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The Creative Arts Emmy award winners were announced this week, and while The Simpsons were in contention for Outstanding Animated Series for the episode ‘Gone Maggie Gone’, it lost out to South Park’s ‘Margaritaville’. It wasn’t all bad news though, as Dan Castellaneta was awarded his fourth Emmy in the voice-over category for his work in ‘Father Knows Worst’. This means that contenders Harry Shearer and Hank Azaria missed out. Congratulations Dan!

San Diego prepares for its upcoming staging of Ron Hutchinson’s behind-the-scenes of “Gone With The Wind” drama Moonlight and Magnolias starring Dan Castellaneta, voice of Homer Simpson. The show will perform in the Old Globe Theatre July 16-August 14. Castellaneta and director John Rando also collaborated in the same actor-director dynamic for last year’s staging [...]

Dan Castellaneta has responded to Harry Shearer’s comments about The Simpsons earlier this month. Shearer said he was unhappy with the show’s quality compared to years past. “In a nutshell, I don’t agree,” Castellaneta said. But he acknowledges the series has changed over the years. There’s slightly less running time and more characters to accommodate, [...]

Homer Simpson has bagged another Emmy. Dan Castellaneta, the actor who provides the voice of the patriarch of Fox’s long-running animated comedy “The Simpsons,” has earned this year’s Primetime Emmy Award honor for voice-over performance for his work as Homer, Krusty the Clown, Grampa and others. Castellaneta won voice-over Emmys for “Simpsons” in 1992 and [...]

What? It seems it doesn’t take much for IrelandOnline to consider something as news. Nevertheless, this particular piece made me laugh. “The Simpsons may look the same on screen after almost 18 years but the cast behind the famous voices have been piling pounds onto their waists as well as into their pockets. Now a [...]

Dan Castellaneta, voice of Homer Simpson, has been cast as Aaron Spelling in NBC’s movie about Charlie’s Angels, one of Spelling’s best-known creations. For the part, Castellaneta will don Spelling’s signature turtleneck for “Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of ‘Charlie’s Angels’ ” – the show dubbed “jiggle TV” by critics during its mid-’70s run. [...]

Northern Illinois University has conducted an interview with Dan Castellaneta, voice of Homer, and one of their most famous alums. Their Weekender section talks to him about his past at the University and briefly touches on the show. But in a separate article he talks Season 15. Spoilers follow: “Homer and Bart make a battling [...]