big story regarding THE SIMPSONS
scott j.
the last paragraph of my brand new sig explains it all -- due to
contractual negotiations, the 10th season may feature all new voices,
except for julie kavner (marge). i found the story at e! online @
http://www.eonline.com
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will FOX replace all of the voices on THE SIMPSONS except marge's?
they're thinking about it. write/call/e-mail them and tell them "NO!"
Andrew Gill
scott j. wrote in message <6f71eu$i3j$1...@newsd-163.iap.bryant.webtv.net>...
>the last paragraph of my brand new sig explains it all -- due to
>contractual negotiations, the 10th season may feature all new voices,
>except for julie kavner (marge). i found the story at e! online @
>http://www.eonline.com
In the interest of this NG, I am providing the following document for
reference (With analysis):
<http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,2711,00.html>:
|Fox Considers New "Simpson" Voices
|by Daniel Frankel
|March 19, 1998, 1:45 p.m. PT
|
|Simpsons loyalists will remember that Krusty the Clown's original sidekick,
|Sideshow Bob (voiced by Kelsey Grammer), was replaced by Sideshow Mel early
|in the show's history. (You remember: Bob framed Krusty for an armed
robbery
|at the Kwick-E-Mart and was sent away, resurfacing occasionally to attempt
|to kill Bart.)
(chuckle) They actually expect us to believe that Bob was to be a regular?
Any "loyalist" would know better, and those who arenn't are getting skewed
info.
|Television's longest running cartoon didn't miss Bob much, but it might be
|devastated by the latest replacement Fox has in mind--almost the entire
cast.
(Of course, this is NOT the plan)
|With the exception of the already-signed Julie Kavner (matriarch Marge),
all
|the Simpsons voice talent is still locked in negotiations, trying to get
|huge $100,000-plus-per-episode deals for the 10th season. (Each episode
|requires two half-days of work a week.)
Yeah, right! The 70K figure that someone quoted is more likely. This
article is rather over-hyped, but what do you expect from E!?
May I ask how much Peter Jennings gets paid for half an hour per day of
reading a teleprompter (Yes, I know that it's much more than that)?
|And with the drop-dead production date looming, Daily Variety says that Fox
is
|considering replacing Nancy Cartwright (Bart), Dan Castellaneta (Homer),
|Yeardley Smith (Lisa), Hank Azaria (Moe the bartender, et. al) and Harry
|Shearer (neighbor Ned Flanders, et. al) if they don't ink new contracts
ASAP.
no new info, here.
|Of course, if Fox is serious about the voice swap (the whole thing might
just
|be a hardball negotiating ploy), the network risks alienating many hardcore
|fans and disrupting the program's consistency for syndication.
I would watch eps. if they had replacement voices, just to see how the scabs
match up. If they were not to (and of course, they wouldn't), I would stop
watching.
|As Bart would say: That bites, man.
Bart who? Bart the Apostle? The Bart Simpson that I know wouldn't have
said that since season 2.
|Then again, Variety quotes a TV analyst who insists it would be possible
for the
|show to go on successfully sans the original actors.
Who is this TV analyst? The same one who keeps Friends on the air?
|"Some people will say the show's not the same, the voices are different,"
|says Bill Croasdale, president of national broadcast at the media buying
|firm Western International Media.
|
|"But I've got to believe the people at Fox are smart enough to get voices
|that closely approach the originals. There are enough mimics out there."
I've got it! Douglas Rain (HAL-9000) as Homer...
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Naaah! I still have to go with John McLaughlin...