Matt Groening 1954-1998
Bartron
>``Simpsons" Creator Matt Groening Dead at 44
Heeehee....you've gone too far with this one Ben :D
Ben Collins
I'm really sorry to break this news to all of you, but I caught this on the AP
wires just this minute.
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``Simpsons" Creator Matt Groening Dead at 44
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Matthew Groening, creator of the popular Fox television
series ``The Simpsons" and the ``Life in Hell" newspaper feature, died of a
heart attack Wednesday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
He was 44.
The cartoonist and creative consultant for the television series had arrived at
famed producer James L. BrooksÕ Gracie Films production facility in Santa
Monica, Calif. at 8:00 a.m. to work on future episodes when he complained of
chest pains. He collapsed in extreme pain at 9:15, and was rushed to the
hospital eight minutes later. Doctors pronounced him dead at 9:54 a.m. Pacific
time, roughly thirty minutes after arrival.
Producers of ``The Simpsons" and Fox network executives have no comment
regarding the future of the long-running animated television series, which airs
Sundays at 8:00 p.m. The landmark 200th episode will air on April 26, and the
season finale is scheduled for May.
GroeningÕs comic feature ``Life in Hell" will be terminated, and the final
cartoon panel will run in alternative newspapers next week. ``Futurama," an
animation project proposed by Groening and Fox, will not be produced.
GroeningÕs survivors include his wife Norma, his sons Homer (``Will") and
Abraham (``Abe") Groening, his mother Margaret Groening, his brother Mark, and
his sisters Patty, Lisa and Maggie. His father, cartoonist Homer Groening,
passed away in 1993. All except Mark have ``Simpsons" characters named after
them (potbellied Simpson patriarch HomerÕs father Abraham was originally named
after GroeningÕs late grandfather).
A private funeral service will be held Saturday, April 11 at Forest Lawn
Memorial Park in Los Angeles.
``The Simpsons" is an animated sitcom following the adventures of a hilariously
dysfunctional family (slow-witted father Homer, nagging mother Marge, bratty
ten-year-old son Bart, precocious eight-year-old Lisa, and pacifier-sucking
infant Maggie) and many other characters, including nuclear power plant owner
Mr. Burns, nerdy neighbor Ned Flanders, surly tavern owner Moe Szyslak,
incompetent lawyer Lionel Hutz, and fire-and-brimstone preacher Reverend
Lovejoy.
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Ben Collins
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"I think the human game was up a long time ago (when the high priests and
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Terry May
Re: "Matt Groening 1954-1998", moesz...@hotmail.com belched the following
on 01 Apr 98 @ 13:05:48:
m>
m> I'm really sorry to break this news to all of you, but I caught this
m> on the AP wires just this minute.
I'll be glad when April Fools Day is over...
... "Looks like we got ourselves an old fashioned car chase..." - Chief Wiggum
--
Terry May - Las Vegas, NV
TnAdct
This is the same bullshoi as saying that South Park got cancelled due to the
Arkansas shooting. Remember folks, this is April Fool's Day. Not everything
that is posted today is the truth.
Joe Klemm
ThekingoTV
This sorry attempt at an April Fools joke is in very bad taste
From the King of TV
"Who is the King?"-The King
zzz
APRIL FOOL!
Paul Tomko
In article <199804012212...@ladder03.news.aol.com>,
As opposed to any other day, when everything posted is hard, proven fact.
Paul
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Stauber
Ben Collins wrote:
> I'm really sorry to break this news to all of you, but I caught this on the AP
> wires just this minute.
Don´t believe in anything that is aired today (4.1.). Or did you make that up
yourself? However, its tasteless.
Laura Cox
Stauber wrote:
>
> Don´t believe in anything that is aired today (4.1.). Or did you make that up
> yourself? However, its tasteless.
Nah, it's just plain stupid.
Laura
Terry May
Re: "Matt Groening 1954-1998", tna...@aol.com belched the following on 01 Apr
98 @ 22:12:09:
t> This is the same bullshoi as saying that South Park got cancelled due
t> to the Arkansas shooting. Remember folks, this is April Fool's Day.
t> Not everything that is posted today is the truth.
Yeah, as opposed to the rest of the year when you can take everything posted
as gospel. ;^)
... Oliver Clothesoff! Call for Oliver Clothesoff!" - Moe
emanon
OH MY GOD! THEY KILLED MATT! THE BASTARDS!
Patricia Musick
In article <1321_o...@anv.net>,
outr...@anv.net wrote:
> I'll be glad when April Fools Day is over...
I could not agree more!
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Heather Russell
> ``The Simpsons" is an animated sitcom following the adventures of a hilariously
> dysfunctional family (slow-witted father Homer, nagging mother Marge, bratty
> ten-year-old son Bart, precocious eight-year-old Lisa, and pacifier-sucking
> infant Maggie) and many other characters, including nuclear power plant owner
> Mr. Burns, nerdy neighbor Ned Flanders, surly tavern owner Moe Szyslak,
> incompetent lawyer Lionel Hutz, and fire-and-brimstone preacher Reverend
> Lovejoy.
And the bus driver Otto Mans.
Heather
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