He's an hour and 50 minutes closer, he says, to bringing the title home to Port Arthur. It's not about the money, Ipina says, though it will help his family a lot. The stakes are pride and the ...

Arthur Rankin Jr., the animator behind the classic holiday special classic “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” the “Jackson Five” cartoon series and dozens of other productions, died ...

We knew what we needed: warmth. ‘Rudolph’ showed us that.” Rankin grew up in a family attuned to pleasing audiences. His parents, Mignon Klemm and Arthur Rankin Sr., were vaudevillians ...