for Warner Bros.' Scott Feight, the executive
on the theatrical business. "Tenet," the first blockbuster director, of the Founda-
MGM, Universal and Bond to open in theaters world- tion for Hospital Art, said
producers, Michael G. Wil- wide after months of coro- the murals represent a
son and Barbara Broccoli, navirus-related closures, chance to "celebrate hu-
said on Twitter on Friday have not been as strong as manity and our ability to
that the 25th installment in hoped for in the U.S. overcome and fight this vi-
the franchise will now open The Walt Disney Co. last rus." The nonprofit over the
globally on April 2, 2021. This is a Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015 file photo of actor Daniel week delayed the planned years has donated more
"No Time To Die" was origi- Craig poses for the media as he arrives for the German premiere 2020 releases of a handful than 49,000 paintings to
nally supposed to open in of the James Bond movie "Spectre" in Berlin, Germany. of major movies until 2021. 7,500 hospitals in 195 coun-
April 2020 but was pushed Associated Press They include Marvel's tries. q
back to Nov. 12 in the U.K. "Black Widow" and Steven Solution Sudoku
and Nov. 20 in the U.S. It Spielberg's "West Side Sto-
was one of the first Holly- ry." Universal Pictures de-
wood films to abandon its layed "Candyman" to next
release before cinemas in year.
the U.S. shut down in mid- Some major releases are
March because of the still planned for 2020.
coronavirus pandemic. They include "Wonder
The film from director Cary Woman 1984," which was
Joji Fukunaga stars Daniel pushed back to Christmas
Craig as 007, Rami Malek, after multiple delays and
Lashana Lynch and Ana Kenneth Branagh's mystery
de Armas. "Death on the Nile." It is now
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