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...work in front of the mike was a different matter. What aspiring movie star goes into cartoon voice work? One who has the comic aptitude for it. Murphy provided the voice for Gloria the penguin, the hero's gal pal in Happy Feet, as well as Tank the Eighth Grader on the Disney animated series Pepper Ann. By the time she was 20 she'd won the role of Luanne, Peggy Hill's dizzy niece, on King of the Hill - and, just because she could, she also voiced the role of Bobby Hill's best friend Joseph (until Joseph...
...died in the propane blast. She later dated a series of jerks (voiced by Matthew McConaughey, Owen Wilson, Michael Keaton) and finally married one of them (Tom Waits). But her main function was to vex her uncle, the very conservative Hank Hill (voiced by the show's co-creator, Mike Judge) - once by joining the Communist party, and mostly by having taken Hank's den as her bedroom when she moved in. (See 25 people who mattered...
...City co-owner and chief executive Andrew Alexander attributes this to the intelligence expected of cast members: "Respect your audience. Keep the bar as high as you can. Don't talk down to your audience, and don't go for the obvious joke." The troupe - whose early members included Mike Nichols, Joan Rivers and Del Close - became known for its brainy wit as seen in sketches like "Football Comes to the University of Chicago." The routine shows a coach's unsuccessful attempt to teach four students the rules of the game. But they can't seem to operate outside...
...some losses, save some money and perhaps appease some shareholders by letting Tiger go. However, Woods reaches Gatorade's core market, the sports fans who emulate their heroes. The ones who, as the company famously framed it in the early '90s, want to "be like Mike." If Tiger rebounds, a whole new generation of fans will want to be like Tiger. Gatorade can't lose them...
...years ago." Why is it higher? "I think it's only natural you're going to see that as soldiers come back [from war], you know, with the dwell time that they have [before returning to war], that we're going to have a higher rate." Last week, Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, said pressure on the Army means that for the next two years, soldiers will continue to ship off to their next combat tour without sufficient rest at home...