Hollywood Chamber of Commerce president Leron Gubler presented the Peanuts comic strip dog – represented by an actor in a human-sized Snoopy suit – with the 2,563rd named star embedded in the sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard.
Snoopy is Charlie Brown’s pet beagle in the comic strip ‘Peanuts’ by Charles M. Schulz. He can also be found in Charlie Brown movies and television, like The Peanuts Movie. The original drawings of Snoopy were inspired by Spike, one of Schulz’s childhood dogs.
The character was honoured with the star just 4 days before the movie’s premiere worldwide.
“Snoopy’s whole personality is a little bittersweet, but he’s a very strong character”, once said the elder Schulz, who died in 2000. “He can win or lose, be a disaster, a hero or anything and yet it all works out. I like the fact that when he’s in real trouble, he can retreat into a fantasy and thereby escape”.
Snoopy first appeared on the 4 October 4, 1950 strip, two days after the first strip. On 16 March, 1952 his thoughts were first shown in a thought balloon. Snoopy first appeared upright on his hind legs on 9 January, 1956, when he was shown ice-skating across a frozen lake.
“The Peanuts Movie”, directed by Steve Martino, opens in theaters Friday, 6 November. The popularity of “Peanuts” propelled it to television specials, musicals, and new comic strips until 13 February, 2000, the day after Schulz’s death. “This honour is long overdue, Hollywood, There are few people, and especially dogs, on this Walk of Fame who can say they have entertained audiences and made them laugh for 65 years”, he said. The names of Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny and Donald Duck are also inscribed in Hollywood’s famous sidewalk, along with movie dogs Lassie and Rin Tin Tin.
