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Remind me what they did?
It will be interesting when somebody (and I'm staring Homer right in the
face) finally quits, and is replaced with a sound-a-like for a fraction
of what he'd been being paid, to see how the lawsuits play out. You
*used* to be able to recast Popeye or Betty Boop with an imitator, but I
don't know that you could get away with that any more, especially if Dan
leaves over a salary dispute.
The big name actor thing ... while I don't care for it, it does have
it's purposes. It makes a lot of insecure people feel like they're
working on a 'real' movie and gives them some street cred with suits who
are used to dealing with live action. And it gives you somebody to take
publicity photos of, and send out to appear on the talk shows. It
generally makes the end product a poorer one, but without it there might
not be an end product at all.