It started out as a clever-enough idea. In 1958, Ross Bagdasarian, a Broadway actor who’d had a pretty good role as a pianist in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 masterpiece Rear Window, started experimenting ...

More than hyperactive enough to engage small fry with microscopic attention spans, "Alvin and the Chipmunks" also has built-in nostalgia appeal for baby-boomer parents and grandparents willing to ...

This undated photo released by The Lippin Group public relations firm shows Ross Bagdasarian Jr. and his wife Janice Karman with stuffed chipmunks, from left, Theodore, Alvin and Simon. SANTA BARBARA, ...

Alvin & The Chipmunks have been some of the most beloved cartoon characters since 1958. They were an animated musical band created by Ross Bagdasarian, originally starting with a novelty song called ...

The late Looney Tunes maestro Chuck Jones had an existential rule about cartoon animals: They could walk upright, talk a blue streak and even have a Flatbush accent, so long as they were fundamentally ...

Theodore, Alvin, and Simon report for their first day of school. If you’ve read other sections of this week’s Express, you might have noticed that 2009 has been declared the Year of Animation. Movie ...

Alvin and the Chipmunks, a global phenomenon to generations of fans, becomes a live action/CGI motion picture event with a contemporary comic sensibility. Songwriter Dave Seville transforms singing ...