Nancy Cartwright-related stories
Posted Nov 17th 2009 10:12AM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Animation, Reality-Free, Gone Too Soon
Before
The Simpsons begat
Futurama, current executive producer of
The Simspons Al Jean, along with Mike Reiss, created a short-lived animated series about a film critic who hated almost every film he ever saw.
Starring
Jon Lovitz in some brilliant voice work,
The Critic ran through two networks in two seasons. Like
Futurama and
Family Guy, it found some success with reruns on cable -- in this case, Comedy Central -- and a subsequent DVD release. But unlike those series,
The Critic remains but a distant memory.
Continue reading Gone Too Soon: The Critic
Posted Jan 29th 2009 3:05PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: The Simpsons, Animation, Reality-Free
I knew the Church of Scientology had a lot of reach in Hollywood to enlist big names like Tom Cruise, Edgar Winter and the guy from
Taxi who keeps popping up on celebrity weight loss and rehab shows.
But now they have either grown too powerful or have completely lost whatever grip they had left on reality, which wasn't a whole hell of a lot to begin with. They have recruited a cartoon character.
Bart Simpson's voice appeared in a phone recording advertising a Scientologist gathering in Hollywood that was clearly voiced by Nancy Cartwright. Of course, the audio found its way to the Internet. 20th Century Fox has been scrambling to pull it off every corner of YouTube ever since Perez Hilton broke the story and Fox made him remove it. You can hear it
here before Fox spoils the fun for the rest of us.
Continue reading Nancy Cartwright is a Scientologist... and so is Bart Simpson
Posted May 22nd 2008 12:36PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Industry, The Simpsons, Reality-Free
Say it ain't so, Ho. Homey, that's is. According to
Variety, even though Fox has given
The Simpsons a renewal for season number 20,
the voice talent that make the show have not been re-signed. Julie Kavner, Dan Castellaneta, Hank Azaria, Yeardley Smith, Nancy Cartwright and Harry Shearer -- the actors who are as integral to the success of
The Simpsons as the writers and animators -- are looking for a new deal. The group make approximately $360,000 per episode. They want a raise to $500,000 per. While that sounds like a lot of money -- and it is! -- when you consider how much Fox and company are making off
The Simpsons franchise, like
the new ride at Universal Orlando, the talent have every right to expect their piece of the pie.
Continue reading Trouble brewing on The Simpsons
Posted Nov 29th 2007 8:40AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd, The Simpsons, Animation, Celebrities, Futurama
Not enough credit is given to the voice actors and actresses who gave audio life to our favorite cartoon characters. Fortunately,
blogs like mental floss are trying to pick up the slack.
A lot of the work of Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson, is mentioned, but I bet none of her other gigs pay as well as Bart. I'm actually a bit of a fan of Billy West and love his work on
Futurama.
While I find the list impressive, I do note some glaring omissions. Where is Mel Blanc, the man who gave the most immortal rendition of Bugs Bunny (although he didn't even originate the character)?
Continue reading Mental Floss lists nine legendary cartoon voices
Posted Oct 11th 2006 4:01PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Animation, Web, Celebrities
Before he passed away in 2002, one of the last cartoons iconic animation director Chuck Jones helped to create was a Flash-animated series called Thomas J. Timberwolf. You can watch every episode here, and if the animation seems a tad primitive, keep in mind this was created in the early days of Flash, but even with that stipulation the cartoons still look pretty damn good. The smooth talking but accident prone Thomas J. Timberwolf was voiced by Joe Alaskey, one of the voice actors to take over the voices of many of the Looney Tunes after the death of Mel Blanc, and the voice of Plucky Duck on Tiny Toons, among many, many other characters on numerous animated programs. Nancy "Bart Simpson" Cartwright, also did voices for the internet series.
[via Cartoon Brew]
Posted Mar 20th 2006 8:31AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: FOX, Programming, The Simpsons, Animation
I am going to ease you into this because the news may make
you feel... old. FOX just renewed
The Simpsons for two more seasons. What seasons, you ask? Seasons 18 and 19.
Do you need a second to get your heart medication?
Seriously. It's been that long, folks.
The
Simpsons debuted way back in 1989. Remember all the media coverage and freaking out about how it was a cartoon but
it wasn't meant for little kids? Adults just couldn't get their minds around that. And, remember when Barbara Bush told
Time magazine that
The Simpsons was the dumbest thing she'd ever seen? Of course, the writers
got their revenge a few years
later.
I'd like to think that
The Simpsons is still edgy and socially relevant after all these
years, it's just the viewing public that has changed. That's pretty remarkable. You know what's also remarkable? The
fact that Maggie doesn't seem to be getting any bigger.
Oh yeah, FOX also renewed
King of the Hill
for an 11th season.
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