Yesterday, as I was watching Cinderella with my toddlers, I remarked to my husband that the ugly step sister, Anastasia, sounded a lot like Smurfette. Today I received an IM from my husband which stated "Lucille Bliss played both Smurfette and Anastasia". Now this represents two things. 1. My husband and I clearly don't have enough real work today. 2. You can get all your questions answered on the Internet.
I thought, "wow, Cinderella and Smurfette were decades apart, this woman must have been doing cartoon voices for a long time". So, I took this a step further and looked up Lucille Bliss on Wikipedia. It took all of 30 seconds for me to learn that Lucille Bliss, a woman in her early 90s, has been actively working as a voice actor from 1950 through 2005 and has been a part of some of my favorite movies and TV shows including "The Smurfs" and "The Secret of NIMH". With a quick 45 second jump to IMDB, I learned that her Cinderella voice work was uncredited in the movie. How would I ever have known this without the Internet? Can you remember the days when if you didn't know an answer to something you just had to accept it? Can you remember a time when you had a question about some trivial minutia and you just had to accept not knowing the answer? It seems so distant and archaic.
I just love the Internet.
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2 comments:
Sometimes I wonder though if we know TOO much information. Not random trivia but we have access to all kinds of information about the people in our lives, which sometimes I think we'd be better off without!
i was just having this conversation with someone tonight! the internet is amazing and while some people (usually people who don't understand it) think that it is "ruining" interspersonal skills and a sense of community, I think it is making the whole world a little more like a small town where people know your business...so you best keep things on the up and up!
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