Inner Peace Visits The Grateful Heart

Inner Peace Visits The Grateful Heart: Rebecca Turner thought it was her duty to do her best to make sure her brother; Thomas Nicholas Turner, stopped referring to himself as TNT. Which was pretty much what he went by. Some people jokingly called it his own private acronym. In fact, he would always introduce himself as TNT, the caricature artist. Rebecca's concern was her brother's disrespectful treatment of the family name. She thought TNT was very demeaning. Their father and grandfather were both artists and they one lots of awards for their caricatures of famous people. Many popular TV shows in the 40’s and 50’s started out with the caricature of the TV show host. The one they were most proud of was the one they did for Bob Hope. But there was a long list of major celebrities that did caricatures like Lucille Ball, Danny Thomas Perry Como, and Xavier Cugat, who actually was quite a good caricature artist himself. Many of those drawings the Turner’s did ended up gracing the walls at restaurants like in the Brown Derby in Hollywood and Chasen’s in Beverly Hills. Both of which have been closed for many years. But you can still find some of their celebrity caricatures at Sardi's in New York.

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Thomas-TNT-Turner was carrying on the family's tradition as a sketch artist and somewhat of a cartoonist and caricature artist. But the only real fame he ever saw came from the couples he would draw. He was one of those guys you could see sitting next to an easel, a paintbox, and a few chairs at theme parks and county fairs. TNT did all of his work in front of the Plunge at the Long Beach Pike amusement park. He liked the fact he could be outside most of the time and he meant some fun loving people.

Rebecca begged her brother Thomas a.k.a. TNT to try and get a job with Disney, or maybe an animation company, but to no avail. She knew Thomas could be…

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