This movie opened last weekend and the family trooped out to see it. I had seen segments of it last spring at an event I attended at Lincoln Center called “Animation Now” – along with sneak previews of The Curse of the Wererabbit, Madagascar, and Jerry Seinfeld’s Bee Movie which is due out next year. [...]

One hardly knows where to begin to review the weekend workshop I attended on Women in Animation, with the incredibly versatile Pat Fraley, the super talented audiobook narrator Hillary Huber, and the whacky and amazing Candi Milo. And as if that were not enough already, we also had a Q & A with casting director [...]

I’m on my way to New York today for a two-day workshop with Pat Fraley on Women in Animation. I will probably have a few words to say about it when I get back.

In January my Epson EPL-8000 printer refused to power up after only 14 years of flawless service. The 1-yr old Epson CX5400 was low on ink. And MCM had not yet sprung for a 2nd monitor for the sound booth and is still reading from paper scripts. The professionals don’t fix laser printers any more. [...]