To create a great cartoon, a creative team must have two ingredients: great writing, and great voice acting. Low quality animation (such as the limited animation style of the 1970′s era Hanna Barbera shows) can easily be overcome when the characters have memorable personalities. Voice actors of the past were rarely, if ever, credited (or well paid) for their work. Fortunately, conditions and pay have greatly improved, and with the DVD releases of many classic shows, the respect due is being given as well.
Jinkies! I’m sure most of us would agree that, usually, the original is the best. Six performers have voiced the smart, short, bespectacled, turtle-neck sweater loving crime solver Velma Dinkley. Listening to all the different voices though, Jaffe’s voice is the one that has stuck in my head as the iconic voice of the character. Jaffe performed as Velma in the debut of the show called “Scooby Doo, Where Are You?”. This version debuted on American television in 1969 and ran for two years. A follow-up show, “The New Scooby Doo Movies” ran for two more years; Jaffe also voiced Velma in these episodes. This show was cancelled in 1974; Scooby, though would be revived in 1976 on a different network, and in a different format. Jaffe had married and moved on and was replaced, though she did return to the role for several videos earlier this decade.
Trivia: The current voice of Velma is done by Mindy Cohn, who is remembered for being on the sitcom “The Facts Of Life”. She was Emmy-nominated for her work as Velma. BTW, the picture of Nicole is from the 1969 Elvis Presley movie “The Trouble with Girls”.
At 14, Cree Summer got the part of Penny, the smart, resourceful girl who helped her not-so-super spy uncle, Inspector Gadget, save the day from evil genius Dr. Claw. Major changes after the first season, including moving production of the show from Canada to the US, lead to Ms. Summer being replaced for it’s less successful second (and final) season. Summer has nearly 150 voice acting credits on her resume, with characters ranging from Elmyra Duff of “Tiny Toon Adventures” to Foxxy Love on “Drawn Together”. She has voiced characters of many different nationalities and several male characters.
Trivia: Cree Summer starred as Freddie in the late-1980′s Bill Cosby-produced comedy “A Different World”.
Into a show about the lives of 100 blue men, each just three apples high, came it’s first female character, Smurfette. Bliss, with only a few cartoons on her resume, won the part at the age of 65! She gave her character a very recognizable high-pitched yet raspy voice. There is a memorable discussion scene about Smurfette in the cult film Donnie Darko, and there is a planned trilogy of Smurf movies with “Heroes” star Hayden Panettiere rumored to be providing her voice. After “The Smurfs”, Bliss had a very busy voice-acting career and has been active in her nineties, most recently working on “Invader ZIM”.
Trivia: There is very little information about Ms. Bliss on the Web; I could only smurf some brief anecdotes mentioning that she is a smurfy storyteller. She is in an assisted-living home, but still able to do voice work.
Yabba Dabba Doo! “The Flintstones” was initially a cartoon geared more for adults when it debuted as a successful nighttime animated show in 1960. It followed the crazy antics of Fred Flintstone and his friend Barney. Fred’s wife, Wilma, would be the one to show Fred the error of his ways or get him out of trouble. Vander Pyl had performed in a handful of radio and television shows before becoming the voice of Wilma. She then would go on to voice work in many other cartoons, including voicing Rosey the Robot in “The Jetsons”. An example of an actor not understanding Hollywood finances, Vander Pyl accepted a one-time $15,000 payment in lieu of payments from future airings (residuals). Had she been given residuals, she would have earned millions, as the show airs continuously around the world, mostly on the Boomerang Network. She continued working until her death in 1999, at age 79, of lung cancer.
Trivia: “The Flintstones” continues to be a very profitable marketing brand, with a line of vitamins and, perhaps the awesomest cereal ever, Fruity Pebbles.
For me, it doesn’t get any better than the Looney Tunes/Merry Melodies cartoons of the 1940′s and 50′s. The vocal work of Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan (Elmer Fudd) and Stan Freberg (Pete Puma) was sublime, and one female actor fit in with them just fine. Voicing most of the female characters during that time, Benaderet voiced Granny (of the Sylvester/Tweety shorts), Ma Bear (of the Three Bears shorts) and Prissy the Hen (in the Foghorn Leghorn shorts). She was replaced around 1955 by June Foray (for reasons I have been unable to find). However, just a few years later, she would star on “The Flintstones”, voicing Betty Rubble. She left this show during it’s run to focus on her acting, primarily a role in the popular sitcom “Petticoat Junction”. Benaderet passed away though shortly afterwards at the age of 62.
Trivia: Benaderet missed out on playing two legendary television characters: She had been Lucille Ball’s first choice to play Ethel in “I Love Lucy”, but was unable to get out of a contract with another program, and she was the first choice for Granny on “The Beverly Hillbillies”, but was later rejected because she was too “busty” to be an elderly grandmother, according to the producers.
Perhaps the busiest female voice actor of the past thirty years. MacNeille voices some twenty recurring characters in the long-running show “The Simpsons” including Crazy Cat Lady and business-woman Lindsey Naegle. Included among over 200 credits are the voices of Daisy Duck (since 1999) and Dot Warner (of one of the most underrated cartoons ever, “Animaniacs”.) Recently, she has voiced Mom and Linda (one half of the newscast team, alongside Morbo) in the new Futurama movies. She will also be in the upcoming sequel to Hoodwinked.
Trivia: MacNeille sang in “Weird Al” Yankovic’s song “Ricky”, an ode to “I Love Lucy”, and appeared in the video as Lucy.
Considered one of the very best voice actors, male or female, of all time. Legendary animation director Chuck Jones gave Ms. Foray the highest compliment possible when he said “Mel Blanc is the male June Foray”; as Blanc is typically regarded as the best ever for his voices including Bugs Bunny. She became a regular in the Looney Tunes shorts in the mid 1950′s, taking over as the voice of Granny, and new characters such as Witch Hazel. Most of her fame, though would come from her work on the “Rocky and Bullwinkle” cartoons of the 1960′s; Foray voiced Rocky and Natasha Fatale. Foray has worked on virtually every popular cartoon of the past 50 years: “The Flintstones”, “Garfield and Friends”, “DuckTales” and so many more. She has continued to work steadily through 2007.
Trivia: A great injustice has been done to Ms. Foray. The two current premiere showcases for voice acting, “The Simpsons” and “Family Guy”, have each used Foray’s incredible talents only once each: “Simpsons” in a brief part on a first season episode, and “Family Guy” for one line as Rocky. Shame on them, especially as Foray still looks and sounds great at the age of 91.
Another performer from the greatest animated television show of all time. Cartwright is notable in that most of her recent voice work is of young boys. In addition to the infamous Bart Simpson, Cartwright voices Nelson, Kearney, and Todd Flanders of “The Simpsons” and Chuckie from “Rugrats.” She got her start by telephoning voice great Daws Butler (Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound) for advice and eventually became his student and friend. An example of changing economics, Cartwright and her “Simpsons” cast mates now receive $400,000 per episode (typically 22-24 episodes per year).
Trivia: Cartwright is a leading member of the Church of Scientology. She donated a whopping $10 million dollars to the church in 2007, more than Scientology poster boy Tom Cruise.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone created the brilliant, hilarious, and obscene show “South Park” which debuted in 1997. Bergman was brought in for most of the female roles including each of the four boys’ mothers. Initially, she was credited under the pseudonym “Shannen Cassidy” to offset any conflict with her job at Disney. My favorite character was Ms. Crabtree, the bus driver with the bird’s nest in her hair: “Sit down!”, and “What did you say?!” were her usual lines. Bergman also voiced these roles in the 1999 movie South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut. Sadly, later that year she would commit suicide after struggling with mental illness. Several actresses have since replaced Bergman, but with those first episodes being so original and revolutionary I had to include Ms. Bergman.
Trivia: Bergman did hundreds of commercials, including the voice of pancake syrup character “Mrs. Butterworth”. She was also the official voice of Snow White, which she did for videos, games, and toys.
In the Tom and Jerry shorts of the 1940′s and 50′s, the only human character was an unnamed lady who was always after Tom (originally named Jasper), a cat, to catch Jerry, a mouse. Radio and film veteran Randolph provided the voice. The character is considered to be a racial stereotype known as a “Mammy”, a servant or maid of African descent, often overweight, loud, and heavily accented, and this has lead to some controversy. The shorts though, never stated that she was a maid and it is implied that she was the owner of that huge house with the well-stocked refrigerator. Also, the name “Mammy Two Shoes” was never used in the cartoons; it was given years later by the media, as typically only the character’s feet were shown. The shorts would be edited in the 1960′s. In some, Randolph’s voice was replaced with a plain-sounding one, and in others, she was replaced entirely with a thin white woman (voiced by June Foray.) Recent DVD releases have somewhat restored the original character.
As a child watching these cartoons, I had no awareness of the racial connotations. I just found the character completely funny, such as when she threatens to throw Tom “O-U-W-T Out!” I would hate to see this character completely erased, especially since talented performers like Ms. Randolph and others of her time are already nearly forgotten because they were mostly offered only these type parts.
Trivia: The Tom and Jerry cartoons won more Academy Awards (7) than the Merrie Melodies/Looney Tunes did (5).
Contributor: islanderbst
Where did Nancy Cartwright GET $10 million? Sorry, but that little tidbit sounds apocryphal to me. I mean come on, okay—she's been doing Bart for years now, and been well paid for it, no doubt, in recent years (but not at first) and sure, if she's been smart with her money, invested well… she might have a tidy package of cash under her skirt. But $10 million is still a *****load of money for a voice actress to just fork over to a cause. I'm skeptical.
NOW… islanderbst… I had some thoughts about this list, originally, but on reflection I've altered them. See, to start off I was going to say, "great idea for a list BUT…" and then I was going to add that I thought if you're going to produce a list of Great Female Cartoon Actors, then I would think it should be made of those actors who have done a LOT of work; i.e., have been known for a multitude of roles. This would necessitate the presence on the list of the great June Foray and the great Jean Vanderpyl, but not others who have been known for only one or two characters. (ALSO… I NOTE THE ABSENCE HERE of the GREAT Marcia Wallace, from the Simpsons–not to mention Julie Kavner. While some would say Bart and Homer are the combined lifeblood of that show, let's remember that Marge and her sisters and the quintessential harassed teacher Mrs. Krabappel contribute a lot).
ANYWAY… getting back to what I was saying…. it then occurred to me that this was wrong. On two counts. ONE: what we in fact see here is that back in the day, there just weren't that MANY female voice actors. June Foray essentially was an industry unto herself. NOW… was this due to some innate *****ism in the biz? Not that many female character roles? Surely, yes. All the great Warner Bros characters are male, with the exception of Granny–who is really just a foil, a comedic device of sorts, for other characters to play off of, or around. Never mind the occasional inclusion of a female token character in Warner or Disney (such as the seen-in-comics-only Petunia Pig–Porky's significant oinker–or the insufferable Minnie Mouse or Daisy Duck–Donald was truly henpecked, the poor bastard… or should we say duckpecked? But if any duck deserved it, Donald did) the basic truth is, there just weren't that many female characters in classic cartoons. Not until Hanna Barbera show up on the scene, with their first 60s cartoon sitcoms (The Flintstones, Jetsons, and Top Cat–though the latter was strictly male) do we start getting regular female characters who have a more or less equal role with their male counterparts… though even then, of course, Wilma and Betty just weren't Fred and Barney. (By the way–anyone ever notice how, while The Flintstones could often be moderately enjoyable and watchable, it's hard to sit through many episodes of The Jetsons? I figured out long ago the reason. They made the fatal error of not including a stock and standard "buddy" for George Jetson. Fred had his Barney, but George has only… his dog. They tried to build a more "standard" family around George Jetson—wife, teenage daughter, young son, dog, raging boss–but to me the situations rarely worked. The success of The Flintstones was that it copied The Honeymooners. The failure of The Jetsons was that it copied The Flintstones, but then failed to actually COPY it, leaving the Barney/Norton character out of the equation. But I digress).
So…. we see that back in the day, there just weren't many female main characters. LOTS of supporting or one-off characters… but not main ones. And even today–you still have far more male characters being voiced… who, today, after all, is the female equivalent of the HUGELY versatile Billy West?
TWO: All this is also indicative of the fact that, "back in the day," VERY FEW voice actors and actresses really did ALL the work. Today we have hundreds, thousands, perhaps. Back then, nowhere near as many. This was attested to by the great Walker Edmiston (famous voice actor for TV) who, before his death, gave an interview where he mentioned that when he first started out in the late 40s, there was literally a handful or so of voice actors who did EVERYTHING. Mel Blanc was king, of course, and then there were about a dozen or so others. And that was IT. But Edmiston, in the 90s, looked around and noted that suddenly their ranks had swelled to the hundreds. There was an explosion of cartoon work in the 90s in both film and television, much of it sparked by the success of the Simpsons. Those of you not old enough will not know that before the Simpsons there was a dearth of cartoon choice on the airwaves. You had the old stuff still in syndication, and a few miserable latter-day fill-ins (the godawful Smurfs and their ilk) but literally nothing in prime time, and nothing to lift the LEVEL of kids programming… though if I vaguely recall Nickolodean was beginning this in the early days of the 90s. The Simpsons opened up more than we think.
There… my lecture for the day.
OH… AND I ALSO HAVE TO PROTEST, before I go, the absence of the great Tress MacNeille here. THAT was an unforgivable omission.
Who is number 5? Looks like the name says Tress MacNeille. But I could be wrong. I would also like to say that I am not surprised that there was *****ism in the 40′s and 50′s.
Oh!! for heaven sakes get a life
Of course, this list is sitting up and begging for a male version. Anybody want to argue with…
1. Mel Blanc
2. Dan Castelaneta
3. Trey Parker
4. Mike Judge (Hank Hill/Beavis & Butthead)
5. Hank Azaria
6. Daws Butler (Yogi Bear/Huckleberry Hound/Quick Draw
McGraw)
7. Matt Stone
8. Billy West (Futurama/Ren & Stimpy)
9. Alan Reed (Fred Flinstone)
10. Dayton Allen (Deputy Dawg)
I haven't included Seth McFarlane. He's a very talented voice artist, but his shows SUCK!!!
And how about Dal McKennon,Bill Scott Hans Coreod ,Bob McFadden Jack Mercer and Paul Frees? And I meant to say Hans Coried not Hans coroed. And let usnotforget Jackson Beck,Don Messiah,Frank Welker,Maurice lemarche,Danny CooksleyAnd CoreyBurton.
Ps also meanttosay Don messick. Dang typos.
Mel Blanc absolutely deserves to be #1 in a male voice actor list. He was brilliant in everything he did! Trey Parker and Matt Stone also deserve to be on the list somewhere. They’re voice-acting is part of what makes South Park so great, imo.
this reminds me one of my favorite cartoon series, Rugrats. i’ll never forget the characters’ voices.
and first?
wad’ya know… my first first.
mad guns on the list, g. good to see more props being given to females in the biz.
Love the list, interesting to see that women have had such a big part in cartoon history.
I’m very intrigued by the American definition of “Mammy”. I’m Irish and here, we generally call our mothers “Mammy” or “Mam” as opposed to “Mom” or “Mum”. I thought the word was distinctly Irish. Very interesting.
I was hoping Mary Ky Bergman would be on the list. South Park is my favorite show and Matt Stone and Trey Parker talk about her sometimes in the commentaries. Ater she died most of the female characters seemed to just disappear until they found a replacement.
I would have liked to see Jennifer Hale on there, she’s been in just about everything. Great list though, brings back some memories.
Like the list – good to give credit where it’s often been unacknowledged. For my 2 cents worth, there’s some excellent female voice work on ‘King of the Hill’. Kathy Najimy as Peggy – Brittany Murphy as Luanne – Pamela Adlon as Bobby. They’re relatively high profile actresses but this never intrudes on their characterisation.
Wow! Awesome list! Such classic characters and how sad about Bergman.
Awesome.
Cool, though i hate to see $10 million go to waste like that.
Damn you islanderbst! Damn you for telling me that Nancy Cartwright is a member of the Church of Scientology! Damn I could have been blissfully ignorant, but no. I had do learn that. I just had to. damn damn damn damn and double damn.
Other then that great list, very nice topic.
I Love Cree Summer, you can turn the TV to any cartoon network and hear her somewere. I love her on Drawn Together and I loved her as Tommy on the rugrats.
I might have put Nancy Cartwright first. She has quite the body of work. She was also a voice on Kim Possible. I didn’t know about the Scientology, bummer.
nice topic!
I saw a photo of Julie Kavner (Marge Simpson) with the rest of the cast. Maybe it was staged, maybe they’re really like that or maybe Marge has rubbed off on her, but the rest of the crew were in various stages of fits of laughter, and she was standing there looking very disapproving.
Great list for a thursday!!! I always wondered who did Señor druppy??
For south Park, you wrote Sheila Broflovski, and Sheila Marsh.. it should be Sharon Marsh (I watch South Park religiously.. lol) Awesome List nonetheless
P.S
The picture for South Park is of Eric and Leanne Cartman :p
Most of these women lent their voice to some amazing cartoons and shows of my childhood. I love this stuff a ton; so much so that in college I took a 3-credit course on Bugs Bunny and his impact on society, it was amazing!
Also the easiest “A” ever, but that’s not why I took the class =P
I can’t believe you didn’t include Tara Strong. She’s done everything. Timmy Turner on Fairly Oddparents, Toot Braunsyein in Drawn Together, Supergirl on Justice League. The list goes on and on.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0152839/
I was going to mention that too Tara Strong has voiced characters on almost every cartoon from the late 90s to now I have seen on Cartoon Network, Disney Channel, and a lot of DC characters. And that's not nearly all it would take forever to list all of the work Tara Strong does in voice acting. I think that she deserves a place on here as much as anybody if anything she should get honorable mention. I think Kath Soucie deserves it too.
talk about an eassy comment.
warningdontreadthis:
You got a problem with in-depth, exhaustive *****ysis?
Don’t know who is on your list at #5 Randall, but Tress MacNeille is listed in that slot on the list I read.
Interesting list, thanks
I loved Witch Hazel and Granny, nice to see the faces behind the voices.
“I could only smurf some brief anecdotes mentioning that she is a smurfy storyteller.”
Ohhhhhh I needed a laugh this morning. This was such a great list for today. Randall, I actually thought this mihgt be your list when I started reading it. Oh well.
Islanderbst; Great job, interesting and informative; neat to see the faces belonging to the voice.
Randall: Tress is #5.
Additional Trivia – William Conrad, the rotund actor from Cannon, Nero Wolfe, and Jake and the Fatman, was way more famous for his tres awesome baritone voice than he ever was for his acting. He was the narrator from Rocky and Bullwinkle, the voice from the old Hai Karate ads, and the original Matt Dillon from Gunsmoke, the radio show. When the powers that be decided to remake Gunsmoke as a TV show, they considered Robert Conrad but due to his ever expanding girth the role was given to James Arness.
I don’t think I would have put Lillian Randolph as #1, maybe June Foray, but I’m not going to let the order of the list get in the way of me enjoying it.
Wow! Great research- very entertaining! One of my favorite pieces of trivia to- god damn you Friendly’s banner, go away! You’re making me hungry!- tell people occasionally is that Bart is voiced by a woman. But I didn’t know about many others.
Sad to hear about Nancy Cartwright’s affiliation with the Church of Scientology.
Randall: Just a thought about that donation of $10 million: do you recall all the Bart merchandise from the ’90s? Several videogames, dolls, food products, bedsheets, etc. ad nauseum. I bet if you found some of the people who voiced the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles they could tell you that they made money hand over fist in the early ’90s. Probably the same with Nancy, especially since she had the stronger character in the ’90s.
Lynn, Mom:
Good God, I am going blind. Must be the ADD acting up again. And the OCD. A little of the schizophrenia too.
Anyway, I retract my mention of Tress MacNeille. She appears on the list, and I now appear foolish. Again. You’d think I’d get use to it by now.
Who is my voice? Do u know everyone?
aw i didnt know about bergman
12: Quiana
Cree Summer was the voice of Susie Carmichael. Tommy was voiced by E.G. Daily. Rugrats had an entire collection of talented female voice casting on its show: Summer, Daily, Christine Cavanaugh (played Chuckie Finster, Obleena from Ahhh! Real Monsters, and Dexter from Dexter’s Lab)and Tara Strong was Phil and Lil DeVille (many, many other roles throughout the 90s and today).
And Randall, as noted previously, Tress MacNeille is at number 5. Rest assured though, were she NOT there, I would be by your side in outrage and horror
28. Daphne
* Indira Stefanianna Christopherson (1969-1970)
* Heather North (1970-1985, 1997, 2002-2003)
* Kellie Martin (1988-1991)
* Mary Kay Bergman (1998-1999, until her death)
* Grey DeLisle (2001-present)
Thanks, Wikipedia!
Politically-motivated choice for number 1 = fail. Cartwright should obviously be number 1.
Jesus, Randall. Are you a professor of ancient history AND a cartoonologist?
Islanderbst- nice list, nice idea. Very enjoyable!
I’m amazed that Randall (or any one else yet) didn’t mention Mae Questel in his “in-depth, exhaustive *****ysis”…and I thought I knew ye.
Mae Questel was the voice of Betty Boop and Olive Oyl and Little Lulu
Randall: Never I worship you, I bow down to your greatness and all knowingness.
This is now my favorite list! Thank you so much for putting this together! I am a huge cartoon fan and wonder who does these fabulous voices and cannot find information all the time. I love to listen to voices and find “matches” to other shows. Thank you for a great list!
From 10: “As a child watching these cartoons, I had no awareness of the racial connotations.”
Exactly! I completely agree. I got into an argument with the professor in my college race relations class about this and won!
logar:
Randall is the master of MANY things, grasshopper. Many.
Randall: And I thought foolish to be my sole purvey. XD
warningdontreadthis:
Ah. You are forgiven for showing the proper respect. In future, watch it. Lest I bore you with further barrages of trivia-ridden, but insightful, elucidations.
On an other note Mom/Randall, what ever happend to Slickwilly?
Dr Diogenes:
Little Lulu and Olive Oyl can both be discarded and disdained for the insipid characters that they were. Though Olive does offer some insightful commentary on the innate character flaws beating within the breast of Popeye, her paramour. Why did he want her? Even as ugly as he was, he coulda done better than a dried-up cornstalk of a woman with adenoid trouble.
On the other hand, Popeye was a sailor. Perhaps unbeknownst to us, Olive Oyl was actually a seaport *****. Makes sense. Though why Popeye and Bluto had to fight over her when four bits coulda bought another one just like her–or a buck more coulda bought the far more desirable Betty Boop–is beyond me. I am smart, but not able to muster the sensibility to explain the unexplainable.
Betty Boop is the only character worth her salt here (pardon the meandering pun). But only back in her original days—not later when the Hays Office forced her into a miserable domestic role. I’m talkin’ back when Betty was a real dirty girl.
Reminds me of some very funny filthy poetry a friend of mine has written about encounters betwixt Popeye and Betty Boop. I shall not share here for the sake of the children looking in. We may publish a volume of them in future, though.
Iain:
A list of that sort that omits Mel Blanc ALONE isn’t worth the keyboard it’s typed on. Try again, and tread more carefully and thoughtfully next time.
First, J- on entry 2, could you change the title to read “Sharon” Marsh? (My typo not yours)
And the picture is Leanne Cartman, but Bergman voiced her as well, so thats ok.
Thanks for nice comments. I am a huge cartoon fan, and this list is, more accurately, my own personal top 10.
Randall- thanks, your comments, as always, def. add to the flavor. And I could NEVER leave off Tress M, being a huge Futurama geek.
Iain- You’re def. right on King of the Hill, Kathy Najimy might be a #11 for me.
warning- comment 11.
diogenes – mae questel, she was considered for sure, but in the end went with my faves
warningdontread:
My understanding that Slickwilly is lurking, but he is otherwise engaged in important work (as am I, but slacker that I am, I repeatedly neglect the same… also, I am more nihilistic than Slickwilly, and see little point to life’s little chores and burdens… hence I am easily distracted by pretty blue skies, the internet, and the posteriors of attractive women walking by).
SlickW also, so it seems, has himself some happy developments in his personal life which no doubt is where he is focusing his energies at present.
Randall – I put Mel Blanc at number 1
Randall:
Randall: I’m happy for him, though I miss his insight. And by the way I seem to recall a certain list about evoloution that you promised me a long time ago. Whatever happend to that
hm…?
islanderbst, great list! Takes me back to childhood Saturday mornings, and my own adult foray into the voice acting world.
**Randall. Nancy Cartwright’s $10 Million is no mystery. She has a long and varied acting career in both movies and television, in addition to her voice work. Look up her filmography if you want proof, but trust me, she’s been in more TV and movie than you can possibly believe, going back to the 60′s, almost always in a supporting role, but *that* is well paid too!
Crap, I forgot to comment on the list. Oops.
Great list, Islanderbst! It’s great to see women representin’. It’s only been in the past year that I realized Cree Summer was such a talented voice actress, thanks to a local radio personality’s obsession with her. (Boris, I know you’re lurking!)
Iain:
Good lord. I’m getting scared now. What is this, dyslexia? That’s twice in one day I’ve glanced right over the obvious.
warningdontread:
What ARE you talking about?
No, honestly, I have no memory of this. Refresh me, please.
warningdontreadthis:
I believe it was SlickWilly who promised an evolution list. He’s been extremely busy lately with school, work, and me
, but he really wants to finish it so be patient.
*hugs Randall* It’s ok. The old-timer’s gets to us all eventually.
Randall:
You are struggling today. Put down that fourth cup of coffee and slow down!!
Randall – no problemo! However, for now, I do prescribe more blue skies and attractive posteriors and a little less internet.
Holy Bejeezus, Randall, you’re getting quite senile (and blind) in your old age. Maybe you should stop typing and drinking the Pinot at the same time…
Here’s a further snippet from wikipedia on Nancy Cartwright’s Scientology donation:
“She is a member of the Church of Scientology,[17] joining in 1989,[18] becoming a Clear on October 1, 1991.[19] Cartwright was awarded Scientology’s Patron Laureate Award after she donated $10 million, almost twice her annual salary, to the organization in 2007.
57.: —> Randall: Might I recommend Kim Kardashian?
Cedestra:
“Might I recommend Kim Kardashian?”
Only if she keeps her mouth shut.
And…. “senile and blind”? I’m cut to the quick! “Wally” was closer to the truth–only in reverse. It wasn’t too much coffee… it was *not enough.*