20 October 2004 0 Comments

Long Live Bart!

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 [...]

11 August 2004 0 Comments

Nancy Makes Special Delivery

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 [...]

17 July 2004 0 Comments

Bart Simpson Visits Edinburgh

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 – [...]

11 March 2004 0 Comments

Nancy Cartwright Vs. Australia

Despite being a star of one of the most popular TV series of all time, Nancy Cartwright can usually walk down the street virtually unrecognised. That is until she comes all the way to the other side of the world, where she can hardly walk 2m without a fan stopping her for a chat and [...]

4 February 2004 0 Comments

Bart In The Flesh At Fringe

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 [...]

15 September 2003 0 Comments

Bart Simpson, The Woman

“I’m Bart Simpson. Who the hell are you?” With those timeless words of wisdom, Simpsons extraordinaire Nancy Cartwright, who provides the voice of Bart Simpson, greeted an audience of nearly 400 Saturday night in Baldwin Auditorium. It was a fans-only night, as audience members quizzed each other on favorite episodes and quotes in anticipation of [...]

13 February 2003 0 Comments

The Voices Behind OFF

“A busy family, those Simpsons. Who knew that Homer guest-starred on “NYPD Blue” and “Friends,” Lisa appeared in “City Slickers” and “As Good as It Gets,” and Bart won an award for a one-woman play called “In Search of Fellini”? Well, OK, they haven’t, but their alter egos – Dan Castellaneta, Yeardley Smith and Nancy [...]