Recently I had the pleasure of watching the great Placido Domingo lend his dulcet vocal tones to The Simpsons.
Although he and Bart didn’t have any scenes together, watching the “King of Opera” take singing lessons from Homer was definitely one of the highlights of working on the show.
We so seldom get to actually work with our celebrity guests that you can imagine the admiration in the room when Placido was coming up with take after take, injecting his own “create” into the character. He truly is the “Renaissance Man of music.”
America’s favorite spiky-headed, yellow-faced, trouble-making, skateboarding ten-year-old is back. Fox announced last week that it is picking up two more seasons of the animation juggernaut The Simpsons, extending its amazing run to 19 seasons.
UK’s Industry magazine, Broadcast, conducted a survey of the best, and worst U.S.-imported shows to air in the United Kingdom. To no one’s surprise, the sarcastic family from Springfield topped the list of “the best” followed by “Dallas” and “M.A.S.H.” It seems the Brits love their smart humor and smart soaps. Worst? “Baywatch,” “The Anna Nicole Show,” and “The Dukes of Hazzard.”
Nancy has just returned from an exciting engagement in Toronto. She did two performances of her one-woman show to ebullient fans on October 16th in the lovely John Basset Theater in the convention center downtown. Her “warm up act,” a star in his own right, was the inestimable Simpsons director, David Silverman. He gave an extraordinary retrospective on the art of the Simpsons from its inception as a part of the “Tracey Ullman Show” to the half hour we know and love today, capping his performance with a drawing demonstration not to be missed.
