A number of notable musicians sent flowers, including: George Thorogood, Tom Petty, and Jerry Lee Lewis.

After his extraordinary career at Warner Bros. ended in 1962, Jones started Sib Tower 12 Productions and began producing memorable cartoons for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, including a new series of Tom and Jerry shorts and the television adaptation of Dr. Seuss ' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

In 1963, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contracted with Sib Tower 12 to have Jones and his staff produce new Tom and Jerry cartoons as well as a Television adaptation of all Tom and Jerry theatricals produced to that date.

As the Tom and Jerry series wound down ( it would be discontinued in 1967 ), Jones produced more for television.

* Tom and Jerry ( cartoon shorts, 1963 – 1967 )

In the 1973 National League Championship Series, the Reds met a New York Mets team that won just 82 regular season games, but boasted three of the best starting pitchers in the NL, future Hall of Famer Tom Seaver, Jerry Koosman and Jon Matlack.

Lloyd Carr, former head coach at the University of Michigan, former NFL coach Jerry Glanville, and Steve Mariucci, former head coach of the Detroit Lions, played football for NMU, and current Michigan State coach Tom Izzo played basketball at NMU.

Among these are Flåklypa Grand Prix, Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, Wallace and Gromit, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, The Way Things Go, Edward Scissorhands, Back to the Future, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, The Goonies, Gremlins, the Saw film series, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Cat from Outer Space, Malcolm, Family Guy, American Dad !, and Waiting ...

They formed the group Tom & Jerry in 1957 and had their first success with the minor hit " Hey, Schoolgirl ".

They were classmates at Parsons Junior High School and Forest Hills High School, and began performing together in their junior year as Tom and Jerry, with Simon as Jerry Landis ( whose last name he borrowed from a girl he had been dating ) and Garfunkel as Tom Graph ( so called because he was fond of tracking (" graphing ") hits on the pop charts ).

This album consisted of ten tracks recorded from the late 1950s and early 1960s while the duo still called themselves Tom & Jerry, including their hit " Hey, Schoolgirl ", and its B-side, " Dancin ' Wild ".

Tom and Jerry are the cat and mouse cartoon characters that were evolved starting in 1939.

Tom and Jerry also may refer to:

* The Tom and Jerry Show ( 1975 TV series )

* The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show, a 1980 television series

* Tom and Jerry: The Movie, a 1993 feature film

* Tom and Jerry ( video game ), a video game

* Tom & Jerry Kids, a 1990 television series

* Tom and Jerry Tales, a 2005 television series

* Soccer Mom ( Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry )

Growing out of Melbourne University and The D-Generation came The Late Show ( 1991 – 1993 ), starring the influential talents Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner, Jane Kennedy, Tony Martin, Mick Molloy and Rob Sitch ( who later formed Working Dog Productions ); and during the 1980s and 1990s Fast Forward ( Steve Vizard, Magda Szubanski, Marg Downey, Michael Veitch, Peter Moon and others ) and its successor Full Frontal, which launched the career of Eric Bana and featured Shaun Micallef.

Moreover, columnists Tom Halfhill and Thomas McDonald write editorials on a monthly basis under the names Fast Forward and Game Theory, respectively.

* Dee Bradley Baker: Tom and Jerry: Blast Off to Mars, Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry ( uncredited ), Tom and Jerry: Shiver Me Whiskers ( uncredited )

Four years later, Bill Kopp scripted and directed two more Tom and Jerry DTV features for the studio, Tom and Jerry: Blast Off to Mars and Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry, the latter one based on a story by Barbera.

* Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry ( Warner Home Video, 2005 )

Some of them included " Fast Eddie " Erickson, Dave Tobiasen, Tom Bucci, Denny Zavett, Ralf Reynolds, Mike Gentry, Randy Morris, Dan Riley, John Charles, Andy Fielding and Bill Dendle.

Several little bands can also be found on the 1981 One Stop Shopping compilation released by Tom Ellard's Terse Tapes label, as well as on issues of Bruce Milne's cassette magazine Fast Forward ( 1980-82 ).

* Integral Fast Reactors by Tom Blees, part 2 of 3 Interview with author Tom Blees about IFR.

* In Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry, Tom and Jerry " strip " Statue of Liberty leaving her wearing a bikini.

In December, 2001, Fast Company printed an article, crediting Tom Peters as author, entitled Tom Peters's True Confessions.

*" Tom Peter's True Confessions ", by Tom Peters, in Fast Company, November 2001, Issue 53

He also learned of the need for social change by reading Citizen Tom Paine by Howard Fast, and the poems and essays of Percy Shelley.

Like other television shows filmed in high-definition ( such as American Idol, Father of the Pride, Curious George, and Out of Jimmy's Head ) and other films filmed in high-definition ( such as The Proud Family Movie, Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry, Scooby-Doo!

Later, Tom's owner varied, with a housewife similar to the re-edited Mammy appearing in the later Deitch short Buddies Thicker Than Water and the direct-to-DVD film Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry.

* 1947 – Tom Clancy, American author

* 1951 – Tom Noonan, American actor

* 1965 – Tom O ' Brien, American actor and producer

* 1947 – Tom Køhlert, Danish footballer

* 1978 – Tom Fulp, American video game programmer

* 1958 – Tom Lanoye, Belgian author

* 1961 – Tom Ford, American fashion designer and director

* 1959 – Tom Niedenfuer, American baseball player

* 1961 – Tom Perrotta, American novelist

* 1943 – Tom Burgmeier, American baseball player

* 1956 – Tom Leykis, American radio host

* 1977 – Tom Brady, American football player

* 1919 – Tom Willmore, English geometer ( d. 2005 )

* 1945 – Tom Allen, American politician

* 1950 – Tom Kelly, American baseball player and manager

* 1962 – Tom Colicchio, American chef

* 1989 – Tom Cleverley, English footballer

* 1869 – Tom Kiely, Irish decathlete ( d. 1951 )

* 1933 – Tom Skerritt, American actor

* 1967 – Tom Hollander, English actor

* 1830 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's new Tom Thumb steam locomotive races a horse-drawn car, presaging steam's role in US railroading.

* 1965 – Tom Dey, American director

* 1870 – Tom Richardson, English cricketer ( d. 1912 )

* Tom Herman ( Acting President ), 2008 – 2009

* 1961 – Lauren Tom, American actress