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The Sun strikes again. Our report last week on Nancy Cartwright becoming Mayor or Northridge California was no more than a misunderstanding based on false information printed in UK tabloid The Sun. Urban Legend site Snopes.com investigated the issue, with their findings backing up their assumption that she was actually named honorary mayor through the Northridge Chamber of Commerce. It is strictly a PR-type position which would allow Nancy to be involved with her local community, businesses, neighborhood and involves being part of or planning various events, gatherings, etc. in the area. The quote was taken out of context, omitting the “honorary” part and the word “elected” was inserted. Read More >>>

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Bart Simpson has been elected mayor of Northridge in Los Angeles – well his voice has, anyway. But before you hang your head at the latest bizarre American electoral decision, it is perhaps worth pointing out that it is actually a 47-year-old mother-of-two who has been elected. She just happens to voice the tearaway cartoon character. Nancy Cartwright provides the unmistakeable voice of Bart in the iconic The Simpsons animated series and admits her day job could help her as mayor. “Everyone finds it funny that Bart is the new mayor. I can influence people because I’m Bart Simpson,” she said. “I live in a nice neighbourhood. But down the road there’s drugs and gangs, stealing and illiteracy.” Before turning her hand to politics Nancy tried out as an actor but found that voicing cartoon characters was more her thing. Read More >>>

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Nancy Cartwright posed next to a cardboard cut-out of cartoon character Bart Simpson and compared. “You tell me if I look anything like him,” the petite blonde challenged a fan-packed audience at Oakland University. “OK, I’m about four times his age. I’ve got pink cheeks and I don’t have nine spikes on the top of my head. “But I AM Bart Simpson – hey, what’s happening man?” The crowd applauded, laughed and threw Bart Simpsonisms – “Cowabunga!” and “Eat my shorts” right back at the visiting lecturer during her afternoon visit Tuesday to the Oakland Center. Read More >>>

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When Nancy Cartwright speaks, you can hear a tiny trace of Bart Simpson slipping through. And when she laughs, there’s little doubt about it. It’s the same mischievous chuckle as that of everyone’s favourite 10-year-old troublemaker — and right now Cartwright is chuckling heartily. I’ve just asked her if she would teach me how to talk like Bart. It seemed like a skill she might be willing to pass along. “Not only can’t I, but if I could, I wouldn’t,” she says. “Are you crazy? I value my job way too much to go telling all the secrets to you guys up north.” But what if she were run down by a Chrysler like Snowball the cat? Or abducted by aliens, as the Simpsons were in the Hungry are the Damned episode? What would happen to The Simpsons? “It would be cancelled,” she replies. If she goes, so does the show. “I have no doubt about that. They have never found anybody who can do any of the characters that I do. I don’t think I can be replaced. I could, but the public would hate it.” Read More >>>

Bart Simpson today appeared at his namesake maternity unit, in a bid to take the world’s largest arts festival to the people. Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart, paid a visit to the Simpsons Maternity Unit at the new Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Cartwright, who is performing daily in her one-woman show as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, made the one-off hospital visit as part of the alternative Edinburgh People’s Festival. Cartwright delighted the intimate crowd from the moment she addressed them in that inimitable accent with the phrase: “What’s happening man, I’m Bart Simpson.” The 44-year-old mother-of-two had the audience of adults and children in stitches as she joked: “I’m 5ft 1in, I’m not yellow and I don’t have nine points on the top of my head.” Nancy shared a few of her own stories about the birth of her two children, now aged 13 and 14, with the maternity unit staff. Read More >>>

He is a ten-year-old tearaway who would normally have nurses recoiling in horror at the thought of him being let loose in a hospital. But Bart Simpson will be welcomed with open arms when he appears at his namesake maternity unit in Edinburgh next month. Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart in The Simpsons – the world-famous cartoon series by Matt Groening – will visit Simpson’s maternity unit at the ERI as part of an alternative arts event to the official Edinburgh festivals. In a major coup for organisers of the Edinburgh People’s Festival, Cartwright will perform an exclusive lunchtime show for staff and patients at the Little France hospital. Colin Fox, organiser of the People’s Festival and Lothians MSP, said: “It’s not every day a 47-year-old woman delivers a ten-year-old boy in Simpson’s maternity unit.” Read More >>>

Bart Simpson is to appear at the world’s biggest arts festival this year. Nancy Cartwright, the voice behind the character, is to launch her debut one-woman show in Edinburgh this summer. The three-week run will be based on Cartwright’s best-selling memoir about her role as the spiky-haired tearaway, My Life As A Ten-Year-Old Boy. Her performance at the Assembly Rooms this August is expected to be one of the festival’s hottest tickets. It will be the actress’s second appearance at the Fringe – she starred there in 2000 but with the entire cast of The Simpsons. The show with Cartwright, Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner and Yeardley Smith was one of the fastest-selling ever at the Fringe. Mary Shields, associate director of the Assembly Rooms, said, “When the cast of The Simpsons appeared in 2000 they were doing excerpts from the cartoon with projections of the cartoon behind them on a screen.” Read More >>>