Nowadays studios are increasingly just using comedians or celebrities to do voices, especially in animated movies. Why...

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Why Hank Azaria is suddenly evil? Also, Brockmire is pretty good.

Comedians can make good ad libs.

He's not in the OP pic though.

It started with Aladdin and how Robin Williams nailed it with the genie (since the character was made for his voice). Then Shrek did it even further and now we're here.

Didn't Mel Blanc, June Foray, Daws Butler, Jack Mercer, and Jean Vanderpyle pretty much dominate the business for decades?

I also blame the Simpsons cast for their greed.

Sorta related but what's the point of casting Jemaine Clement as a character who displays little to no signature comedic style associated with him?

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They did but Mel aside none of they were paid very much and often not even credited. The idea of voice actors being paid a princely salary is a relatively recent invention.

>Didn't Mel Blanc, June Foray, Daws Butler, Jack Mercer, and Jean Vanderpyle pretty much dominate the business for decades?

Yeah, but the reason the voice acting pool was so shallow during the Golden Age of animation and the early days of TV animation is because voice acting was largely considered illegitimate work for entertainers. Even into the 80s, voice acting as where you went when you failed at everything else in the industry. If you weren't handsome enough to be on screen/stage, couldn't sing well enough to be a musician, weren't charismatic enough to be in broadcasting and weren't funny enough to be a comic, you got stuck doing cartoon voice overs.

Frank Welker and Maurice Lamarche originally started out as standup comedians, failed miserably at it, and got stuck doing VA work (also, try listening to Welker's standup album; it's AWFUL). Even Mark Hamill didn't get stuck doing VA work until the 90s when his screen acting career had withered up and died.

Voice acting was long considered to be the trashcan of the entertainment industry, where you ended up when you couldn't do ANYTHING else. It didn't become vogue and hip until the age of the internet where you could earn celebrity status and fan clubs as a VA. Now EVERYONE wants to be a voice actor, but that wasn't the case for like the first 75 years. It was mostly something to be ashamed of.

>Voice acting was long considered to be the trashcan of the entertainment industry, where you ended up when you couldn't do ANYTHING else. It didn't become vogue and hip until the age of the internet where you could earn celebrity status and fan clubs as a VA. Now EVERYONE wants to be a voice actor, but that wasn't the case for like the first 75 years. It was mostly something to be ashamed of.
Some of them like EG Daly and Grey are failed singers.

I know the Simpsons writers said in the early days of the show especially it was hard to get celebrities particularly older ones to appear on the show as they considered it beneath their dignity.

Ashleigh Ball from the horse show is likewise a failed singer. And Brit McKillip (again, Horse Show) is a failed screen actress.

So voice acting is still where a lot of wash outs end up.

You ever heard some of Grey's song demos? It sounds like a drunk Vicky. I mean, she had zero sense of pitch/ability to stay in tune.

I can't say there have been many Millenial-aged voice actors who have the same stature as Billy West or Tom Kenny. Maybe they're right that the times/business model is changing.

I think this is why Tara Strong is such a middle aged camwhore, now. She got into voice acting in the mid 90s when it was still a mostly anonymous "who gives a shit" sort of job. By the time the internet came around and voice acting became hip and VAs started getting cults built around them, it was like 2010 and she'd already hit the wall. So now she's trying to feel like the young starlet she wanted to be, but she's 40-something and getting grossed by the minute.

Though if we're naming entertainers who failed their way into voice acting because they had nowhere else to go, let me throw in Chris Latta (Starscream, Cobra Commander). He wanted to be a hardcore rebel standup comic like Sam Kinnison but his material fucking SUCKED (you can see some of his sets on youtube, he's BAD). Then he ODed trying to be a rebel and the only think he's remembered for is his VA work that he did just to finance his failed standup venture (he didn't even use his real name for most of his VA work and went by "Christopher Collins").

Kinda sad.

>By the time the internet came around and voice acting became hip and VAs started getting cults built around them
The Simpsons cast had a cult of celebrity around them from early on.

>Because eventually everyone got tired of the greed and monopoly tactics of this bunch.
You have to be a troll, no one can be this proud of being ignorant.

That was more an artifact of how massive a pop culture presence the show had in the 90s. Most lesser VAs were literallywhos.

There really aren't many standouts. The cast playing Huey, Dewie and Louie in nuDuckTales are all supposed to be the new VA up n comers, but their voices aren't very unique or impressive and they can't seem to do more than one.

The only new-ish VA I think is really good is Keith Ferguson, but mainly because he has range and can do various accents, pitches and impressions. Impression, in particular, are one of the big marks of a good VA and are also very difficult and take a lot of skill and practice. Most modern VAs can do one silly voice and one silly voice only and don't have the ability or discipline to do decent impressions.

I mean, look at Khary Payton. He's Cyborg and, uh, Aquacyborg, and... ? No range. Greg Cipes? Jesus, he's the One Voice Wonder. Kate Miccuci? Every character is Velma.

Who was the last Maurice Lamarche or Billy West tier impressionist VA you can think of? Jon Bailey? Keith Ferguson? They can do a few impressions and they're good at those, but they aren't even close to Lamarche or West or even Tom Kenny.

The Simpsons is like a class unto itself, though, not an exception that proves a rule. The principle cast, at their peak, were making $500,000 per episode. That is not normal for any career VA, nor was the fanbase that built around them in the 90s.

IIRC one of the big "innovations" the Simpsons had was the voice cast being treated as an integral part of the creative process instead of just hired help you could replace as needed.

Presumably celebrity voices are a lot more expensive than those who voiceover work professionally. They reason they do this is to appeal to parents who might be willing to take their children to see the movie if they have a celebrity they like in it. Also the celebrity can go on talk shows and such, something a professional voice actor isn't going to be invited to do.

As was Mel Blanc, but he was also the exception to the rule.

>She got into voice acting in the mid 90s
80s, along with Cree Summers, when both were teenagers
>By the time the internet came around and voice acting became hip and VAs started getting cults built around them
You retarded zoomer have you ever heard of this thing called "the radio"?

>As was Mel Blanc, but he was also the exception to the rule.

Didn't Blanc even negotiate a clause in his contract that forbid any other person from receiving "voice characterization" credits in Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies shorts besides himself? So that's why June Foray and Arthur Bryant and Stan Freberg never got credited, even though they were in a ton of shorts.

Kind of a shitty thing to do. Bob Kane-esque.

>80s, along with Cree Summers, when both were teenagers
Doesn't matter, that was still long before Internet attention whoring was a thing and too bad Tara was a blown out middle aged mom by the time it happened.

How the hell does Jon Benjamin get work???

>Who was the last Maurice Lamarche or Billy West tier impressionist VA you can think of? Jon Bailey? Keith Ferguson? They can do a few impressions and they're good at those, but they aren't even close to Lamarche or West or even Tom Kenny.

Eric Bauza.

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I guess at the time when the show started, Harry Shearer and Julie Kavner were the two most well known ones.

Actually not even live action Hollywood actors. The days of A-listers like Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt or Stallone or DeNiro or Redford seem to be over.

>How the hell does Jon Benjamin get work???

One voice, but it's a REALLY good voice. Like Gilbert Gottfried (who actually CAN do other voices, including a spot on Jerry Seinfeld impression, but NO ONE casts him for anything else).

Bobcat Goldthwait, too, at least until he blew his voice out in the early 2010s and had to retire from VA work.

Is Jeff Bennett considered old school?

Mark Hamill is a failed actor because people only saw him as Luke Skywalker. He rebounded by voicing the Joker in Batman the Animated Series.

I think Clancy Brown is the exception because he starred in Shawshank Redemption before becoming Lex Luthor.

>Is Jeff Bennett considered old school?

Dude, he's been around since, like, 1990 or earlier. I remember noticing his voice around the time of Animaniacs and Gargoyles. He's certainly not fresh talent.

>Eric Bauza.

There it is. Thanks. That guy's a beast; I think he's slowly taking over the Looney Tunes cast from everybody else. (also, I couldn't believe he was a tiny Asian dude when I finally saw a photo of him)

I dislike this whole failed actor/singer/comedian thing.

it's not like they don't have a legacy now.

Japanese VAs are far more talented and trained than their Western Counterparts.

>Bobcat Goldthwait, too, at least until he blew his voice out in the early 2010s and had to retire from VA work
>tfw his appearance on Adventure Time

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I love him though

>Mel Blanc,
The Jetsons movie literally tried to hire a pop star to spice things up because Mel Blanc was old as fuck at that point.

Tress MacNeille is the ultimate jack of all trades, master of none VA.

Post your top 10 fav va list.

mine

>David Kaye
>Kari Wahlgren
>Jim Cummings
>Steve Blum
>Brian Drummond
>Scott McNeil
>Tabitha St. Germain
>Clancy Brown
>Phil LaMarr
>Troy Baker

that was pretty shitty of them to replace Janet Waldo like that.

The Tiffany thing had nothing to do with Mel Blanc. Yeah I know he was old and needed an oxygen tank from decades of chain smoking which was why Joe Alaskey had to do the JETSOONNNNN thing.

That was more just retard-tier studio execs who thought Tiffany's name on the credits would add some hip cachet.

>Yeah, but the reason the voice acting pool was so shallow during the Golden Age of animation and the early days of TV animation is because voice acting was largely considered illegitimate work for entertainers.

In the dawn of talky animation, there was no such thing as "cartoon voice actor" as an actual job. Popeye was first voiced by a radio comedian (Will Costello) and then one of the studio artists took over for him after he quit (Jack Mercer). Walt Disney voiced Mickey Mouse because shit who else was gonna do it? And when he finally quit, he gave the part to the Sound FX technician (Jim McDonald).

Mel Blanc had to beg for the job as "voice over guy" at Warner Bros because they didn't think they needed such an employee. And he only demeaned himself to doing THAT because he couldn't get an in with radio (Blanc didn't start getting radio gigs until AFTER he made a name for himself doing cartoons).

"Voice actor" really wasn't a thing back then.

If you think his Adventure Time appearance sounded bad, try listening to the Bob's Burgers appearance he made a couple years after that. The guy was STRUGGLING to get his trademark voice. But to Goldthwait's credit, he transitioned into being a director and has been putting out movies, so his whole career didn't die with his voice.

Didn't Olive Oyl's VA take over for Jack Mercer for the role as Popeye?

As for Mel, I think he got the job after Porky's original VA's Stuttering was becoming too troublesome for the animators.

that's sad to hear, cause there's some roles i would've loved to have heard him do.

He looked quite fit and hale on Letterman in 81 (that's on Youtube if you wanted to see) and seemed like he could easily live another 20 years. It was really only in his last couple years (85 onward?) when he started to become weakened physically and needed an oxygen tank at which point he had to give up the yelling characters because he didn't have the lung capacity for it anymore.

Jeff Bennett
Diedrich Bader
Karl Wahlgren
Eric Bauza
Crispin Freeman
Mark Hamill
Greg Ellis
Corey Burton
Grey Griffin
Maurice Lamaurche

The closest thing to celebrities voicing cartoons were Orson Welles voicing Unicron in the Transformers Movie, and all those guest appearances with 70s celebrities done on Scooby Doo.

great list user.

Mel smoked cigarettes since he was a kid. He became weakened because of emphysema and breathing problems bought own by smoking.

At least Bobcat had the dignity to retire when his voice was toasted unlike Julie Kadaver.

>Didn't Olive Oyl's VA take over for Jack Mercer for the role as Popeye?

Wha? No, Popeye was never voiced by a woman. Olive Oyl had an early VA with a gruff voice that didn't last very long. Mae Questel (Betty Boop) came in and became the Olive Oyl everyone recognizes.

Will Costello was the first Popeye, but got in arguments with the FLeischers and quit after something like 13 shorts. Jack Mercer, who was an artist and story man at the studio and was known for being able to imitate Costello's Popeye, took over the role and literally held it exclusively until the early 80s when he died (I think the quick title sequence voice over in the live-action Popeye movie was his final appearance). Maurice Lamarche then took over for a while, then Billy West for a little bit, then Tom Kenny almost got the part for Genndy's killed Popeye movie.

Do Phil Harris and Peggy Lee count?

Mel only died because he fell out of his hospital bed and broke some vital organs. If his bed had railings up, he probably might've lived a bit longer.

>Troy Baker
He'll never rise higher than just being Hamill 2.0

Marge's VA is getting paid well, and the writing in Simpsons has gotten so basic that anyone can do it with minimal effort.

Despite that, it doesn't seem like it started to really affect him until his last few years.

Fuck, that's worse than the way George Jetson's VA died.

Smoking is what ended Don Messick's career, which is really sad. He lost his voice in the mid 90s and could no longer play Scooby or Boo Boo or do any of his signature roles. He died less than a year later after falling into a severe depression because voice acting was his life.

thx

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is that all you see Troy as, just his Joker?

Most people alive today don't even realize that Mae Questel was doing an impersonation of singer Helen Kane.

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Actually that's not what happened. He gave up smoking and consequently lost that rasp some of his characters had. And he didn't retire from voice acting, in fact he died soon after a stroke he had while doing a recording session.

Lot of VAs either retired or Died because of lung problems. Paul Winchell had to give up the role of Tigger because he couldn't do the voice anymore.

reminds me how Rob Paulsen had throat cancer a couple years ago but managed to beat his.

Does VA work increase the possibility of throat cancer, at least if your voices are very strenuous?

Actors are the most overpaid and underworked people in the entertainment industry. In all honesty they should be making pennies compared to the majority of the entertainment work force.

Jack Mercer did voice female characters from time to time because he had a naturally high voice.

VA work is pretty challenging and can strain your vocal cords depending on the role.

It could but then a lot of the examples in here were huge smokers. Also the entire BTAS cast chain smoked.

i don't know that question, all i know is that Rob only told 10 people of this (Maurice LaMarche, Tress MacNeille, Jess Harnell were among those he told), he didn't want too many people to know and go easy on him.

I don't see this as a huge problem when historically the pool of voice actors never ever grew. It was always the same few people getting every single role under the sun for decades.

It gets really old when Grey DeLise, Christine Cavanaugh, Cree Summer, Billy West, and John Dimaggio is the voice of fucking everyone every time no matter what for almost thirty years.

I would rather comedians start picking up roles than see the same 5 people get everything and are only replaced when they die.

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Christine Cavanaugh died years ago.

I'm not sure if Julie is entirely the problem. It could also be that they don't have proper voice directing or sound mixing anymore or do more than one take.

F. Still cant believe it

I think Lion King really solidified it. It was a cast of regular celebrities and the first time they hired a contemporary musician to write the music, which they did a few more times in later movies. And after that almost every actor wanted to play a part in a Disney feature.

Like mentioned earlier, Mel Blanc, June Foray, and Jack Mercer voiced every goddamn thing from WWII until the Reagan years.

That's what I mean, Simpsons writing and directing is that simple. The writers play it safe as to not offend people anymore.

Cancer is cancer - it's not triggered by physical injury like shredded cords, however women typically start losing the ability to voice act in their 40s and are basically done by 60. Because the voice box is so differently shaped thanks to the adam's apple and how the body handles proteins men typically don't lose their voice until their 70s.

Frank Sinatra did a voice in WFRR though.

That's because the pay for VA work is pretty shit, like a few hundred dollars per cartoon.

>Does VA work increase the possibility of throat cancer, at least if your voices are very strenuous?

Yeah, but only in the circumstances where you injure your throat and increase the risk of bacterial build up and infection. Its actually common for VAs to bloody their throats if it's a really taxing performance (Peter Cullen coughed up blood after roaring for Kong in King Kong Lives, Billy West had to spend a week drinking honey after bloodying his throat voicing Popeye). Each time you do that, you're damaging your cells, risking infection, and fucking up your body's ability to repair itself.

I mean, Michael Douglas got throat cancer because he ate out too many women and the bacteria from their vaginal cavities infected his throat and messed him up. Gross, I know, but there are risks. Julie Kavner and Mark Hamill will never sound the same again because they spent 20-30 years abusing their throats playing their characters. They may not get throat cancer but they injured themselves permanently.

>however women typically start losing the ability to voice act in their 40s and are basically done by 60

That's only if you try to do a teenager/young adult voice because menopause tends to fuck with the timbre of women's voices.

Also a lot of actors didn't want to move over to voice because screenactor's benefits and residuals are based on facetime on screen. How many lines and how many minutes are they seen on screen. Voice only means zero facetime and they get significantly less.

These days voice work is considered an easy paycheck. Go in, record for a few hours and in a day the job is done and they get paid and are out. A lot of actors and comedians consider it a comfy side job to their main work.

All those roaring and grunting noises must be fucking up Frank Welker's throat, and other factors explain why he sounds like shit in the new Scooby Doo movie

>Mark Hamill will never sound the same again because they spent 20-30 years abusing their throats playing their characters
That's only the Joker laugh that gives him problems. He can still do just the speaking voice fine. So no different than Mel Blanc having to let someone else do Mr. Spacely's yell in the Jetsons Movie.

I vaguely remember this being a plot point for the last episode of ATHF

The vocal cords are very easily injured because it's just cartilage and there's no nerve endings in there so you can damage them and not even realize it.

Or maybe making her redo that one line in the movie about 40x.

Diedrich Bader did pretty aight for himself but what's he been in lately. Genuinely curious.

American Housewife, Milo Murphy and Big hero 6 the show

He voiced a soup can in Wet Hot American Summer, then Loren Bouchard put him in Home Movies, and kept giving him work in every single show he produced throughout the 00s until finally other people started hiring him.

now he is a big name prick that refuses to record with any other actor on Archer because that show is mostly beneath him.

Also the Tangled show playing the guard

That's because Archer is now shit, and the premises moved away from spy thriller to whatever sticks. Combined that with Archer being portrayed as a manchild, it's no wonder he doesn't like the role.

Most people do.

>Mentioned that in the same post

Yea that was covered when I said "only replaced when they die" in the whole same few voice actors stick to their jobs and have to be dead before someone else can ever be hired.

might have a point if you try spelling out what you mean. not everyone can recognize every single collection of random letters

Don't forget Disney had his own crew of VAs (Sterling Holloway, Billy Bletcher, Thurl Ravenscroft, Paul Frees and many others)

Paul Frees is more talented than any voice actor working today. Man did virtually every voice on the original Pirates of the Caribbean

He was like that since around 2010 or so. He thinks he is too much of a star to really bother giving effort for a small time production in Atlanta. He records all his lines solo and sends them to Floyd County and the rest of the cast works around it when they do actual recordings for an episode.

>Forgetting Pinto Colvig

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Georgia is a right to work state and non union vA work. The Sheriff's original VA, from Squidbillies got replaced because of it.

Corey Means, Frylock's VA is also homeless work working other jobs because of it.

what does any of this have to do with john Benjamin in Archer?

I met Eric in person once, extremely nice, humble guy.

We even poked fun at someone’s car eyelashes together.

>Joel from The Last Of Us
>Booker Dewiitt
>Batman in both Lego Batman games and Telltale Batman
>Greed in Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood
>Baki
>Loki

he's got more than just being a guy who can do Hamill's Joker.

Lot of Hollywood Companies go to Georgia because it's cheaper to film over there than in LA or NY.

>Eric Bauza does not exist

Fuck, I knew I forgot some of them. Clarence Nash and Marcellite Garner were awesome too

Walt himself was a pretty good voice actor- I think he still had the best voice for Mickey before his smoking habit ruined it. Wayne Allwine seemed too jovial and the new voice is too rough.

And after the new abortion bill, they are going right back out of Georgia again.

Kari Wahlgren is super cute.

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To put a big name on the poster to try and draw in normally wouldn't care for the movie, but oh hey it's got so and so in it and I like them, I think I'll check this out.

Welker has retired from most of his roles. How did he sound as the Cave of Wonders in the Aladdin remake? That's the most taxing voice he's done in a long time. He mostly just does Fred in Scooby stuff now, which is just his regular voice so he doesn't have to strain himself.

>Paul Frees is more talented than any voice actor working today.

Except Corey Burton, who can voice-match all of Paul Frees' characters identically (and can also flawlessly voice-match Hans Conreid).

>Now EVERYONE wants to be a voice actor, but that wasn't the case for like the first 75 years. It was mostly something to be ashamed of.
Fun fact: that's pretty much how people felt about stage actors up until the movies came along.

A LOT of random people on twitter advertise that they are voice actors without having a single credit to their name. I doubt they have even recorded any lines in their own fan films.

And yet somehow Dani Filth still goes on tour ...
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Not with that makeup job anyway.

>Nowadays studios are increasingly just using comedians or celebrities to do voices, especially in animated movies. Why?
Because they're more marketable. No one knows or gives a shit about those people in the general population, but a celebrity has an existing fanbase and reputation you can use.

That still doesn't justify what they did in the Jetsons Movie.

What OP doesn't seem to be aware of is that Hollywood studios still employ career VAs to record scratch tracks for the characters in their big budget animated movies. The VAs come in and do all the multiple line reads so the inflection and humor etc. is just right.

Then the celebrity comes in, listens to the scratch track, and matches it for the audio track that will actually be heard in the film. Listening to a scratch track and copying the VA's performance also means the celebrity can get in and out of the recording studio as quickly as possible.

So VAs that complain about celebrities "stealing their jobs" are full of it. They still get hired and paid to record scratch tracks. They're REALLY upset that they can't hear themselves in the actual movies because the celebrities record the real performances, so it's all a matter of ego, not money.

Yeah that's why on the Simpsons all of Bart's girlfriends are voiced by Hollywood actresses who fail hard at sounding like a little girl.

Unless you're Tress MacNeille who has sounded 60 since she was 25.

It's also mostly bullshit except for a handful of them like the principal cast of the Simpsons. Anybody making a lot of money from a voice performance is more likely to be famous for other work.

Joker and "serious" voice.

Pretty sure being able to point to successful things you actually appear in is a standard way of furthering your career in the industry. Also pretty sure they don't get paid as much for work that's never going to be public.

>>Didn't Olive Oyl's VA take over for Jack Mercer for the role as Popeye?
>Wha? No, Popeye was never voiced by a woman. Olive Oyl had an early VA with a gruff voice that didn't last very long. Mae Questel (Betty Boop) came in and became the Olive Oyl everyone recognizes.

Questel absolutely did Popeye's voice for a few mid-1940s shorts when Mercer was away at war. Here she is doing him in SHAPE AHOY.
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She's not great, but you wouldn't think it was her, either (and she's better than Popeye radio voice artist Floyd Buckley, who voiced him terribly in the one cartoon BE KIND TO AMINALS).

Since his first go at it in When You Dish Upon A Star, Alec Baldwin has done quite a bit of voice acting.

Where else are they going to film? They go to Georgia in the first place because liberal states like LA and NY have pretty high taxes, which are causing the rich celebrities to leave the state for low tax states like Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina and the Middle of the country.

>Cancer is cancer - it's not triggered by physical injury like
It certainly can. George Harrison developed cancer and died not long after a burglar broke into his home and stabbed him. The stress from the injuries probably triggered it.

some other state willing to give them a tax break. There are at least 46 more to pick from.

yet Hollywood has no problem filming in dozens of countries where abortions have been illegal for decades and are worse at stuff like gay rights and they bend over backwards trying to keep China happy. just more proof Hollywood doesn't really care they just jump on every trendy bandwagon they can

Jack and John Stewart aren't even remotely similar

Well yea those nations were only upholding their proud culture and heritage traditions. Things are only backward and bad when straight white men in the US do it. Just like America being the only nation in all of human history to have ever practiced slavery.

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>he says as he posts a skit from the most liberal faggots on the planet, starring a man who flew out of the country so he could star in a movie directed by a convicted child rapist

Only Red States are willing to give them the tax breaks. Blue States have a history of corruption, high taxes, and other complicated shit that fucks with businesses.

Based

They used to care about freeing Tibet once upon a time...

Proud culture and heritage. It's only evil judgmental American cis white males that really rape and destroy lives. Quit judging other cultures

And then they want to move in and make it like the states they move away from. Go figure.

they don't have star-power

This is the correct answer.

The Rescuers could be seen as the turning point for Disney, featuring Bob Newhart, Eva Gabor, Geraldine Page, and radio personality Jim Jordan. This was followed up by Mickey Rooney, Kurt Russell, Pearl Bailey, and Sandy Duncan in The Fox and the Hound. Then we got John Hurt in The Black Cauldron, Vincent Price in The Great Mouse Detective, and Oliver & Company using Billy Joel and Bette Midler as a selling point (while also featuring Cheech Marin and Robert Loggia).

Didn't he die of a stroke in the middle of a recording session while also blind and in a wheelchair?

>Tom Kenny
>Tara Strong
>John DiMaggio
>all still gainfully employed
What are Jonathon Taylor Thomas and Matthew Broderick up to these days?

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Yes.