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Who's your favorite celebrity from any Fox TV show ?

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Brian

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Oct 28, 2012, 7:01:22 AM10/28/12
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Who's your favorite celebrity from any current show on Fox TV, that
you'd most want to meet and spend time with, if you could attend the
2012 Emmy awards and catch up with them ?

Micky DuPree

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Oct 28, 2012, 7:14:22 AM10/28/12
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Calamity & Holmes.

-Micky

Irish Mike

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Oct 28, 2012, 10:20:58 AM10/28/12
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It's a two way tie between Chris "a thrill runs up my leg when Obama
speaks" Matthews and Rachel "mad dyke" Madcow. No wonder MSNBC always
has such high viewer ratings.

:) :) :)

Irish Mike

In spite all of the lies, distortions and smear attacks the Democrats have
hurled at Romney, he still has one advantage. Obama's miserable record,
failed economic policies and lack of leadership.

Jeremy

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Oct 28, 2012, 10:32:29 AM10/28/12
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John Noble from Fringe. Or Kiefer Sutherland from 24... I mean Touch.

Obveeus

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Oct 28, 2012, 4:12:55 PM10/28/12
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Matt Groening. If I could just talk to him for awhile and convince him to
make me the voice of a regular, I'd be set for life.


anim8rFSK

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Oct 28, 2012, 7:07:41 PM10/28/12
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In article <k6k3k8$b58$1...@dont-email.me>, "Obveeus" <Obv...@aol.com>
wrote:
Only if he made it retroactive.

--
"Every time a Kardashian gets a TV show, an angel dies."

Obveeus

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Oct 28, 2012, 9:12:44 PM10/28/12
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"anim8rFSK" <anim...@cox.net> wrote:
> In article <k6k3k8$b58$1...@dont-email.me>, "Obveeus" <Obv...@aol.com>
> wrote:
>
>> "Brian" <lav...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> > Who's your favorite celebrity from any current show on Fox TV, that
>> > you'd most want to meet and spend time with, if you could attend the
>> > 2012 Emmy awards and catch up with them ?
>>
>> Matt Groening. If I could just talk to him for awhile and convince him
>> to
>> make me the voice of a regular, I'd be set for life.
>
> Only if he made it retroactive.

You say that like THE SIMPSONS will ever go off the air.
I'd talk to Seth McFarlane, but he does the voices himself...and I don't
like any of his shows.


anim8rFSK

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Oct 28, 2012, 10:29:45 PM10/28/12
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In article <k6kl6d$gdv$1...@dont-email.me>, "Obveeus" <Obv...@aol.com>
wrote:

> "anim8rFSK" <anim...@cox.net> wrote:
> > In article <k6k3k8$b58$1...@dont-email.me>, "Obveeus" <Obv...@aol.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> "Brian" <lav...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Who's your favorite celebrity from any current show on Fox TV, that
> >> > you'd most want to meet and spend time with, if you could attend the
> >> > 2012 Emmy awards and catch up with them ?
> >>
> >> Matt Groening. If I could just talk to him for awhile and convince him
> >> to
> >> make me the voice of a regular, I'd be set for life.
> >
> > Only if he made it retroactive.
>
> You say that like THE SIMPSONS will ever go off the air.

I was thinking more that a regular starting now wouldn't get anything
like the pay the current regulars do.

> I'd talk to Seth McFarlane, but he does the voices himself...and I don't
> like any of his shows.

Adam H. Kerman

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Oct 28, 2012, 10:37:29 PM10/28/12
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anim8rFSK <anim...@cox.net> wrote:

>I was thinking more that a regular starting now wouldn't get anything
>like the pay the current regulars do. [The Simpsons voice cast]

I love how animation has become massively expensive to produce because
of bloated wages of voice actors, or because one's movie must be voiced
with well-known actors or music celebrities.

No one got rich working for Hanna-Barbera. Of course their solution to
salary bloat of voice actors who did Tom & Jerry was the ideal one.

Obveeus

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Oct 29, 2012, 1:48:28 AM10/29/12
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"anim8rFSK" <anim...@cox.net> wrote:

> In article <k6kl6d$gdv$1...@dont-email.me>, "Obveeus" <Obv...@aol.com>
> wrote:
>
>> You say that like THE SIMPSONS will ever go off the air.
>
> I was thinking more that a regular starting now wouldn't get anything
> like the pay the current regulars do.

I'm perfectly willing to work for 10% of the average for the other regulars.


anim8rFSK

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Oct 29, 2012, 11:58:33 AM10/29/12
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In article <k6kq59$blp$1...@news.albasani.net>,
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.

Obveeus

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Oct 29, 2012, 12:11:38 PM10/29/12
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"anim8rFSK" <anim...@cox.net> wrote:

> "Adam H. Kerman" <a...@chinet.com> wrote:
>> No one got rich working for Hanna-Barbera. Of course their solution to
>> salary bloat of voice actors who did Tom & Jerry was the ideal one.
>
> Remind me what they did?

Mime.


anim8rFSK

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Oct 29, 2012, 12:27:46 PM10/29/12
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In article <k6l5bd$k6q$1...@dont-email.me>, "Obveeus" <Obv...@aol.com>
wrote:
In the classic words of Judge Smails:
http://wavs.unclebubby.com/wav/MOVIES/Caddyshack/getnothing.wav

anim8rFSK

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Oct 29, 2012, 3:33:11 PM10/29/12
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In article <k6m9rr$v5s$1...@dont-email.me>, "Obveeus" <Obv...@aol.com>
wrote:
LOL

Adam H. Kerman

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Oct 29, 2012, 5:57:14 PM10/29/12
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anim8rFSK <anim...@cox.net> wrote:
>"Adam H. Kerman" <a...@chinet.com> wrote:
>>anim8rFSK <anim...@cox.net> wrote:

>>>I was thinking more that a regular starting now wouldn't get anything
>>>like the pay the current regulars do. [The Simpsons voice cast]

>>I love how animation has become massively expensive to produce because
>>of bloated wages of voice actors, or because one's movie must be voiced
>>with well-known actors or music celebrities.

>>No one got rich working for Hanna-Barbera. Of course their solution to
>>salary bloat of voice actors who did Tom & Jerry was the ideal one.

>Remind me what they did?

The two characters were silent!

>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.

Tell me about this lawsuit. Dan Castellaneta believes he owns the way
the character sounds? Wow.

anim8rFSK

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Oct 29, 2012, 9:08:56 PM10/29/12
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In article <k6mu3p$8kp$7...@news.albasani.net>,
"Adam H. Kerman" <a...@chinet.com> wrote:

> anim8rFSK <anim...@cox.net> wrote:
> >"Adam H. Kerman" <a...@chinet.com> wrote:
> >>anim8rFSK <anim...@cox.net> wrote:
>
> >>>I was thinking more that a regular starting now wouldn't get anything
> >>>like the pay the current regulars do. [The Simpsons voice cast]
>
> >>I love how animation has become massively expensive to produce because
> >>of bloated wages of voice actors, or because one's movie must be voiced
> >>with well-known actors or music celebrities.
>
> >>No one got rich working for Hanna-Barbera. Of course their solution to
> >>salary bloat of voice actors who did Tom & Jerry was the ideal one.
>
> >Remind me what they did?
>
> The two characters were silent!

Well, not always.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_and_Jerry#Tom_and_Jerry_speaking
>
> >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.
>
> Tell me about this lawsuit. Dan Castellaneta believes he owns the way
> the character sounds? Wow.

I pulled his name out of the hat; I'm just saying, I bet he'd have a
case now, the way other celebrities have sued companies for using sound
alikes.

Adam H. Kerman

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Oct 29, 2012, 11:10:21 PM10/29/12
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anim8rFSK <anim...@cox.net> wrote:
>"Adam H. Kerman" <a...@chinet.com> wrote:
>>anim8rFSK <anim...@cox.net> wrote:

>>>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.

>>Tell me about this lawsuit. Dan Castellaneta believes he owns the way
>>the character sounds? Wow.

>I pulled his name out of the hat; I'm just saying, I bet he'd have a
>case now, the way other celebrities have sued companies for using sound
>alikes.

I've never heard of this before. Anybody won?

anim8rFSK

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Oct 29, 2012, 11:50:18 PM10/29/12
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In article <k6nget$com$3...@news.albasani.net>,
Well, there was Bette Midler vs Ford, which we've discussed here before.
IIRC she ultimately lost.

http://www.invispress.com/law/property/midler.html

Somebody else must have tried in the last 25 years.
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