NancyCartwright-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
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