All day: Cartoons

Chuck Jones--the Warner Bros. animator who created such beloved characters as Marvin the Martian and Pepe Le Pew--will receive the Golden Carrot Award tonight as part of the four-day Bugs Bunny Film Festival. The fest will include daily screenings of two toon compilations: “Fest of the Best,” which includes “One Froggy Evening,” “What’s Opera, Doc?,” “Ali Baba Bunny,” “Rabbit of Seville” and the Los Angeles-area premiere of “Another Froggy Evening.” And “Taz Gone Looney,” which includes “Tortoise Wins by a Hare,” “Lovelorn Leghorn,” “Water, Water, Every Hare” and “Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century.” Between screenings, mill around with the Looney Tunes characters, get your face painted Saturday and Sunday or have your photo taken with the Batmobile on Saturday. Oh, and kids are welcome too.

* The Bugs Bunny Film Festival, Alex Theatre, 216 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale. “Fest of the Best” (11 a.m., 3:30 and 7 p.m. today-Sunday) and “Taz Gone Looney” (1:15 and 9:30 p.m. today-Sunday). No 9:30 p.m. show today. Tickets $5 to $10, (888) 302-3398. $75 VIP tickets for “Chuck Jones Live,” tonight at 7, and “The Night of Nights,” Friday at 7 p.m., include reception, poster and reserved seating, (800) 872-8997.

7:30 pm: Literature

Raymond Chandler’s writings evoke a vivid image of Los Angeles with a hard-edged romanticism that has been much copied. The noir hero also created one of the most memorable characters in detective fiction, Philip Marlowe. In commemoration of Chandler’s birthday (the author was born 110 years ago today), five of L.A.’s contemporary crime writers will read selected passages from his work at “A Raymond Chandler Birthday Celebration.” After the readings, participating authors--Jen Banbury, Michael Connelly, Robert Crais, Gar Anthony Haywood and Robert Ward--will discuss Chandler’s influence on their own works and answer questions.

* “A Raymond Chandler Birthday Celebration,” Bookstar, 100 N. La Cienega Blvd., Beverly Hills. Free. (310) 289-1734.

8 pm: Theater

Ian McKellen headlines in the Royal National Theatre’s new version of Henrik Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People,” as a doctor who becomes involved in a controversy to expose a local pollution scandal. The adaptation, written by Christopher Hampton, is directed by Trevor Nunn.

* “An Enemy of the People,” Ahmanson Theatre, 135 N. Grand Ave. Tuesdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Saturdays-Sundays, 2 p.m. Also Sundays, 7:30 p.m. through Aug. 16, with matinees Thursdays at 2 p.m. from Aug. 20 to Sept. 3. Ends Sept. 6. $15-$52.50. (213) 628-2772.