So how, you ask, can I make such a bold statement that Voice Over Acting is the best gig in entertainment? One word….Simpsons.

The Fox animated TV series, The Simpsons is reaching a new milestone… TV’s longest-running scripted nighttime series marks its 450th episode!

After 20 years these animated characters (and the Voice Actors behind the animation) can easily claim the title as TV’s longest-running scripted nighttime series — period…. With the same Voice Actors that started it all! That the great thing about Voice Acting….you can play roles outside your age, gender or even species!

Had this not been an animated series, no doubt the actors would have been written out because they started aging or gaining weight, etc. But not so in Voice Acting! You can forever be the same lovable character you were 20 years ago…(as long as you keep training and exercising your intrument(s)).

So, that is why Voice Acting is the best gig in entertainment….the opportunities are endless!

Congrats to the Simpsons…. Dan Castellaneta  as dimwitted dad Homer, Julie Kavner is mom Marge, Nancy Cartwright is first-born Bart and Yeardley Smith is daughter Lisa…Also regular Voice Actors - Hank Azaria, for numerous characters including police Chief Wiggum, Comic Book Guy and convenience-store owner Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, and Harry Shearer, whose stable of roles includes Mr. Burns, Waylon Smithers, Ned Flanders, Reverend Lovejoy, Kent Brockman, Dr. Hibbert and Principal Skinner….Plus EVERY celebrity in the last 20 years has made guest appearances.

Here’s to another 20!

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A legend in the world of broadcasting has been replaced.

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Water Cronkite was the Voice Over for the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric. However, since his death in 2009, the network has decided to replace his voice with that of actor, Morgan Freeman.

This is not meant to be a diss on the TV legend, but a decision based on the fact that if they need customized intro’s to the CBS News, in the future, they’ll need a voice actor who is………well……Alive.  Morgan Feeman is a great choice, in my book. Good luck!

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Sad news in the world of Acting and Voice Over…

32 year old Brittany Murphy, who starred in movies like Clueless and Girl Interrupted, as well as the voice of Luanne in the animated series King of the Hill, (in which she won a 2005 Annie Award for Voice Acting in an Animated Television Production), was found unconscious in the show, early this morning by her mother.

After a call to 911 from her Los Angeles home, paramedics were not able to revive her and she was transported to Cedars Sinai Medical Center where she was pronounced dead of cardiac arrest at 10:04am.

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