Lou Scheimer, the main man behind the Filmation cartoon studio has died at the age of 85. I have a good, long story about Lou but I won't be able to post it here 'til sometime tomorrow. He was one of the good guys.
My friend Jeff Abraham and I had dinner last night the Souplantation near me. The Classic Creamy Tomato Soup was as good as ever. If I ran that chain, I'd have that soup all the time, not just now and then. In fact, I'd get rid of the salad bar and the dessert bar and the pasta bar and all the other soups and the breads and the baked potatoes and I'd just sell the Classic Creamy Tomato Soup. My chain might go bankrupt but at least I'd be happy in my soup-eating.
I mentioned here the other day a forthcoming documentary called I Know That Voice, all about people who do voices for cartoons. The film includes about 95 of the top 100 voice actors in the business these days plus me and it'll be available soon, mainly as an iTunes and Internet download. But there's a premiere screening on November 6 at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood with many of the interviewees attending. If you want to attend, you can score a ticket at their crowdfunding page. (I said before it was at the Chinese but it's the Egyptian. Okay, so I missed it by a continent or two. The change is disappointing as I was hoping they'd be putting June Foray's tonsils in the cement sidewalk or something…)