Bauza (for “Daffy in Wackyland”) will be going up against H. Michael Croner (Kiff), David Errigo Jr. (Tiny Toons Looniversity), Kari Wahlgren (that Chik-Fil-A Evergreen Hills show), and Kate Mulgrew (because apparently voicing two Captain Janeways counts as two characters).

Of particular note is that Eric Bauza is so damn good at his job - having won awards at all three ceremonies so far with two of those being for non-preschool shows that that category had to be split into actors who do one voice and actors who do multiple on the same show.

Among those represented are Michael Caine, Liza Minelli, and Art Garfunkel alongside multiple deceased celebrities including but not limited to Burt Reynolds, Babe Ruth, John Wayne, Judy Garland, Thomas Edison, Mark Twain, Mickey Rooney, and yes, Robert Oppenheimer.

In addition, Betty Boop’s legal status is a whole other can of worms entirely, with a court ruling in 2011 that since it’s unclear if Paramount sold the rights to NTA or Harvey Comics no one actually knows who owns the copyright: www.courthousenews.com/court-says-r...

It will be interesting to see if there’s any legal fallout from this, seeing as technically only the original dog version of Betty Boop, not her more well-known human form, enters the public domain next year, but most of Betty’s cartoons have been public domain since the ‘70s.

“At the same time you have been threatening my client[…]you have also sent texts saying you love him and want to have sex with him[…]You are a desperate attention seeker who has manufactured[…]claims about my client solely[…]in order to generate publicity for yourself”

To make matters worse, Zhou also claimed to the New York Post that Renner made inappropriate sexual advances towards her during the interview, while Renner’s attorney claims she has sent him multiple private texts of a sexually explicit nature.

Rennet agreed to be interviewed for an unauthorized documentary directed by Zhou about the history of Disney, but Zhou is making the bizarre claim this film is either connected to or somehow evolved out of the Disney doc and falls under the contract Renner signed.

Of course, there is also the similar case of Mattel quickly putting Barbie and the Rockers together to beat Hasbro’s Jem and the Holograms to market; although Jem is the more well-remembered of the two today the Rockers actually outsold her.

Ideal, who managed to get their toys out on the market before Kenner’s Star Wars figures due to the use of existing stock, then preemptively sued Kenner and Fox for a declaratory judgement that their toys did not infringe on the Star Wars trademarks, which they received.