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The Great Blondie Comic Strip Crossover kicks up another notch today with a quick mention in B.C. and with many of the invited characters showing up in the Blondie strip. I think some of the guests aren't going to receive invitations in their strips until next week but, hey, these are the funnies. They're not supposed to be logical. I also don't understand how Garfield has suddenly learned how to talk. [NOTE: I'm going to try to link to all the strips involved in this event but some of them may be behind subscription walls or on sites that require registration.]

Yesterday, I posted this list of which strips are involved in the promotion and when. Apparently, the person who furnished it to me got it from the rec.arts.comic.strips newsgroup, mainly from a posting there by D.D. Degg. You should know that r.a.c.s. is a fine gathering place for fans of newspaper strips and a good place to visit if you have a question about that topic or if you just want to discuss them.

The Blondie newspaper strip will be 75 years old on September 8. To celebrate, members of her clan are paying visits to other strips to invite their characters to a big party. The festivities start today and depending on my mood, I may or may not provide links to all the strips involved, which lead up to an appearance in the feature by George W. and Laura Bush on September 4. If Cindy Sheehan is still camped out in Crawford on that date, we will probably hear remarks that Bush is too busy to meet with the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq but he has plenty of time to visit Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead.

In any case, because I promised Len Wein I'd dig up this information, here's the current schedule of crossover strips…

• Saturday, August 20: Garfield, Rose is Rose
• Sunday, August 21: B.C.
• Monday, August 22: Mutts
• Tuesday, August 23: Beetle Bailey, Mother Goose and Grimm
• Wednesday, August 24: The Family Circus
• Saturday, August 27: Hi and Lois
• Sunday, August 28: For Better or For Worse, Sally Forth
• Wednesday, August 31: The Family Circus
• Friday, September 2: The Lockhorns
• Saturday, September 3: Dennis the Menace
• August 29-September 3: Curtis
• August 29-September 4: Hagar the Horrible
• Dates Unknown: Zits, Wizard of Id, Gasoline Alley, Dick Tracy, Bizarro

Interesting that most of the obits now appearing for Paul Winchell are headlined something like, "Paul Winchell, voice of Tigger in 'Winnie the Pooh,' dies at 82" and then the fact that he was a pioneer of early television, the most admired ventriloquist of his time and the inventor of the artificial heart are kind of like bonus, "oh, by the way…" details. I know reporters are supposed to look at every story and ask themselves what about it will relate most directly to the readers, and I agree that Tigger was better known today than most of Paul's other accomplishments. Still, it does seem to trivialize his more important achievements to rank them that way. Paul was a genuine superstar of 1950's TV and his artificial heart hastened the invention of a more advanced one that has saved lives. Somehow, the priorities seem a bit askew to me.

But then again, Paul himself often seemed like one of those folks who's perpetually baffled as to what to put on their tax form under "occupation." The times I was with him, the conversation could be a bit schizoid because he'd be in the mood to talk about the latest medical breakthroughs and it would seem like a silly diversion to ask him about his early TV work. Or he'd get to talking about that end of his life and he wouldn't want to discuss anything else…except, of course, if he suddenly recalled a good dirty joke.

We hired him a few times to perform voices on the Garfield cartoon show. Once, it was on the same day that Buddy Hackett was in, and Buddy had spent about five minutes telling us a particularly filthy (but funny) story about a stutterer who visits a brothel. Later, after Mr. Hackett had departed, Paul arrived. When he realized he had an all-male audience, he told us the latest joke he'd heard. That's right. The exact same joke, almost verbatim. We all had to stand there and laugh and make like we hadn't heard it an hour earlier. Paul's performance of it, by the way, was better than Buddy's.

I think that was the same recording session where I said one of the stupidest things I've ever said in my life…and there's no small list of examples from which to choose. Paul was assigned two different roles — the elderly operator of a small, mom-and-pop market…and the evil corporate supermarket mogul who was trying to buy him out. At one point in the script, there was a scene of the two men arguing with each other and usually when that occurs, you try to assign the parts to two different actors. This time, it wasn't practical so I had Paul play both and I actually said to him, "I'm sorry, Paul, but I've got you talking to yourself here on page three. You think you can handle it?"

There was a pause and everyone in the studio looked at me like I was full-goose crazy, which I guess I was. I had just said that to Paul Winchell, the undisputed heavyweight champ at having public conversations with yourself. Everyone laughed and Paul said something like, "So, who's working your head today?" Needless to say, his dual performances were flawless.

I always felt a little in awe of Paul, and unable to properly communicate to him what his presence on TV had meant to me as a child. I told him how I'd treasured my Jerry Mahoney ventriloquist figure and practiced endlessly to try and do what he did. I was not the first person to say this to him — not even the hundredth, I'm sure — but he never seemed to know how to respond to it. I'm not sure he understood how valuable his example had been to so many in my generation, even though most of us Winchell fans hadn't grown up to become voice-tossers or even performers. He had his own great reverence and debt to Edgar Bergen and rather fiercely resisted the compliment that he was at least as great as — if not greater than — Bergen. Whether it was true or not — and Paul sure seemed to think it wasn't — he just didn't want to hear it or deal with it. Which is not to say he wasn't proud of things he'd accomplished. It's just that you could never gauge where that pride might lie at any given moment and when you might venture near some sore spot.

On her weblog today, Paul's daughter April (from his second of three marriages) writes, "My father was a very troubled and unhappy man. If there is another place after this one, it is my hope that he now has the peace that eluded him on earth." Based on my admittedly-limited encounters with Paul, I'd say that's a valid assessment and a truly appropriate wish.

The Animal Planet network is rerunning a couple of shows that may be of interest to cartoon fans. Animal Icons has an episode tonight (and it reruns Saturday morning) called "Animated Animals" that includes interviews with June Foray, Billy West and other great voice folks. There's also an episode about Garfield, which I haven't seen, which runs tomorrow and again on Saturday afternoon, and one on Star Wars creatures and one on Japanese movie monsters. Thanks to George Karlias for reminding me about this stuff.

I don't know where the above photo of comedian and character actor Howard Morris is from. Perhaps it's a picture from when he was on Broadway in Call Me Mister or Finian's Rainbow. Perhaps it's from one of the many TV shows he did with Sid Caesar, starting in 1949 with the Admiral Broadway Revue. Caesar was the greatest, everyone agreed, and Howie was able to match him note for note, dialect for dialect, playing support and sidekick on several programs, including the legendary Your Show of Shows. It could even be a still from one of his early movie appearances…maybe Boys' Night Out, where he co-starred with James Garner, Tony Randall and Kim Novak. How many times did we, his friends, hear the story of how one weekend during the shooting, he chickened out on an invitation to spend quality time with Ms. Novak?

Most of us called him "Howie." He was a fiery, funny little man who got mad and married easily, sometimes both at once. He was very proud of a lifetime of acting but very insecure about everything he did…which was amazing because he did so many different things and did them so well.

He was a director of TV shows including The Andy Griffith Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Hogan's Heroes, Get Smart and Bewitched, and of feature films, including With Six You Get Eggroll, Don't Drink the Water and his favorite, Who's Minding the Mint? (But he actually made the real money helming commercials — hundreds of them, including many of the classics for McDonald's in the sixties. They made one of his many ex-wives very wealthy.)

He was a voiceover actor, speaking for many characters including Jet Screamer and other roles on The Jetsons, Beetle Bailey, Jughead on the Archie shows, Atom Ant, Mr. Peebles on the Magilla Gorilla show, Wade Duck on Garfield and Friends, and hundreds of others. (But he actually made the real money voicing commercials. Remember the little koala who said he hated Qantas Airlines? That was Howie, and the role made another of his many ex-wives very wealthy.)

He was an on-camera actor, with credits ranging from The Nutty Professor with Jerry Lewis to High Anxiety with Mel Brooks and Splash with Tom Hanks. (But the thing everyone remembers is Ernest T. Bass, the rock-tossing misfit on The Andy Griffith Show. Howie was only in five episodes but he made such an impression that everyone thinks he was on it all the time…a lucky circumstance. The last decade or so, Howie's main source of income was signing autographed photos and making personal appearances for fans of that classic series. And no ex-wife got much of that loot.)

Howie was just a gusher of Show Business History and to sit with him was always an amazing experience. He worked with everyone and near as I can tell, always had their respect. He worked with me, off and on for close to two decades, and always had mine. He was a brilliant, spontaneous actor who could read the same line of dialogue ten times and do it a minimum of eleven different ways. On Garfield and Friends, my big insight as a director came when I realized that the less Howie knew about what he was reading, the more likely he was to do something stunning. So I'd explain the script to all the other actors before we rolled tape, and I'd keep Howie largely in the dark. Often, on that first take when he was reading Line 1 without any idea of what he'd find in Line 2, he would do something that neither he nor any other actor could have devised in a thousand attempts.

Howie died yesterday at the age of 85. It was not a surprise — he'd been in poor health for some time — but it still hit me like a stone lobbed through the window of the Mayberry Sheriff's Station by Ernest T. There will be formal obits up in the next few days. I'll link to them and you'll see what else this man did, even beyond what I've mentioned here.

But what they might not tell you is how much we adored this man — "we" being those who were honored to be around him and to work with him. He was not an easy person to know but once you got past that fake abrasive exterior that represented perhaps his finest acting job, you encountered a wonderful interior, filled with passion and compassion and I'm sorry if this all isn't cleverer and pithier, but the more you loved the deceased, the harder these things are to write. I'll post more about Howie when it finally sinks in that I can't call him up for lunch, take him to Canter's and watch as he insults the waitresses, the busboys and everyone dining within earshot…and they all love it, every one of them. If I'd been an actor when he was, I'd have wanted to do everything he did, except I would have gotten married a few less times, and I wouldn't have said no to Kim Novak.

(Quick Aside: I just spoke to his terrific son David, who took such good care of him between and sometimes even during his many marriages. No funeral arrangements have been made yet. I'll let you know when I know something.)

Thanks to all who've written with concern about my mother and myself. She's better now but we spent another long night in the U.C.L.A. Medical Center Emergency Room…and by the way, the doctor part of the place is super-efficient but I've never seen unhealthier food than they have in their vending machines. Talk about drumming up business. You'd think a hospital would have trail mix and fruit and maybe a hard-boiled egg or two but no. It was all Ho-Hos and Ding-Dongs and a kind of cinnamon bun so noxious that at 4:30 in the A.M., I watched a famished lady buy a package, take one bite and then shot-put the rest into a dumpster across the room. The vending machines did have microwave popcorn and microwave oatmeal-in-a-cup but as the waiting room had no microwave oven, those didn't seem too healthy, either.

I'm way too far behind on work to write about all we've been through here. When I do, I'll expand on what I think I said earlier about how the doctors and nurses and paramedics have all been terrific but that the non-medical folks and the red tape in the system are insane. They keep making mistakes and then no one seems to have the power or responsibility to fix those mistakes. I'll tell you all about some of them once I finish a script that should have been done long ago. If I can just manage to get a couple more days without having to go to some medical facility and argue with people, it will be.

Here are a few dangling topics and follow-ups…

• Yes, I did receive a copy of Rowan Atkinson Live, thank you. Thirty of you offered copies and two just sent them, and I am grateful to you all. By the way, several said, "I bought this and I've never watched it." You should. It's hilarious.
• Another thirty or so of you sent suggestions of good dial-up Internet Service Providers. I'm trying AllVantage on a month-to-month basis and so far, all seems to be well. I'll let you know if it ever stops being well.
• The release date on the fourth volume of Garfield and Friends on DVD has been moved up to August 30. To answer an oft-emailed query, this is the one that includes the first episode with the Singing Ants ("Picnic Panic") and there are plenty of great guest star voices including Victoria Jackson, James Earl Jones, John Moschitta, Don Knotts, Don Messick, Stan Freberg, Buddy Hackett, Bill Kirchenbauer, Jewel Shepard, Dick Gautier, Paul Winchell, June Foray and Charles Aidman. There will be one more volume of DVDs after this and I have no idea when it'll be out…but it does look like we'll make it through all five volumes without any special features or commentary tracks or anything of the sort. Sorry…but it wasn't up to me.
• Yes, I know I still owe you the story about Marty Feldman I promised long ago.
• In this posting, I asked for someone to suggest an article that presented a different view of the Iraq War than the one to which I linked. Russ Maheras suggested this one and Buzz Dixon nominated this article. I'd like to suggest that everyone also read The Downing Street Memo, which would probably be Exhibit A in impeachment proceedings if a Democrat had taken us to war on these terms.

Lastly, I owe an awful lot of e-mails to an awful lot of people. If you're one of them, please be patient. I'm back on deadline for now so there won't be a lot of messages getting answered and there won't be a lot of stuff on this page for a while. All this will pass.

That there's the cover of Volume 3 of the DVD releases of Garfield and Friends, a cartoon show I wrote and co-produced and voice-directed and, unlike some I've done, actually watched. There will be five of these sets in all and once they've all been issued out, all 121 half-hours of the series will be out there. This one comes out April 19 and you can pre-order it from Amazon by clicking here. What's in it? Well, no one's told me but if I've done the math correctly on this, it should contain episodes with guest voices Jonathan Winters, Marvin Kaplan, Carl Ballantine, Pat Buttram, Rod Roddy, Paul Winchell, Chuck McCann, June Foray and a whole bunch of other fun folks. I'll let you know for sure if and when anyone ever sends me a list.

The second volume of Garfield and Friends (that show I wrote years ago) was released on DVD last month. I was told some time back that the third volume would follow in May of 2005, that the fourth will follow in October, and that the fifth and final would be in March of 2006. (That will cover all 121 half-hours that were produced, including the 48 that have never been syndicated.) But several of you have written me to note that Amazon is now taking advance orders for Volume 3, to be released April 19…so you now know as much about this as I do. I don't think we're going to see any extras.

I had nothing to do with it…but I laughed out loud at The Twelve Days of Christmas, Garfield style.

Two additional points on Mr. Berman: Turns out, his out-of-print CD — the one recorded in 1995 — is back in print, after all. At least, they seem to have it over at www.laugh.com, which features a terrific selection of great comedy albums, including many that were originally on vinyl. They also have CD versions of Shelley's first three albums, including Inside Shelley Berman, for a few bucks less than Amazon charges. I don't get a commission if you order from there but they're so good, I'll suggest you buy 'em there, just to encourage you to buy 'em.

(Actually, they're not all good. Inside Shelley Berman is great. Outside Shelley Berman is very, very good. The Edge of Shelley Berman is much weaker, and I believe Shelley has said that it was done as a contractual commitment and that he never cared for it. Live Again!, which is the one I heard recorded, is terrific. Maybe someday soon, they'll put out his other ones, including A Personal Appearance and The Sex Life of the Primate, both of which were wonderful.)

Also: Someone wrote to ask if there was any reason I didn't mention that I directed Shelley Berman when he did a voice on Garfield and Friends. No reason, other than that it was such a minor moment in his career that I didn't think it warranted mention. He was very funny and very professional, and he seemed a little embarrassed when I tried to tell him how much his work had always meant to me. One of the great parts of doing that show was that I got to hire a number of folks who were in that category, like Stan Freberg, Jonathan Winters, Imogene Coca and Paul Winchell. I'm sure Shelley Berman doesn't even remember that hour or so we spent in a recording studio but I sure won't ever forget it.

By now, you've probably watched Garfield and Friends, Volume 1 to the point of wearing grooves in the DVDs. You're just dying to get another two dozen episodes of the popular cartoon series that got me nominated for a couple of Emmy Awards I didn't win. Well, you've still got about six weeks to wait until they release Garfield and Friends, Volume 2 but you can order it right this sec from Amazon. Among the guest voice performers in this set are Pat Buttram, Louise DuArt, Frank Buxton, Carl Ballantine, Chick Hearn (yes, the late basketball announcer), Greg Berg, Jesse White, Stan Freberg, Gary Owens and June Foray, all appearing with the great Lorenzo Music, Gregg Berger, Thom Huge, Frank Welker, Howie Morris and Julie Payne.

In answer to a couple of questions: This set includes "Invasion of the Big Robots," which was the episode where Garfield makes a wrong turn and finds himself on an episode of a different cartoon show that looks suspiciously like a cross between G.I. Joe and The Transformers. It also includes "Video Airlines," which is the one that features frequent references to the movie, Kung Fu Creatures on the Rampage II.  Hope you like Volume 2. Hope you buy Volume 2.

Since Garfield and Friends is now emerging on DVD, I'm getting a lot of questions about the series. One that turns up often is, "What's the deal with the Klopman Diamond?" For a year or three on the show, it seemed like we couldn't go a week without someone mentioning the Klopman Diamond and folks wonder what it was and why we kept talking about it. So here's the deal with the Klopman Diamond. It's from an old joke. If you Google "Klopman Diamond," you'll find dozens of sites that repeat the joke and…well, here. I saved you the trouble of Googling. This is the joke, freshly cut-and-pasted from the first site I just hit…

A businessman boarded a plane to find, sitting next to him, an elegant woman wearing the largest, most stunning diamond ring he had ever seen.

He asked her about it.

"This is the Klopman Diamond," she said, "It is beautiful, but there is a terrible curse that goes with it."

"What's the curse?" the man asked.

"Mr. Klopman."

That's the joke the way I first heard it on (I think) Johnny Carson's show. But I then heard it in a lot of places and it always intrigued me that the name "Klopman" stayed with it. As jokes get handed around and told and retold, they're often changed or embellished. Somehow though, those who tell this one seem to sense that they can't improve on the name of Klopman.

It's really the name that fits best and don't take my word for it. Do some scientific research. Rent a lab and a clipboard and some white lab coats. Pay people to come in for testing after first pre-screening them to make sure they haven't heard any jokes about diamonds. Then divide them into three groups. Tell the joke to Group A but make it the Fazzblatt Diamond. Tell it to Group B as the Lipsitz Diamond. Then tell it to Group C as the Klopman Diamond. You will get the biggest laughs from Group C…by far. Whoever devised the joke with the name Klopman really knew what he or she was doing.

The specificity of the name Klopman amused me so I stuck it into an episode of Garfield and Friends. Everyone in the recording session recognized the reference and laughed so I added it to another episode we were recording the same day. Everyone laughed again so it became a running gag for a while. I even did a whole episode about the Klopman Diamond. I don't know why it's funny but it is. If you rent the lab and run the test, see if you can figure it out.

December 7 may turn out to be a date that shall live in infamy for animation buffs trying to not spend money on DVDs from the Warner TV animation library. That's when they plan to release boxed sets of the complete run of Top Cat, the second season of The Flintstones, Volume 1 of Superman: The Animated Series, Volume 2 of Batman: The Animated Series and a one-disc release of the movie, A Man Called Flintstone. How much will all these run you? Well, let's do some math. If you pay the manufacturers' suggested retail price for Top Cat, The Flintstones and Batman (which you won't), you'll spend $44.98 apiece. The Superman set is $26.99 and the Flintstones movie is $19.99. So right there, you have $221.90 if you pay sticker price which, like we said, you're not going to do. Not unless you're a dum-dum. Based on usual discountings, I'd say these six releases will run around $130…and there's a special rebate coupon where you can get five to ten bucks back if purchasing multiple volumes.

Should these sets sound expensive, let's note that the Time-Warner video folks have lowered their price structure. The Jetsons collection released a few months ago contained 24 episodes and a few extras for a list price of $64.98. The Top Cat set has 30 episodes and more special features for twenty bucks less.

Now, the bad news: You may remember appeals on this website to locate prints of the original Top Cat end titles. A number of you responded and the people assembling the DVD located and received a few nuggets of the lost footage. For reasons I'm not sure I can explain, this material will not appear on the set. It has something to do with lawyers and legal problems and I'm just as annoyed about it as you are. But there will be some other wonderful bonus goodies, including interviews with all the surviving members of the voice cast and a look at a storyboard drawn by the late, great Harvey Eisenberg.

Lastly, I should note that the second volume of Garfield and Friends is also scheduled for a 12/7/04 release. This will give DVD patrons an ample chance to get sick of yours truly. A Superman episode that I wrote is on the Superman set, I'm heard on the commentary track of the Top Cat set, and I wrote or co-wrote everything on the Garfield collection. Last few times I've been with Leonard Maltin, I've razzed him about how he is now on more DVDs than Jimmy Stewart. If this keeps up, he'll be able to use my own line on me.

I was upstairs hosting panels during the peak afternoon hours so, they tell me, I missed the heavy traffic. It was pretty bad, some said, and I heard a few friends wonder out loud: What is the breaking point for this convention? Every building has its limits and if the San Diego Convention Center, large as it is, hits its maximum capacity, what do they do? I suggested they equip some of the video gaming booths with live ammunition. That might thin the herd out a bit.

We had packed houses for all four panels I did up in Room 6AB, which seats a couple thousand people. First up was Quick Draw! with Scott Shaw!, Jeff Smith and Sergio Aragonés. The idea of this game, if you've never seen it, is that we get three swift cartoonists up there, drawing on projection devices so that everyone can see what they're drawing. Then I throw challenges at them, sometimes taking suggestions from the audience. Not much more I can say about this here except that the audience sure seemed to enjoy most of it.

Then we had the annual Cartoon Voice Panel, this year with Neil Ross, Gregg Berger, Tom Kenny, Billy West and Joe Alaskey…five of the best in the biz. I stuck them with reading (without prep time) a script from the old Adventures of Superman radio show…and they all sure rose to the challenge. Someone made the comment after that if all radio dramas sounded as silly as this one, they'd still be around. Someone else remarked that the best thing about the panel was the obvious respect the five actors had for one another. Again, not much more I can report other than that Billy West — with all concurring — decried the notion that some producers have about installing "names" in animated projects, hiring folks who are known for their on-camera work. It does sometimes work — the leads in Shrek, for instance — but what happens a staggering percentage of the time is that top-notch voice actors are bypassed for folks who, in that capacity, are highly inept. A star name may help with a marketing campaign…but 8.5 out of ten times, the producer has to then accept for an inferior performance by someone who, though perhaps very gifted in some capacity, is simply operating outside their area of expertise. Anyone who saw our little panel today can testify what a seasoned, experienced voice actor can bring to a role.

Next up was my annual interview with Ray Bradbury. We discussed Michael Moore, the space program, Ray's passion for writing, the late Julius Schwartz, Ray's life before he sold his first story, his screenplay for Moby Dick, the time he found a "dinosaur skeleton" (actually part of an old roller coaster) on the beach, and many more topics. I even got him to tell the "Mr. Electrico" story that he told last week on the Dennis Miller Show by pointing out that we had a larger audience. The crowd was mesmerized, to say nothing of the interviewer.

Lastly, we filled darn near every seat in the house for our "spotlight" on the first lady of cartoon voice acting, June Foray. Aided by three fine voice talents (Chuck McCann, Gregg Berger and Joe Alaskey), we re-created a couple of golden moments from the Rocky & Bullwinkle program and quizzed June on an incredible career. At one point, I ran her through a list compiled by animation historian (and current voice of Bullwinkle J. Moose) Keith Scott. It was a partial accounting of radio shows on which she was heard and it included…let me just change margins here…

The Cavalcade of America, A Date With Judy, Sherlock Holmes (with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce), Mayor of the Town (with Lionel Barrymore), The Whistler, The Billie Burke Show, The Rudy Vallee Show, Stars Over Hollywood, The Al Pearce Show, This is My Best (with Orson Welles), Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge, Baby Snooks (with Fanny Brice), Dr. Christian (with Jean Hersholt), I Deal in Crime (with Bill Gargan), Jack Haley's Sealtest Village Store, Glamour Manor (with Kenny Baker), Phone Again Finnegan (with Stu Erwin), The Charlie McCarthy Show (with Edgar Bergen), The Dick Haymes Show, Fibber McGee and Molly, The Bob Hope Show, The Penny Singleton Show, Presenting Charles Boyer, Tex Williams's All-Star Western Theater, Red Ryder, The Screen Directors' Playhouse, The Screen Guild Theatre, The Lux Radio Theater, The Great Gildersleeve, My Favorite Husband (with Lucille Ball), Richard Diamond: Private Detective (with Dick Powell), and Martin Kane, Private Eye.

And we had a nice montage of June's career, assembled by my friend and co-host Earl Kress. It included her work with Stan Freberg on "St. George and the Dragonet," plus clips from a Donald Duck cartoon ("Trick or Treat," with June playing a witch named Witch Hazel), a Bugs Bunny cartoon ("Broomstick Bunny," with June playing a witch named Witch Hazel), plus episodes of Rocky & Bullwinkle, Dudley Do-Right, Garfield and Friends, Baby Looney Tunes, The Smurfs and a few others. We even tossed in a clip from an episode of the original Twilight Zone ("The Living Doll") in which June voiced a doll named Talky Tina who does the world a service by murdering Telly Savalas.

There were a lot of memorable moments today but if I could only save one, I'd save the sound of that huge audience, standing and cheering June Foray at the close of that event. It was almost an explosion of pure love and respect, and I can't think of anyone more deserving.

Good night, everyone.