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Charles Sidney Grodin (April 21, 1935 – May 18, 2021) was an American actor, comedian, author, and television talk show host. Grodin began his acting career in the 1960s appearing in TV serials including The Virginian. After a small part in Rosemary's Baby in 1968, he played the lead in Elaine May's The Heartbreak Kid (1972) and supporting roles in Mike Nichols's Catch-22 (1970), the 1976 remake of King Kong, and Warren Beatty's Heaven Can Wait (1978). Known for his deadpan delivery and often cast as a put-upon straight man, Grodin became familiar as a supporting actor in many Hollywood comedies of the era, including Real Life (1979), Seems Like Old Times (1980), The Great Muppet Caper (1981), Ishtar (1987), Dave (1993), and Clifford (1994). Grodin co-starred in the action comedy Midnight Run (1988) and in the family film Beethoven (1992). He made frequent appearances on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and Late Night with David Letterman. In the mid-1990s, Grodin retired from acting and wrote autobiographies; he became a talk show host on CNBC and in 2000 a political commentator for 60 Minutes II. He returned to acting with a handful of roles in the mid-2010s, including in Louis C.K.'s FX show Louie and Noah Baumbach's film While We're Young (2014). Grodin won several awards, including the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special in 1978 for the Paul Simon Special alongside Chevy Chase, Lorne Michaels, Paul Simon, and Lily Tomlin. He was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for The Heartbreak Kid in 1972. He won Best Actor at the 1988 Valladolid International Film Festival for Midnight Run, and the American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture for his performance in Dave in 1993.
Secret agent and martial arts master Jimmy Tong and Speedy Gonzáles, the fastest mouse in the universe, were forced to cooperate to obtain and destroy a secret agent, who went to an enemy camp. Speedy has a clear motivation in this operation, because their goal is his longtime friend Taz. In the words of a classic, everything is different. Taz tried on her own to stop a certain Mr. Zeier, who was trying to exterminate half of humanity, and took away from him something he need. And because Zeier has a material and, physical advantage, Jimmy, Speedy and Taz trying to run away. The chase leads through romantic Paris, where they contact their other partner Pepé Le Pew, which is just the beginning of the film, then they reach California, where the team expands to include Bugs Bunny, who hired Speedy, and Duffy Duck, who hired Jimmy, then arrives in the Arizona desert, where Wile E. Coyote and Roadrunner have base and collection of weapons. The film is full of fights between our heroes and Zeier, who collaborates with Martian Marvin, Barnyard Dawg and Beaky Buzzard, they are caught and tortured, where they meet Elmer Fudd, but they manage to escape together. After our heroes visit Colorado, they decide to hide with Granny, a former agent and head of a secret organization who took refuge here with her team, to monitor the situation and with the help of Tweety, Sylvester, Sam, Foghorn, Michigan J. Frog, Cecil Turtle, Hippety Hopper and Porky must confront Zeier and his people.
