- 注册
- 2002-10-07
- 消息
- 402,183
- 荣誉分数
- 76
- 声望点数
- 0
June Foray, who was the voice of Cindy Lou Who and Rocky the Flying Squirrel has died.
The voice actress died Wednesday at a Los Angeles hospital. She was 99.
In 2007, the Citizen’s Bruce Deachman interviewed Foray, and penned this story.
She was not more than two, this tiny Who daughter,
and had she not risen from bed for some water,
we surely, most certainly, would have forgot her —
“Cindy Lou Who?” we would say.
But she did wake up on that cold, fateful Eve,
confronting the Grinch with those tricks up his sleeve,
and asking him “Why?” was he taking the tree,
then helping to save Christmas Day.
Now many years later, we meet June Foray,
the actress who did Cindy Lou’s voice that day,
She’s 90 years old and I called her to say,
“What’s it like to have done work so huge?”
For with that one single line that she uttered that day,
wee Cindy Lou Who became a mainstay
of our Christmases since (and still more on the way),
like Charlie Brown, Frosty and Scrooge.
“I didn’t get credit,” she said with a sigh,
but she still gets a ton of fan mail piled up high.
And not just for the girl who asked the Grinch “Why?”
but for numerous characters played.
Like the crotchety Granny on Sylvester and Tweety,
and Nell Fenwick, Dudley Do-Right’s Canadian sweety.
And the flying squirrel, Rocky, and the teacher in Frosty.
She’s a one-woman cartoon parade.
In a Twilight Zone show once, she played, with great malice,
Talky Tina, a doll who killed Telly Savalas.
She was also Ma Beagle, cold-hearted and callous.
Jokey Smurf. Rugrats. Gilmore Girls.
She played George of the Jungle’s wife, Ursula, too,
and Grandmother Fa in Mulan, I and II.
She even had parts on Mister Magoo,
and was Winnie, Woody Woodpecker’s girl.
But back to the child that we look for each year
as we watch our TVs for some bright Yuletide cheer.
“Cindy Lou is the one whom we love and hold dear,”
I said. “What do you think is the reason?”
The question, it sat for a bit in June’s head.
“It’s because there’s an empathy for her,” she said.
What would WE do if one night WE got out of bed
to find Santy Claus stealing the season?
But June had no notion of how big it would be —
that Cindy Lou Who would make such history.
“I’d done many Christmas things,” she confided to me,
but none that gained praise so profuse.
Much of the credit for the Grinch’s success
goes to the director, Chuck Jones, June confessed.
And also the author, a talent so blessed.
“Everyone loved Dr. Seuss.”
These days, she’s still working and doing cartoons.
On shows like The Simpsons, where they serve up lampoons
of animated voices made famous by June’s,
she reminds us of lost childhood days.
Yes, the Whos down in Who-ville liked Christmas a lot
And we like it, too, and because of that tot —
That wee little Who who put Grinch on the spot,
its spirit continues to blaze.
Cindy Lou Who from The Grinch Who Stole Christmas!
查看原文...
The voice actress died Wednesday at a Los Angeles hospital. She was 99.
In 2007, the Citizen’s Bruce Deachman interviewed Foray, and penned this story.
•••
She was not more than two, this tiny Who daughter,
and had she not risen from bed for some water,
we surely, most certainly, would have forgot her —
“Cindy Lou Who?” we would say.
But she did wake up on that cold, fateful Eve,
confronting the Grinch with those tricks up his sleeve,
and asking him “Why?” was he taking the tree,
then helping to save Christmas Day.
Now many years later, we meet June Foray,
the actress who did Cindy Lou’s voice that day,
She’s 90 years old and I called her to say,
“What’s it like to have done work so huge?”
For with that one single line that she uttered that day,
wee Cindy Lou Who became a mainstay
of our Christmases since (and still more on the way),
like Charlie Brown, Frosty and Scrooge.
“I didn’t get credit,” she said with a sigh,
but she still gets a ton of fan mail piled up high.
And not just for the girl who asked the Grinch “Why?”
but for numerous characters played.
Like the crotchety Granny on Sylvester and Tweety,
and Nell Fenwick, Dudley Do-Right’s Canadian sweety.
And the flying squirrel, Rocky, and the teacher in Frosty.
She’s a one-woman cartoon parade.
In a Twilight Zone show once, she played, with great malice,
Talky Tina, a doll who killed Telly Savalas.
She was also Ma Beagle, cold-hearted and callous.
Jokey Smurf. Rugrats. Gilmore Girls.
She played George of the Jungle’s wife, Ursula, too,
and Grandmother Fa in Mulan, I and II.
She even had parts on Mister Magoo,
and was Winnie, Woody Woodpecker’s girl.
But back to the child that we look for each year
as we watch our TVs for some bright Yuletide cheer.
“Cindy Lou is the one whom we love and hold dear,”
I said. “What do you think is the reason?”
The question, it sat for a bit in June’s head.
“It’s because there’s an empathy for her,” she said.
What would WE do if one night WE got out of bed
to find Santy Claus stealing the season?
But June had no notion of how big it would be —
that Cindy Lou Who would make such history.
“I’d done many Christmas things,” she confided to me,
but none that gained praise so profuse.
Much of the credit for the Grinch’s success
goes to the director, Chuck Jones, June confessed.
And also the author, a talent so blessed.
“Everyone loved Dr. Seuss.”
These days, she’s still working and doing cartoons.
On shows like The Simpsons, where they serve up lampoons
of animated voices made famous by June’s,
she reminds us of lost childhood days.
Yes, the Whos down in Who-ville liked Christmas a lot
And we like it, too, and because of that tot —
That wee little Who who put Grinch on the spot,
its spirit continues to blaze.
Cindy Lou Who from The Grinch Who Stole Christmas!
查看原文...
