Screen Time #17 Named One of Stitcher's Top Podcast Episodes

In my first of two interviews with Andrea Romano, she discussed her entire career. Screen Time #17 is one of my favorite interviews that I've ever done. I'm thrilled to report that Stitcher has named/ranked/noted it as the #3 podcast episode about TV cartoons in their entire library of curated shows. I didn't know Dan had 5by5 shows on Stitcher in the first place.

As highlighted by the people at Stitcher in the splash image they used, she discussed the reunion of the original Jetsons cast in the 1980s. Almost exactly a year later, I'm getting ready to post an episode with animator/director Tom Cook, who was working on Hanna-Barbera cartoons during the same era.

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Daily Grab 56: Good Soldier. Good Soldier.

Was trying to hold this for when I had the latest Screen Time posted, which is all Batman talk with Andrea Romano. I'll update with a link once it's live.

Daily Grab 55: Better Than This

Posted late. My apologies. I came down with something nasty yesterday after interviewing voice director Andrea Romano.

This is one of the most affecting frames in The Dark Knight Returns Part 2. Like I said to Andrea yesterday, Jim Gordon might be my favorite part of the Batman universe she has sculpted over the last 20 years.

Daily Grab 54: The Super-Real America

Like the first part, released late last year, The Dark Knight Returns Part 2 looks, sounds, and plays note-perfect. I'm hoping to have voice director Andrea Romano return to Screen Time this week to discuss all things Batman with me. Things are looking positive. UPDATE: Tune in at 4:30pm CST Thursday right here.

With the distance of time, Superman's employment by President Reagan as his human WMD is funny but not entirely unrealistic or farcical.

Screen Time 17: The New Radio Theatre (with Andrea Romano)

This is my favorite show yet (subscribe in iTunes). It's long, but when talking to an artist of this stature, the length is merited and warranted. I talk with Andrea about things I haven't heard or read her discuss in any previous podcast or interview.

Andrea Romano either cast or voice directed (sometimes both) all of the following animated projects and more (not in chronological order):

Batman: The Animated Series
Animaniacs
Tiny Toons
TMNT (2012)
The Last Airbender (and The Legend of Korra)
Ducktales
Chip & Dale: Rescue Rangers
almost all of the DC Animated movies, starting with Batman: Mask of the Phantasm on through The Dark Knight Returns
Snorks
Smurfs
Pound Puppies
ReBoot
Static Shock
Superman: The Animated Series
Justice League

There are too many more to list. She's directed Batman more times than Burton, Schumacher, and Nolan combined, and has director's shelf in my DVD library alongside Scorsese, Spielberg, Lean, and Hitchcock. In the opening minutes, we discuss exactly what a Voice Director does, and why she's this big of a deal.

The stories she tells are absolutely unreal. Here's a name you won't forget after hearing this episode:

George O'Hanlon

Don't Google him, just listen.

George O'Hanlon and Joe McDoakes: The Original Hard-Luck Kid

George O'Hanlon is an actor you'd know by his voice more than his face.

Three words: Meet George Jetson.

In this week's Screen Time 17, my guest is Andrea Romano. Andrea has been working in voiceover direction (and previously casting) since the 1980's, and a significant portion of our discussion centers around the great Mr. O'Hanlon, with whom she worked on the 1980's revival of The Jetsons.

Warner Archive has collected all 63 of the Joe McDoakes shorts on DVD, clocking in at 650 minutes of content. Here's the one I found on YouTube, "So You Want to Be a Detective":

I grew up trying to imitate the voices of guys like O'Hanlon, and his comedic timing formed so much of my formative study of acting. Cartoons were the radio theatre of my generation and so many others before and since.