http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080406/ap_on_en_mo/obit_heston Hollywood legend Charlton Heston has passed away at the age of 84 of unspecified causes, most likely related to his Alzheimer's disease-consistent symptoms. Heston provided the voice-over narration at the beginning of Disney's "Hercules" (1...

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/01-14-2008/0004735967&EDATE= On the heels of NBC's successful revival of the 1989-1996 action sports competition series "American Gladiators," series owners Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Reveille and Flor-Jon Films have launched a multi-m...

Jennifer Davidson, senior vice president of Cartoon Network, passed away on December 1 of a sudden and (as of this posting) unknown illness. She was 38. Davidson was one of the original group of 15 employees of CN upon its launch in 1992 (as a production/operations assistant) and was promoted to sen...

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=8048 Warner Home Video has announced that two previously-announced-shorts-"Mouse Cleaning" and "Casanova Cat"-will be left off of the final "Tom & Jerry Spotlight Collection" volume. I think the reason given is B.S., because other shorts in the two pre...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070705/ap_en_mu/obit_schaefer Will Schaefer, a composer for such animated films and TV shows as "The Flintstones," "The AristoCats," "The Jetsons" and "The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie," died in a nursing home outside Palm Springs, California on July 7th at age 78. Schaef...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070209/ap_on_bi_ge/suspicious_devices Jim Samples, head of Cartoon Network, has resigned following the recent incident in Boston where suspicious electronic devices turned out to be ads for the network's Adult Swim show Aqua Teen Hunger Force . A successor was not named ...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070131/ap_on_re_us/suspicious_devices Suspicious electronic devices found at six different spots in Boston, Mass. (one of which has a character giving the finger) which led to the shutdown of a major interstate highway turned out to be advertisments for the Adult Swim se...

http://news.awn.com/index.php?ltype=cat&category1=Films&newsitem_no=18814 The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has officially disqualified Luc Besson's "Arthur and the Invisibles" (known internationally as "Arthur and the Minimoys") from contention for the Best Animated Feature Oscar, ci...

Peter Boyle, known for his roles as the tap-dancing Frankenstein's monster in Mel Brooks' "Young Frankenstein" and Frank Barone on the TV series "Everybody Loves Raymond," has died at age 71 from multiple myeloma and heart disease. Boyle played roles in all three of Disney's "Santa Clause" films ("M...